Eclectic Security

About:

Ncrack is a high-speed network authentication cracking tool. It was built to help auditors to perform password auditing. The strength behind Ncrack is the full integration with Nmap, XML or Nmap Normal output format  scan files can used as a  hosts/networks list. In this post I’m going only to illustrate how to compile and install Ncrack from the source code.

DISCLAIMER:
This tools can cause harm to the normal operation of your network/servers if used improperly. Use this tool on your own networks/servers, or networks/servers for which you have been given permission to test. Before using this tools, please read the documentation available.

Main Features:

* Sessions: Ncrack saves the current state into a file which it can later use to continue from where it had stopped.
* IPv6 support
* Runtime Interaction, This allows you to interact with the program without aborting and restarting it.

Modules available:

FTP, TELNET, SSH, SMB, RDP, POP3(S)

Installation (ubuntu 10.04 32 bit):

apt-get install build-essential checkinstall libssl-dev  libssh-dev
wget http://nmap.org/ncrack/dist/ncrack-0.3ALPHA.tar.gz
tar xvfz ncrack-0.3ALPHA.tar.gz
cd ncrack-0.3ALPHA/

./configure
make
checkinstall
dpkg -i ncrack_0.3ALPHA-1_i386.deb