Password cracking process involves recovering a password from storage locations or from data, transmitted by a computer system on network. Password cracking term refers to group of techniques used to get password from a data system.
Here is list of top best Ethical hacking tools 2018 for windows pc, Linux system, and MAC OS x. Must have tools for every hacker and these tools used on pc. How to hack into a Mac without the password: Change the password in Recovery Mode The easiest way to change the user or administrator password, and the one we would recommend, is to use Recovery Mode.
Purpose and reason of password cracking includes gaining an unauthorized access to a computer system or it can be recovery of forgotten password. There might be another reason of using password cracking technique that is for testing password strength so hacker could not hack into system.
Password cracking is normally performed thought repetitive process in which computer applies different combinations of password till the exact match.
Brute Force Password Cracking:Term brute force password cracking may also be referred as brute force attack. Brute force password cracking is respective process of guessing password, in this process software or tool creates a large number of password combinations. Basically it’s a trail-and-error technique used by software to obtain password information from system.
A brute force attack are normally used by hackers when there is no chance of taking advantage of encrypted system weakness or by security analysis experts to test an organization’s network security .This method of password cracking is very fast for short length passwords but for long length passwords dictionary attack technique is normally used.
Time taken by brute force password cracking software to crack password is normally depend upon speed of system and internet connection.
GPU Password Cracking:WikiLeaks has just published a new set of classified documents linked to another CIA project, dubbed 'Imperial,' which reveals details of at least three CIA-developed hacking tools and implants designed to target computers running Apple Mac OS X and different flavours of Linux operating systems. A Wi-Fi hacking software is a software program that will primarily enable you to crack Wi-Fi password of a nearby network. These software programs are designed to work for WPA, WPA2 and WEP. Some of them are open-source applications and work as good network analyzer as well as packet sniffer. Fossbytes has prepared a useful list of the best hacking tools of 2018 based upon industry reviews, your feedback, and its own experience. This list will tell you about the best software used for.
GPU is graphics processing unit, sometimes also called visual processing unit. Before talking about GPU password cracking we must have some understanding about hashes. When user enter password the password information stored in form of computer hashes using the one-way hashing algorithm.
In this password cracking technique using GPU software take a password guess and look through hashing algorithm and compare it or match it with the existing hashes till the exact match.
GPU can perform mathematical functions in parallel as GPU have hundreds of core that gives massive advantage in cracking password. GPU is much faster than CPU so that’s the reason of using GPU instead of CPU.
CUDA Password Cracking:CUDA Compute Unified Device Architecture is a model for programming and a platform that perform computations in parallel, created by NVIDIA for graphic processing.
CUDA Password cracking includes cracking passwords using Graphics card which have GPU chip, GPU can perform mathematical functions in parallel so the speed of cracking password is faster than CPU.GPU have many 32bit chips on it that perform this operation very quickly.
We can easily access CUDA through libraries, directives and with the help of different programming languages that includes C, C++ and FORTRAN.
Password Cracking ToolsGiven below is the list of Top10 Password cracking tools.
1. Cain and Abel : Top password cracking tool for Windows
Cain & Abel is one of the top cracking tool for password cracking and password recovery for Windows OS.
Cain & Abel can use techniques of Dictionary Attack, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks to crack encrypted passwords. So it only uses the weakness of system to crack password. GUI Interface of software is very simple and easy to use. But have availability limitation, tool only available for window based systems .Cain & Abel tool have many good features some of the features of tool are discussed below:
Features of Cain & Abel:- Used for WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) cracking
- Have ability to record conversation over IP
- Cab be used as Network Password Sniffer
- Ability to resolve addresses IP to MAC.
- Can crack verity of hashes including LM and NT hashes, IOS and PIX hashes, RADIUS hashes, RDP passwords, and lots more than that.
2. John the Ripper : Multi-platform, Powerful, Flexible password cracking tool
John the Ripper is a free multi or cross platform password cracking software. Its called multi platform as it combines different password cracking features into one package.
It’s primarily used to crack weak UNIX passwords but also available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. We can run this software against different password encryptions including many password hashes normally found in different UNIX versions. These hashes are DES, LM hash of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, MD5, and AFS.
Features of John the Ripper- Supportive with Brute force password cracking and dictionary attacks
- Multi platform
- Available free for use
- Pro version is also available with additional features
3. Aircrack : Fast and effective WEP/WPA cracking tool
Aircrack is a combination different tools used for Wifi, WEP and WPA passwords cracking. With the help of these tools you can crack WEP/WPA passwords easily and effectively
Brute force, FMS attack, and dictionary attacks techniques can be used to crack WEP/WPA passwords. Basically it collects and analyzes encrypted packets then using its different tool crack password out of the packets. Although aircrack is available for Windows but there are different issues with this software if we use this in Windows environment, so it’s best when we use it in Linux environment.
