Brutus: Installation & Usage Guide

Brutus is a modern credential auditing and network security tool designed to test the strength of authentication across various protocols. It is widely used by security professionals to audit SSH, SMB, web panels, and SNMP services.

Prerequisites

Brutus is built using the Go programming language, so you must have Go installed in your Termux environment.

                    TERMINAL
                    BASH
                

pkg install golang -y

Installation Commands

Follow these steps to install and configure Brutus on your Android device.

1. Update and Upgrade

                    TERMINAL
                    BASH
                

pkg update && pkg upgrade -y

2. Install Brutus

                    TERMINAL
                    GO
                

go install github.com/praetorian-inc/brutus/cmd/brutus@latest

3. Configure PATH

Ensure your Go binaries are in your system PATH so you can run Brutus from any directory.

                    TERMINAL
                    PATH
                

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/go/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Basic Usage Examples

Use the following commands to test and audit authentication security.

Audit SSH or SMB

                    TERMINAL
                    CREDS
                

brutus creds --target 192.168.1.10:22 --threads 10 --mode default

Audit Web Panels

                    TERMINAL
                    WEB
                

brutus web --targets-file web_targets.txt --threads 5 --mode extended

Test SNMP Strings

                    TERMINAL
                    SNMP
                

brutus snmp --target 192.168.1.20:161

Brutus: