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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

Cracking NTLM hashes using rainbow tables


For this activity, we will be using Ophcrack, along with a small rainbow table. is a free Windows cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a graphical user interface (GUI) and runs on multiple platforms. It is by default in the Kali Linux distro. This recipe will focus on cracking the using Ophcrack, with the help of rainbow tables.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to crack a Windows XP password. The rainbow table db can be downloaded from http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/tables.php . The tool is available in our Kali Linux Distro.

How to do it...

  1. First, download the tables_xp_free_fast file from Ophcrack sourceforge tables and put it in your Kali machine. Unzip it using the following command:
Unzip tables_xp_free_fast.zip

The output will be as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. We already have the hash we will use from our compromised...
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