Cain and Abel

Network Security Pros

Rob Matthew
Ken Siple
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Presentation of Cain & Abel
features.

Who uses it and why
– Cain is used by network admins and security
auditors to monitor traffic, see where users
travel to and to test the robustness of the
network security model
– Cain is used by script kiddies the world over.
It allows them to recover hidden password
****** , capture common logon passwords and
to probe the network plus intercept VOIP Calls
.

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Officially what Cain & Able is

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for
Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy
recovery of several kind of passwords by sniffing
the network, cracking encrypted passwords using
Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis
attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding
scrambled passwords, revealing password
boxes, uncovering cached passwords and
analyzing routing protocols.
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Cain’s Features
Protected Storage Password Manager

Reveals locally stored passwords of Outlook,
Outlook Express, Outlook Express Identities,
Outlook 2002, Internet Explorer and MSN
Explorer.
Credential Manager Password Decoder

Reveals passwords stored in Enterprise and
Local Credential Sets on Windows XP/2003.
LSA Secrets Dumper

Dumps the contents of the Local Security
Authority Secrets.
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Cain’s Features Cont:
Dialup Password Decoder

Reveals passwords stored by Windows "Dial-Up
Networking" component.
APR (ARP Poison Routing)

Enables sniffing on switched networks and Man-
in-the-Middle attacks.
Route Table Manager

Provides the same functionality of the Windows
tool "route.exe" with a GUI front-end.

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Cain’s Features Cont:
SID Scanner

Extracts user names associated to Security
Identifiers (SIDs) on a remote system.
Network Enumerator

Retrieves, where possible, the user names,
groups, shares, and services running on a
machine.
Service Manager

Allows you to stop, start, pause/continue or
remove a service.
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Cain’s Features Cont:
Sniffer

Captures passwords, hashes and authentication
information while they are transmitted on the network.
Includes several filters for application specific
authentications and routing protocols. The VoIP filter
enables the capture of voice conversations transmitted with
the SIP/RTP protocol saved later as WAV files.
Routing Protocol Monitors

Monitors messages from various routing protocols (HSRP,
VRRP, RIPv1, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF) to capture
authentications and shared route tables.

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Cain’s Features Cont:
Full RDP sessions sniffer for APR (APR-RDP)

Allows you to capture all data sent in a Remote Desktop
Protocol (RDP) session on the network. Provides
interception of keystrokes activity client-side.
Full SSH-1 sessions sniffer for APR (APR-SSH-1)

Allows you to capture all data sent in a HTTPS session on
the network.
Full HTTPS sessions sniffer for APR (APR-HTTPS)

Allows you to capture all data sent in a HTTPS session on
the network.
Certificates Collector

Grab certificates from HTTPS web sites and prepares them
to be used by APR-HTTPS.
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Cain’s Features Cont:
MAC Address Scanner with OUI fingerprint

Using OUI fingerprint, this makes an informed guess about
what type of device the MAC address from.
Promiscuous-mode Scanner based on ARP packets

Identifies sniffers and network Intrusion Detection systems
present on the LAN.
Wireless Scanner

Can scan for wireless networks signal within range, giving
details on its MAC address, when it was last seen, the guessed
vendor, signal strength, the name of the network (SSID),
whether it has WEP or not (note WPA encrypted networks will
show up as WEPed), whether the network is an Ad-Hoc
network or Infrastructure, what channel the network is
operating at and at what speed the network is operating (e.g.
11Mbps).
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Cain’s Features Cont:
Access (9x/2000/XP) Database Passwords Decoder

Decodes the stored encrypted passwords for Microsoft
Access Database files.
Base64 Password Decoder

Decodes Base64 encoded strings.
Cisco Type-7 Password Decoder

Decodes Cisco Type-7 passwords used in router and
switches configuration files.
Cisco VPN Client Password Decoder

Decodes Cisco VPN Client passwords stored in connection
profiles (*.pcf).
VNC Password Decoder

Decodes encrypted VNC passwords from the registry.
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Cain’s Features Cont:
Enterprise Manager Password Decoder

Decodes passwords used by Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise
Manager (SQL 7.0 and 2000 supported).
Remote Desktop Password Decoder

Decodes passwords in Remote Desktop Profiles (.RPD files).
PWL Cached Password Decoder

Allows you to view all cached resources and relative
passwords in clear text either from locked or unlocked
password list files.
Password Crackers

Enables the recovery of clear text passwords scrambled using
several hashing or encryption algorithms. All crackers support
Dictionary and Brute-Force attacks.

