Password Audits Part 4: Analysing Results
Introduction We extracted the NTDS, organised it, and finally recovered as many hashes as our timeframe and available resources allowed. We have now reached the final part of the process! Now, it is time to produce some value from analysing our final dataset! Extract NTDS → Clean/Organise NTDS → Crack Hashes → Analyse Results At this point, we have a collection of recovered credentials (the Hashcat .potfile) and a rough understanding of how successful our password-cracking process was. However, simply knowing that a certain percentage of hashes were recovered does not say much. ...