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Password Cracking with PRTK
Part of Forensic Investigations and Evidence Handling Topic: Blue Team
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What you'll do
In this lab, students will learn how to use Exterro’s Password Recovery Toolkit (PRTK) to recover a variety of password types.
- They will use PRTK to decrypt an encrypted archive file
- Using FTK, students will extract the Windows User Accounts registry file from a provided disk image and attempt to crack the passwords associated with each user account using PRTK
- This hands-on exercise demonstrates practical password recovery techniques commonly used in digital forensics
- ⏱ About 2 h
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Roadmaps that use this lab
- SOC Analyst — career path — step 7: Evidence basics
- Digital Forensics Analyst — career path — step 2: Forensics foundations
