hydra - Man Page

• Start Hydra's wizard: hydra-wizard
• Guess SSH credentials using a given username and a list of passwords: hydra -l username -P path/to/wordlist.txt host_ip ssh
• Guess HTTPS webform credentials using two specific lists of usernames and passwords ("https_post_request" can be like "username=^USER^&password=^PASS^"): hydra -L path/to/usernames.txt -P path/to/wordlist.txt host_ip https-post-form "url_without_host:https_post_request:login_failed_string"
• Guess FTP credentials using usernames and passwords lists, specifying the number of threads: hydra -L path/to/usernames.txt -P path/to/wordlist.txt -t n_tasks host_ip ftp
• Guess MySQL credentials using a username and a passwords list, exiting when a username/password pair is found: hydra -l username -P path/to/wordlist.txt -f host_ip mysql
• Guess RDP credentials using a username and a passwords list, showing each attempt: hydra -l username -P path/to/wordlist.txt -V rdp://host_ip
• Guess IMAP credentials on a range of hosts using a list of colon-separated username/password pairs: hydra -C path/to/username_password_pairs.txt imap://[host_range_cidr]
• Guess POP3 credentials on a list of hosts using usernames and passwords lists, exiting when a username/password pair is found: hydra -L path/to/usernames.txt -P path/to/wordlist.txt -M path/to/hosts.txt -F pop3

tldr.sh

hydra
[[[-l LOGIN|-L FILE] [-p PASS|-P FILE|-x OPT -y]] | [-C FILE]]
[-e nsr] [-u] [-f|-F] [-M FILE] [-o FILE] [-b FORMAT]
[-t TASKS] [-T TASKS] [-w TIME] [-W TIME] [-m Options] [-s PORT]
[-c TIME] [-S] [-O] [-4|6] [-I] [-vV] [-d]
server service [Options]

Hydra is a parallelized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.

This tool gives researchers and security consultants the possibility to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system.

Currently this tool supports:

adam6500 afp asterisk cisco cisco-enable cvs firebird ftp ftps http[s]-{head|get|post} http[s]-{get|post}-form http-proxy http-proxy-urlenum icq imap[s] irc ldap2[s] ldap3[-{cram|digest}md5][s] mssql mysql(v4) mysql5 ncp nntp oracle oracle-listener oracle-sid pcanywhere pcnfs pop3[s] postgres rdp radmin2 redis rexec rlogin rpcap rsh rtsp s7-300 sapr3 sip smb smtp[s] smtp-enum snmp socks5 ssh sshkey svn teamspeak telnet[s] vmauthd vnc xmpp

For most protocols SSL is supported (e.g. https-get, ftp-ssl, etc.). If not all necessary libraries are found during compile time, your available services will be less. Type "hydra" to see what is available.

target

a target to attack, can be an IPv4 address, IPv6 address or DNS name.

service

a service to attack, see the list of protocols available

OPTIONAL SERVICE PARAMETER

Some modules have optional or mandatory options. type "hydra -U <servicename>"
to get help on on the options of a service.

-R

restore a previously aborted session. Requires a hydra.restore file was written. Options are restored, but can be changed by setting them after -R on the command line

-S

connect via SSL

-O

use old SSL v2 and v3

-s PORT

if the service is on a different default port, define it here

-l LOGIN

or -L FILE login with LOGIN name, or load several logins from FILE

-p PASS

or -P FILE try password PASS, or load several passwords from FILE

-x min:max:charset

generate passwords from min to max length. charset can contain 1
for numbers, a for lowcase and A for upcase characters.
Any other character is added is put to the list.
  Example: 1:2:a1%.
  The generated passwords will be of length 1 to 2 and contain
  lowcase letters, numbers and/or percent signs and dots.

-y

disable use of symbols in -x bruteforce, see above

-e nsr

additional checks, "n" for null password, "s" try login as pass, "r" try the reverse login as pass

-C FILE

colon separated "login:pass" format, instead of -L/-P options

-u

by default Hydra checks all passwords for one login and then tries the next login. This option loops around the passwords, so the first password is tried on all logins, then the next password.

-f

exit after the first found login/password pair (per host if -M)

-F

exit after the first found login/password pair for any host (for usage with -M)

-M FILE

server list for parallel attacks, one entry per line

-o FILE

write found login/password pairs to FILE instead of stdout

-b FORMAT

specify the format for the -o FILE: text(default), json, jsonv1

-t TASKS

run TASKS number of connects in parallel (default: 16)

-m OPTIONS

module specific options. See hydra -U <module> what options are available.

-w TIME

defines the max wait time in seconds for responses (default: 32)

-W TIME

defines a wait time between each connection a task performs. This usually only makes sense if a low task number is used, .e.g -t 1

-c TIME

the wait time in seconds per login attempt over all threads (-t 1 is recommended) This usually only makes sense if a low task number is used, .e.g -t 1

-4 / -6

prefer IPv4 (default) or IPv6 addresses

-v / -V

verbose mode / show login+pass combination for each attempt

-d

debug mode

-I

ignore an existing restore file (don't wait 10 seconds)

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

xhydra(1), pw-inspector(1).
The programs are documented fully by van Hauser <vh@thc.org>

hydra was written by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org> Find new versions or report bugs at https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra

This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry <epsilon77@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

pw-inspector(1), xhydra(1).