Features of Aircrack- Supportive with both Brute force and dictionary attacks cracking techniques
- Available for Windows and Linux
- Available in live CD
4. THC Hydra : Multiple services supportive, Network authentication cracker
THC Hydra is a supper fast network password cracking tool. It uses network to crack remote systems passwords.
It can be used to crack passwords of different protocols including HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, Cisco, CVS, SQL, SMTP etc. It will give you option that you may supply a dictionary file that contains list of possible passwords. It’s best when we use it in Linux environment.
Features of THC Hydra- Fast cracking speed
- Available for Windows, Linux ,Solaris and OS X
- New modules can be added easily to enhance features
- Supportive with Brute force and dictionary attacks
Site for Download:
https://www.thc.org/thc-hydra/5. RainbowCrack : New Innovation in Password Hash Cracker
RainbowCrack software uses rainbow tables to crack hashes, in other words we can say it uses process of a large-scale time-memory trade for effective and fast password cracking.
Large-scale-time-memory-trade-off is a process of computing all hashes and plain text using a selected hash algorithm. After calculations, obtained results are stored in the tables called rainbow table. Process of creating rainbow tables is very time consuming but when its done software works very fast.
Password cracking using rainbow table is faster than the normal brute force attack method. It’s available for Linux and Windows operating system.
Features of Rainbow Crack- Support verity of Rainbow tables
- Runs on Windows (XP/Vista/7/8) and Linux operating systems (x86 and x86_64)
- Simple in use
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6. OphCrack : Tool for Windows password cracking
OphCrack used to crack Windows user passwords with the help of rainbow tables that are available in a bootable CD.
Ophcrack is completely free to download, Windows based password cracker that uses rainbow tables to crack Windows user passwords. It normally cracks LM and NTLM hashes. Software has simple GUI and can runs on different platforms.
Features of OphCrack- Available for Windows but also available for Linux, Mac, Unix, and OS X
- Uses for LM hashes of Windows and NTLM hashes of Windows vista.
- Rainbow tables available free and easily for Windows
- To simplify the process of cracking Live CD is available
Site for Download:
http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/7. Brutus : A brute force attack cracker for remote systems
Brutus is the fastest, most flexible, and most popular software used to crack remote system passwords. It guess password through applying different permutations or by using a dictionary.
It can be used for different network protocols including HTTP, FTP, IMAP, NNTP and other types such as SMB, Telnet etc. It also gives you facility of creating your own authentication type. It also includes extra options of load and resume, so process can be paused when required and you can resume process when you want.
It is only available for windows operation systems. Tool has a limitation that it has not been updated since 2000.
Features of Brutus
- Available for Windows
- Can be used with different network protocols
- Tool have many good extra features
- Support SOCK proxy for all types of authentications
- Capability of error handling and recovery
- Authentication engine is multi stage
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8. L0phtCrack : Smart tool for Windows password recovery
Just like OphCrack tool L0phtCrack is also a Windows passwords recovery tool uses hashes to crack passwords, with extra features of Brute force and dictionary attacks.
It normally gains access to these hashes from directories, network servers, or domain controllers. It is capable of doing hash extraction from 32 & 64 bit Windows systems, multiprocessor algorithms, scheduling, and can also perform decoding and monitoring networks. Yet it is still the easiest to use password auditing and recovery software available.
Features of L0phtCrack
- Available for Windows XP, NT, 2000, Server 2003,and Server 2008
- Can work in both 32- and 64-bit environments
- Extra feature of schedule routine auditing on daily, weekly, monthly bases
- After run it provide complete Audit Summary in report page
Site for Download:
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9. Pwdump : Password recovery tool for Windows
Pwdump is actually different Windows programs that are used to provide LM and NTML hashes of system user accounts.
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Pwdump password cracker is capable of extracting LM, NTLM and LanMan hashes from the target in Windows, in case if Syskey is disabled, software has the ability to extract in this condition.
Software is update with extra feature of password histories display if history is available. Extracted data will be available in form that is compatible with L0phtcrack.
Recently software is updated to new version called Fgdump as Pwdump not work fine when any antivirus program is running.
Features of Pwdump
- Available for Windows XP, 2000
- Powerful extra feature are available in new version of Pwdump
- Ability to run multithreaded
- It can perform cachedump (Crashed credentials dump) and pstgdump (Protected storage dump)
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10. Medusa : Speedy network password cracking tool
Medusa is remote systems password cracking tool just like THC Hydra but its stability, and fast login ability prefer him over THC Hydra.
It is speedy brute force, parallel and modular tool. Software can perform Brute force attack against multiple users, hosts, and passwords. It supports many protocols including AFP, HTTP, CVS, IMAP, FTP, SSH, SQL, POP3, Telnet and VNC etc.
