Kon-Boot is an prototype piece of software which allows to change contents of a Linux kernel (and now Windows kernel also!!!) on the fly (while booting).
In the current compilation state it allows to log into a Linux system as ’root’ user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to [...]
EFIPW is a tool that can be used to decode and modify Apple EFI firmware passwords via the command line. It is designed after the non open source OFPW utility and is designed to work on Intel machines running Leopard or newer. Useful for lab deployments (setting the firmware password of machines as [...]
Finally an update to Medusa! Version 1.5 of Medusa is now available for public download. Medusa 1.4 was released quite some time back in November 2007 and before that Medusa 1.3 showed up November 2006.
You would have thought version 1.5 would have been released in November 2008! Looks like they missed by a few months.
What [...]
WMAT is Web Mail Auth Tool that provide some essential functions for testing web mail logins, written in python with support of pyCurl.
How it works?
It is very simple, You give WMAT file with usernames, file with passwords, URL of web mail app and chose pattern for attack. Patterns are XML files that define post/get fields, [...]
It seems to be trendy lately to make tools which can create custom or more specific word lists for password cracking, just last week we posted about the web application The Associative Word List Generator (AWLG), which crawls the whole web to look for associated words with a given topic.
This application is more towards creating [...]
You may remember some time back we did a fairly exhaustive post on Password Cracking Wordlists and Tools for Brute Forcing.
Wyd the Password Profiling Tool also does something similar to AWLG but it’s a PERL script rather than being based online.
I’d prefer if AWLG let us download an offline version too personally.
About AWLG
The Associative Word [...]
BarsWF is basically an MD5 cracking tool and at the moment, is currently the fastest. Right now on nVidia 9600GT/C2D 3Ghz CUDA version does 350 M keys/sec, SSE2 version does 108 M keys/sec. You may check benchmarks of all known good MD5 bruteforcers here.
Changes in 0.8
Added checks for errors when calling CUDA kernel.
Now you [...]
Now this is an interesting twist on an oldschool method of hacking, the monitoring of electromagnetic radiation.
You’d think it’d be easier to sniff the traffic from a wireless keyboard, but generally it’s not as they tend to be encrypted. Where as the electromagnetic radiation given off by a wired keyboard is not shielded or protected [...]
We have covered quite a lot of Password Cracking tools and it’s not often a new one comes out, this one is for quite a specialised purpose (not a general all-purpose password cracker like John the Ripper or Cain & Abel), although you do need to use it alongside JTR.
This tool is for instantly cracking [...]
It seems that people are truly shocked when their identities get exposed, and the vast majority use the same single password for ALL of their online accounts. That’s just crazy!
A ‘kind-hearted’ hacker recently exposed a bunch of online accounts (with passwords) to gain himself more status in a hacker forum (l33t sk1llz dudebro!).
WHEN Australian web [...]
So it turns out you don’t need any fancy password cracking software like John the Ripper or Cain and Abel you just need a handful of £5 gift vouchers for Marks and Spencers!
But we had discussed this in part before, some people will give out their passwords if you just ask, some if you offer [...]
SIPcrack is a suite for sniffing and cracking the digest authentication used in the SIP protocol.
The tools offer support for pcap files, wordlists and many more to extract all needed information and bruteforce the passwords for the sniffed accounts.
If you don’t have OpenSSL installed or encounter any building problems try ‘make no-openssl’ to build with [...]
The Pass-The-Hash Toolkit contains utilities to manipulate the Windows Logon Sessions mantained by the LSA (Local Security Authority) component. These tools allow you to list the current logon sessions with its corresponding NTLM credentials (e.g.: users remotely logged in thru Remote Desktop/Terminal Services), and also change in runtime the current username, domain name, and NTLM [...]
This is a tool that has been around quite some time too, it’s still very useful though and it’s a very niche tool specifically for brute forcing Windows Terminal Server.
TSGrinder is the first production Terminal Server brute force tool, and is now in release 2. The main idea here is that the Administrator account, since [...]
The major change is both tools now support 64-bit targets! Good news for us.
pwdump6 is a password hash dumper for Windows 2000 and later systems. It is capable of dumping LanMan and NTLM hashes as well as password hash histories. It is based on pwdump3e, and should be stable on XP SP2 and 2K3. If [...]
