Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems.
It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the
network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and
Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled
passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes,
uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort.
It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol’s
standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main
purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from
various sources, however it also ships some “non standard” utilities for
Microsoft Windows users.
The latest version is faster and contains a lot of
new features like APR (Arp 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.
03/05/2013
Cain & Abel
v4.9.44 released
- Added Windows 8 support in LSA Secret Dumper.
- Added Windows 8 support in Credential Manager Password Decoder.
- Added Windows 8 support in EditBox Revealer.
- Added ability to keep original extensions in fake certificates.
- Winpcap library upgrade to version 4.1.3 (Windows8 supported).
- OUI List updated.