Cracking with Patator

Sometimes, we have usernames, but we want to try brute forcing the password. Patator is an amazing tool that allows us to brute force multiple types of logins and even ZIP passwords. In this recipe, we will see how to use Patator to perform a brute force attack.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. To see all of the options, we use the following command:

patator –h

Once we run the preceding command, we get the following output:

2. Let's try to brute force an FTP login:

patator ftp_login

Once we run the preceding command, we get the following output:

3. We can now set the host, user file, and password file and run the module:

 patator ftp_login host=192.168.36.16 user=ftp...