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patator

Patator is a multi-purpose brute-forcer, with a modular design and a flexible usage.

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Patator

Patator was written out of frustration from using Hydra, Medusa, Ncrack, Metasploit modules and Nmap NSE scripts for password guessing attacks. I opted for a different approach in order to not create yet another brute-forcing tool and avoid repeating the same shortcomings. Patator is a multi-threaded tool written in Python, that strives to be more reliable and flexible than his fellow predecessors.

Currently it 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
* finger_lookup  : Enumerate valid users using Finger
* http_fuzz      : Brute-force HTTP/HTTPS
* rdp_gateway    : Brute-force RDP Gateway
* ajp_fuzz       : Brute-force AJP
* pop_login      : Brute-force POP
* pop_passd      : Brute-force poppassd (not POP3)
* imap_login     : Brute-force IMAP
* ldap_login     : Brute-force LDAP
* dcom_login     : Brute-force DCOM
* smb_login      : Brute-force SMB
* smb_lookupsid  : Brute-force SMB SID-lookup
* rlogin_login   : Brute-force rlogin
* vmauthd_login  : Brute-force VMware Authentication Daemon
* mssql_login    : Brute-force MSSQL
* oracle_login   : Brute-force Oracle
* mysql_login    : Brute-force MySQL
* mysql_query    : Brute-force MySQL queries
* rdp_login      : Brute-force RDP (NLA)
* pgsql_login    : Brute-force PostgreSQL
* vnc_login      : Brute-force VNC
* dns_forward    : Brute-force DNS
* dns_reverse    : Brute-force DNS (reverse lookup subnets)
* ike_enum       : Enumerate IKE transforms
* 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
* sqlcipher_pass : Brute-force the password of SQLCipher-encrypted databases
* umbraco_crack  : Crack Umbraco HMAC-SHA1 password hashes

The name "Patator" comes from this.

Patator is NOT script-kiddie friendly, please read the below, DeepWiki and the wiki before reporting.

Please donate if you like this project! :)

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Many thanks! @lanjelot

Install

git clone https://github.com/lanjelot/patator.git
git clone https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists.git
docker build -t patator patator/
docker run -it --rm -v $PWD/SecLists/Passwords:/mnt patator dummy_test data=FILE0 0=/mnt/richelieu-french-top5000.txt

Usage Examples

  • FTP : Enumerating users denied login in vsftpd/userlist
$ ftp_login host=10.0.0.1 user=FILE0 0=logins.txt password=asdf -x ignore:mesg='Login incorrect.' -x ignore,reset,retry:code=500
19:36:06 patator    INFO - Starting Patator v0.7-beta (https://github.com/lanjelot/patator) at 2015-02-08 19:36 AEDT
19:36:06 patator    INFO -
19:36:06 patator    INFO - code  size    time | candidate                          |   num | mesg
19:36:06 patator    INFO - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
19:36:07 patator    INFO - 230   17     0.002 | anonymous                          |     7 | Login successful.
19:36:07 patator    INFO - 230   17     0.001 | ftp                                |    10 | Login successful.
19:36:08 patator    INFO - 530   18     1.000 | root                               |     1 | Permission denied.
19:36:17 patator    INFO - 530   18     1.000 | michael                            |    50 | Permission denied.
19:36:36 patator    INFO - 530   18     1.000 | robert                             |    93 | Permission denied.
...

Tested against vsftpd-3.0.2-9 on CentOS 7.0-1406.

  • SSH : Time-based user enumeration
$ ssh_login host=10.0.0.1 user=FILE0 0=logins.txt password=$(perl -e "print 'A'x50000") --max-retries 0 --timeout 10 -x ignore:time=0-3
17:45:20 patator    INFO - Starting Patator v0.7-beta (https://github.com/lanjelot/patator) at 2015-02-08 17:45 AEDT
17:45:20 patator    INFO -
17:45:20 patator    INFO - code  size    time | candidate                          |   num | mesg
17:45:20 patator    INFO - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
17:45:30 patator    FAIL - xxx   41    10.001 | root                               |     1 | <class '__main__.TimeoutError'> timed out
17:45:34 patator    FAIL - xxx   41    10.000 | john                               |    23 | <class '__main__.TimeoutError'> timed out
17:45:37 patator    FAIL - xxx   41    10.000 | joe                                |    40 | <class '__main__.TimeoutError'> timed out
...

Tested against openssh-server 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u2 on Debian 7.8.

  • HTTP : Brute-force phpMyAdmin logon
$ http_fuzz url=http://10.0.0.1/pma/index.php method=POST body='pma_username=COMBO00&pma_password=COMBO01&server=1&target=index.php&lang=en&token=' 0=combos.txt before_urls=http://10.0.0.1/pma/index.php accept_cookie=1 follow=1 -x ignore:fgrep='Cannot log in to the MySQL server' -l /tmp/qsdf
11:53:47 patator    INFO - Starting Patator v0.7-beta (http://code.google.com/p/patator/) at 2014-08-31 11:53 EST
11:53:47 patator    INFO -
11:53:47 patator    INFO - code size:clen       time | candidate                          |   num | mesg
11:53:47 patator    INFO - -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
11:53:48 patator    INFO - 200  49585:0        0.150 | root:p@ssw0rd                      |    26 | HTTP/1.1 200 OK
11:53:51 patator    INFO - 200  13215:0        0.351 | root:                              |    72 | HTTP/1.1 200 OK
^C
11:53:54 patator    INFO - Hits/Done/Skip/Fail/Size: 2/198/0/0/3000, Avg: 29 r/s, Time: 0h 0m 6s
11:53:54 patator    INFO - To resume execution, pass --resume 15,15,15,16,15,36,15,16,15,40

Payload #72 was a false positive due to an unexpected error message:

$ grep AllowNoPassword /tmp/qsdf/72_200\:13215\:0\:0.351.txt
... class="icon ic_s_error" /> Login without a password is forbidden by configuration (see AllowNoPassword)</div><noscript>

Tested against phpMyAdmin 4.2.7.1.

  • IKEv1 : Enumerate transforms supported by VPN peer
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