Rainbow tables ARE used for cracking hashes BUT, passwords aren't stored in plain text, they are stored as hashes.
Brute force is also an option, However, this is a 10 character password of a good mix of characters. which may take as long as 3,000 years to crack.
Dictionary, No. This isn’t a word based password.
Spidering, No, falls into the realm of a Dictionary attack.
By a process of elimination, we rule out Dictionary, Spidering, and Brute Force.
This leaves Rainbow tables.
In a nutshell this is how Rainbow tables work:
You pre-compute a list of all possible password combination based on the complexity requirement of the organization if known.
You run your list of hashes from the acquired password database, against the RainBow table.
The MD5 Hash of our password:
1Vu*cI!8sT is f3b1bc59ea0de1ca56304b3fb64b53a7
I search for this hash in my rainbow table, and when I find: f3b1bc59ea0de1ca56304b3fb64b53a7 I now know my victims password is: 1Vu*cI!8sT
(The table lists WORD/HASH)
Rainbow tables are the only method to which this strong password is vulnerable.
B. Brute force, because the password is short. Rainbow Table is wrong, since those tables are used for cracking hashes (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table)
"No one would guess this password" is a very bad argument against brute force attacks.
Bruteforce attacks against passwords containing more than 8 characters with special, alpha, and numeric characters was generally seen as not trivial as there are to many combinations A FEW YEARS AGO. As this Question was probably made a while ago and this password contains 10 characters. I would go with rainbow tables.
But keep in mind that today - a 10 character password like this is probably crackable by high networth individuals or companys with a lot of server hardware
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