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How to Crack
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BY OCCUPYTHEWEB 05/13/2016 3:29 AM PASSWORD CRACKING

W elcome back, my hacker novitiates! HOT LATEST

In an earlier tutorial, I had introduced you to two

essential tools for cracking online passwordsTamper
Data and THC-Hydra. In that guide, I promised to
follow up with another tutorial on how to use
THC-Hydra against web forms, so here we go.
Although you can use Tamper Data for this purpose, I
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Step 1 Open THC-Hydra Cracking Using Wifiphisher

So, let's get started. Fire up Kali and open THC-Hydra

from Applications -> Kali Linux -> Password Attacks ->
Online Attacks -> hydra.

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Step 2 Get the Web Form Parameters

To be able to hack web form usernames and
passwords, we need to determine the parameters of
the web form login page as well as how the form
responds to bad/failed logins. The key parameters we
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failure message

We can identify each of these using a proxy such as

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Step 3 Using Burp Suite

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Suite. You can open Burp Suite by going to
Applications -> Kali Linux -> Web Applications -> Web
Application Proxies -> burpsuite. When you do, you
should see the opening screen like below.

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Next, we will be attempting to crack the password on

the Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA). You
can run it from the Metasploitable operating system
(available at Rapid7) and then connecting to its login
page, as I have here.
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Advanced -> Network -> Settings to open the Creating an Evil Twin Wireless Access
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IceWeasel to use 127.0.0.1 port 8080 as a proxy by
typing in 127.0.0.1 in the HTTP Proxy field, 8080 in the
Port field and delete any information in the No Proxy
for field at the bottom. Also, select the "Use this proxy
server for all protocols" button.

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Step 4 Get the Bad Login Response

Now, let's try to log in with my username OTW and
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After collecting this information, I then forward the
request from Burp Suite by hitting the "Forward"
button to the far left . The DVWA returns a message MORE NULL BYTE FEATURES
that the "Login failed." Now, I have all the information
I need to configure THC-Hydra to crack this web app!
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Getting the failure message is key to getting

THC-Hydra to work on web forms. In this case, it is a
text-based message, but it won't always be. At times it
may be a cookie, but the critical part is finding out
how the application communicates a failed login. In
this way, we can tell THC-Hydra to keep trying
different passwords; only when that message does not
appear, have we succeeded.

Step 5 Place the Parameters into Your

THC Hydra Command
Now, that we have the parameters, we can place them
into the THC-Hydra command. The syntax looks like
this:

kali > hydra -L <username list> -p <password list> <IP

Address> <form parameters><failed login message>

So, based on the information we have gathered from

Burp Suite, our command should look something like
this:

kali >hydra -L <wordlist> -P<password list>

192.168.1.101 http-post-form "/dvwa
/login.php:username=^USER^&password=^PASS^&
Login=Login:Login failed"

A few things to note. First, you use the upper case "L"
if you are using a username list and a lower case "l" if

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you are trying to crack one username that you supply

there. In this case, I will be using the lower case "l "
as I will only be trying to crack the "admin" password.

After the address of the login form (/dvwa/login.php),

the next field is the name of the field that takes the
username. In our case, it is "username," but on some
forms it might be something different, such as "login."

Now, let's put together a command that will crack this

web form login.

Step 6 Choose a Wordlist

Now, we need to chose a wordlist. As with any
dictionary attack, the wordlist is key. You can use a
custom one made with Crunch of CeWL, but Kali has
numerous wordlists built right in. To see them all,
simply type:

kali > locate wordlist

In addition, there are numerous online sites with

wordlists that can be up to 100 GB! Choose wisely, my
hacker novitiates. In this case, I will be using a
built-in wordlist with less than 1,000 words at:

/usr/share/dirb/wordlists/short.txt

Step 7 Build the Command

Now, let's build our command with all of these
elements, as seen below.

kali > hydra -l admin -P /usr/share/dirb/wordlists

/small.txt 192.168.1.101 http-post-form "/dvwa
/login.php:username=^USER^&password=^PASS^&
Login=Login:Login failed" -V

-l indicates a single username (use -L for a

username list)
-P indicates use the following password list

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http-post-form indicates the type of form

/dvwa/login-php is the login page URL
username is the form field where the username is
entered
^USER^ tells Hydra to use the username or list in
the field
password is the form field where the password is
entered (it may be passwd, pass, etc.)
^PASS^ tells Hydra to use the password list
supplied
Login indicates to Hydra the login failed message
Login failed is the login failure message that the
form returned
-V is for verbose output showing every attempt

Step 8 Let Her Fly!

Now, let her fly! Since we used the -V switch,
THC-Hydra will show us every attempt.

After a few minutes, Hydra returns with the password

for our web application. Success!

Final Thoughts
Although THC-Hydra is an effective and excellent tool
for online password cracking, when using it in web
forms, it takes a bit of practice. The key to

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successfully using it in web forms is determining how

the form responds differently to a failed login versus a
successful login. In the example above, we identified
the failed login message, but we could have identified
the successful message and used that instead. To use
the successful message, we would replace the failed
login message with "S=successful message" such as
this:

kali > hydra -l admin -P /usr/share/dirb/wordlists

/small.txt 192.168.1.101 http-post-form "/dvwa
/login.php:username=^USER^&password=^PASS^&
S=success message" -V

Also, some web servers will notice many rapid failed

attempts at logging in and lock you out. In this case,
you will want to use the wait function in THC-Hydra.
This will add a wait between attempts so as not to
trigger the lockout. You can use this functionality with
the -w switch, so we revise our command to wait 10
seconds between attempts by writing it:

kali > hydra -l admin -P /usr/share/dirb/wordlists

/small.txt 192.168.1.101 http-post-form "/dvwa
/login.php:username=^USER^&password=^PASS^&
Login=Login:Login failed" -w 10 -V

I recommend that you practice the use of THC-Hydra

on forms where you know the username and
password before using it out "in the wild."

Keep coming back, my hacker novitiates, as we

continue to expand your repertoire of hacker
techniques and arts!

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