tldr/pages/common/medusa.md

medusa

A modular and parallel login brute-forcer for a variety of protocols. More information: https://jmk-foofus.github.io/medusa/medusa.html.

• List all installed modules:

medusa -d

• Show usage example of a specific module (use medusa -d for listing all installed modules):

medusa -M {{ssh|http|web-form|postgres|ftp|mysql|...}} -q

• Execute brute force against an FTP server using a file containing usernames and a file containing passwords:

medusa -M ftp -h host -U {{path/to/username_file}} -P {{path/to/password_file}}

• Execute a login attempt against an HTTP server using the username, password and user-agent specified:

medusa -M HTTP -h host -u {{username}} -p {{password}} -m USER-AGENT:"{{Agent}}"

• Execute a brute force against a MySQL server using a file containing usernames and a hash:

medusa -M mysql -h host -U {{path/to/username_file}} -p {{hash}} -m PASS:HASH

• Execute a brute force against a list of SMB servers using a username and a pwdump file:

medusa -M smbnt -H {{path/to/hosts_file}} -C {{path/to/pwdump_file}} -u {{username}} -m PASS:HASH