I quite often get people asking me where to get Wordlists, after all brute forcing and password cracking often relies on the quality of your word list.
Do note there are also various tools to generate wordlists for brute forcing based on information gathered such as documents and web pages (such as Wyd – password profiling [...]
Bruter 1.0 BETA 1 has been released. Bruter is a parallel login brute-forcer. This tool is intended to demonstrate the importance of choosing strong passwords. The goal of Bruter is to support a variety of services that allow remote authentication.
Bruter is a tool for the Win32 platform only.
PROTOCOL SUPPORT
It currently supports the following services:
FTP
HTTP (Basic)
HTTP [...]
Quite a few people seem to be interested in this tool, so here is the latest revision – Inguma 0.0.6.
For those that don’t know, Inguma is a free penetration testing and vulnerability discovery toolkit entirely written in python. Framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force usernames and passwords, exploits, [...]
It’s been a long time coming but here it is, after almost a year (Remember Medusa 1.3?) finally version 1.4 is here!
Version 1.4 of Medusa is now available for public download!
What is Medusa? Medusa is a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for network services created by the geeks at Foofus.net.
The Key Features are as [...]
Inguma is a free penetration testing and vulnerability discovery toolkit entirely written in python. Framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force usernames and passwords, exploits, and a disassembler.
We did mention it back in August when it first hit the streets.
With new QT interface:
If you haven’t used it for a [...]
Interesting research from Elcomsoft, using the parallel processing capacity of graphics cards to speed up the password cracking process.
Pretty inventive thinking, as graphics cards get more and more powerful, and they are created to do massive parallel tasks for all the latest and greatest games, why not apply it to password cracking!
A technique for cracking [...]
The concept of passing the hash on Windows came about a while ago, now there’s a tool for it in it’s second revision (which fixed some problems with foreign language Windows versions and Windows 2003).
The Pass-The-Hash Toolkit contains utilities to manipulate the Windows Logon Sessions mantained by the LSA (Local Security Authority) component. These tools [...]
New versions of the excellent pwdump6 and fgdump have been released (1.6.0 for both!).
For those that don’t know what pwdump or gfdump are..
pwdump6 is a password hash dumper for Windows 2000 and later systems. It is capable of dumping LanMan and NTLM hashes as well as password hash histories. It is based on pwdump3e, [...]
Elcomsoft is quite a well known firm when it comes to password ‘recovery’, I have used their products in the past when I was in a fix and I needed a password that had been, you know…lost.
They rose to fame in 2001 after cracking Adobe’s eBook format.
Recently they announced a fairly serious backdoor in Quicken [...]
Inguma is a penetration testing toolkit entirely written in python. The framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force user names and passwords and, of course, exploits for many products.
Inguma the word is the name of a Basque’s mythological spirit who kills people while sleeping and, also, the one who [...]
Piggy is yet another tool for performing online password guessing against Microsoft SQL servers.
It supports scanning multiple servers using a dictionary file or a file with predefined accounts (username and password combinations).
It’s a pretty simple tool and has a Win32 binary verson – it is a command line tool however.
Piggy v1.0.1 by patrik@cqure.net
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usage: piggy [options]
options:
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An interesting snippet from last month, AOL seems to have a strangely configued password system.
Users can enter up to 16 characters as a password, but the system only reads the first 8 and discards the rest. They are basically truncating the password at 8 characters.
A reader wrote in Friday with an interesting observation: When he [...]
A while ago some updates of pwdump and fgdump were released, namely pwdump6 1.5.0 as well as fgdump 1.5.0.
Version 1.5.0 of both programs takes advantage of some changes which makes them less likely to be detected by antivirus, at least as of today. This will be particularly helpful to those of you dealing with [...]
This Phenoelit tool called ObiWaN is written to carry out brute force security testing on Webservers.
The idea behind this is webservers with simple challenge-response authentication mechanism mostly have no switches to set up intruder lockout or delay timings for wrong passwords. In fact this is the point to start from. Every user with a [...]
The Common Password Problem.
