Cain and Abel
Cain and Abel
Cain and Abel
Is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It can recover many kinds of passwords
using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods
such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. Cryptanalysis attacks are done
via rainbow tables which can be generated with the winrtgen.exe program provided with Cain and
Abel. Cain and Abel is maintained by Massimiliano Montoro and Sean Babcock.
The latest version is faster and contains a lot of new features like APR (Address Resolution
Protocol) Poison Routing which enables sniffing on switched LANs and Man-in-the-Middle attacks.
The sniffer in this version can also analyze encrypted protocols such as SSH-1 and HTTPS and contains
filters to capture credentials from a wide range of authentication mechanisms. The new version also
ships routing protocols authentication monitors and routes extractors, dictionary and brute-force
crackers for all common hashing algorithms and for several specific authentications, password/hash
calculators, cryptanalysis attacks, password decoders and some not so common utilities related to
network and system security
DISADVANTAGE
• Separate "Rainbow Tables" must be downloaded from other sources online
• Program must be installed on the hard drive, unlike many other password recovery tools
• Must have access to another administrator account on the computer.
• Variety of other built-in hacking tools might intimidate novice users
Requirements
The system requirements needed to successfully setup Cain & Abel are:
– At least 10MB hard disk space
– Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista OS
– Winpcap Packet Driver (v2.3 or above).
– Airpcap Packet Driver (for passive wireless sniffer / WEP cracker).