Password Audit: Extracting hashes from Ntds.dit
In this tutorial, I will show you how to do a password audit of a Windows Domain Controller by extracting the NTLM password hashes from the Ntds.dit file; In order to crack the hashes with Hashcat and see their clear text value The Ntds.dit is a database that stores Active Directory data, which includes all the password hashes for all the users of the domain. To be able to retrieve the NTLM password hashes, we…