{"id":4505,"date":"2017-04-27T23:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2017-04-27T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:02:00","slug":"pemcracker-tool-cracking-pem-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2017\/04\/pemcracker-tool-cracking-pem-files\/","title":{"rendered":"pemcracker &#8211; Tool For Cracking PEM Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>pemcracker is a tool for cracking PEM files that are encrypted and have a password. The purpose is to attempt to recover the password for encrypted PEM files while utilising all the CPU cores.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pemcracker-Tool-For-Cracking-PEM-Files-640x432.png\" alt=\"pemcracker - Tool For Cracking PEM Files\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pemcracker-Tool-For-Cracking-PEM-Files-640x432.png 640w, https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pemcracker-Tool-For-Cracking-PEM-Files.png 737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Robert Graham&#8217;s pemcrack, it still uses high-level OpenSSL calls in order to guess the password. As an optimisation, instead of continually checking against the PEM on disk, it is loaded into memory in each thread.<\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3033787195489589\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Darknet Responsive Post Ad Links [previously link ad unit] -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3033787195489589\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5456620019\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<h3>Usage<\/h3>\n<pre>bwall@ragnarok:~$ .\/pemcracker \r\npemcracker 0.1.0\r\npemcracker <path to pem> <word file>\r\n\r\npemcracker 0.1.0 by Brian Wallace (@botnet_hunter)<\/pre>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<pre>bwall@ragnarok:~\/data\/publicprojects\/pemcracker$ .\/pemcracker test.pem test.dict\r\nPassword is komodia for test.pem<\/pre>\n<p>If you are looking for the fastest possible method of brute forcing PEM files, you may wish to try out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/03\/jtr-password-cracking-john-the-ripper-17-released-finally\/\">John the Ripper<\/a>. Its little known ssh2john allows for converting PEM files to a format that can be fed into .\/john.<\/p>\n<p>You can download pemcracker here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bwall\/pemcracker\/archive\/master.zip\">pemcracker-master.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or read more <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bwall\/pemcracker\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pemcracker is a tool for cracking PEM files that are encrypted and have a password. The purpose is to attempt to recover the password for encrypted PEM files while utilising all the CPU cores. Inspired by Robert Graham&#8217;s pemcrack, it still uses high-level OpenSSL calls in order to guess the password. As an optimisation, instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"pemcracker is a tool for cracking PEM files that are encrypted and have a password, it's optimised for speed and loads each threaded PEM file into memory.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,31],"tags":[8875],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}