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Mar 04, 2018 Conducting a basic dictionary attack using John the Ripper on Kali Linux. Basic password cracking with John the Ripper (ZIP file, MD5 hash) - Duration: 3:15. MCD's 1,818 views. One of the methods of cracking a password is using a dictionary, or file filled with words. This lab demonstrates how John the Ripper uses a dictionary to crack passwords for Linux accounts. Launch a terminal within a Linux operating system. If you’re not sure how, follow the steps in the study guide to do so.
John the ripper is a popular dictionary based password cracking tool. It uses a wordlist full of passwords and then tries to crack a given password hash using each of the password from the wordlist. In other words its called brute force password cracking and is the most basic form of password cracking. It is also the most time and cpu consuming technique. More the passwords to try, more the time required.
John is different from tools like hydra. Hydra does blind bruteforcing by trying username/password combinations on a service daemon like ftp server or telnet server. John however needs the hash first. So the greater challenge for a hacker is to first get the hash that is to be cracked. Now a days hashes are more easily crackable using free rainbow tables available online. Just go to one of the sites, submit the hash and if the hash is made of a common word, then the site would show the word almost instantly. Rainbow tables basically store common words and their hashes in a large database. Larger the database, more the words covered.
But still if you want to crack a password locally on your system then john is one of the good tools to try. John is in the top 10 security tools in Kali linux. On ubuntu it can be installed from synaptic package manager.
In this post I am going to show you, how to use the unshadow command along with john to crack the password of users on a linux system. On linux the username/password details are stored in the following 2 files
The actual password hash is stored in /etc/shadow and this file is accessible on with root access to the machine. So try to get this file from your own linux system. Or first create a new user with a simple password. I will create a new user on my linux system named happy, with password chess.
For demonstration purpose, its better to use a simple password so that you do not have to wait too long. Now that our new user is created its time to crack his password.
unshadow
The unshadow command will basically combine the data of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to create 1 file with username and password details. Usage is quite simple.
We redirected the output of unshadow command to a new file called file_to_crack.
crack with john
Now this new file shall be cracked by john. For the wordlist we shall be using the password list that comes with john on kali linux. It is located at the following path
You can use your own password lists too.
So in the above command john was able to crack the hash and get us the password 'chess' for the user 'happy'. Now john was able to crack, only because the password 'chess' was present in the password list. If it were not there then john would have failed.
Use the show option to list all the cracked passwords.
The 1 password that was left, was of user root. No password in the provided wordlist could crack it.
Without wordlist
The simpler way to crack password with john without using a password list is like this
According to the documentation
Check the documentation on MODES.
Resources
http://www.openwall.com/john/doc/EXAMPLES.shtmlWant to get started with password cracking and not sure where to begin? In this post we’ll explore how to get started with it.
Most systems don’t store passwords on them. Instead they store hashes of passwords and when authentication takes place, the password is hashes and if the hashes match authentication is successful. Different systems store password hashes in different ways depending on the encryption used.
Password hash cracking usually consists of taking a wordlist, hashing each word and comparing it against the hash you’re trying to crack. This is a variation of a dictionary attack because wordlists often are composed of not just dictionary words but also passwords from public password dumps. This type of cracking becomes difficult when hashes are salted).
The tool we are going to use to do our password hashing in this post is called John the Ripper. John is a great tool because it’s free, fast, and can do both wordlist style attacks and brute force attacks. A brute force attack is where the program will cycle through every possible character combination until it has found a match.
Setup
To get setup we’ll need some password hashes and John the Ripper.
Sample Password Hashes
Rf online upgrade hack using wpe. A group called KoreLogic used to hold DEFCON competitions to see how well people could crack password hashes. Softube plugins crack mac n. Their contest files are still posted on their site and it offers a great sample set of hashes to begin with.
Download the password hash file bundle from the KoreLogic 2012 DEFCON challenge.Or use this mirror.
