Hydra Cheat Sheet

Hydra is a parallelized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. It is very fast and flexible, and new modules are easy to add. This tool makes it possible for researchers and security consultants to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access to a system remotely.

#example brute force crack on ftp server
hydra -t 1 -l admin -P [path to password.lst] -vV [IPaddress] ftp
–> -t # = preform # tasks
–> -l NAME = try to log in with NAME
–> -P [filepath] = Try password
–> -vV = verbose mode, showing the login+pass for each attempt

#check for joe accounts by adding modifier -e s

#to write found login+pass combinations to fiel, add modifier -0 [fileanme]