Comprehensive Guide on Medusa – A Brute Forcing Tool
Hello friends!! Today we are going to discuss – How much impactful Medusa is in cracking login credential of various protocols to make unauthorized access to a system remotely. In this article we have discussed each option available in Medusa to make brute force attack in various scenario.
Table OF Content
- Introduction to Medusa and its features
- Password Cracking For Specific Username
- Username Cracking for Specific Password
- Cracking Login Credential
- Making Brute Force Attack on Multiple Host
- Attacking on Specific Port Instead of Default
- NULL/Same as Login Attempt
- Save logs to Disk
- Stop on Success
- Suppress Startup Banner
- Verbose Mode
- Error Debugging Mode
- Using Combo Entries
- Resuming the Brute Force Attack
Introduction to Medusa and its features
Medusa is a speedy, parallel, and modular, login brute-forcer. The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as possible. The author considers following items as some of the key features of this application:
- Thread-based parallel testing. Brute-force testing can be performed against multiple hosts, users or passwords concurrently.
- Flexible user input. Target information (host/user/password) can be specified in a variety of ways. For example, each item can be either a single entry or a file containing multiple entries. Additionally, a combination file format allows the user to refine their target listing.
- Modular design. Each service module exists as an independent .mod file. This means that no modifications are necessary to the core application in order to extend the supported list of services for brute-forcing.
- Multiple protocols supported. Many services are currently supported (e.g. SMB, HTTP, POP3, MS-SQL, SSHv2, among others)
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