Gathering information for credential cracking
In order to perform a successful crack, it is important to have a list of possible and passwords. One of the ways this is possible is by making use of the dictionaries available in the Kali Linux Distro. These are located under /usr/share/wordlists/. The following screenshot shows the available wordlists in Kali:
You will find a rockyou.txt.gz file, which you will need to unzip. Use the following command in terminal to unzip the contents of the file:
gunzip rockyou.txt.gz
Once this is done, the file will be extracted, as shown in the preceding screenshot. This is a prebuilt list of available passwords in Kali Linux. Let us begin to formulate one of ours with the help of enumeration and information gathering.
Getting ready
To commence, we will first find the IP address of the hosted Stapler machine and begin enumerating information to collect and create a set of custom passwords.
How to do it...
The steps for the recipe are as follows:
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