John The Ripper 1.7.3.1 Pro

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John The Ripper is an open source and very efficient password cracker by Open-Wall. It was originally built for Unix but is now available for fifteen different platforms including Windows, DOS, BeOS, OpenVMS and Unix like operating systems. It is an Open Source tool and is free, though a premium version also exists. Initially, its primary purpose was to detect weak password configurations in Unix based Operating systems. Today it supports cracking of hundreds of hashes and ciphers.

John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. If you would rather use a commercial product tailored for your specific operating system, please consider John the Ripper Pro, which is distributed primarily in the form of 'native' packages for the target operating systems and in general is meant to be. John the Ripper Pro is a free and open source password cracker tool for Mac computers.This tutorial will show you how to use John the Ripper to crack Windows 10, 8 and 7 password on. 8 and 7 Password with John the Ripper. John the Ripper is designed to be both feature-rich and fast. It combines several cracking modes in one program and is fully configurable for your particular needs (you can even define a custom cracking mode using the built-in compiler supporting a subset of C).

Installation

John The Ripper can be installed in many ways. A few common ones are we can install it by using apt-get or snap. Open up the terminal and run the following commands.

This will initiate an installation process. Once it finishes type ‘john’ in the terminal.

[email protected]:~$ john
John the Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 OMP [linux-gnu 64-bit 64 AVX2 AC]
Copyright (c)1996-2019 by Solar Designer and others
Homepage: http://www.openwall.com/john/

This means John the Ripper v1.9.0 is now installed on your device. We can see the homepage URL sending us to Open-wall’s website. And Usage given below indicates how to use the utility.

It can also be downloaded and installed via snap. You need to install snap if you do not already have it.

[email protected]:~$ sudo apt update
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt install snapd

And then install JohnTheRipper via snap.

[email protected]:~$ sudo snap install john-the-ripper

Cracking Passwords with JohnTheRipper

So, JohnTheRipper is installed on your computer. Now to the interesting part, how to crack passwords with it. Type ‘john’ in the terminal. The Terminal will show you the following result:

[email protected]:~$ john
John the Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 OMP [linux-gnu 64-bit 64 AVX2 AC]
Copyright (c)1996-2019 by Solar Designer and others
Homepage: http://www.openwall.com/john/
Below the Homepage, USAGE is given as:
Usage: john [OPTIONS][PASSWORD-FILES]

By looking at its usage, We can make out that you just need to supply it your password file(s) and the desired option(s). Different OPTIONS are listed below the usage providing us different choices as to how the attack can be carried out.

Some of the different options available are:

–single

  • Default mode using default or named rules.

–wordlist

  • wordlist mode, read wordlist dictionary from a FILE or standard input

–encoding

  • input encoding (eg. UTF-8, ISO-8859-1).

–rules

  • enable word mangling rules, using default or named rules.

–incremental

  • ”incremental” mode

–external

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  • external mode or word filter

–restore = NAME

  • restore an interrupted session [called NAME]

–session = NAME

  • name a new session NAME

–status = NAME

  • print status of a session [called NAME]

–show

  • show cracked passwords.

–test

  • run tests and benchmarks.

–salts

  • load salts.

–fork = N

  • Create N processes for cracking.

–pot = NAME

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  • pot file to use

–list = WHAT

  • lists WHAT capabilities. –list=help shows more on this option.

–format = NAME

  • Provide John with the hash type. e.g, –format=raw-MD5, –format=SHA512

Different modes in JohnTheRipper

By default John tries “single” then “wordlist” and finally “incremental”. Modes can be understood as a method John uses to crack passwords. You may have heard of different kinds of attacks like Dictionary attack, Bruteforce attack etc. That precisely, are what we call John’s modes. Wordlists containing possible passwords are essential for a dictionary attack. Apart from the modes listed above John also supports another mode called external mode. You can choose to select a dictionary file or you can do brute-force with John The Ripper by trying all possible permutations in the passwords. The default config starts with single crack mode, mostly because it’s faster and even faster if you use multiple password files at a time. The most powerful mode available is the incremental mode. It will try different combinations while cracking. External mode, as the name implies, will use custom functions that you write yourself, while wordlist mode takes a word list specified as an argument to the option and tries a simple dictionary attack on passwords.

