NCL Practice – Password Cracking

Available Challenges

Challenge 08

Officers have obtained password dumps storing hacker passwords. After obtaining a few plaintext passwords, it appears that they overlap with the passwords from the rockyou breach.

  1. (15 pts) 8549137cd494c22ae87eef3e18a46986
  2. (15 pts) 0f96a320a8c0bf7e3f6d375b0d9d3a4c
  3. (15 pts) 1a8cb8d148b513dfa1d285077fc4e3fb
  4. (15 pts) 22a313110bf5b84c0a58eecc27deaa30
  5. (15 pts) e4fd50109f0e40e8c1a895d8e5c71199

Check your answers here.

Kait’s Coaching Tips for this challenge can be found here.

Challenge 09

Our officers have obtained password dumps storing hacker passwords. It appears that
they are all in the format: “SKY-KAIT-” followed by 4 digits. Can you crack them?

  1. (15 points) c38d29e8899455c85ee03d11abbd262b
  2. (15 points) ff8f9efad5c9f106ac39e5290d810c91
  3. (15 points) 425206344bd204933a38236b715c498f
  4. (15 points) ab37c335e51b2855cb5a11ca89041733
  5. (15 points) 82dcf30f8c7c8d4f23961f7e0c1d3cee

Check your answers here. (This answer key has to be manually graded. Apologies. Upgrade coming soon.)

Kait’s Coaching Tips for this challenge can be found here.

Challenge 10 *

Our officers have obtained password dumps storing hacker passwords. It appears that they are all based off of Pokémon. Can you crack them?

  1. (15 points) 3546576a03c2c8229175eede8c02f891
  2. (15 points) a19d7a52bff83b0e4012d2c766e2f731
  3. (15 points) 5a31b6b31f92c8f797505ca26af4b9de
  4. (15 points) 857875c031fce47b2d40be0ce3ffd0bf
  5. (15 points) dc6054fbe36c8a2bd49b1d05b3b872ee

Check your answers here. (This answer key has to be manually graded. Apologies. Upgrade coming soon.)

Kait’s Coaching Tips for this challenge can be found here.

 

If an asterisk (*) is found after the challenge category, this challenge is based on previous NCL challenges, but have been created for use in this guide.