Practical 13: Cain and Abel Dictionary Attack

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Prac 13:- Cain and abel Dictionary attack 



1.Click the hash function. Enter text. Click calculate See the
MD5 and SHA512 algorithms of hashing. The highlighted
part is the output. Copy this hash value.

MD5 and SHA512




2. Click the cracker menu and then click MD5 in the side bar.
Enter the Hex value and click OK.



3. Right click the entry and select dictionary attack.








5. Click the space below “File” in the dialog box to select the
txt file i.e. dictionary that will be used for the attack. The
selection will be directed to choosing from the local files.
Go to Cain and Abel directory and select Wordlist.txt



5. Click start and it will start checking the dictionary for the
hash value and its corresponding plain text. In the first
case, “Avenger” was entered as plain text and the
The dictionary did not have the word hence the attack failed.
However, for “password” the attack was successful. The
wordlist.txt was added separately again for the second
test, thus it is to be added again and again for each
separate test.

LAB SAFETY: Perform security testing only on systems, accounts, and networks you own or have explicit permission to test. Use isolated training targets and follow instructor directions.