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

["Carlos Madrid" <chalonga () gmail com>]

Some advice.. only try to crack the LM hashes.  They won't be longer
then 14 chars.

Also read a little bit for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash

The hashes are best retrieved with dll injection into lsass.

Random link to save me typing:
http://www.lcpsoft.com/english/articles/passwords.htm


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Vikas Singhal
<vikas.programmer () gmail com> 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