05-29-2019, 06:20 AM
Hi Phil. A quick update. I created the hash as described on an account with the password 'admin'. It was a lot longer than the sample hash so I truncated it to the same length. Hashcat accepted it in mode 7100 (the good news) so I made up a short dictionary file which included 'admin' and ran the hash in dictionary mode against that file. Hashcat did not report a successful result (the bad news) and instead said that it had exhausted all possibilities. So I guess that there was a problem with the hash.
I was able to create another administrator account on the target machine and so got to the file that I needed in that way but I would like to continue with my cracking adventures as an academic exercise. I will create another account next weekend and repeat the process and see if I can get a successful result. If so, I may buy some time on someone else's machine to run the crack attempt on the main password.
I will keep you posted. Mike.
I was able to create another administrator account on the target machine and so got to the file that I needed in that way but I would like to continue with my cracking adventures as an academic exercise. I will create another account next weekend and repeat the process and see if I can get a successful result. If so, I may buy some time on someone else's machine to run the crack attempt on the main password.
I will keep you posted. Mike.