Script `pcanywhere-brute`

Script types: portrule
Categories: intrusive, brute
Download: https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/scripts/pcanywhere-brute.nse

Script Summary

Performs brute force password auditing against the pcAnywhere remote access protocol.

Due to certain limitations of the protocol, bruteforcing is limited to single thread at a time. After a valid login pair is guessed the script waits some time until server becomes available again.

Script Arguments

pcanywhere-brute.timeout: socket timeout for connecting to PCAnywhere (default 10s)
passdb, unpwdb.passlimit, unpwdb.timelimit, unpwdb.userlimit, userdb: See the documentation for the unpwdb library.
creds.[service], creds.global: See the documentation for the creds library.
brute.credfile, brute.delay, brute.emptypass, brute.firstonly, brute.guesses, brute.mode, brute.passonly, brute.retries, brute.start, brute.threads, brute.unique, brute.useraspass: See the documentation for the brute library.

Example Usage

nmap --script=pcanywhere-brute <target>

Script Output

5631/tcp open  pcanywheredata syn-ack
| pcanywhere-brute:
|   Accounts
|     administrator:administrator - Valid credentials
|   Statistics
|_    Performed 2 guesses in 55 seconds, average tps: 0

Requires

Author:

Aleksandar Nikolic