awesome-ctf

CTF toolkit

A curated collection of tools and resources for Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges and related security activities

A curated list of CTF frameworks, libraries, resources and softwares

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Kali Linux CTF Blueprints Online book on building, testing, and customizing your own Capture the Flag challenges

Create / Forensics
Dnscat2 3,468 10 months ago Hosts communication through DNS
Kroll Artifact Parser and Extractor (KAPE) Triage program
Magnet AXIOM Artifact-centric DFIR tool
Registry Dumper Dump your registry

Create / Platforms
CTFd 5,756 about 1 month ago Platform to host jeopardy style CTFs from ISISLab, NYU Tandon
echoCTF.RED 115 about 2 months ago Develop, deploy and maintain your own CTF infrastructure
FBCTF 6,536 about 1 year ago Platform to host Capture the Flag competitions from Facebook
Haaukins 188 3 months ago A Highly Accessible and Automated Virtualization Platform for Security Education
HackTheArch 67 almost 2 years ago CTF scoring platform
Mellivora 443 about 1 year ago A CTF engine written in PHP
MotherFucking-CTF 49 over 5 years ago Badass lightweight plaform to host CTFs. No JS involved
NightShade 121 over 7 years ago A simple security CTF framework
OpenCTF 81 almost 2 years ago CTF in a box. Minimal setup required
PicoCTF 288 8 months ago The platform used to run picoCTF. A great framework to host any CTF
PyChallFactory 107 3 months ago Small framework to create/manage/package jeopardy CTF challenges
RootTheBox 944 about 2 months ago A Game of Hackers (CTF Scoreboard & Game Manager)
Scorebot 50 over 7 years ago Platform for CTFs by Legitbs (Defcon)
SecGen 2,646 about 1 month ago Security Scenario Generator. Creates randomly vulnerable virtual machines

Create / Web
Metasploit JavaScript Obfuscator 34,393 about 1 month ago
Uglify 13,199 about 2 months ago

Solve / Attacks
Bettercap 16,919 about 2 months ago Framework to perform MITM (Man in the Middle) attacks
Yersinia 732 over 1 year ago Attack various protocols on layer 2

Solve / Crypto
CyberChef Web app for analysing and decoding data
FeatherDuster 1,095 about 3 years ago An automated, modular cryptanalysis tool
Hash Extender 1,090 over 1 year ago A utility tool for performing hash length extension attacks
padding-oracle-attacker 204 almost 2 years ago A CLI tool to execute padding oracle attacks
PkCrack A tool for Breaking PkZip-encryption
QuipQuip An online tool for breaking substitution ciphers or vigenere ciphers (without key)
RSACTFTool 5,800 2 months ago A tool for recovering RSA private key with various attack
RSATool 1,232 3 months ago Generate private key with knowledge of p and q
XORTool 1,402 over 1 year ago A tool to analyze multi-byte xor cipher

Solve / Bruteforcers
Hashcat Password Cracker
Hydra A parallelized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack
John The Jumbo 10,458 about 1 month ago Community enhanced version of John the Ripper
John The Ripper Password Cracker
Nozzlr 62 about 2 years ago Nozzlr is a bruteforce framework, trully modular and script-friendly
Ophcrack Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables
Patator 3,598 3 months ago Patator is a multi-purpose brute-forcer, with a modular design
Turbo Intruder Burp Suite extension for sending large numbers of HTTP requests

Solve / Exploits
DLLInjector 490 about 12 years ago Inject dlls in processes
libformatstr 339 about 3 years ago Simplify format string exploitation
Metasploit Penetration testing software

Solve / Exploits / Metasploit
Cheatsheet

Solve / Exploits
one_gadget 2,089 about 1 month ago A tool to find the one gadget call
Pwntools 12,204 about 1 month ago CTF Framework for writing exploits
Qira 3,969 over 2 years ago QEMU Interactive Runtime Analyser
ROP Gadget 3,975 4 months ago Framework for ROP exploitation
V0lt 366 almost 7 years ago Security CTF Toolkit

Solve / Forensics
Aircrack-Ng Crack 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys
Audacity Analyze sound files (mp3, m4a, whatever)
Bkhive and Samdump2 Dump SYSTEM and SAM files
CFF Explorer PE Editor
Creddump 245 over 5 years ago Dump windows credentials
DVCS Ripper 1,712 6 months ago Rips web accessible (distributed) version control systems
Exif Tool Read, write and edit file metadata
Extundelete Used for recovering lost data from mountable images
Fibratus 2,246 about 1 month ago Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel
Foremost Extract particular kind of files using headers
Fsck.ext4 Used to fix corrupt filesystems
Malzilla Malware hunting tool
NetworkMiner Network Forensic Analysis Tool
PDF Streams Inflater Find and extract zlib files compressed in PDF files
Pngcheck Verifies the integrity of PNG and dump all of the chunk-level information in human-readable form
ResourcesExtract Extract various filetypes from exes
Shellbags 151 almost 2 years ago Investigate NT_USER.dat files
Snow A Whitespace Steganography Tool
USBRip 1,154 over 2 years ago Simple CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts (history of USB events) on GNU/Linux
Volatility 7,412 over 1 year ago To investigate memory dumps
Wireshark Used to analyze pcap or pcapng files
OfflineRegistryView Simple tool for Windows that allows you to read offline Registry files from external drive and view the desired Registry key in .reg file format
Registry Viewer® Used to view Windows registries

Solve / Networking
Masscan 23,823 about 1 month ago Mass IP port scanner, TCP port scanner
Monit A linux tool to check a host on the network (and other non-network activities)
Nipe 1,970 about 1 month ago Nipe is a script to make Tor Network your default gateway
Nmap An open source utility for network discovery and security auditing
Wireshark Analyze the network dumps
Zeek An open-source network security monitor
Zmap An open-source network scanner

Solve / Reversing
Androguard 5,324 about 2 months ago Reverse engineer Android applications
Angr 7,647 about 1 month ago platform-agnostic binary analysis framework
Apk2Gold 676 11 months ago Yet another Android decompiler
ApkTool Android Decompiler
Barf 1,413 about 5 years ago Binary Analysis and Reverse engineering Framework
Binary Ninja Binary analysis framework
BinUtils Collection of binary tools
BinWalk 11,530 about 1 month ago Analyze, reverse engineer, and extract firmware images
Boomerang 377 about 4 years ago Decompile x86/SPARC/PowerPC/ST-20 binaries to C
ctf_import 110 about 8 years ago – run basic functions from stripped binaries cross platform
cwe_checker 1,155 about 1 month ago cwe_checker finds vulnerable patterns in binary executables
demovfuscator 709 10 months ago A work-in-progress deobfuscator for movfuscated binaries
Frida Dynamic Code Injection
GDB The GNU project debugger
GEF 7,088 about 1 month ago GDB plugin
Ghidra Open Source suite of reverse engineering tools. Similar to IDA Pro
Hopper Reverse engineering tool (disassembler) for OSX and Linux
IDA Pro Most used Reversing software
Jadx 42,178 about 1 month ago Decompile Android files
Java Decompilers An online decompiler for Java and Android APKs
Krakatau 2,003 3 months ago Java decompiler and disassembler
Objection 7,624 4 months ago Runtime Mobile Exploration
PEDA 5,911 6 months ago GDB plugin (only python2.7)
Pin A dynamic binary instrumentaion tool by Intel
PINCE 2,151 3 months ago GDB front-end/reverse engineering tool, focused on game-hacking and automation
PinCTF 496 almost 5 years ago A tool which uses intel pin for Side Channel Analysis
Plasma 3,050 over 3 years ago An interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS which can generate indented pseudo-code with colored syntax
Pwndbg 7,760 about 1 month ago A GDB plugin that provides a suite of utilities to hack around GDB easily
radare2 20,862 about 1 month ago A portable reversing framework
Triton 3,565 about 1 month ago Dynamic Binary Analysis (DBA) framework
Uncompyle 423 over 7 years ago Decompile Python 2.7 binaries (.pyc)
WinDbg Windows debugger distributed by Microsoft
Xocopy Program that can copy executables with execute, but no read permission
Z3 10,452 about 1 month ago A theorem prover from Microsoft Research
Detox A Javascript malware analysis tool
Revelo Analyze obfuscated Javascript code
RABCDAsm 431 almost 2 years ago Collection of utilities including an ActionScript 3 assembler/disassembler
Swftools Collection of utilities to work with SWF files
Xxxswf A Python script for analyzing Flash files

Solve / Services
CSWSH Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking Tester
Request Bin Lets you inspect http requests to a particular url

Solve / Steganography
AperiSolve Aperi'Solve is a platform which performs layer analysis on image (open-source)
Convert Convert images b/w formats and apply filters
Exif Shows EXIF information in JPEG files
Exiftool Read and write meta information in files
Exiv2 Image metadata manipulation tool
Image Steganography Embeds text and files in images with optional encryption. Easy-to-use UI
Image Steganography Online This is a client-side Javascript tool to steganographically hide images inside the lower "bits" of other images
ImageMagick Tool for manipulating images
Outguess Universal steganographic tool
Pngtools For various analysis related to PNGs
SmartDeblur 2,342 almost 6 years ago Used to deblur and fix defocused images
Steganabara Tool for stegano analysis written in Java
SteganographyOnline Online steganography encoder and decoder
Stegbreak Launches brute-force dictionary attacks on JPG image
StegCracker 557 about 4 years ago Steganography brute-force utility to uncover hidden data inside files
stegextract 116 over 1 year ago Detect hidden files and text in images
Steghide Hide data in various kind of images
StegOnline Conduct a wide range of image steganography operations, such as concealing/revealing files hidden within bits (open-source)
Stegsolve Apply various steganography techniques to images
Zsteg 1,333 10 months ago PNG/BMP analysis

