Hydra - Best Password Attack Tool, Login Cracker in Kali Linux

Crack Web Based Login Page With Hydra in Kali Linux

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.

Hydra Package Description

It supports: Cisco AAA, Cisco auth, Cisco enable, CVS, FTP, HTTP(S)-FORM-GET, HTTP(S)-FORM-POST, HTTP(S)-GET, HTTP(S)-HEAD, HTTP-Proxy, ICQ, IMAP, IRC, LDAP, MS-SQL, MySQL, NNTP, Oracle Listener, Oracle SID, PC-Anywhere, PC-NFS, POP3, PostgreSQL, RDP, Rexec, Rlogin, Rsh, SIP, SMB(NT), SMTP, SMTP Enum, SNMP v1+v2+v3, SOCKS5, SSH (v1 and v2), SSHKEY, Subversion, Teamspeak (TS2), Telnet, VMware-Auth, VNC and XMPP.

Source: https://www.thc.org/thc-hydra/

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INSTALLING HYDRA..

Hydra is pre-installed on kali linux, however if you have a different operating system you could compile and install it on your system. Currently, hydra’s support on different platforms:

• All UNIX platforms (Linux, *bsd, Solaris, etc.)
• MacOS (basically a BSD clone)
• Windows with Cygwin (both IPv4 and IPv6)
• Mobile systems based on Linux, MacOS or QNX (e.g. Android, iPhone, Blackberry 10, Zaurus, iPaq)

Installing Terminal (Kali Linux)

$ git clone https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra.git

$ cd thc-hydra

$ ./configure

$ make

$ make install

Installing Ubuntu/Debian

apt install libssl-dev libssh-dev libidn11-dev libpcre3-dev libgtk2.0-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev libsvn-dev firebird-dev libncp-dev

If you could not find those libraries in your repository, then you need to download and install them manually.

HOW TO USE HYDRA

Congratulation, now you have succeeded to install hydra on your system. Actually, Hydra comes with two flavors, GUI-gtk and my favorite, CLI version. and in addition hydra has also CLI guided version, its called “hydra-wizard”. You will be guided step by step instead of typing all the commands or arguments manually into the terminal. To run hydra, from your terminal type :

For CLI :

hydra

For CLI-wizard :

hydra-wizard

For GUI :

xhydra

COMPARING HYDRA WITH OTHERS CRACKING TOOLS

There are also a lot login cracker tools beside hydra, however none support a huge list of protocols and parallelized login cracker support like hydra does. Tables below show the result of features, services and speed comparison against medusa and ncrack.

Features

Feature	Hydra	Medusa	Ncrack
License	AGPLv3	GPLv2	GPLv2 + Nmap terms
IPv6 Support	Yes	No	No
Graphic User Interface	Yes	Yes	No
Internationalized support (RFC 4013)	Yes	No	No
HTTP proxy support	Yes	Yes	No
SOCKS proxy support	Yes	No	No
Supported protocols	51	22	7

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