Re: [Full-disclosure] Patator - new multi-purpose brute-forcing tool

[Andres Riancho <andres.riancho@xxxxxxxxx>]

Grandma,

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Grandma Eubanks <tborland1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Multiprocessing is quiet a bit faster than utilizing threads (this should be
> obvious as threads are GIL locked, while multi-processing can be spread
> amongst cores with the kernel's scheduler).

That's not always true. If the process is network bound (which seems
to be the case with a bruteforce tool), then having multiprocessing
will not necessarily increase speed. If the software was well written,
it can be very fast and use python threads.

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Nate Theis <nttheis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> You might look into PyPy for a speed boost: http://pypy.org
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2012 6:43 AM, "lanjelot" <lanjelot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello FD,
>>>
>>> Released two months ago, and downloaded a few thousand times since, I
>>> wanted to share with you a new multi-purpose brute-forcing tool named
>>> Patator (http://code.google.com/p/patator/).
>>>
>>> I am posting here because I would like to get more feedback from
>>> people using it, so feel free to fire me an email if you have any
>>> queries, or rather use the issues tracker on patator project page.
>>>
>>> To put it bluntly, I just got tired of using Medusa, Hydra, ncrack,
>>> metasploit auxiliary modules, nmap NSE scripts and the like because:
>>>  - they either do not work or are not reliable (got me false
>>> negatives several times in the past)
>>>  - they are slow (not multi-threaded or not testing multiple
>>> passwords within the same TCP connection)
>>>  - they lack very useful features that are easy to code in python
>>> (eg. interactive runtime)
>>>
>>> Basically you should give Patator a try once you get disappointed by
>>> Medusa, Hydra or other brute-forcing tools and are about to code your
>>> own small script because Patator will allow you to:
>>>  - Not write the same code over and over, due to its a modular design
>>> and flexible usage
>>>  - Run multi-threaded
>>>  - Benefit from useful features such as the interactive runtime
>>> commands, automatic response logging, etc.
>>>
>>> Currently Patator supports the following modules :
>>>  - ftp_login     : Brute-force FTP
>>>  - ssh_login     : Brute-force SSH
>>>  - telnet_login  : Brute-force Telnet
>>>  - smtp_login    : Brute-force SMTP
>>>  - smtp_vrfy     : Enumerate valid users using the SMTP 'VRFY' command
>>>  - smtp_rcpt     : Enumerate valid users using the SMTP 'RCPT TO' command
>>>  - http_fuzz     : Brute-force HTTP/HTTPS
>>>  - pop_passd     : Brute-force poppassd (not POP3)
>>>  - ldap_login    : Brute-force LDAP
>>>  - smb_login     : Brute-force SMB
>>>  - mssql_login   : Brute-force MSSQL
>>>  - oracle_login  : Brute-force Oracle
>>>  - mysql_login   : Brute-force MySQL
>>>  - pgsql_login   : Brute-force PostgreSQL
>>>  - vnc_login     : Brute-force VNC
>>>
>>>  - dns_forward   : Forward lookup subdomains
>>>  - dns_reverse   : Reverse lookup subnets
>>>  - snmp_login    : Brute-force SNMPv1/2 and SNMPv3
>>>
>>>  - unzip_pass    : Brute-force the password of encrypted ZIP files
>>>  - keystore_pass : Brute-force the password of Java keystore files
>>>
>>> The name "Patator" comes from the famous weapon :
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBkBvnTTjo
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
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-- 
Andrés Riancho
Director of Web Security at Rapid7 LLC
Founder at Bonsai Information Security
Project Leader at w3af

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