The most comprehensive password cracking course

Learn how to extract, format and crack hashes the easy way.

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Description

In this course you will learn how to do password cracking following a hands on approach. We will be extracting and cracking passwords from PDF, Word, Excel and RAR files as well as dumping and cracking user passwords from Windows and Linux systems.

This course will also help the students to understand the core concepts around password cracking including hashing, cracking methodology and the different cracking modes. Once students have finished this course they will be ready to easily perform password cracking to retrieve credentials on a real life scenario.

No previous knowledge is requred for this course aside from basic Linux and Windows command line understanding. All concepts will be explained from scratch to make it easier for the students to understand the different lessons. An exercise is provided to wrap the course up and ensure students understood the content of the course correclty. Answer to the exercise are provided as part of the course.


The course outline look as follows:


  1. Core concepts

  2. Password cracking methodology and cracking modes

  3. Installing Kali Linux

  4. Cracking password protected PDF files using JTR

  5. Cracking rar passwords using rarcrack and JTR

  6. Cracking word passwords using JTR

  7. Cracking word passwords using hashcat

  8. Bypassing excel workbook and sheet protection

  9. Cracking linux passwords using JTR

  10. Cracking Windows passwords with mimikatz and JTR

-- THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CREATED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED IN THIS COURSE SHOULN'T BE USED TO PERFORM ILEGAL ACTIVITIES --

What You Will Learn!

  • Fundamental concepts of password cracking, including hashing algorithms, cracking methodoloy and cracking modes
  • How to extract and format hashes from files created by popular applications like PDF, RAR, Word, Excel and Operatings systems including Windows and Linux.
  • What's mimikatz and how to use it in Windows to extract user hashes
  • How to use the two best tools for password cracking: John the ripper and Hashcat
  • How to bypass Excel workbook and sheet protection
  • What's Kali Linux distribution and how to create a Kali VM

Who Should Attend!

  • People that has lost access to an important document and want's to be able to retrieve the password
  • People working in a job related to information security
  • People that want to know more about how attackers dump and crack passwords in real life