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Cracking MD5

23 June 2008 13 Comments Posted By Ashik
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In this article, you will learn how to crack a MD5 hash, but the article is limited and does not include cracking salted MD5s. I’m terribly sorry but I haven’t actually researched that.

Now, we need a tool and a bunch of documents. Lets hope you have a little diskspace on your HDD.

The first and primary tool we are using is ‘Cain & Abel’. But we will be using Cain, it can be downloaded from www.oxid.it (Click on Projects at the top and then download Cain & Abel — one program).

Cain is a MD5 cracker, I dont really know wtf is Abel so lets just forget about that. You might be wondering why I haven’t used JTR (John the Ripper) in this article, I have been introduced to JTR a few times and read a few tuts on it but still, I hate all MS-DOS programs, unlike Cain which has a pwnage GUI.

Now, I’m assuming you have your hash. If you just want to test how good Cain can be (although the wordlists are the ones that are helping) and its options, then Google ‘MD5 calculator’ there are a few that encrypt strings to MD5 but make sure its not something like (5#$FD*&^%HFG@$@$). Now, most crackers cant do that kind of shit.
Choose a word, and maybe a number in between 0 and 99 or something else.

Now, on to the cracking! The MD5 I have on my hand is (562bed16598a6d9cbc07d2e9ba6cef97). Now, you can go off to databases and try to crack that just to see how effective the article is.

Now, what good is a cracker with its victim hash without a few decent wordlists, there is a wordlist (3000 KB+) that comes with Cain. Now, lets download a few wordlists.

http://library.2ya.com has a few in ‘Webhacks / Bug Scan’ section on the left, download them all. And after you have downloaded them, I suggest moving them all to the Wordlist directory of Cain for faster and more reliable cracking.

Now follow the images directions and you should be fine.

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In the image above we have opened the Cracker and I have circled with red around the ‘Cracker’ tab which must be clicked to proceed.

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  • John Smith said:

    Hi!

    First of all, nice site. I am working with Cain and know how to crack an md5 hash but i cannot get hash…I am trying to steal my girlfriend’s hotmail/msn password because I want to know if she is cheating on me. Please give me some website where I can type her email address in order to get an md5 hash and then i will enter it to Cain and crack it…I’ve heard that excelent sites were learntohack.co.uk and activehackers.net but they closed down and now i can’t find any similar website…Please help, I’m quite desperate! Thanks, John

  • malik said:

    dear plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

    crack dis md5 …….. ineed

    7ac7dcd634ca2491a6207a07a637f203

    plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………

  • lynda said:

    can anyone help me ?
    MD5 hash: ca0ec71b4cde5f8f562fb7dd6a5c824b
    MD5 hash: d5e8a36aae9bc2cb8ee4a7dd1f52238d

  • Lwis said:

    How can we find the MD5 hash of a hotmail profile?

  • Mick said:

    could u crack this md5 4e91f706a74589334e0d3946fe1d5f42 pls pls pls

  • MD5 Hash said:

    Now you are going to get dozens of requests to reverse people’s MD5 hash. I see you already have a few.

  • JB said:

    the hash can not be hacked. any of the ones listed above. as they are not entries in a typical word format. there might be an unusual combination of numbers with letters such as a password with numbers be used to represent words such as: Numb3rs 3=e so e can not be interpreted as it is not in proper context.

    Joseph Balestrino
    seattle, wa.

  • JB said:

    now, thats just my opinion. i could be wrong…

  • amin said:

    can anyone help me ?
    MD5 hash: 24efefd67a39d1955f07772a8af9baaf
    MD5 hash: 3266d6facebd910ec298e96aa4a16295

    thx

  • m. humayun said:

    can u please crack this 543cfa41d7688af57b43fffdac24bde3

  • Val said:

    Can someone please crack 0a9c7c0bd4f6f0e8b5dc2965276de302
    Email me at cheets1@live.co.uk

    Thank you in advance.

  • sarveka said:

    Hai friends,
    Can u help me to find this MD5 hash to password
    daa7e277f967e919a77cd5b3f12f6514
    mail me : vsarveka@yahoo.com

    Thnx
    sarvi

  • EvilFreD said:

    Geez people,

    If you want to read somebody’s mail, especially when it’s someone living in the same same house!!!, just install a keylogger!

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