Password hash extraction with libesedb and ntdsxtract

And now, without further ado, the real fun part. When I first started using this technique, the process was a little more tedious; today, you can have everything extracted and formatted for John with only two commands. There is a caveat, however. We need to prep Kali for the proper building of the libesedb suite. We can have this all done automatically with utilities such as autoconf, a wizard of a tool that will generate scripts that automatically configure the software package. A detailed review of what we are about to install is out of scope for this discussion, so I encourage you to check out the man pages offline. 

Here are the commands, line by line. Let each one finish before proceeding. ...

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