THC-Hydra is a parallized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.

Currently this tool supports:

TELNET, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP-PROXY, SMB, SMBNT, MS-SQL, MYSQL, REXEC,

RSH, RLOGIN, CVS, SNMP, SMTP-AUTH, SOCKS5, VNC, POP3, IMAP, NNTP, PCNFS,

ICQ, SAP/R3, LDAP2, LDAP3, Postgres, Teamspeak, Cisco auth, Cisco enable,

LDAP2, Cisco AAA (incorporated in telnet module).

This tool is a proof of concept code, to give researchers and securityconsultants the possiblity to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system.