Cracking Stats for Q1 2014

NetSPI reviews its 2014 cracking stats: of 90,977 collected Windows domain hashes, 85.52% cracked, with seasonal patterns like Spring2014, Password1, and company-name variants dominating the hits.

NetSPI's Q2 2014 cracking report: of 23,898 collected domain hashes, 89.82% cracked, eight-character passwords dominated, and 'Changem3' topped the list at 820 instances.

NetSPI's Q3 2014 cracking report: of 26,692 collected domain hashes, 82.25% cracked, with eight-character passwords peaking, 348 blank passwords found, and the top mask pattern seen 1,415 times.

Analyzes cracked NTLM domain hashes from a year of penetration tests to publish the top ten password masks, dominated by seasonal patterns like Spring15 and Fall2015.

Are rainbow tables still worth it for LM hashes? NetSPI compares table lookups with GPU brute force, explaining the format's two case-insensitive seven-character halves that favor GPU cracking.

NetSPI details its GPU cracking methodology on a 1,000-hash sample: crack legacy LM hashes first, run dictionary attacks with rules, then apply the 43 most common mask patterns for quick wins.