BRUTEFORCING & PASSWORD CRACKING TOOLS

BRUTEFORCING TOOLS AND LISTS FOR PASSWORD CRACKING TOOLS

Brute Force attack is an attack which is used to get username and passwords.As the name suggests,in this attack a software forces a list of words into the username and password column and as the correct field is filled correctly,you are able to login .


Brute-force attack needs dictionary of all words or a listing of commonly used passwords. To gain access to an account using a brute-force attack, a program tries all available words it has to gain access to the account. Another type of brute-force attack is a program that runs through all letters or letters and numbers until it gets a match.

 We always search for a “Good” Word List for cracking passwords. Sometimes the word lists are able to crack the password but sometimes they fail as users are also becoming more aware and prefer keeping passwords which are more secure and consist of combination of words, numbers, shift keys etc.

So here I give you some sites which have a good amount of word lists and get updated regularly.

http://packetstormsecurity.org/Crackers/wordlists/

http://www.openwall.com/wordlists/

http://www.outpost9.com/files/WordLists.html

An old yet very reliable word list generator in “Perl’’ can be found here

http://www.securiteam.com/tools/5ZP0N20GAW.html

Some other tools which you can use for Brute forcing :

Medusa 1.5.2  - This tool is speedy, modular ,login brute forcer. It supports protocols like AFP,FTP,HTTP,VNC and many more.

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Math-Scientific/Medusa.shtml

Thc Hydra – It is most of the times used to brute force a remote authentication service. It performs dictionary attacks against more than 30 protocols !

http://www.thc.org/thc-hydra/

Cain and Abell – This tool can recover passwords using dictionary attacks, brute force , cryptanalysis attacks , decoding scrambled passwords etc.

http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

Download 5 more tools for brute force :

http://www.ziddu.com/download/19155597/BruteForceTools.rar.html