L0phtCrack is one of the strong password auditing and recovery appellation that is mainly utilized to test the strength of your password. It works by assigning the password of each of the user account through L0phtCrack force process and can run it with many passwords at one time. The notable function of this platform includes you can obtain millions of username and password combinations from a list of usernames and passwords.
With its built-in wordlist-based cracker, you can perform a dictionary or brute force attack on a wordlist using a username list as input. L0phtCrack will automatically create an extremely large password file to use with the wordlist-based cracking algorithm. Other function of this platform includes it will run continuously in the background without any need to be started manually and also used to attempt to crack passwords that are limited in length or don’t contain any special characters.
Ophcrack is one of the best in class software that acts as a window password cracker, enabling the users to access any encrypted program with a single click. The key feature of this platform includes it uses rainbow tables, which are pre-computed hashes that have been independently compiled by many different users, no need to keep your database of hashes on your computer, especially utilized by system administrators, penetration testers in recovering passwords, and others.
With the help of its Live CD program, it persuades you to use your computer without Windows or any installing another operating system. It works by using crackers that work like dictionary words to try to guess the password. If a word in the rainbow table produces a match, it will use this word as a password for the user account. If no real words match, ophcrack tries random combinations of numbers, strings or punctuation marks to guess passwords. You can also create rules to determine what word or combination of words you wish to try first at cracking certain user accounts.
CrackStation is one of the powerful cracking software that utilizes pre-computed lookup tables to crack the password hashes. It works in multiple progressive steps like you need to enter a password in the form of hashes, press the “Show Password” button, wait for 10 seconds; after this moment, you can see a screen with cracked passwords from all letters A to Z and symbols !”#$%&()*+,-., you can select one of them or copy it to clipboard and then use it as a new password; the more letters and symbols in the password, the better chance this program will find it, fully compatible with NTLMv2 hashes & LM hashes and many others.
CrackStation allows you to scan, attack, and recover passwords on remote Windows machines. It can crack WEP, WPA/WPA2-PSK, and even MS-CHAPv2 and help you protect your PC networks from hackers who try to steal confidential information. Another function of this platform covers special functionality to finding domain user names and strong passwords with the DumpAndLoad option.
Hashcat is one of the fastest window cracking software that provides you an opportunity to recover passwords and is fully supported with more than 300 optimizing hashing. It is primarily used for cracking passwords stored in memory or on a disk in password-protected areas of systems. The main advantage of this platform includes it covers important tools in your arsenal for reducing risk online or on your network, crack hashes at rates of around 500 billion hashes per second, and lets multiple modes of attack.
It includes several different types of Brute-Force attacks and rules allowing specific sets of characters to be targeted by the attack, special instructions explaining how to create your own rulesets using the blackart4j framework, and many others. Hashcat can be used to crack passwords of up to 15-characters with a variety of hashing algorithms and wordlists, which can also be distributed across multiple computers in order to speed up the cracking process.
Cain and Abel is a multi-functional security tool that directly installs on your system, making you perform decryption and decoding of your password in an appropriate manner. The attractive function of this platform includes it has an ability to crack passwords that were applied on highly advanced machine platforms, utilize basic console utility for testing inputs and outputs, as well as the security of passwords and other data, speed up the process of finding potential security vulnerabilities in systems or networks with data transmissions, passwords, or computer code and many others.
Cain and Abel are designed to be an easily accessible tool that provides users with visualized outputs for each input that is given into the tool. Other function of this platform includes it exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort, compatible with all files HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, LNK file type, or others.
Aircrack-ng is the next-generation software that comes with the complete suite of tools to access WiFi network s4curty and detects the network having weak signals or security. It allows easy recovery of various kinds of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force, and Cryptanalysis attacks, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes.
The core benefit of this platform includes it has an ability to recover data from encrypted files, including files with data encryption on any level at all; it does not matter if the encrypted file uses HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, LNK file type or other, recover passwords for Microsoft Outlook Express messages and many others. With the help of its multiple thread technology, it recovers passwords up to 10x fast than another recovering system by using graphical and command-line interfaces. Another function of this platform includes it can even extract password hashes from memory dumps and lets you paste them easily in notes.
John the Ripper is open-source software that is introduced with professional password cracking tools, making you recover your password with a single click. It allows you to get any data from any kind of files, including emails archives with attachments, archives of instant messenger conversations with attachments, archives of downloaded files from P2P programs, no matter these files are encrypted on your hard drive or USB flash drive.
The stunning function of this platform includes it has the ability to decode passwords from scrambled passwords from encrypted files, a special option to decrypt password-protected areas of a ZIP archive, sniff SSL proxies, and offer an option of submitting encrypted file names obtained from a hidden IE Favorites folder to a third-party HTTP server and many more. Another function of this platform it is used for system security professionals, forensic experts, first responders, and law enforcement agents that reveals passwords live on the target computer or over an established data link.
Medusa is an all-in-one password cracking software that can easily read or write the password which is placed on any file. It can be used for finding the password, accessing data traffic, and getting the pre-shared key from a wireless network. Unlike other tracking tools, it uses a dictionary or wordlist to guess the key, which makes it much quicker to brute force decode with all possible keys.
