In our challenge, I was asking,
what does that hash up top say?
Well, in order to do that,
we have to break this down into two parts.
One, identify the type of hash
and two, use John to be able to tell us
what it actually says.
So, let's identify it by copying this string right here.
Right click and go to,
make sure we got to copy all of it
and then copy, select all of it
and then open up hash identifier.
Inside of hash identifier,
we just simply paste the hash in there,
scroll up and we can see that it is possibly MD5
or some sort of MD4.
We're gonna go with MD5 first.
So, with that being said,
we're going to go into another terminal here
and use John with the identified format of raw MD5
and the hash challenge file
that contains that actual hash.
And when we run that,
we can see that loaded one password hash,
no password hashes left to crack.
So, John ran.
So, now we need to go up and add the dash dash show
in order to see what John came up with for results.
And we can see that the answer to this challenge
in part two is CBT nuggets in one word, all lowercase.
And you can see also that I added the fact
that CBT nuggets was added to the John repository
in their word list.
Otherwise, this would have taken quite some time.
So, I just wanted to give you kind of a challenge
to where you went through the steps
and got more familiar with how to identify
and use a password cracker like John
to be able to reverse engineer that hash
to bring you something a little bit more usable.
Now, this won't be the last time that we run across
the need to crack passwords or identify hashes.
They'll come up throughout the rest of this course,
but it does wrap up this skill.
And I just wanted to make sure
that we had a firm understanding
of all things that were surrounding password attacks
and the ability to do so.
I hope this has been informative for you.
And I'd like to thank you for viewing.