Perkiler malware turns to SMB brute force to spread

Researchers at Guardicore have identified a new infection vector being used by the Perkiler malware where internet-facing Windows machines are breached through SMB password brute force. Perkiler is a complex Windows malware with rootkit components that is dropped by the Purple Fox exploit kit EK...

Nmap NSE net: smb-brute

Attempts to guess username/password combinations over SMB, storing discovered combinations for use in other scripts. SYNTAX: userdb: The filename of an alternate username database. brutelimit: Limits the number of usernames checked in the script. In some domains, it's possible to end up with...

smb-brute NSE Script

Attempts to guess username/password combinations over SMB, storing discovered combinations for use in other scripts. Every attempt will be made to get a valid list of users and to verify each username before actually using them. When a username is discovered, besides being printed, it is also sav...