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« on: December 07, 2008, 03:08:41 PM »

I'm doing a FTP brute force on a network pen test and I wanted to find out what everyone's opinion or favorite was on a good word list to use.  Thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2008, 04:07:34 AM »

Google is your friend, there are a lot of free word lists out there.

Tip: Many testers like to feed passwords they have previously guessed/cracked/recovered into their wordlist.

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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2008, 01:16:14 PM »

I'm doing a FTP brute force on a network pen test and I wanted to find out what everyone's opinion or favorite was on a good word list to use.  Thanks!
Doing a network pen test and FTP brute forcing? Isn't this method highly likely to be picked up by an IDS?
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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2008, 05:46:16 PM »

I'm doing a FTP brute force on a network pen test and I wanted to find out what everyone's opinion or favorite was on a good word list to use.  Thanks!
Doing a network pen test and FTP brute forcing? Isn't this method highly likely to be picked up by an IDS?

 You would think so, but you can some times get by with it.  If you see it hanging out there, it can be worth the "roll of the dice".  Just make sure you do your initial attacks from a different IP than the one you are doing the main body of work for your pentest.  It sucks to get blocked right at the beginning because you were trying to storm the doors of the castle a little too blatantly. 
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« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2008, 10:15:44 PM »

Thank you Jimbob for the advice!  My apologies for the incorrect use of words.  My post was not meant to focus on the use of the words "FTP brute force" and "network pen test."  I was simply trying to figure out what people recommended for the use of brute forcing FTP.  That's all.    Grin
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« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2008, 10:24:04 PM »

A pretty good tool for doing brute forcing is THC Hydra.  Your password list should probably be a combination of dictionary words, commonly used passwords (whether you can use ones from other engagements may or not be allowed based on your previous work arrangements), and another method to get good passwords is to mine for keywords off of the company's website.  Getting usernames can be done the same way, potentially looking through metadata to find usernames and ideas for passwords.  Check out metagoofil for metadata extraction.  There have been a few articles out there on this, most notably by Chris Gates and a post on pauldotcom.com by Larry. 
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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2008, 12:01:58 AM »

Very good Apollo.  Just remember that any "attack" like that is very noisy.  Fragmentation will not really help if they know what they are doing. Best way is to scan from a far and wait. 
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« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2008, 01:22:44 PM »

Just on a side note, there are cases where you'll want to "storm the gates" like this.  Sometimes we get asked to do pen tests as part of an audit, and we know that the corporate security team is not aware that we've been brought in.  Part of the assessment is to determine if they are monitoring the network correctly.  We'll start doing attacks on the scale of "quiet" to "loud" and try to see where they actually start to catch us.  You'd be surprised how many times you'll get all the way to brute forcing passwords before someone actually figures out what's going on.
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« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2008, 08:51:25 AM »

i'll 2nd that.

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