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Cain’s Features Cont:
Cryptanalysis attacks

Enables password cracking using the ‘Faster Cryptanalytic time
– memory trade off’ method introduced by Philippe Oechslin.
This cracking technique uses a set of large tables of pre
calculated encrypted passwords, called Rainbow Tables, to
improve the trade-off methods known today and to speed up
the recovery of clear text passwords.
Rainbowcrack-online client

Enables password cracking by mean of the outstanding power
of this on-line cracking service based on Rainbow Table
technology.
NT Hash Dumper + Password History Hashes (works with Syskey
enabled)

Will retrieve the NT password hash from the SAM file
regardless of whether Syskey in enabled or not.
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Cain’s Features Cont:
Syskey Decoder

Will retrieve the Boot Key used by the SYSKEY utility from the
local registry or "off-line" SYSTEM files.
MSCACHE Hashes Dumper

Will retrieve the MSCACHE password hashes stored into the local
registry.
Wireless Zero Configuration Password Dumper

Will retrieve the wireless keys stored by Windows Wireless
Configuration Service.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Password Extractor via ODBC

Connects to an SQL server via ODBC and extracts all users and
passwords from the master database.
Oracle Password Extractor via ODBC

Connects to an Oracle server via ODBC and extracts all users and
passwords from the database.
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Cain’s Features Cont:
MySQL Password Extractor via ODBC

Connects to an MySQL server via ODBC and extracts all
users and passwords from the database.
Box Revealer

Shows passwords hidden behind asterisks in password
dialog boxes.
RSA SecurID Token Calculator

Can calculate the RSA key given the tokens .ASC file.
Hash Calculator

Produces the hash values of a given text.
TCP/UDP Table Viewer

Shows the state of local ports (like netstat).

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Cain’s Features Cont:
TCP/UDP/ICMP Traceroute with DNS resolver and
WHOIS client

A improved traceroute that can use TCP, UDP
and ICMP protocols and provides whois client
capabilities.
Cisco Config Downloader/Uploader (SNMP/TFTP)

Downloads or uploads the configuration file
from/to a specified Cisco device (IP or host name)
given the SNMP read/write community string.

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Cain: MAC Scanner

The MAC address scanner is a very fast IP to MAC address
resolver based on ARP Request/Reply packets. It takes as
input a range of IP addresses on the current subnet and
resolves the MAC addresses associated to those IP’s. The
scanner includes an OUI database, providing MAC vendor's
information, this feature is useful to quickly identify
switches, routers, load balancers and firewalls present in
the LAN.

Why would we need a MAC Scanner Hummmmmmm ???

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Cain: MAC Scanner Cont:

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Cain: Password Crackers

Cain's Password Crackers support the most common
hashing algorithms and several encryption methods based
on them :
Hash Types:

MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA2 (256 bit), SHA2 (384 bit),
SHA2 (512 bit), RIPEMD160.
Encryption algorithms:

PWL files, Cisco-IOS Type-5 enable passwords, Cisco
PIX enable passwords, APOP-MD5, CRAM-MD5, LM, LM +
Challenge, NTLM, NTLM + Challenge, NTLM Session
Security, NTLMv2, RIPv2-MD5, OSPF-MD5, VRRP-HMAC-96,
VNC-3DES, MS-Kerberos5 Pre-Auth, RADIUS Shared
Secrets, IKE Pre-Shared Keys, Microsoft SQL Server 2000,
Oracle, MySQL323, MySQLSHA1.
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Brute Force and Dictionary
A Brute-Force attack is method of breaking a cipher (that is, to
decrypt a specific encrypted text) by trying every possible key.
Feasibility of brute force attack depends on the key length of the
cipher, and on the amount of computational power available to the
attacker. Cain's Brute-Force Password Cracker tests all the
possible combinations of characters in a pre-defined or custom
character set against the encrypted passwords loaded in the
brute-force dialog.

A dictionary attack consists of trying "every word in the dictionary"

as a possible key for an encrypted password. A dictionary of
potential passwords is more accurately known as a wordlist. This
kind of attack is generally more efficient than a brute-force attack,
because users typically choose poor passwords.

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 Cryptanalysis and Rainbow tables

This feature enables password cracking using the ‘Faster
Cryptanalytic time – memory trade off’ method introduced by
Philippe Oechslin. This cracking technique uses a set of
large tables of pre-calculated encrypted passwords,
called Rainbow Tables, to improve the trade-off methods
known today and to speed up the recovery of clear text
passwords.

It is fully compatible with the well known software
RainbowCrack by Zhu Shuanglei, the first software
implementation of the above algorithm, and supports
Rainbow Tables for the following hashing/encryption
algorithms: LM, FastLM, NTLM, CiscoPIX, MD2, MD4, MD5,
SHA-1, SHA-2 (256), SHA-2 (384), SHA-2 (512), MySQL (323),
MySQL (SHA1) and RIPEMD160.
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Cain: Network Enumerator

The Network Enumerator uses the native Windows network

management functions (Net*) to discover what is present
on the network. It allows a quick identification of Domain
Controllers, SQL Servers, Printer Servers, Remote Access
Dial-In Servers, Novell Servers, Apple File Servers, Terminal
Servers and so on. It can also display when possible the
version of their operating system.

When enumerating users, Cain also extracts their Security

Identifier (SID) and has the ability to identify the name of the
Administrator account even if it was renamed. This is done
by looking at the account RID which is the last part of a SID.
The RID of the Administrator account is always equal to
500.

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Cain: Network Enumerator Cont:

Windows NT and later has a security feature that can restrict the
ability for anonymous logon users (also known as NULL session
connections) to list account names and enumerate share names.
This is done setting to 1 the parameter "RestrictAnonymous"
under the registry key:



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA

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Cain: Network Enumerator Cont:

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It is possible to select the test to perform
from the MAC Scanner dialog; positive
results are reported into the "Hosts" list
with an * in the relative column.

Be warned that not all operating systems
respond in the same way; an example of
the results from a Windows machine
follows:

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Scanning for Promiscuous mode

Network card not in promiscuous-mode (not sniffing)

Network card into promiscuous-mode (sniffing)

As you can see Windows machines, that are not sniffing the
network, normally respond to ARP Test (Broadcast 16-bit)
and ARP Test (Multicast group1) only. On the contrary
when a sniffer is activated, and the network card is put into
promiscuous-mode, they start to respond at ARP Test
(Broadcast 31-bit) as well.

Why is this important ??
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Service Manager
Allows you to start, stop, pause/continue or remove Services.

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Cain’s Sniffer

Cain's sniffer is principally focused on the capture of
passwords and authentication information traveling on the
network. It should not be compared to professional tools
like Observer, SnifferPro or Ethereal but unlike any other
commercial protocol analyzer it has been developed to
work on switched networks by mean of APR (Arp Poison
Routing), another feature included in the program.

There is a BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) hard-coded into the
protocol driver that performs some initial traffic screening.
The filter instructs the protocol driver to process only ARP
and IP traffic; other protocols, like NetBEUI for example, are
not processed.

The sniffer includes several password filters that can be
enabled/disabled from the main configuration dialog;

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Cain’s APR (ARP Poison Routing)

APR Vs ARP

APR (ARP Poison Routing) is a main feature of the program. It
enables sniffing on switched networks and the hijacking of IP
traffic between hosts. The name "ARP Poison Routing" derives
from the two steps needed to perform such unusual network
sniffing: an ARP Poison Attack and routing packets to the correct
destination.

This kind of attack is based on the manipulation of host's ARP

caches. On an Ethernet/IP network when two hosts want to
communicate to each other they must know each others MAC
addresses.

Host ARP Poisoning

Switch / router Poisoning

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Cain’s APR Poisoning

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Cain’s APR Poisoning

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Cain’s ARP-DNS

This feature allows you to perform DNS spoofing attacks
modifying DNS-Reply packets on the fly.

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Cain’s APR-HTTPS

APR-HTTPS enables the capture and the decryption of
HTTPS traffic between hosts. It works in conjunction with
Cain's Certificate Collector to inject fake certificates into
SSL sessions, previously hijacked by mean of APR. Using
this trick it is possible to decrypt encrypted data before it
arrives to the real destination performing a what so called
Man-in-the-Middle attack.



Be warned that clients will notice this kind of attack
because the server's certificate file injected into the SSL
session is a fake one and although it is very similar to the
real one it is not signed by a trusted certification authority.
When the victim client starts a new HTTPS session, his
browser shows a pop-up dialog warning about the problem.

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Cain’s APR-HTTPS Cont:

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Cain’s APR-HTTPS Cont:

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Cain’s VOIP Sniffer

The VoIP (Voice over IP) sniffer captures
conversations from the network and records
them to your hard disk. If seen by the sniffer,
voice data is captured in each direction (caller<-
>responder) and then saved accordingly as mono
or stereo WAV files.

Although not required, if used with APR, this
feature enables to silently intercept VoIP
communications between victim hosts.

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Cain's VOIP Cont:

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Cain's Wireless Scanner

Cain's Wireless Scanner detects Wireless Local Area
Networks (WLANs) using 802.11x. (A/B/G, I & N)
– Does Not Crack WEP or WPA YET !!!!!



Unlike other wireless applications it does not use the
Windows NDIS User Mode I/O Protocol (NDISUIO) but the
Winpcap Packet Driver to control the wireless network card.
Access points and ah-hoc networks are enumerated
using 802.11 OIDs from Windows DDK at intervals of five
seconds and WLANs parameters (MAC address, SSID,
Vendor, WEP Encryption, Channels.... ) are displayed in the
scanner list.

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Cain's Wireless Scanner Cont:

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Abel's Features:
Remote Console

Provides a remote system shell on the remote machine.
Remote Route Table Manager

Enable to manage the route table of the remote system.
Remote TCP/UDP Table Viewer

Shows the state of local ports (like netstat) on the remote system.
Remote NT Hash Dumper + Password History Hashes (works with
Syskey enabled)

Will retrieve the NT password hash from the SAM file
regardless of whether Syskey in enabled or not; works on the
Abel-side.
Remote LSA Secrets Dumper

Dumps the contents of the Local Security Authority Secrets
present on the remote system.
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What is the Abel's main purpose ?

Abel provides a remote console on the target machine, it can

dump user hashes from the remote SAM database even if it
was encrypted using the "Syskey" utility and ships other
features like the LSA Secrets dumper, the Route Table
Manager and the TCP/UDP Table Viewer.

All data transmitted across the Abel's pipe is encrypted using

the RC4 symmetric encryption algorithm and the fixed key
"Cain & Abel". The console communication is not
encrypted.
*** Hint On your IDS IPS set a rule for encrypted packets with
a RC4 hashed key of “Cain & Abel” “”play at home””

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What is Abel ? How can I install it ?

Abel is an NT service composed by two files: "Abel.exe" and

"Abel.dll". These files are copied by the installation package into
the program's directory but the service is NOT automatically
installed. Abel can be installed locally or remotely (using Cain),
anyway you need Administrator privileges to do that.

REMOTE INSTALLATION: (who cares about local Install)

1) Use the "Network TAB" in Cain and choose the remote computer where
Abel will be installed

2) Right click on the computer icon in the tree and select "Connect As"

3) Provide Administrator credentials for the remote machine

4) Once connected right click on the "Services" icon and select "Install
Abel"

5) That's all, the two files "Abel.exe" and "Abel.dll" will be copied into the
remote machine, the service will be installed and started automatically.

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Key Tools, Abel:

CCDU (Cisco Config Downloader/Uploader) is a feature of
the program. Cain can Download/Upload configuration files
from/to Cisco devices via SNMP/TFTP. This feature
provides a simple way to re-configure Cisco devices.

CCDU works on Cisco Routers and Switches that supports
the OLD-CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB or the new CISCO-CONFIG-
COPY-MIB, Via the Read / Write community string. PIX
Firewall does not support those MIBs.

CDU works by downloading / uploading the “running
configuration" of the device.

The download/upload request is made by Cain via SNMP;
then the device will request a TFTP file transfer to Cain.

Cain handles the file transfer.

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Can I reset/modify an enable password
using CCDU ?

Yes, you can ! Simply download the configuration file, change
it as you wish and then upload the file to the device

- Download the configuration file from the router

- Open the file and go to the line where the password is written
"enable secret 5 $1$hrA9$lvlAzWeHLEQcDxx/OxuWA/" (in this
case this password is "test"; you can check it with Cain's
Cisco IOS-MD5 Cracker)

- To set the new password to "mao" change the line in this
way: "enable secret mao"

- Save the file and than upload it to the device (Right click ->
Upload)

- Check if the new password has been modified downloading
the configuration file again.

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Abel's Remote Console

Abel's remote console provides a system shell on the

remote machine. The Abel service runs on the remote
machine in the security context of it's Local System
Account; every command sent to the console is executed
with the same access privileges of that account.

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Abel's Remote Console Cont:

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Abel’s LSA Secrets dumper

LSA Secrets are used to store information such as the
passwords for service accounts used to start services
under an account other than local System. Dial-Up
credentials and other application defined passwords also
reside here.

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Abel’s LSA Secrets dumper Cont:

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Abel’s NT Hashes Dumper

is an application which dumps the password hashes
(OWFs) from NT's SAM (Security Account Manager)
database, whether or not SYSKEY is enabled on the
system, and allows you to import password hashes directly
into the relative "LM & NTLM Hashes" password cracker
tab.

Also the ability to dump password history hashes.
Windows can be instructed to remember a number of
previous user's passwords using the Password Security
Policy "Enforce Password History".

Guess the Next couple of Passwords Muahahahahaaa !

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Abel’s Route Table manager

same functionality offered by "route.exe". WHY use it?

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Supporting Docs, Files Programs

Cain How to guide (Install and Run)
– http://www.datastronghold.com/content/
view/136/29/

Cain Student Manual
– www.nwcet.org/downloads/cainAbel.pdf

FOR MORE INFO...

Cain’s User Manual http://www.oxid.it/ca_um/

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