Penetration Testing: RE: password cracking a web form, tried hydra and brutus

["Rob Shein" <shoten () starpower net>]

The problem is you're trying to use HTTP authentication, instead of
submitting the results to the form. Your better bet is to work something up,
in perl most likely (but any tcp-capable language will do), that will submit
requests just as would happen if you were to sequentially try various login
attempts on their web page.

There are also other ways you could poke at it...have you tried SQL
injection attacks in either the password or login field?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aRt dE vIvRe [mailto:bishan4u () yahoo co uk] 
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:53 AM
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: password cracking a web form, tried hydra and brutus
>
>
> hi,
>
> we are conducting a PT for a website. In order to password 
> crack the login/password form authentication (which happens 
> to be squirrelmail, written in php, looks similar to the 
> login page of yahoo or msn)  I was looking for some tools.
>
> I came across Hydra and Brutus. When I tried Brutus on an 
> inhouse dummy site, after configuring the parameters the 
> target would automatically become <target>redirect.php. I 
> googled but couldnot find a solution to it.
>
>
> Then I tried hydra at with following command:
> # hydra  -l smg -p we2su 192.168.0.3  http /webmail/src/login.php
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> it resulted as:
> [80][www] host: 192.168.0.2   login: smg   password: we2su
>
> which is a wrong result since I had given the wrong password.
>
> I get the same result for valid or invalid passwords.
>
> Am I doing anything wrong?
>
> Is there any other tool which does what I'm looking for?
>
> Pls. help me with this :)
>
> Regards,
> B'shan
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