Weekly Challenge: Password123

Solution for cybrary weekly challenge

Before checking solution read through these.

https://hashes.com/en/tools/hash_identifier

https://medium.com/@petergombos/lm-ntlm-net-ntlmv2-oh-my-a9b235c58ed4

https://crackstation.net/

Let’s break the hash.

1. What type of password hash is it?

Ans: NTLM

Using kali linux tool hashidentifier

$ hash-identifier 8743b52063cd84097a65d1633f5c74f5

List of possible hashs

2. When cracking a password, is there a difference in upper and lowercase for computation time?

Ans: YES

3. What is the password?

we already cracked in qn 1

Ans: pASSWORD1

NTLM Hash cracking via hash cat (hash.txt contain hash value and wordlist contains commonly used hashes -m 1000 for NTLM hash -a 0 specifies Straight attack)

$ hashcat -a 0 -m 1000 hash.txt wordlist.txt

4. Name another attack you could use without cracking the password?

Hints : https://medium.com/@petergombos/lm-ntlm-net-ntlmv2-oh-my-a9b235c58ed4

Ans: Pass-The-Hash