---
id: 8313
title: "Automating HalfLMChall Hash Cracking"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/automating-halflmchall-hash-cracking/"
published_at: "2012-11-09T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["powershell", "pentest", "hash-cracking", "john-the-ripper", "lmntlm", "rainbow-table"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8313"
lang: en
---

# Automating HalfLMChall Hash Cracking

## Summary

Automates cracking HalfLMChall hashes captured via NBNS spoofing or SQL injection with a PowerShell script chaining rainbow table lookups and John the Ripper's netntlm.pl.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2012-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/automating-halflmchall-hash-cracking/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8313