Password Cracking

Some hashes such as NTLM can be utilized as they are (e.g. pass the hash), but others are not so useful unless we can crack them to recover an original plaintext password. Regardless of the type of hash, there are generic password cracking methodologies that we'll cover here.

Two very common applications to achieve this are hashcat and John the Ripper.

Use hashcat on Windows to utilize your GPU.