full-disclosure - Re: Patator - new multi-purpose brute-forcing tool

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:52:06 -0600
From: Grandma Eubanks <tborland1@...il.com>
To: Nate Theis <nttheis@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Patator - new multi-purpose brute-forcing tool

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).

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Nate Theis <nttheis@...il.com> wrote:

> You might look into PyPy for a speed boost: http://pypy.org
> On Feb 22, 2012 6:43 AM, "lanjelot" <lanjelot@...il.com> 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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