Extract the file using this linux command:
This expands into 19 different hashdumps including
des
, md5
, and ntlm
type encryption. Each of the 19 files contains thousands of password hashes. This should be a great data set to test our cracking capabilities on.John the Ripper
Next we’ll need the cracking tool itself. If you’re using Kali Linux, this tool is already installed. Download John the Ripper here. In my case I’m going to download the free version
John the Ripper 1.8.0 (sources, tar.gz, 5.2 MB)
.Once downloaded, extract it with the following linux command:
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Then follow the instructions in docs/INSTALL to complete the install.
Getting a Wordlist
We’ll need a good wordlist to go through to see if any passwords in it, match our hashes.
- A basic word list containing 3,559 words can be found bundled in the John the Ripper tarball in the run dir. This is a list of the most common passwords seen in public hash dumps.
- If using Kali linux, a good size wordfile is located at
/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt.gz
. Unzip it withgunzip
and you’ve got a good wordfile to workwith. - A large word list containing 1,493,677,782 words can be found at crackstation.
The size word list you need depends on your needs. If you have a large hashdump, chances are even cracking 5% of the hashes will result in a victory, which may get you admin access. But if you have a only one password hash, you’ll need 100% success rate and probably need a bigger wordlist.
Basic John Usage
Use John to begin the cracking with this command:
This simple command does the following:
- Detected there are 10,297 password hashes in the file and their salts.
- Auto detected the passwords were DES encrypted
- Will first attempt single crack mode
- Will then attempt to use the built in wordlist (most common passwords) to crack passwords
- Will then go into incremental mode
Checking Status
While John the Ripper is running, press any key (like enter) to see a status output. Or to check from another terminal you can run
john --status
. The output looks like this:Here is what each section means:
- Type of encryption it is trying to crack with
- Number of successful password guesses
- Time elapsed since started
- Percent completed for that pass
- Current pass / number of passes total
- g/s = successful guesses per second
- p/s = passwords tested per second
- c/s = crypts (password hashes) computed per second
- C/s = crypts tested per second (in versions below 1.8.0 this was “c/s”)
- The current word it’s trying.
Passes/Modes
John has three modes to attempt to crack hashes. If you do not indicate the mode, all 3 will be used and you will see
x/3
in your status output indicating which mode it’s on.See http://www.openwall.com/john/doc/MODES.shtml for detailed description of each mode.
(1) Single Crack
This mode attempts to mangle the username and try it as the password. Example: if the username was “jackson” it would try the following passwords:
jackson
JACKSON
jackson1
j-ackson
Jackson=
jacks0n
JACKSON
jackson1
j-ackson
Jackson=
jacks0n
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It tries hundreds of variations of the username. It tries this password on all hashes in your file so the more usernames you give it, the greater chance of it finding something in the single crack mode.
This is a great mode to start with because it’s the fastest and sometimes works wonderfully.
To just use this mode do the following:
(2) Wordlist Mode
In this mode, John is using a wordlist to hash each word and compare the hash with the password hash. Microsoft paint online. If you do not indicate a wordlist, John will use the one it comes bundled with which has about 3,500 words which are the most common passwords seen in password dumps.
To use try just the wordlist mode do the following: Office 2016 full version.
(3) Incremental
Attempts a brute force style attack, trying every combination of characters possible. This type of attempt will never complete because it will just keep trying higher and higher password lengths.
To try just the incremental mode, do this command:
Word mangling rules
John has the ability to take a wordlist and mangle the words in it to try variations of that word. It will add numbers to the end of the word and try replacing letters with numbers and adding other random symbols. So if the word list contains the word
jackson
, with rules
turned on it would try each of these plus hundreds more.jackson
JACKSON
jackson1
j-ackson
Jackson=
jacks0n
JACKSON
jackson1
j-ackson
Jackson=
jacks0n
By simply enabling
--rules
when invoking John, the mangling rules applied are usually decent. However, you can modify the config file to alter the way the mangling is done. Read here for further information on how to do that:Additionally you can see what others have used for rules like KoreLogic:
Final Example
To use a larger word list, with DES encryption only, and rule mangling turned on, use the following:
The best way to get John to run in the background is using the standard linux
screen
command.