Users tend to use a single password at many different web sites. By now there are several reported cases where attackers breaks into a low security site to retrieve thousands of username/password pairs and directly try them one by one at a high security e-commerce site such as eBay. As expected, this [...]
THC-Hydra rocks, it’s pretty much the most up to date and currently developed password brute forcing tool around at the moment.
It supports a LOT of services and protocols too.
Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. Hydra is a parallelized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. [...]
As a security consultant, job functions include Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments. The aim of these types of engagements is to demonstrate risk to the customer. One of the steps involved in demonstrating risk is password auditing (”cracking”) in order to assess the strength and quality of passwords in use in the environment.
On a Windows [...]
Cain & Abel is easily one of our favourite password crackers here at Darknet, especially because it’s oldskool but still under development, unlike most other projects which have been abandoned as time passed.
Cain & Abel has some awesome stuff built in like native network sniffing and network password grabbing.
Cain & Abel is a password recovery [...]
GoldenEye is a brute-force hacking program and was written for web-masters to test the security of their own sites. This is an oldskool file, a lot of people are still looking for this.
It should not be use by others to hack sites – this would be illegal! Under no circumstances should the author or any [...]
Medusa is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer. The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as possible. The author considers following items as some of the key features of this application:
Thread-based parallel testing. Brute-force testing can be performed against multiple hosts, users or passwords concurrently.
Flexible user [...]
Wyd is a neat tool I found recently for Password Profiling.
In current IT security environments, files and services are often password protected. In certain situation it is required to get access to files and/or data even when they are protected and the password is unknown.
wyd.pl was born out of those two of situations:
A penetration test [...]
New versions of the ultracool tools pwdump (1.4.2) and fgdump (1.3.4) have been released.
Both versions provide some feature upgrades as well as bug fixes. Folks with really old versions of either program should definitely look at upgrading, since there are numerous performance improvements and full multithreading capabilities in both packages.
If you don’t know..what are pwdump6 [...]
Since Symantec stopped development of L0phtcrack many people have been looking for alternatives.
So don’t forget…
Jack the Ripper is still king
Medusa is good
Ophcrack for Rainbow Tables
And now one more, introducting LCP, which we have talked about before in the article Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables.
LCP is freeware!
The main purpose of LCP program is user [...]
A lot of people come to Darknet looking for Brutus AET2 (brutus-aet2.zip) to download, but unfortunately due to some stupid Homeland security bullshit I actually had to remove the file or risk having no hosting left..
If you don’t know, Brutus is one of the fastest, most flexible remote password crackers you can get your hands [...]
FireMaster version 2.1 has been released with its new features and new speed.
Firemaster is the Firefox master password recovery tool. If you have forgotten the master password, then using FireMaster you can find out the master password and get back your lost signon information. It uses various methods such as dictionary, hybrid and brute force [...]
Oracle is getting serious with security? Again..?
Oracle Corp. has published a collection of software patches that address security vulnerabilities in a range of the company’s products, including its database and application server software. As part of this update, it also released a tool designed to ferret out commonly used default passwords that theoretically could [...]
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.
We mentioned it in our RainbowCrack and Rainbow Tables article.
Changes:
(feature) support of the new table set (alphanum + 33 special chars – [...]
Version 1.2 (Beta) of the pwdump6 software has been released.
There are three major changes from the previous version:
Uses “random” named pipes (GUIDs) to allow concurrent copies of the client to run. This is predominately for the next version of fgdump, which will be multithreaded.
Will turn off password histories if the requisite APIs are not available [...]
The new “features” this time are primarily performance improvements possible due to the use of better algorithms (bringing more inherent parallelism of trying multiple candidate passwords down to processor instruction level), better optimized code, and new hardware capabilities (such as AltiVec available on PowerPC G4 and G5 processors).
In particular, John the Ripper 1.7 is a [...]
What is RainbowCrack & Rainbow Tables?
RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique.
In 1980 Martin Hellman described a cryptanalytic time-memory trade-off which reduces the time of cryptanalysis by using precalculated data stored in memory. This technique was improved by Rivest before 1982 with the introduction of distinguished points which drastically [...]
