SAM & System

The SAM file is a database that contains the Microsoft Windows Operating System usernames and passwords in NTLM format. The password hashes can be dumped using the following commands,

samdump2 SYSTEM SAM
impacket-secretsdump -sam SAM -system SYSTEM LOCAL #To crack local files

The impacket-secretsdump is an extensive tool and it can be used for connecting to a system to extract the passwords from it. It can also be used in a system thats connected to a domain.

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