Ophcrack is a
free open-source
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(
GPL
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licensed) program that
cracks Windows log-in passwords by using
LM hash
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es through
rainbow tables. The program includes the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the
SAM files of Windows. On most computers, ophcrack can crack most passwords within a few minutes.
Rainbow tables for
LM hashes are provided for free by the developers. By default, ophcrack is bundled with tables that allow it to crack passwords no longer than 14 characters using only alphanumeric characters. Available for free download are four Windows XP tables and four Windows Vista tables.
Objectif Sécurité has even larger tables for purchase that are intended for professional use. Larger rainbow tables are NTLM hash for cracking
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years before, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of ...
/
Windows 7
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.
Ophcrack is also available as
Live CD
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distributions, which automates the retrieval, decryption, and cracking of passwords from a
Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
system. One Live CD distribution is available for Windows XP and lower and another for Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Live CD distributions of ophcrack are built with
SliTaz GNU/Linux.
Starting with version 2.3, Ophcrack also cracks
NTLM
In a Windows network, NT (New Technology) LAN Manager (NTLM) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols intended to provide authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users. NTLM is the successor to the authentication protocol in Microsoft L ...
hashes. This is necessary if the generation of the LM hash is disabled (this is default for
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years before, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of ...
) or if the password is longer than 14 characters (in which case the LM hash is not stored).
Starting with version 3.7.0, the source code has been moved from SourceForge to GitLab.
See also
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Aircrack-ng
Aircrack-ng is a network software suite consisting of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs. It works with any wireless network interface controller whose driver supports raw moni ...
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Cain and Abel
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Crack
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DaveGrohl
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Hashcat
Hashcat is a password recovery tool. It had a proprietary code base until 2015, but was then released as open source software. Versions are available for Linux, OS X, and Windows. Examples of hashcat-supported hashing algorithms are LM hashes, MD ...
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John the Ripper
John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Originally developed for the Unix operating system, it can run on fifteen different platforms (eleven of which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS) ...
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L0phtCrack
L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-for ...
*
NMap
Nmap (Network Mapper) is a network scanner created by Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym ''Fyodor Vaskovich''). Nmap is used to discover hosts and services on a computer network by sending packets and analyzing the responses.
Nmap provide ...
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RainbowCrack
RainbowCrack is a computer program which generates rainbow tables to be used in password cracking. RainbowCrack differs from "conventional" brute force crackers in that it uses large pre-computed tables called rainbow tables to reduce the lengt ...
References
External links
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Ophcrack Online Demo- form to submit hashes and instantly crack passwords
- how to fix if Ophcrack says "no tables found".
OPHCRACK (the time-memory-trade-off-cracker)-
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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