Surviving Encryption: Official Passware Training

Course details

This training class will give students the knowledge and skills to meet the challenges of digital encryption using Passware. Through hands-on practicals, students will learn how to apply Passware in different scenarios, to include, encrypted files, email passwords, Windows passwords, Apple passwords, encrypted volumes and more.

Passware Kit Forensic Overview

• Passware Kit Forensic Installation Options
• Instructor Led Walkthrough of Functions
• Passware Attacks
• Choosing Hardware for Passware
• Hardware Accelerated Recovery
• Passware Portable Kit
• Logging

Hands on Practicals:

• Brute Force Attacks
• Dictionary Attacks
• Hash Attacks
• Rainbow Table Attacks
• Scanning computers and image files to identify encrypted files
• Decrypting TrueCrypt, PGP, Filevault2, DMG and Bit Locker to-go volumes
• Using the Attack Wizard (perfect for novice users!)
• Using the Attack Editor to build custom attacks (9 different types)

Exploring a variety of attack modifiers, to include:

• Casing options
• Using dictionary & non-dictionary words
• Attacking different parts of a password
• Combining different types of attacks
• Exploiting common password patterns
• Exploiting known partial passwords
• Attacks that can include several languages
• Precision substitution attacks
• And other options that maximize the potential for a successful password recovery

Advanced Dictionary attacks such as:

• Publicly available word lists
• Custom dictionaries
• Dictionaries created from RAM dumps
• Dictionaries created from Hibirfil.sys files

Also:

• Using Passware's Xieve Attack
• Methods to recover Windows Login passwords
• Methods to recover Mac Logon passwords
• Recovering Mac Keychains
• Android Physical Image Attacks

Certification Exam:

Designed to show that the student has understood concepts and techniques taught throughout this course to an appropriate level relating to digital encryption, decryption and the use of Passware Kit Forensic Suite.