BackTrack 5 Cookbook

Password profiling

In this recipe, we will learn how to profile passwords before we begin our password attack. The purpose of profiling passwords is to allow us to get to a smaller wordlist by gathering information against our target machine, business, and so on. In this recipe, we will use Ettercap and its ARP Poisoning function to sniff traffic.

Getting ready

A connection to the local network is required to complete this recipe.

How to do it...

Let's begin the process of password profiling by launching Ettercap:

1. We begin this recipe by configuring Ettercap. First we locate its configuration file and edit it using Vim:

   locate etter.conf
   vi /etc/etterconf
   

   Note

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2. Change the ec_uid and ec_gid values to 0:
3. Next we need to uncomment ...