PasswordCracking

An introductory lesson to Ophcrack. This lesson covers the basics of rainbow tables, how to install them, using them to crack unsalted LM and NTLM hashes.

An introductory lesson to JohnTheRipper. This lesson covers the wordlist, single crack, incremental, and mask attack modes.

An introductory lesson to Hashcat. This lesson will cover the usage of the dictionary, combinator, brute force, and hybrid attack modes

An introductory lesson for password cracking. This lesson covers the idea behind using hashes, how they are cracked, and various types of password attacks.

I taught the Intro to Cybersecurity class about some basic password cracking using Hashcat. Using basic knowledge of password hashes and common attack types, the students cracked both my MD5 and SHA1 hashlists by utilizing dictionary and brute force attacks.