Short Report On Password Attack Tools Hydra And Crunch

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Hello everyone lucifer :), here and today we are going to see reports created by me on password hacking tools that are hydra and crunch tool.

working process of both tools is different because hydra is used for brute force attacks and crunch can be used as a word list or password-generated tool.

so let’s start with the hydra tool and then the crunch tool

// 01 Hydra

Abstract

Here we are using the hydra tool to brute-force a login on a service like FTP, ssh, etc. we can say we are going to crack the default username and password of any login credentials over the network.

we can download or create a list of default usernames and passwords which can be used for the brute force attack on the server machine.

Objective

trying to login via default username and password on a local VM machine by brute force attack using hydra tool

Introduction

It is a password-cracking tool that can be used to perform brute-force attacks on a password. Generally, we use hydra for cracking passwords of various systems including Unix, Linux, and windows.

It uses different types of dictionary attacks and pre-computed hash tables for cracking passwords, or we can say that brute force any password over any system network or server.

It is a fast and effective tool, but it is also potentially very dangerous, as it can be used to gain unauthorized access to any system.

this is why it is very important to use strong, and unique passwords and to secure systems against brute-force attacks to protect against tools like a hydra tool.

Methodology

we are using this tool on our personal machines so here am not using any disclosed password list from the internet. for demonstrating it am creating my own username and password list.

Steps:-

1. create two text files containing username and password lists for each

2. check that you have installed it in your system or not by this executing this command [hydra]

3. Use hydra for brute force attack and get the login credentials by command [hydra –L {path username} -P {path password} ftp://targetip] instead of FTP you can use ssh telnet etc., anyone.

Conclusion

we can use this tool to get login credentials of any server via their open port service. It may be a major server misconfiguration that hydra can use to get credentials.

Here the server is not configured for limiting the logins per user which result in a successful brute force attack. We can use it on every port service which gives a better result as compared to doing only one.