How to hack windows password using Cain n Abel

In my previous post i have explained about the basics of windows passwords. You can read it from here
Today i am going to show you how to hack windows administrator password using Cain n Abel.
Cain n Abel works effeciently with bruteforce attack.
You should disable your antivirus/firewall before installing and working with Cain n Abel. Otherwise it will not work.

I have explained about bruteforce technique in my previous post. As this technique takes more time to complete, select this technique if you are thinking that the victim has small password containing same type of characters or two types of characters.i.e only numeric or only lower alphabets or only loweralphabets-numeric and the password length must be less than 7 characters.

Things required:
Cain n Abel.
you can download it from here.


Procedure:
1)Open "Cain n Abel"

2)click the tab "cracker".
  Now you will see some "sub-categories" in left panel.

3)Select "LM&NTLM" hashes from left panel
4)click "+" button.

5)Check "import hashes from local system" and then click "Next". You will see all active accounts.

6)right click on any user or admin you want to hack and select "bruteforce"->"NTLM Hashes"

7)you will see a window. Here click on start.

8)After completing,it shows the exact password.

This is a guest post by my friend Raviteja. He is studying his B.Tech final year in our college.
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial. If you have any doubts or suggestions just leave a comment.