Attempt to login as the root user ( -l root ) using a password list ( -P /usr/ /wordlists/metasploit/unix_passwords.txt ) with 6 threads ( -t 6 ) on the given SSH server ( ssh://192.168.1.123 ):
Read in a list of passwords ( -i /usr/ /wordlists/nmap.lst ) and save to a file ( -o /root/passes.txt ), selecting passwords of a minimum length of 6 ( -m 6 ) and a maximum length of 10 ( -M 10 ):
Very fast network logon cracker 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.
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.
Installed size: 978 KB How to install: sudo apt install hydra
Generates a (d)efault (p)assword (l)ist as input for THC hydra
A very fast network logon cracker which supports many different services
Wizard to use hydra from command line
A tool to reduce the password list
Very fast network logon cracker - GTK+ based GUI 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.
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.
This package provides the GTK based GUI for hydra.
Installed size: 104 KB How to install: sudo apt install hydra-gtk
Gtk+3 frontend for thc-hydra
Updated on: 2026-Jun-17
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