Password Cracking 101

One of the most common techniques for an attack to perform privilege escalation or gain initial access to an account is password cracking. If you are an offensive or defensive team member, it is essential to understand how to crack passwords. Offensive team members benefit from this knowledge because it teaches them a new technique for privilege escalation and gaining a foothold. Defensive team members benefit from this knowledge because it teaches them how to audit their passwords for weakness properly.

Target Audience: The target audience for this course is red team members learning techniques for privilege escalation and blue team members who want to learn how to audit their password strength.

Prerequisites: Linux command line

Course Goals: By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Understand password cracking concepts
• Understand hashing concepts
• Identify hash types
• Crack a password hash
• Understand how to mitigate the risk of their passwords being cracked

• Introduction
• Introduction
• Password Cracking
• Identifying Hash Types
• Cracking Hashes
• Mitigation