Xp password file sam

This program is not free but does have a free trial which is crippled and time limited. Although not required, it is desirable to have a separate windows machine to run LC5 on. You can, provided you have an accessable account, install LC5 on the target machine and crack the recovered SAM file.

Please note however that not even the venerable L0pht Crack will be able to access the SAM while windows is running so, you will still have to recover it with Linux. The most challenging part of this project was getting a copy of the SAM file.

I know the linux nerds are all busting a gut over this one. It was not easy. I wasn't able to find a single website that had instructions on how to do this. Well I take that back.. None of those websites tell you much beyond the theory and explain the arguments for some of the commands, and if possible caveats you might encounter. Guess what? That shit doesn't help anyone but fucking Linux nerds.

I don't know what Grub is and I don't give a shit. I just want it changed. So here comes Knoppix. Support for NTFS, and that's not even the best part. It mounts the volumes for you, and puts up a nice little desktop icon for all the drives.

That's right Be patient, this may take some time, produce screen flickers and pops and such from the speakers. The first thing we need to do is grab the password hashes from the SAM file.

Just download the freeware PwDump7 and unzip it on your local PC. Open a Command Prompt. Navigate to the folder where you extract the PwDump7 app, and then type the following command: PwDump7. As you can see the password hashes are still unreadable, and we need to crack them using John the Ripper. The encryption algorithm is NTLM2 used.

But it is not completely work against a professional hacker. Here I am going to show you how hacker dump these encrypted password hashes from database and find out the password by cracking these hashes. As I know you are learner here, so you have two option to make exercise on this topic.

So we have main task to go to this location and find out the SAM database. After booting system with Kali Linux you should follow the given instruction to find out the password.