L0phtCrack and Windows 2000 LM Hashes

From: Chris Mawer <red_hantu(at)hotmail.com>
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 14:26:45 EST

List,

My win2k box shows that three user-accounts on my windows 2000 machine report as being *empty*, <8 and 2 of the three share a NULL password LM Hash of AAD3B435B51404EEAAD3B435B51404EE. The third hash is different and I do not wish to report it here for what id deem obvious reasons.

The three accounts include Administrator and two other users. The passwords are known and have been fed into a wordlist. Running LC3 repeats these results.

The Administrator account is most definitely not NULL, and the other two accounts are not guest users. Attempting login with null password is denied for all three accounts. LC3 is being run on the local machine.

1. Should I treat the box as compromised? Highly unlikely as there are enough alarms in place
2. Should I report my findings to @Stake, in the belief LC has a flaw?

Much appreciated,

Chris Mawer

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