CompTIA PenTest+ (PT0-002) — Question 38

A penetration tester runs the unshadow command on a machine.
Which of the following tools will the tester most likely use NEXT?

Answer options

• A. John the Ripper
• B. Hydra
• C. Mimikatz
• D. Cain and Abel

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is John the Ripper, which is commonly used to crack passwords from the output generated by unshadow. Other options like Hydra are used for online attacks, Mimikatz is for credential extraction, and Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool, but they do not directly follow the unshadow command in a typical workflow.