

| grep.txt" command to find all of the documents in my home directory. I decided to proceed because I found specific hashes that were identical to what i found on Linux.

The initial message scared me, and i couldn't open the file. When I found the same hash, I went back to the Android and tried to open the file. I copied these hashes to a Linux system and compared them to all of the hashes I found.

I found some of the password hashes to be in the format used by Debian, and others were not. You can use passwd, which is a password dictionary, to crack passwords instead, but it's way slower.Īfter opening the files, I inspected the hex and ASCII strings. MD5 is non-cryptographic, but to crack passwords, it would work. We don't want to use the MD5 rainbow tables, in case they change. Since the password is hashed using MD5, we want to use MD5 to crack the password.
