Augmenting password recovery with online profiling

作者：Al Wehaibi Khawla^*; Storer Tim; Glisson William Bradley

来源：Digital Investigation, 2011, 8: S25-S33.

DOI：10.1016/j.diin.2011.05.004

• Password recovery
• Password cracking
• Online profiling
• PRTK
• Dictionary attacks
• Digital forensics
• Computer forensics

In investigations involving password-protected artefacts, password recovery can be a daunting task, consuming resources and causing delays in investigations. This paper describes work conducted to examine whether using online publicly available information to generate individual-related electronic profiles reduces automated password recovery time. In order to accomplish this, a web crawler was developed to capture profiles, which were then processed by Password Recovery Tool kit 'PRTK'. During an exploratory study, four passwords of 18 password-protected Word documents were recovered faster using this technique.

• 出版日期2011-8