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Kali Linux Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Cookbook Effective penetration testing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781784390303
Length 438 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Corey Schultz Corey Schultz
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Kali and the Lab Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance and Scanning 3. Vulnerability Analysis 4. Finding Exploits in the Target 5. Social Engineering 6. Password Cracking 7. Privilege Escalation 8. Wireless Specific Recipes 9. Web and Database Specific Recipes 10. Maintaining Access

Cracking password hashes with a wordlist

In this recipe, we will crack hashes using John the Ripper and the password lists. We will also work with a local shadow file from a Linux machine and we will try to recover passwords based off wordlists.

Getting ready

Let's ensure the following prerequisites:

  • Your Kali machine is powered up
  • You have some sample users and passwords setup on your Linux machine
  • You copied the shadow file to your Kali root directory

How to do it...

We will now attempt to crack passwords using a pre-defined wordlist:

  1. Verify you have the shadow...
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