Medusa is pthread-based tool, this feature prevent unnecessarily duplicate of information. All modules available as an independent .mod file, so no modification is required to extend the list that supports services for brute forcing attack.
Features of Medusa
- Available for Windows, SunOS, BSD, and Mac OS X
- Capable of performing Thread based parallel testing
- Good feature of Flexible user input
- Due to parallel processing speed of cracking is very fast
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Apple's supply chain is one of the most closely monitored and analyzed in the world, both because of the control the company exerts and keen interest from third parties. But there's still never a guarantee that a mass-produced product will come out of the box totally pristine. In fact, it's possible to remotely compromise a brand new Mac the first time it connects to Wi-Fi.
That attack, which researchers will demonstrate Thursday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, targets enterprise Macs that use Apple's Device Enrollment Program and its Mobile Device Management platform. These enterprise tools allow employees of a company to walk through the customized IT setup of a Mac themselves, even if they work in a satellite office or from home. The idea is that a company can ship Macs to its workers directly from Apple's warehouses, and the devices will automatically configure to join their corporate ecosystem after booting up for the first time and connecting to Wi-Fi.
DEP and MDM require a lot of privileged access to make all of that magic happen. So when Jesse Endahl, the chief security officer of the Mac management firm Fleetsmith, and Max Bélanger, a staff engineer at Dropbox, found a bug in these setup tools, they realized they could exploit it to get rare remote Mac access.
'We found a bug that allows us to compromise the device and install malicious software before the user is ever even logged in for the very first time,' Endahl says. 'By the time they’re logging in, by the time they see the desktop, the computer is already compromised.'
The researchers notified Apple about the issue, and the company released a fix in macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 last month, but devices that have already been manufactured and ship with an older version of the operating system will still be vulnerable. Bélanger and Endahl also note that Mobile Device Management vendors—third parties like Fleetsmith that companies hire to implement Apple's enterprise scheme—also need to support 10.13.6 to fully mitigate the vulnerability. Apple did not respond to WIRED's requests for comment.
The Setup
When a Mac turns on and connects to Wi-Fi for the first time, it checks in with Apple's servers essentially to say, 'Hey, I'm a MacBook with this serial number. Do I belong to someone? What should I do?'
'If you’re able to set this up at the company level you could infect everybody.'
Max Bélanger, Dropbox
If the serial number is enrolled as part of DEP and MDM, that first check will automatically initiate a predetermined setup sequence, through a series of additional checks with Apple's servers and an MDM vendor's servers. Companies typically rely on a third-party MDM facilitator to navigate Apple's enterprise ecosystem. During each step, the system uses 'certificate pinning,' a method of confirming that particular web servers are who they claim. But the researchers found a problem during one step. When MDM hands off to the Mac App Store to download enterprise software, the sequence retrieves a manifest for what to download and where to install it without pinning to confirm the manifest's authenticity.
If a hacker could lurk somewhere between the MDM vendor's web server and the victim device, they could replace the download manifest with a malicious one that instructs the computer to instead install malware. Architecting such an elaborate man-in-the-middle attack would be too difficult or expensive for the average web criminal, but well-funded and driven hackers could manage it. The tainted download server would also need to have a valid web certificate, another hurdle that makes the attack harder but certainly not impossible. From there, attackers could install anything from spyware to cryptojacking software on vulnerable Macs. They could even plant a malicious tool that evaluates devices on a corporate network to find vulnerable systems it can spread to. And once a hacker has set up the attack, it could target every single Apple computer a given company puts through the MDM process.
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'One of the aspects that’s scary about this is if you’re able to set this up at the company level you could infect everybody depending on where you do the man-in-the-middle,' Bélanger says. 'This all happens very early in the device’s setup, so there aren’t really restrictions on what those setup components can do. They have full power, so they’re at risk of being compromised in a pretty special way.'
Hard Target
Bélanger and Endahl stress that the attack isn't easy. They can only demonstrate a version of it at Black Hat because Endahl works at Fleetsmith, and can set up the certified server and the man-in-the-middle attack on the MDM vendor himself. And they praise Apple's application security and the MDM process overall, noting that Apple has already created the ability to kill malicious apps once the company discovers them.
But they emphasize that it would be possible for a well-funded, motivated attacker to exploit the flaw if they were looking for a way onto Macs. And the potential to use the attack as a jumping off point to bore deeper into corporate networks would have plenty of appeal. Hackers could even simplify the attack by targeting employees who work from home and are easier to man-in-the-middle, thanks to their consumer-grade routers.
'The attack is so powerful that some government would probably be incentivized to put in the work to do it,' Endahl says.
Apple's patch will proliferate quickly to negate the flaw, but it's a good reminder regardless that even minute weaknesses in an ecosystem as elaborate as Apple's can have potentially serious consequences.
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