Welcome to CCSO! This mini-competition is meant to give a background on password cracking.
Each hash file has all the hashes in a given category, as well as a hint in the filename :).
Note: All hashes are in NTLM format (hashcat mode 1000).
Down the hashes to your local machine, grab a wordlist shove them into hashcat to start cracking!
https://www.makeuseof.com/use-hashcat-to-crack-hashes-linux/
https://hashcat.net/
KEEP ALL CRACKED PASSWORDS IN THEIR OWN FILE WITH FOLLOWING FORMAT:
- Filename:
<last name>_<first name>_<category>.txt - Ex.
merrill_josh_constitution.txt
Keep your crack files separated by category.
When finished, email all cracks to jpm7050@psu.edu, top finishers for each category will be announced on discord.
These are a list of resources that might come in handy for the contest :).
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=rule_based_attack
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes