You can recover passwords hidden behind the asterisks. Some antivirus such as Avast! 'Extremely dangerous software' and others such as the Microsoft Windows security suite classify it as 'Software with potentially dangerous behavior'Ĭain & Abel has been developed with the hope that it can be useful for network administrators, teachers, consultants, forensic, security software providers, among others who can take advantage of each of its purposes.
The different attacks of Cryptanalysis can be made using the method called Rainbow Tables, which can be generated by a program called Winrtgen.exe integrated into Cain & Abel.ĭifferent antivirus manages to detect this tool as Malware. The tool manages to recover many types of passwords using a specific method such as Sniffing, a network packet, also has the function of being able to crack different types of password hashes using methods like dictionary attacks, brute force, and some attacks based on cryptanalysis.
It is a perfect tool that is responsible for the recovery of passwords exclusively for Microsoft Windows. It is almost always abbreviated as 'Cain'.
