Cracking Kerberos Passwords with KerbCrack

I downloaded KerbCrack here:

http://ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/kerbcrack/

By the way, Chrome called that file "Malicious":

But virustotal shows that it is just detected as a hacking tool, not malware that does any additional harm.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e40227fb0ee5e98925cbd4d6d6af607397619b493fb0efa163eea6aee27d271c/analysis/

I put KerbCrack on my domain controller and unzipped it.

I started kerbsniff sniffing:

I then tried logging in to my Windows Server 2012 domain from a Win 8.1 client, but kerbsniff didn't pick anything up.

The KerbCrack documentation says it works for Win 2000 and XP, so I booted up a Windows XP VM and joined the domain.

That worked! Kerbsniff captured two hashes (perhaps these are not exactly hashes, but pre-authentication encrypted timestamps; I'm not sure exactly what KerbCrack uses):

And when I ran them against a dictionary containing the correct password, the password was cracked.


Posted 2-24-14 7:43 am by Sam Bowne