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