Brutus Brute Forcer v2.0

A fast, concurrent brute force tool for FTP and Web lopgin boxes (Auth boxes from webserrvers) written in Go.

⚠️ Legal Disclaimer: This tool is for educational and authorized testing only.

Features

• Concurrent password attacks
• Rate limiting per target
• FTP and web login support
• Colorized output with verbose logging
• Automatic updates
• Progress tracking and statistics

Installation

go install github.com/fernstedt/brutus@latest

Or clone manually:

git clone https://github.com/fernstedt/brutus.git
cd brutus
go install

Usage

Parameters

• -ftp: Target FTP server (IP:port)
• -web: Target web login URL
• -username: Username for login attempts
• -wordlist: Path to password list
• -threads: Concurrent threads (default: 10)
• -rate: Rate limit per second (default: 20)
• -verbose: Enable detailed output

Examples

FTP:

brutus -ftp 192.168.1.100:21 -username admin -wordlist passwords.txt

Web:

brutus -web http://example.com/login/ -username admin -wordlist passwords.txt -rate 10

Output

• Successful logins: successful_logins.txt
• Debug logs: app.log
• Real-time statistics on completion

Update

brutus update