Patator is an extremely flexible, module, multi-threaded, multi-purpose service & URL brute forcing tool written in Python that can be used in many ways. Basically the author got tired of using Medusa, Hydra, ncrack, metasploit auxiliary modules, nmap NSE scripts and the like because:
They either do not work or are not reliable (got me false negatives several times in the past)
They are not flexible enough (how to iterate over all wordlists, fuzz any module parameter)
They lack useful features (display progress or pause during execution)

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