HYDRA(1)

NAME
hydra - a very fast network logon cracker which support many different services

SYNOPSIS
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]

DESCRIPTION
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 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.

Options

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 (dont wait 10 seconds)

-h, --help
    Show summary of options.

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

AUTHOR
hydra was written by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>

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