Hydra is designed to test the strength of passwords across various protocols like SSH, FTP, and HTTP. However, Hydra itself is "blind"—it doesn't guess passwords based on intuition. Instead, it relies on a passlist.txt
: Used for a single, known password rather than a list. passlist txt hydra full
| Target | Service | Attempts | Successes | Time | |--------|---------|----------|-----------|------| | 192.168.1.10 | SSH | 1,000,000 | 1 | 45 min | Hydra is designed to test the strength of
