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A collection of cheat sheets and check lists useful for security testing and penetration
Collection of cheat sheets useful for pentesting
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Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Security Talks and Videos | |||
Cybersecurity Conference Directory | All Cybersecurity, InfoSec & IT Conferences and Events | ||
Confsec | 498 | 3 months ago | List of Security Events 2024 |
InfoCon | The Hacking Conference Archive | ||
Awesome Security Talks | 4,052 | over 3 years ago | Curated list of Security Talks and Videos |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / General cheat sheets | |||
The Hackers' Choice Tips & Tricks Cheatsheet | 3,149 | 16 days ago | |
Docker Cheat Sheet | 22,143 | 4 months ago | |
macOS Command Line Cheat Sheet | 28,942 | about 3 years ago | |
PowerShell Cheat Sheet | SANS PowerShell Cheat Sheet from SEC560 Course | ||
Rawsec's CyberSecurity Inventory | An open-source inventory of tools, resources, CTF platforms and Operating Systems about CyberSecurity. ( ) | ||
Regexp Security Cheat Sheet | 711 | over 2 years ago | |
Security Cheat Sheets | 22 | almost 8 years ago | A collection of security cheat sheets |
Unix Commands Cheat Sheet | |||
Linux File Permissions Cheat Sheet | |||
DostoevskyLabs' Pentest notes | Pentest Notes collection from DostoevskyLabs | ||
Thick Client Pentest Checklist | 132 | about 2 years ago | Pentest Checklist for Thick-Client Penetration Tests |
HauSec's Pentesting Cheat sheet | Pentest Cheat sheet from HauSec | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Mobile Pentesting | |||
Mobile App Pentest Cheat Sheet | 4,595 | 10 months ago | Collection of resources on Apple & iOS Penetration Testing |
Mobexler | Customised virtual machine, designed to help in penetration testing of Android & iOS applications | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Mobile Pentesting / Android | |||
Android Pentest Checklist Xmind | Xmind mindmap for Android Penetration Tests | ||
MASTG | 11,761 | 8 days ago | OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide |
Android Pentesting Checklist | 183 | about 1 month ago | Case-by-case Checklist for Android Pentests |
Android Pentesting Cheat sheet | 366 | 25 days ago | Android Pentesting Resources #1 |
HackTricks - Android Pentesting | HackTricks Collection of Android Pentesting | ||
InjuredAndroid | 664 | over 3 years ago | |
Damn vulnerable Bank | 654 | 11 months ago | |
InsecureShop | 232 | over 2 years ago | |
AndroGoat | 212 | over 2 years ago | |
Android-Insecurebankv2 | 1,263 | 7 months ago | |
OVAA | 656 | 4 months ago | |
DIVA | 966 | over 1 year ago | |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Mobile Pentesting / Apple | |||
iOS Pentest Checklist | 310 | 4 months ago | Checklist for iOS/IPA Penetration Tests |
Hacktricks iOS Checklist | Another Checklist for iOS/IPA Penetration Tests | Hacktricks Cloud | ||
PentestGlobal IOS gitbook | Gitbook about iOS Pentesting | ||
Can i jailbreak? | List of each jailbreak needed for each iOS version | ||
Jailbreaks.app | Downloads for Odyssey, Taurine Jailbreaks | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Cloud Pentesting / Kubernetes | |||
Awesome Kubernetes (K8s) Security | 1,915 | about 1 year ago | Collection of Kubernetes security resources |
Kubetools | Kubernetes security tools | ||
HackingKubernetes | 99 | over 2 years ago | Collection of Kubernetes Pentesting Resources |
Kubernetes Goat | 4,421 | 8 days ago | Vulnerable-by-Design cluster environment for training |
KubePwn | 54 | about 4 years ago | Another Collection of resources about Kubernetes security |
HackTricks - Kubernetes Pentesting | HackTricks Collection of Kubernetes Pentesting | ||
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Part 2 | |||
Part 3 | |||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Cloud Pentesting / Azure | |||
Awesome Azure Pentest | 1,014 | 11 months ago | A curated list of useful tools and resources for penetration testing and securing Microsofts cloud platform Azure |
HackTricks - Azure Pentesting | HackTricks Collection of Kubernetes Pentesting | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Active Directory | |||
Active Directory Exploitation Cheat Sheet | 5,669 | about 2 months ago | Cheat sheet for Active Directory Exploitation |
