THC-Hydra
E721425
THC-Hydra is a variant of the Hydra password-cracking tool commonly used for testing the security of authentication services.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8248357 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: THC-Hydra Context triple: [Hydra, hasAlternativeName, THC-Hydra]
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A.
THC
THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis responsible for the plant’s mind-altering effects.
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B.
THCA (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid)
THCA (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid) is the non-psychoactive acidic precursor to THC found in raw cannabis, which converts into psychoactive THC through decarboxylation (heat or aging).
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C.
BHO
BHO is the IATA airport code for Raja Bhoj Airport, the primary airport serving Bhopal in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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D.
Nabdam
Nabdam are an ethnic group indigenous to northeastern Ghana, particularly associated with the area now known as the Upper East Region.
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E.
Sahl Hasheesh
Sahl Hasheesh is a modern Red Sea coastal resort town in Egypt known for its luxury hotels, beaches, and diving and snorkeling sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: THC-Hydra Target entity description: THC-Hydra is a variant of the Hydra password-cracking tool commonly used for testing the security of authentication services.
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A.
THC
THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis responsible for the plant’s mind-altering effects.
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B.
THCA (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid)
THCA (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid) is the non-psychoactive acidic precursor to THC found in raw cannabis, which converts into psychoactive THC through decarboxylation (heat or aging).
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C.
BHO
BHO is the IATA airport code for Raja Bhoj Airport, the primary airport serving Bhopal in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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D.
Nabdam
Nabdam are an ethnic group indigenous to northeastern Ghana, particularly associated with the area now known as the Upper East Region.
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E.
Sahl Hasheesh
Sahl Hasheesh is a modern Red Sea coastal resort town in Egypt known for its luxury hotels, beaches, and diving and snorkeling sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brute-force attack tool
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credential testing tool ⓘ network security tool ⓘ password-cracking tool ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Hydra ⓘ |
| category |
password recovery software
ⓘ
security testing software ⓘ |
| developer | The Hacker’s Choice ⓘ |
| distribution |
precompiled binaries
ⓘ
source code ⓘ |
| feature |
supports brute-force attacks
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supports dictionary-based attacks ⓘ supports parallelized login attempts ⓘ supports proxy connections ⓘ supports resume of interrupted sessions ⓘ |
| license | GPL-2.0-or-later ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| supportsInterface | command-line interface ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
Asterisk
ⓘ
CISCO AAA ⓘ
linked to:
RADIUS
CISCO enable ⓘ FTP ⓘ Firebird ⓘ HTTP ⓘ HTTPS ⓘ IMAP ⓘ IRC ⓘ LDAP ⓘ MSSQL ⓘ
linked to:
SQL Server
MongoDB ⓘ MySQL ⓘ NCP ⓘ NNTP ⓘ Oracle SID ⓘ Oracle listener ⓘ PC-Anywhere ⓘ POP3 ⓘ PostgreSQL ⓘ RDP ⓘ RDP NLA ⓘ Redis ⓘ Rexec ⓘ Rlogin ⓘ Rsh ⓘ SAP/R3 ⓘ
linked to:
SAP
SIP ⓘ SMB ⓘ SMTP ⓘ SNMP ⓘ SSH ⓘ Socks5 ⓘ Subversion ⓘ Teamspeak ⓘ Telnet ⓘ VMAUTHD ⓘ VNC ⓘ |
| useCase |
password strength evaluation
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penetration testing ⓘ security auditing of authentication services ⓘ |
| website |
https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra
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https://www.thc.org/thc-hydra ⓘ |
| writtenFor |
penetration testers
ⓘ
security professionals ⓘ system administrators ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: THC-Hydra Description of subject: THC-Hydra is a variant of the Hydra password-cracking tool commonly used for testing the security of authentication services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.