The exciting function of this platform includes used to crack wireless networks in order to get the WiFi username and password in order to steal personal information, steal data or just listen in on the conversations between people that are connected via secured wireless network, allows users to stay connected when away from their computers resulting in huge benefits like less switching costs but also potential risks like theft of personal info and data and many others.
Brutus is one of the flexible remote window password crackers that offer you a chance to check routers for default or common passwords. The tools were designed to crack the WEP keys of wireless networks. WEP is a form of key exchange protocol used by WiFi encrypted networks. It was developed to prevent unauthorized access to the wireless network but is not meant to be used in wireless networks that are secured with another type of security.
The interesting function of this platform includes it entitles you to capture data from the wireless network, more specifically, data traffic. The data traffic can be used for choosing the correct WEP key so that an already cracked network can be put back online using different software. Another function of this platform is that to monitor the traffic on wireless networks while trying to get the key that is used to encrypt the network.
Wfuzz is a restriction-free tool that is developed for brute-forcing the web appellations and utilized by the top leading organizations or enterprises to locate the special resources which are not linked to the directories, servlets, scripts, and others, based on WEP cracking techniques. It uses a dictionary or wordlist to guess the password of a given wireless network by comparing it with encrypted data packets sent through WiFi networks used by the hackers to access wireless networks at their workplaces.
The adorable function of this platform includes it forces the encrypted data packets with words in the wordlist until it gets the correct key; when the right key is found, it is used to decrypt the data packets that are sent through a wireless network, tests the performance of a wireless network by trying to crack it with different WEP keys, and more. It is fully supported with all IEEE 802.11 standards, including 802. 11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, and IEEE 802.11n.
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is one of the smart platforms that persuades you to reset the password of any user having a valid local account in your Windows system. The idea behind this software is that it primarily tries to crack password hashes, not just a single password, and also locate the NTLM and LM hashes in addition to DES and Blowfish encrypted passwords.
The main advantage of this platform includes it works offline; just you need to shut down your computer and boot off a CD or USB disk to reset the password, which is not present in any other software, works with any standard PC wireless card that supports raw monitoring mode and can sniff 802.11a, 802, special option useful for automated tests like mass association, mass survey, and DoS attacks and many others.
RainbowCrack is one of the unique platforms that ensure you to quickly generate the rainbow tables, helping you to crack a different password that is placed on multiple programs of the window. The core benefits of this platform include you can use both capital letters, numbers, common & uncommon symbols, and low case letters in your password cover password auditing tools such as L0phtcrack and Pyrit, the underlying MD4 algorithms for cracking purposes, capable of performing cryptanalysis attacks against many types of cryptographic hash functions and password protection methods and many others.
It works in multiple progressive steps like you need to; first, you need to run the password file and know the password of the respective file, use a text file or a text editor such as vi to create the password file, it requires files with at least one non-alphanumeric character in it, in another second it will display the cracked password, enabling you to copy it and paste in the clipboard.
THC Hydra is one of the personalized login crackers that is fully supported with numerous protocols to attack. The stunning function of this platform includes you can create different partitions on your hard drive into two partitions and then use both partitions as sources for your password file. To create a new file, you can use a text editor, or you can use grep with line editing disabled with only one character in it and many others.
When you want to crack long passwords, you need to disable line editing on your command prompt on Windows or make sure that you don’t have any directory traversal characters in your passwords on Unix systems. It displays the example used in the side panel when you double-click on the executable option.
Password Unlocker is one of the professional password decryption tools that allows you to reset or recover the login of any application. It aids you to start attacking password hashes like if you had physical access to the computer and all of your credentials will be copied into a local file where they can be used at any time or transferred elsewhere.
With the help of its WiFi password cracking function, it lets you keep track of all the computers connected in real-time. Through its vulnerability checking function, it aids security professionals to track botnets, which are made up of individual computers infected by malware through exploits or vulnerabilities in operating systems or applications. Other function of this platform includes configuration settings can be changed by modifying the main file, and all the changes are stored in the side panel for future purpose.
GoCrack is one of the lightweights but efficient software that is specially designed for modification of tasks, view the cracked passwords, downloading the task file, and other sensitive operations with a single click. The key feature of this platform includes it uses rainbow tables, which are pre-computed hashes that have been independently compiled by many different users, no need to keep your database of hashes on your computer, especially utilized by system administrators, penetration testers in recovering passwords, and others.
GoCrack is used to crack passwords of up to 15-characters with a variety of hashing algorithms and wordlists, which can also be distributed across multiple computers in order to speed up the cracking process. With the help of its multiple thread technology, it recovers passwords up to 20x fast than another recovering system by using graphical and command-line interfaces.
Pyrit is a network management program that helps admin to set the customize changes to various domains like WPA or WPA2-PSK authentication phase in a space-time-tradeoff. With the computational power of Multi-Core CPUs and other well-integrated specifications, the users can get a subset of IEEE 802.11 WPA/WPA2 for restoring the various keys and accessibility domains. All the connection has unique integrations and special command lines that work from a password and requires administrating user-based pre-configurations.
The module works as a perfect tool for pentester or security testers to test their cracking skills in various wireless networks. The program provides the automation with the process of setting up the authentication phase and delivers information summary and complete protocols. The tool has no relation to the security of WPA/WPA2 protocol or its implementations practically; rather, basic configurations are deployed according to the system needs.