RockYou error

[0dayCTF]

shreder 192.168.1.66 -u admin -l /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/shreder", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/shreder/cli.py", line 73, in main
cli.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/shreder/cli.py", line 54, in start
password = self.brute(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/shreder/main.py", line 51, in brute
lines = f.read().split('\n')
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf1 in position 5079963: invalid continuation byte

[0dayCTF]

Also, during the scan when I specified a port -- (It still got the correct password):

[*] Processing... | | Passwords tried: 192/198Exception: Error reading SSH protocol banner
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 2211, in _check_banner
buf = self.packetizer.readline(timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/paramiko/packet.py", line 380, in readline
buf += self._read_timeout(timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/paramiko/packet.py", line 609, in _read_timeout
raise EOFError()
EOFError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 2039, in run
self._check_banner()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 2215, in _check_banner
raise SSHException(
paramiko.ssh_exception.SSHException: Error reading SSH protocol banner

[enty8080]

Hi, @0dayCTF

I fixed this problem, but everything I can do about it is just catch this exception.
This error occurs because of many retries, or because the host is down.

Regards,
Ivan Nikolsky (@enty8080)

P.S.: This error UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf1 in position 5079963: invalid continuation byte occurred because your passwords list has some unreadable by python3 symbols.

[0dayCTF]

I am still experiencing the issue, I converted the standard rockyou that ships with Kali linux to UTF-8, and it works.

[watchdog1337]

Im experiencing the same issue - there is a way around it - im pretty sure some of rock you is in latin-1 encoding, so if you open the file in read binary mode and then try decoding each line as utf8, and if it fails then decode as latin 1 to build the list it should be fine

[watchdog1337]

wordlist= []
with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
    wordlist = f.read()

for w in wordlist:
    try:
        word = w.decode('utf-8').strip('\n')
    except Exception:
        try:
            word = w.decode('latin-1').strip('\n')
        except Exception:
            pass

    ssh_attempt(username, word, ip)

[0dayCTF]

Nice solution, thank you @watchdog2000

[enty8080]

@watchdog2000 You are welcome to contribute, if you want, you can open Pull Request at this repository to add this type of action (decoding, or something).