Solve / Web
BurpSuite A graphical tool to testing website security
Commix 4,647 about 1 month ago Automated All-in-One OS Command Injection and Exploitation Tool
Hackbar Firefox addon for easy web exploitation
OWASP ZAP Intercepting proxy to replay, debug, and fuzz HTTP requests and responses
Postman Add on for chrome for debugging network requests
Raccoon 3,105 8 months ago A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning
SQLMap 32,841 about 1 month ago Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
W3af 4,613 almost 2 years ago Web Application Attack and Audit Framework
XSSer Automated XSS testor

Resources / Operating Systems
Android Tamer Based on Debian
BackBox Based on Ubuntu
BlackArch Linux Based on Arch Linux
Fedora Security Lab Based on Fedora
Kali Linux Based on Debian
Parrot Security OS Based on Debian
Pentoo Based on Gentoo
URIX OS Based on openSUSE
Wifislax Based on Slackware
Flare VM 6,686 about 1 month ago Based on Windows
REMnux Based on Debian

Resources / Starter Packs
CTF Tools 8,580 about 1 year ago Collection of setup scripts to install various security research tools
LazyKali 47 over 8 years ago A 2016 refresh of LazyKali which simplifies install of tools and configuration

Resources / Tutorials
CTF Field Guide Field Guide by Trails of Bits
CTF Resources Start Guide maintained by community
How to Get Started in CTF Short guideline for CTF beginners by Endgame
Intro. to CTF Course A free course that teaches beginners the basics of forensics, crypto, and web-ex
IppSec Video tutorials and walkthroughs of popular CTF platforms
LiveOverFlow Video tutorials on Exploitation
MIPT CTF 271 about 3 years ago A small course for beginners in CTFs (in Russian)

Resources / Wargames
Backdoor Security Platform by SDSLabs
Crackmes Reverse Engineering Challenges
CryptoHack Fun cryptography challenges
echoCTF.RED Online CTF with a variety of targets to attack
Exploit Exercises Variety of VMs to learn variety of computer security issues
Exploit.Education Variety of VMs to learn variety of computer security issues
Gracker 9 about 13 years ago Binary challenges having a slow learning curve, and write-ups for each level
Hack The Box Weekly CTFs for all types of security enthusiasts
Hack This Site Training ground for hackers
Hacker101 CTF from HackerOne
Hacking-Lab Ethical hacking, computer network and security challenge platform
Hone Your Ninja Skills Web challenges starting from basic ones
IO Wargame for binary challenges
Microcorruption Embedded security CTF
Over The Wire Wargame maintained by OvertheWire Community
PentesterLab Variety of VM and online challenges (paid)
PicoCTF All year round ctf game. Questions from the yearly picoCTF competition
PWN Challenge Binary Exploitation Wargame
Pwnable.kr Pwn Game
Pwnable.tw Binary wargame
Pwnable.xyz Binary Exploitation Wargame
Reversin.kr Reversing challenge
Ringzer0Team Ringzer0 Team Online CTF
Root-Me Hacking and Information Security learning platform
ROP Wargames 26 over 7 years ago ROP Wargames
SANS HHC Challenges with a holiday theme released annually and maintained by SANS
SmashTheStack A variety of wargames maintained by the SmashTheStack Community
Viblo CTF Various amazing CTF challenges, in many different categories. Has both Practice mode and Contest mode
VulnHub VM-based for practical in digital security, computer application & network administration
W3Challs A penetration testing training platform, which offers various computer challenges, in various categories
WebHacking Hacking challenges for web
Damn Vulnerable Web Application PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable
Juice Shop CTF 412 3 months ago Scripts and tools for hosting a CTF on easily

Resources / Websites
Awesome CTF Cheatsheet 54 7 months ago CTF Cheatsheet
CTF Time General information on CTF occuring around the worlds
Reddit Security CTF Reddit CTF category

Resources / Wikis
Bamboofox Chinese resources to learn CTF
bi0s Wiki Wiki from team bi0s
CTF Cheatsheet CTF tips and tricks
ISIS Lab 385 over 11 years ago CTF Wiki by Isis lab
OpenToAll 135 over 5 years ago CTF tips by OTA CTF team members

Resources / Writeups Collections
0e85dc6eaf 95 almost 5 years ago Write-ups for CTF challenges by 0e85dc6eaf
Captf Dumped CTF challenges and materials by psifertex
CTF write-ups (community) CTF challenges + write-ups archive maintained by the community
CTFTime Scrapper 31 almost 8 years ago Scraps all writeup from CTF Time and organize which to read first
HackThisSite 247 over 3 years ago CTF write-ups repo maintained by HackThisSite team
Mzfr 122 over 2 years ago CTF competition write-ups by mzfr
pwntools writeups 507 over 8 years ago A collection of CTF write-ups all using pwntools
SababaSec 19 over 1 year ago A collection of CTF write-ups by the SababaSec team
Shell Storm CTF challenge archive maintained by Jonathan Salwan
Smoke Leet Everyday 186 over 7 years ago CTF write-ups repo maintained by SmokeLeetEveryday team

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