Cain & Abel description

This utility helps you decrypt or recover your lost or forgotten

passwords.
Cain & Abel is a password recovery application for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of
various 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.
It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol's standards, authentication methods and caching
mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources,
however it also ships some "non standard" utilities for Microsoft Windows users.
Cain & Abel has been developed in the hope that it will be useful for network administrators, teachers, security
consultants/professionals, forensic staff, security software vendors, professional penetration tester and everyone
else that plans to use it for ethical reasons.
The author will not help or support any illegal activity done with this program. Be warned that there is the
possibility that you will cause damages and/or loss of data using this software and that in no events shall the
author be liable for such damages or loss of data. Please carefully read the License Agreement included in the
program before using it.
The latest version is faster and contains a lot of new features like APR (Arp Poison Routing) which enables
sniffing on switched LANs and Man-in-the-Middle attacks. The sniffer in this version can also analyze encrypted
protocols such as SSH-1 and HTTPS, and contains filters to capture credentials from a wide range of
authentication mechanisms.
The new version also ships routing protocols authentication monitors and routes extractors, dictionary and bruteforce crackers for all common hashing algorithms and for several specific authentications, password/hash
calculators, cryptanalysis attacks, password decoders and some not so common utilities related to network and
system security.
Note: Some antivirus and antispyware programs flag Cain & Abel as being infected/malware, although the
application is perfectly safe and does not pose a threat to your system. This is called a 'false positive'. The term
false positive is used when antivirus software wrongly classifies an innocuous (inoffensive) file as a virus. The
incorrect detection may be due to heuristics or to an incorrect virus signature in a database. [Similar problems
can occur with antitrojan or antispyware software.]
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Automatic Certificate Collector for FTPS (implicit), IMAPS and POP3S protocols.
FTPS Man-in-the-Middle Sniffer and password collector.
POP3S Man-in-the-Middle Sniffer and password collector.
IMAPS Man-in-the-Middle Sniffer and password collector.
Added Windows Mail (Vista) Password Decoder for POP3, IMAP, NNTP, SMTP and LDAP accounts.
Added PTW WEP cracking attack.
Added Windows Vista support in Wireless Password Decoder.
Wireless Password Decoder now uses DLL injection under XP.

Cain & Abel 4.9.26 - Changelog

What's new in Cain & Abel 4.9.4:

Automatic Certificate Collector for FTPS (implicit), IMAPS and POP3S protocols.
FTPS Man-in-the-Middle Sniffer and password collector.
POP3S Man-in-the-Middle Sniffer and password collector.
IMAPS Man-in-the-Middle Sniffer and password collector.
Added Windows Mail (Vista) Password Decoder for POP3, IMAP, NNTP, SMTP and LDAP accounts.
Added PTW WEP cracking attack.
Added Windows Vista support in Wireless Password Decoder.
Wireless Password Decoder now uses DLL injection under XP.

What's new in Cain & Abel 4.9.3:

Added Windows Mail (Vista) Password Decoder for POP3, IMAP, NNTP, SMTP and LDAP accounts.
Added PTW WEP cracking attack.
Added Windows Vista support in Wireless Password Decoder.
Wireless Password Decoder now uses DLL injection under XP.

What's new in Cain & Abel 4.9.2:

Added PTW WEP cracking attack.
Added Windows Vista support in Wireless Password Decoder.
Wireless Password Decoder now uses DLL injection under XP.

What's new in Cain & Abel 4.8:

WPA-PSK (Dictionary and Brute-Force Attacks).

WPA-PSK Auth (Dictionary and Brute-Force Attacks).
WPA-PSK Authentications sniffer.
WPA-PSK Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables.
WPA-PSK RainbowTables have been added to Winrtgen v2.5.
Added IE7 passwords support in Credential Manager Password Decoder.
OpenSSL library upgrade to version 0.9.8e.

What's new in Cain & Abel 4.7:

WPA-PSK (Dictionary and Brute-Force Attacks).

WPA-PSK Auth (Dictionary and Brute-Force Attacks).
WPA-PSK Authentications sniffer.
Added IE7 passwords support in Credential Manager Password Decoder.
OpenSSL library upgrade to version 0.9.8e.

What's new in Cain & Abel 4.5:

WEP cracking speed up via wireless ARP requests injection (AirPcap USB adapter is needed). This feature has been successfully tested with
Airpcap drivers v2.0 beta TX.
Ability to deauthenticate client stations from Access Points.
Added Windows Vista compatibility in NTLM Hashes Dumper, LSA Hashes Dumper and Syskey Dumper for hive files.

What's new in Cain & Abel 3.6:

- Added Ophcrack's RainbowTables support for NTLM Hashes Cryptanalysis attack.
- MSCACHE Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables.
- ORACLE Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables.
- New RainbowTable types have been added to Winrtgen v2.0. "mscache" and "oracle" tables can be used against MSCACHE and ORACLE
hashes for specific usernames that can be set in the configuration dialog.

What's new in Cain & Abel 3.5:

- Added Ophcrack's RainbowTables support for NTLM Hashes Cryptanalysis attack.

 - MSCACHE Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables.

- ORACLE Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables.
- New RainbowTable types have been added to Winrtgen v2.0. "mscache" and "oracle" tables can be used against MSCACHE and ORACLE
hashes for specific usernames that can be set in the configuration dialog.

What's new in Cain & Abel 2.8.9:

Added hashes syncronization functions (Export/Import) to/from Cain for PocketPC via ActiveSync.
Added VoIP sniffer support for the following codecs: G723.1, G726-16, G726-24, G726-32, G726-40, LPC-10.
Added support for Winpcap v3.2.