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NAME
MEDUSA - Parallel Network Login Auditor
SYNOPSIS
medusa
[-h host|-H file] [-u username|-U file] [-p password|-P file] [-C file] -M module [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
Medusa
is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer.
The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as
possible. The author considers following items to some of the key features of this
application:
*Thread-based parallel testing. Brute-force testing can be performed against multiple
hosts, users or passwords concurrently.
*Flexible user input. Target information (host/user/password) can be specified in
a variety of ways. For example, each item can be either a single entry or a file
containing multiple entries. Additionally, a combination file format allows the user
to refine their target listing.
*Modular design. Each service module exists as an independent .mod file. This means
that no modifications are necessary to the core application in order to extend the
supported list of services for brute-forcing.
OPTIONS
- -h [TARGET]
-
Target hostname or IP address.
- -H [FILE]
-
Reads target specifications from the file specified rather than from the command line.
The file should contain a list separated by newlines.
- -u [TARGET]
-
Target username.
- -U [FILE]
-
Reads target usernames from the file specified rather than from the command line.
The file should contain a list separated by newlines.
- -p [TARGET]
-
Target password.
- -P [FILE]
-
Reads target passwords from the file specified rather than from the command line.
The file should contain a list separated by newlines.
- -C [FILE]
-
File containing combo entries. Combo files are colon separated and in the following
format: host:user:password. If any of the three fields are left empty, the
respective information should be provided either as a single global value or as a
list in a file.
The following combinations are possible in the combo file:
1.) foo:bar:fud
2.) foo:bar:
3.) foo::
4.) :bar:fud
5.) :bar:
6.) ::fud
7.) foo::fud
Medusa also supports using PwDump files as a combo file. The format of these
files should be user:id:lm:ntlm:::. We look for ':::' at the end of the first line
to determine if the file contains PwDump output.
- -O [FILE]
-
File to append log information to. Medusa will log all accounts credentials found
to be valid or cause an unknown error. It will also log the start and stop times
of an audit, along with the calling parameters.
- -e [n/s/ns]
-
Additional password checks ([n] No Password, [s] Password = Username). If both
options are being used, they should be specified together ("-e ns"). If only a
single option is being called use either "-e n" or "-e s".
- -M [TEXT]
-
Name of the module to execute (without the .mod extension).
- -m [TEXT]
-
Parameter to pass to the module. This can be passed multiple times with a
different parameter each time and they will all be sent to the module (i.e.
-m Param1 -m Param2, etc.)
- -d
-
Dump all known modules.
- -n [NUM]
-
Use for non-default TCP port number.
- -s
-
Enable SSL.
- -g [NUM]
-
Give up after trying to connect for NUM seconds (default 3).
- -r [NUM]
-
Sleep NUM seconds between retry attempts (default 3).
- -R [NUM]
-
Attempt NUM retries before giving up. The total number of attempts will be NUM + 1.
- -t [NUM]
-
Total number of logins to be tested concurrently. It should be noted that rougly
t x T threads could be running at any one time. 381 appears to be the limit on
my fairly boring Gentoo Linux host.
- -T [NUM]
-
Total number of hosts to be tested concurrently.
- -L
-
Parallelize logins using one username per thread. The default is to process
the entire username before proceeding.
- -f
-
Stop scanning host after first valid username/password found.
- -F
-
Stop audit after first valid username/password found on any host.
- -b
-
Suppress startup banner
- -q
-
Display module's usage information. This should be used in conjunction with the
"-M" option. For example, "medusa -M smbnt -q".
- -v [NUM]
-
Verbose level [0 - 6 (more)]. All messages at or below the specified level will
be displayed. The default level is 5.
The following is the breakdown of the verbose levels:
0) EXIT APPLICATION
1) MESSAGE WITHOUT TAG
2) LOG MESSAGE WITHOUT TAG
3) IMPORTANT MESSAGE
4) ACCOUNT FOUND
5) ACCOUNT CHECK
6) GENERAL MESSAGE
- -w [NUM]
-
Error debug level [0 - 10 (more)]. All messages at or below the specified level
will be displayed. The default level is 5.
The following is the breakdown of the error levels:
0) FATAL
1) ALERT
2) CRITICAL
3) ERROR
4) WARNING
5) NOTICE
6) INFO
7) DEBUG
8) DEBUG - AUDIT
9) DEBUG - SERVER
10) DEBUG - MODULE
- -V
-
Display version
- -Z [TEXT]
-
Allows basic resuming of a previous scan. The supplied parameter describes which
hosts were completed, which were partially tested and which had not been started.
When Medusa receives a SIGINT, it will calculate and display a "resume map". This
map can then be supplied to the next run. For example, "medusa [OPTIONS PREVIOUSLY
USED] -Z h6u1u2h8.". In this particular example, hosts 1-5 were completed,
host 6 was partially done (user 1 was partially completed and user 2 and beyond had
not been started), host 7 was completed and host 8 and beyond had not been started.
Medusa will parse this map and skip hosts and users accordingly. It should be noted
that only host and user-level, not password-level, resuming is supported. If a user
had been previously started, but was not completed, it will be tested from the
start of its respective password list.
AUTHOR
JoMo-Kun <jmk@foofus.net>
fizzgig <fizzgig@foofus.net>
BUGS
Found a bug? Feel free to send in a patch.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- OPTIONS
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- AUTHOR
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- BUGS
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