Cracking the SAM

Posted by: Justin

I have done this before, but it’s been awhile, so I thought I would refresh my memory on password cracking.
My tools (used on Windows XP VM)

L0phtCrack (15 day trial for downloads, GUI, professional-grade)
Cain and Abel (freeware, GUI)
OphCrack (freeware, GUI)
pwdump (used for grabbing the SAM)

My victim
I have a Windows XP Professional SP3 virtual machine with a [...]