OSCP Active Directory Cheat Sheet | 139 | almost 3 years ago | Cheat sheet for Active Directory Attacks used in OSCP |
WADComs | Interactive cheat sheet - list of offensive security tools and their respective commands to be used against Windows/AD environments | ||
HackTricks - Active Directory Pentesting | HackTricks Collection of Active Directory Pentesting | ||
GOAD | 5,416 | 21 days ago | Vulnerable-by-Design Active Directory environment |
Ultimate BloodHound Guide | The Ultimate Guide for BloodHound Community Edition (BHCE) | ||
Windows Red Team Cheat sheet | 124 | over 2 years ago | Windows for Red Teamers Cheat Sheet ( ) |
Resource Collection #1 | 30 | over 2 years ago | Collection of Active Directory Pentesting resources #1 |
Resource Collection #2 | 16 | 7 months ago | Collection of Active Directory Pentesting resources #2 |
Resource Collection #3 | 150 | about 3 years ago | Collection of Active Directory Pentesting resources #3 |
Resource Collection #4 | 2,483 | almost 2 years ago | Collection of Active Directory Pentesting resources #4 |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Pentest Methodology / Discovery | |||
Google Dorks | Google Dorks Hacking Database (Exploit-DB) | ||
Shodan | 365 | 5 months ago | Shodan is a search engine for finding specific devices, and device types, that exist online |
ZoomEye | Zoomeye is a Cyberspace Search Engine recording information of devices, websites, services and components etc | ||
Amass | 12,067 | 5 days ago | OWASP Network mapping of attack surfaces and external asset discovery using open source information |
Censys | Similar to shodan, search engine for specific devices including IoT | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Pentest Methodology / Enumeration | |||
enum4linux-ng | 1,189 | 4 months ago | Python tool for enumerating information from Windows/Samba systems |
0xdf - SMB Enumeration | 0xdf's SMB Enumeration Cheat Sheet | ||
OSCP Enumeration Cheat sheet | 102 | over 3 years ago | Cheat sheet for Enumeration for OSCP Certificate |
CrackMapExec Cheatsheet | Cheat sheet for CrackMapExec (CME) | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Pentest Methodology / Exploitation | |||
Empire Cheat Sheet | 1,042 | about 7 years ago | is a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation framework |
Exploit Development Cheat Sheet | 365 | 5 months ago | 's exploit development in one picture |
Java Deserialization Cheat Sheet | 3,035 | over 1 year ago | A cheat sheet for pentesters about Java Native Binary Deserialization vulnerabilities |
Local File Inclusion (LFI) Cheat Sheet #1 | Arr0way's LFI Cheat Sheet | ||
Local File Inclusion (LFI) Cheat Sheet #2 | Aptive's LFI Cheat Sheet | ||
Metasploit Unleashed | The ultimate guide to the Metasploit Framework | ||
Metasploit Cheat Sheet | A quick reference guide | ||
PowerSploit Cheat Sheet | 1,042 | about 7 years ago | is a powershell post-exploitation framework |
PowerView 2.0 Tricks | |||
PowerView 3.0 Tricks | |||
PHP htaccess Injection Cheat Sheet | 814 | 7 months ago | PHP htaccess Injection Cheat Sheet by PHP Secure Configuration Checker |
Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet #1 | Pentestmonkey Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet | ||
Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet #2 | Arr0way's Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet | ||
SQL Injection Cheat Sheet | Netsparker's SQL Injection Cheat Sheet | ||
SQLite3 Injection Cheat Sheet | |||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Pentest Methodology / Post-Exploitation | |||
Awesome Windows Post Exploitation | 524 | about 3 years ago | Collection of resources for Windows Post-Exploitation |
HackTricks - Post Exploitation | HackTricks Collection of Post-Exploitation | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Pentest Methodology / Privilege Escalation | |||
Windows / Linux Local Privilege Escalation Workshop | 1,879 | about 2 years ago | The Privilege Escalation Workshop covers all known (at the time) attack vectors of local user privilege escalation on both Linux and Windows operating systems and includes slides, videos, test VMs |
Basic Linux Privilege Escalation | Linux Privilege Escalation by | ||
linux-exploit-suggester.sh | 5,653 | 9 months ago | Linux privilege escalation auditing tool written in bash (updated) |
Linux_Exploit_Suggester.pl | 1,779 | over 10 years ago | Linux Exploit Suggester written in Perl (last update 3 years ago) |
Linux_Exploit_Suggester.pl v2 | 1,858 | almost 2 years ago | Next-generation exploit suggester based on Linux_Exploit_Suggester (updated) |
Linux Soft Exploit Suggester | 222 | over 1 year ago | Linux-soft-exploit-suggester finds exploits for all vulnerable software in a system helping with the privilege escalation. It focuses on software packages instead of Kernel vulnerabilities |
checksec.sh | 2,026 | 22 days ago | Bash script to check the properties of executables (like PIE, RELRO, PaX, Canaries, ASLR, Fortify Source) |
linuxprivchecker.py | This script is intended to be executed locally on a Linux box to enumerate basic system info and search for common privilege escalation vectors such as world writable files, misconfigurations, clear-text passwords and applicable exploits (@SecuritySift) | ||
LinEnum | 7,032 | about 1 year ago | This tool is great at running through a heap of things you should check on a Linux system in the post exploit process. This include file permissions, cron jobs if visible, weak credentials etc.(@Rebootuser) |
linPEAS | 16,117 | 20 days ago | LinPEAS - Linux Privilege Escalation Awesome Script. Check the Local Linux Privilege Escalation checklist from |
MimiPenguin | 3,812 | over 1 year ago | A tool to dump the login password from the current linux desktop user. Adapted from the idea behind the popular Windows tool mimikatz. |
PowerUp | 11,918 | over 4 years ago | Excellent powershell script for checking of common Windows privilege escalation vectors. Written by |
PowerUp Cheat Sheet | 1,042 | about 7 years ago | |
Windows Exploit Suggester | 3,968 | over 1 year ago | Tool for detection of missing security patches on the windows operating system and mapping with the public available exploits |
Sherlock | 1,895 | about 6 years ago | PowerShell script to quickly find missing software patches for local privilege escalation vulnerabilities |
Watson | 1,556 | almost 4 years ago | Enumerate missing KBs and suggest exploits for useful Privilege Escalation vulnerabilities |
Precompiled Windows Exploits | 1,829 | about 4 years ago | Collection of precompiled Windows exploits |
Metasploit Modules | 34,181 | 6 days ago | |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Web Pentesting | |||
OWASP Web Security Testing Guide | |||
Web Pentest Checklist | Checklist for Web Application Penetration Tests | ||
SQL Injection Cheatsheet | PortSwigger SQL Injection Cheat Sheet | ||
Cross-Site-Scripting Cheat sheet | PortSwigger Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) Cheat sheet | ||
Google CSP Evaluator | Google's CSP Evaluator | ||
Awesome Web Hacking | 5,869 | 18 days ago | Collection of resources for Web Pentesting #1 |
Awesome Web Security | 11,474 | 9 months ago | Collection of resources for Web Pentesting #2 |
XSS Polyglot Payloads #1 | 1,946 | about 2 years ago | Unleashing an Ultimate XSS Polyglot list by 0xsobky |
XSS Polyglot Payloads #2 | 's XSS | ||
Browser's-XSS-Filter-Bypass-Cheat-Sheet | 1,116 | over 7 years ago | Excellent List of working XSS bypasses running on the latest version of Chrome, Safari, Edge created by Masato Kinugawa |
PortSwigger Web Penetration Testing Labs | |||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Binary Exploitation | |||
Binary Exploitation Red Team Notes | Ired.team notes for Binary Exploitation | ||
Binary Exploitation Notes | Ir0nstone's Binary Exploitation Notes | ||
Sticky Notes Binary Exploitation | Sticky Notes colletion for Binary Exploitation | ||
checksec.py | 314 | 2 months ago | Cross-Platform CheckSec Tool for checking binary security properties |
HackTricks - Binary Exploitation | HackTricks Collection of Binary Exploitation | ||
Liveoverflow - Binary Exploitation | LiveOverflow's Binary Exploitation YouTube playlist | ||
PwnTools Cheat sheet | Cheat sheet for PwnTools python library | ||
pwndbg Cheat sheet | Cheat sheet for pwndbg GDB plug-in | ||
GDB PEDA Cheat sheet | 16 | almost 8 years ago | Cheat sheet for PEDA GDB plug-in |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Learning Platforms | |||
Hack The Box :: Penetration Testing Labs | Leading penetration testing training labs platform | ||
TryHackMe | Free online platform for learning cyber security & penetration testing | ||
OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project (Online) | List of online available vulnerable applications for learning purposes | ||
