# pwnesia/ssb

Secure Shell Bruteforcer — A faster & simpler way to bruteforce SSH server

Repository: https://github.com/pwnesia/ssb
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ssb
Language: Shell
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ssh, ssh-server, ssh-client, ssh-bruteforce, go, golang, brute-force, bruteforce
Last push: 2021-12-17T06:56:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2098, "days_push": 1720, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1335, forks 105 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:25.312834+00:00)

## What it is
SSB (Secure Shell Bruteforcer) is a fast, concurrent SSH password brute-forcing tool written in Go. It attempts to authenticate against an SSH server using passwords from a wordlist, with configurable concurrency, timeout, and retries.

## Use cases
- bruteforce ssh server passwords
- test weak ssh credentials during pentest
- audit ssh server for default passwords
- crack ssh login with wordlist
- find valid ssh password for a host

## When to choose
- you need a fast, concurrent SSH brute-forcer with a simple CLI
- you want a lightweight Go binary without heavy dependencies
- you need configurable concurrency, timeout, and output of found credentials

## When to avoid
- you need protocol support beyond SSH
- you want a maintained tool with recent updates (last release 2021)
- you need stealth features like rate-limit evasion or proxy support

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, penetration-testing, cli
- domain: security, penetration-testing
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: ssh-bruteforce, password-cracking, wordlist, concurrent-connections, offensive-security, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- pwnesia/ssb (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:25.312834+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:44:23.356489+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pwnesia/ssb (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:25.312834+00:00, sha 2a5bba6d7370)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.