Hacking Gmail Accounts with Medusa

Medusa is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer. The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as possible. The author considers following items as some of the key features of this application.

• Thread-based parallel testing. Brute-force testing can be performed against multiple hosts, users or passwords concurrently.
• Flexible user input. Target information (host/user/password) can be specified in a variety of ways. For example, each item can be either a single entry or a file containing multiple entries. Additionally, a combination file format allows the user to refine their target listing.
• Modular design. Each service module exists as an independent .mod file. This means that no modifications are necessary to the core application in order to extend the supported list of services for brute-forcing.

Type medusa -h

As with any hacking tool let’s find first the options we can use. Now we know the options what next?

medusa -h smtp.gmail.com -u johndoe@gmail.com -P /wordlist/location -s -M smtp

-h (target hostname or IP)  -u (victims username) -P (file containing wordlist) -s (Enable SSL)  -M (module name) After specifying your target details what are you waiting for? Press Enter.

To make this demo fast because I hate wasting your time I only used 16 password to be tested against the account. As shown on the screen it has successfully found my Gmail password. I also tested Medusa against Yahoo but it failed after a few tries it gets blocked.