Pentestit labs | Hands-on Pentesting Labs (OSCP style) | ||
Root-me.org | Hundreds of challenges are available to train yourself in different and not simulated environments | ||
Vulnhub.com | Vulnerable By Design VMs for practical 'hands-on' experience in digital security | ||
Damn Vulnerable Xebia Training Environment | 102 | over 2 years ago | Docker Container including several vurnerable web applications (DVWA,DVWServices, DVWSockets, WebGoat, Juiceshop, Railsgoat, django.NV, Buggy Bank, Mutilidae II and more) |
OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project (Offline) | List of offline available vulnerable applications for learning purposes | ||
Vulnerable SOAP Web Service | Vulnerable SOAP web service lab environment | ||
Vulnerable Flask Web App | Vulnerable Flask Web App lab environment | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Bug Bounty | |||
Awesome BugBounty Tools | 4,256 | about 2 months ago | A curated list of various bug bounty tools |
bug-bounty-platforms | 634 | 5 months ago | Open-Sourced Collection of Bug Bounty Platforms |
m0chan - Bug Bounty Methodology | m0chan's Bug Bounty Methodology Collection | ||
NahamSec - Resources for Beginners | 10,763 | 4 months ago | NahamSec's Resources for Beginner Bug Bounty Hunters Collection |
AllAboutBugBounty | 5,855 | about 1 year ago | BugBounty notes gathered from various sources |
Bug-Bounty-Resources | 64 | about 6 years ago | Collection of Bug Bounty Resources #1 |
Bug-Bounty-Resources | 377 | over 2 years ago | Collection of Bug Bounty Resources #2 |
Ryan John Bug Bounty Playlist | Collection of Ryan John's BugBounty videos ( ) | ||
LiveOverFlow Bug Bounty Playlist | Collection of LiveOverflow's Bug bounty videos | ||
BBRE Podcast | Bug Bounty Reports Explained Podcast | ||
Critical Thinking Podcast | Critical Thinking Bug Bounty Podcast | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Bug Bounty / Tools | |||
Nmap Cheat Sheet | 365 | 5 months ago | |
SQLmap Cheat Sheet | 365 | 5 months ago | |
SQLmap Tamper Scripts | SQLmap Tamper Scripts General/MSSQL/MySQL | ||
VIM Cheatsheet | |||
Wireshark Display Filters | 365 | 5 months ago | Filters for the best sniffing tool |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Bug Bounty / Tools Online | |||
revshells.com | Reverse shell payload generator ( ) | ||
Segfault | Segfault: Free disposable root servers (by ) | ||
suip.biz | Various free online pentesting tools like nmap, wpscan, sqlmap | ||
XSS'OR Encoder/Decoder | Online Decoder/Encoder for testing purposes (@evilcos) | ||
WebGun | WebGun, XSS Payload Creator (@brutelogic) | ||
Hackvertor | Tool to convert various encodings and generate attack vectors (@garethheyes) | ||
JSFiddle | Test and share XSS payloads, | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Bug Bounty / Payloads | |||
Fuzzdb | 8,242 | about 1 year ago | Dictionary of attack patterns and primitives for black-box application testing Polyglot Challenge with submitted solutions |
SecList | 58,517 | 6 days ago | A collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data grep strings, fuzzing payloads, and many more |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Bug Bounty / Write-Ups | |||
Bug Bounty Reference | 3,753 | 4 months ago | Huge list of bug bounty write-up that is categorized by the bug type (SQLi, XSS, IDOR, etc.) |
Write-Ups for CTF challenges | |||
Facebook Bug Bounties | Categorized Facebook Bug Bounties write-ups | ||
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Bug Bounty / Wireless Hacking | |||
wifite2 | 30 | almost 8 years ago | Full automated WiFi security testing script |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Bug Bounty / Defence Topics | |||
Docker Security Cheat Sheet | The following tips should help you to secure a container based system | ||
Windows Domain Hardening | 1,749 | almost 5 years ago | A curated list of awesome Security Hardening techniques for Windows |
Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets / Bug Bounty / Programming | |||
JavaScript Cheat Sheet | 6,692 | about 2 years ago | Learn JavaScript in one picture |
Python Cheat Sheet #1 | 16 | about 9 years ago | Learn python3 in one picture |
Python Cheat Sheet #2 | 4,975 | over 2 years ago | Learn python3 in one picture |
Python Snippets Cheat Sheet | 365 | 5 months ago | List of helpful re-usable code snippets in Python |