Website Password hacking using WireShark

Step 3: Analyze POST data for username and password

Now right click on that line and select Follow TCP Steam

This will open a new Window that contains something like this:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found 
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:52:21 GMT 
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) 
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3 
P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM" 
Set-Cookie: non=non; expires=Thu, 07-Nov-2024 23:52:21 GMT; path=/ 
Set-Cookie: password=e4b7c855be6e3d4307b8d6ba4cd4ab91; expires=Thu, 07-Nov-2024 23:52:21 GMT; path=/ 
Set-Cookie: scifuser=sampleuser; expires=Thu, 07-Nov-2024 23:52:21 GMT; path=/ 
Location: loggedin.php 
Content-Length: 0 
Connection: close 
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

I’ve highlighted the user name and password field.

So in this case,

1. username: sampleuser
2. password: e4b7c855be6e3d4307b8d6ba4cd4ab91

But hang on, e4b7c855be6e3d4307b8d6ba4cd4ab91 can’t be a real password. It must be a hash value.

Note that some website’s doesn’t hash password’s at all even during sign on. For those, you’ve already got the username and password. In this case, let’s go bit far and identify this hash value

Step 4: Identify hash type

I will use hash-identifier to find out which type of hash is that. Open terminal and type in hash-identifier and paste the hash value. hash-identifier will give you possible matches.

See screenshot below:

Now one thing for sure, we know it’s not a Domain Cached Credential. So it must be a MD5 hash value.

I can crack that using hashcat or cudahashcat. There’s an extensive guide on how to do that here.