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[email protected]:~$ john password-file -w word-list

John will now start checking against thousands of passwords. Password cracking is CPU-intensive and a very long process, so the time it takes will depend on your system and the strength of the password. It can take days. If the password is not cracked for days with a powerful CPU, it is a very good password. If it is really crucia; to crack the password then leave the system until John cracks it.. As mentioned earlier, this can take many days.

As it cracks, you can check status by pressing any key. To Quit an attack session simply press ‘q’ or Ctrl + C.

Once it finds the password, it will be displayed on the terminal. All the cracked passwords are saved in a file called ~/.john/john.pot.

It displays passwords in $[HASH]:<pass> format.

ubuntu@mypc:~/.john$ cat john.pot
$dynamic_0$827ccb0eea8a706c4c34a16891f84e7b:12345

Let’s crack a password. For instance, we have a MD5 password hash that we need to crack.

We will put this into a file, say password.hash and save it in user:<hash> format.

You can type any username, it is not necessary to have some specified ones.

Now we crack it!

[email protected]:~$ john password.hash --format=Raw-MD5

It starts cracking the password.

We see that john loads hash from the file and starts with the ‘single’ mode. As it progresses, it goes onto the wordlist before moving onto incremental. When it cracks the password, it stops the session and shows the results.

Password can be seen later also by:

[email protected]:~$ john password.hash --format=Raw-MD5 --show
admin:emerald
1 password hash cracked, 0 left
Also by ~/.john/john.pot :
[email protected]:~$ cat ~/.john/john.pot
$dynamic_0$bd9059497b4af2bb913a8522747af2de:emerald
$dynamic_0$827ccb0eea8a706c4c34a16891f84e7b:12345

So, the password is emerald.

The internet is full of modern password cracking tools and Utilities. JohnTheRipper may have many alternatives, but it is one of the best ones available. Happy Cracking!

A fast passcode decrypting utility that was designed to help users test the strength of their passwords or recover lost passphrases

Creating strong passwords seems like an easy task at first glance, but it may actually take more than one would expect. Since there are many programs specially created to break such locks, it's probably a good idea to actually test the strength of a passcode before using it.

Runs from a command line interface

A tool that is quite useful for this purpose is John the Ripper, a command-line utility that will also show its worth in case you need to recover a lost passkey. Since it doesn't have a GUI of its own, you will have to open a Command window and run it from there to view the parameters which can be used to carry out the process.

The actual usage procedure is quite easy and you will have to follow a simple syntax which starts with the executable of, followed by the desired options and then by the password files.

Multiple methods of recovering passwords

There are several modes in which this application can work, starting with the 'single crack' method, followed by the word list and 'incremental' ones. It is also possible to employ a so-called 'external' mode which acts like a word filter. When using John the Ripper for testing purposes, you can run the benchmarks for a specific time by providing manually the appropriate value.

A great thing about this tool is that you will be able to save sessions and restore them when necessary, using their corresponding parameters. The status of these sessions can even be printed and you also have the possibility to have the deciphered passwords displayed.

To end with

1.7.3.1

All things considered, John the Ripper could actually be one of the better choices whenever someone needs to recover a password or assess the strength of a new one without having to go through a whole series of configurations. Nonetheless, the lack of a proper interface and of more functions may certainly deter some users from utilizing it.

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New in John the Ripper 1.7.9:
  • Added optional parallelization of the MD5-based crypt(3) code with OpenMP.
  • Added optional parallelization of the bitslice DES code with OpenMP.
  • Replaced the bitslice DES key setup algorithm with a faster one, which
  • significantly improves performance at LM hashes, as well as at DES-based
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