Which tool audits Windows passwords and recovers them using dictionary, hybrid, rainbow table, and brute-force attacks?

• A. ophcrack
• B. Vindicate
• C. L0phtCrack
• D. pwdump7

Answer: (C)

Cracking Windows passwords for auditing offline means working against the password hashes stored by the system. L0phtCrack is built for this purpose and offers a full range of attack methods in one tool: dictionary, hybrid, rainbow-table, and brute-force. Dictionary attacks try common words, hybrid combines dictionary entries with predictable variations, brute-force tries all possible characters, and rainbow-table attacks use precomputed hash tables to speed up cracking. This combination makes it the most capable choice for recovering weak Windows passwords during an audit. The other tools either focus on hash dumping, rely mainly on rainbow tables, or don’t provide the complete multi-method cracking suite.