Patator
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Programming language
- Python
- Author
- Sebastien Macke
- Latest release
- 1.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
Patator is based on similar tools like Hydra, yet with the goal to avoid the common flaws these tools have like performance limitations. The tool is modular and supports different types of brute-force attacks or enumeration of information.
Background information
Authentication protocols:
- ftp_login - FTP
- ldap_login - LDAP
- rlogin_login - rlogin
- ssh_login - SSH
- telnet_login - Telnet
- smb_login-Brute-force SMB
- smb_lookupsid - SMB SID-lookup
- vmauthd_login - VMware Authentication Daemon
Email:
- smtp_login - SMTP
- smtp_vrfy - Enumerate users via SMTP VRFY command
- smtp_rcpt-Enumerate valid users using the SMTP RCPT TO command
- finger_lookup - Enumerate valid users via Finger
- http_fuzz - HTTP/HTTPS
- ajp_fuzz -Brute-force AJP
- pop_login-Brute-force POP
- pop_passd-Brute-force poppassd (not POP3)
- imap_login - IMAP
Databases:
- mssql_login - MSSQL
- mysql_login - MySQL
- mysql_query - MySQL queries
- oracle_login - Oracle
- pgsql_login - PostgreSQL
- rdp_login-Brute-force RDP (NLA)
- vnc_login-Brute-force VNC
Other services:
- dns_forward - DNS
- dns_reverse - DNS (reverse lookup of subnets)
- ike_enum - Enumerate IKE transforms
- keystore_pass - find password of Java keystore files
- snmp_login - SNMPv1/v2/v3
- unzip_pass - find password of encrypted ZIP files
- umbraco_crack - Crack Umbraco HMAC-SHA1 password hashes
Usage and audience
Patator is commonly used for password discovery, penetration testing, reconnaissance, or vulnerability scanning. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 500 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Patator is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a password cracker.