HOWTO : THC-Hydra on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows.

THC-Hydra is a proof of concept code, to give researchers and security consultants the possiblity to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system.

Install

sudo apt-get install git build-essential libssl-dev libssh-dev libidn11-dev libpcre3-dev libgtk2.0-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev libsvn-dev firebird-dev libncurses5-dev libafpclient-dev

cd ~
mkdir arsenal
cd arsenal
git clone https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra.git
cd thc-hydra
./configure
make
./hydra -h
./xhydra


* Oracle, NCP and SAP/R3 are not supported in this build as there are no libraries available from the repos
* you can install by sudo apt-get install hydra hydra-gtk


Update/Upgrade

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

cd ~/arsenal/thc-hydra
git pull origin master
make clean
./configure
make


Reference

Official site


That's all! See you.