Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works?



Yep, and rainbow tables are your friend.

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Rob Thompson wrote:
Vikas Singhal wrote:
Hi Friends,

Nowaday, I am studying on the Topic - Cracking Windows password.

There are lot of tools out there which can dump LM and NTLM hashes for
you. But as far i know, you can't touch the SAM file when windows is
running, so, how does these tools work.

Is the sam dumped in-memory?

Regards
V


Whenever I've had to do that, I have copied the SAM off the box, while
the machine was running and then done the work offline.

I haven't had to do it a lot, but a few times and it's worked each time.

Hope that this helps.



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