awesome-hacking
by carpedm20
A curated list of awesome Hacking tutorials, tools and resources
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Hacking resource catalog
A curated list of resources for learning hacking and penetration testing
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System / Tutorials
System / Tutorials / Roppers Computing Fundamentals
- gitbook
Free, self-paced curriculum that builds a base of knowledge in computers and networking. Intended to build up a student with no prior technical knowledge to be confident in their ability to learn anything and continue their security education. Full text available as a
System / Tutorials
System / Tools
Metasploit
A computer security project that provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development
mimikatz
A little tool to play with Windows security
- Hackers tools
Tutorial on tools
System / Tools / Docker Images for Penetration Testing & Security
System / General
- Exploit database
An ultimate archive of exploits and vulnerable software
Tutorials
Tools / Disassemblers and debuggers
- IDA
IDA is a Windows, Linux or Mac OS X hosted multi-processor disassembler and debugger
- OllyDbg
A 32-bit assembler level analysing debugger for Windows
x64dbg
An open-source x64/x32 debugger for Windows
radare2
A portable reversing framework
plasma
Interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS. Generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax code
ScratchABit
Easily retargetable and hackable interactive disassembler with IDAPython-compatible plugin API
- Ghidra
A software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of tools developed by NSA's Research Directorate in support of the Cybersecurity mission
Tools / Decompilers
Luyten
one of the best, though a bit slow, hangs on some binaries and not very well maintained
- dotPeek
a free-of-charge .NET decompiler from JetBrains
ILSpy
an open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler
dnSpy
.NET assembly editor, decompiler, and debugger
- Hopper
A OS X and Linux Disassembler/Decompiler for 32/64-bit Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS executables
- cutter
a decompiler based on radare2
uncompyle6
decompiler for the over 20 releases and 20 years of CPython
Tools / Deobfuscators
Tools / Other
nudge4j
Java tool to let the browser talk to the JVM
dex2jar
Tools to work with Android .dex and Java .class files
- androguard
Reverse engineering, malware and goodware analysis of Android applications
antinet
.NET anti-managed debugger and anti-profiler code
- UPX
the Ultimate Packer (and unpacker) for eXecutables
Tools / Execution logging and tracing
- Wireshark
A free and open-source packet analyzer
- tcpdump
A powerful command-line packet analyzer; and libpcap, a portable C/C++ library for network traffic capture
mitmproxy
An interactive, SSL-capable man-in-the-middle proxy for HTTP with a console interface
- Charles Proxy
A cross-platform GUI web debugging proxy to view intercepted HTTP and HTTPS/SSL live traffic
- usbmon
USB capture for Linux
USBPcap
USB capture for Windows
dynStruct
structures recovery via dynamic instrumentation
drltrace
shared library calls tracing
Tools / Binary files examination and editing
- HxD
A hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size
- WinHex
A hexadecimal editor, helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security
- Synalize It
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Binwalk
Detects signatures, unpacks archives, visualizes entropy
Veles
a visualizer for statistical properties of blobs
Kaitai Struct
a DSL for creating parsers in a variety of programming languages. The Web IDE is particularly useful for reverse-engineering
DarunGrim
executable differ
DBeaver
a DB editor
Dependencies
a FOSS replacement to Dependency Walker
- PEview
A quick and easy way to view the structure and content of 32-bit Portable Executable (PE) and Component Object File Format (COFF) files
- BinText
A small, very fast and powerful text extractor that will be of particular interest to programmers
General
Web / Tools
- Spyse
Data gathering service that collects web info using OSINT. Provided info: IPv4 hosts, domains/whois, ports/banners/protocols, technologies, OS, AS, maintains huge SSL/TLS DB, and more... All the data is stored in its own database allowing get the data without scanning
sqlmap
Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
NoSQLMap
Automated NoSQL database enumeration and web application exploitation tool
- tools.web-max.ca
base64 base85 md4,5 hash, sha1 hash encoding/decoding
VHostScan
A virtual host scanner that performs reverse lookups, can be used with pivot tools, detect catch-all scenarios, aliases and dynamic default pages
SubFinder
SubFinder is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers valid subdomains for any target using passive online sources
- Findsubdomains
A subdomains discovery tool that collects all possible subdomains from open source internet and validates them through various tools to provide accurate results
badtouch
Scriptable network authentication cracker
PhpSploit
Full-featured C2 framework which silently persists on webserver via evil PHP oneliner
Git-Scanner
A tool for bug hunting or pentesting for targeting websites that have open repositories available in public
- CSP Scanner
Analyze a site's Content-Security-Policy (CSP) to find bypasses and missing directives
- Shodan
A web-crawling search engine that lets users search for various types of servers connected to the internet
masscan
Internet scale portscanner
Keyscope
an extensible key and secret validation tool for auditing active secrets against multiple SaaS vendors
- Decompiler.com
Java, Android, Python, C# online decompiler
Web / General
Strong node.js
An exhaustive checklist to assist in the source code security analysis of a node.js web service
Network / Tools
- NetworkMiner
A Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT)
- Paros
A Java-based HTTP/HTTPS proxy for assessing web application vulnerability
pig
A Linux packet crafting tool
- findsubdomains
really fast subdomains scanning service that has much greater opportunities than simple subs finder(works using OSINT)
- cirt-fuzzer
A simple TCP/UDP protocol fuzzer
- ASlookup
a useful tool for exploring autonomous systems and all related info (CIDR, ASN, Org...)
- ZAP
The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications
mitmsocks4j
Man-in-the-middle SOCKS Proxy for Java
ssh-mitm
An SSH/SFTP man-in-the-middle tool that logs interactive sessions and passwords
- nmap
Nmap (Network Mapper) is a security scanner
- Aircrack-ng
An 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program
Nipe
A script to make Tor Network your default gateway
Habu
Python Network Hacking Toolkit
- Wifi Jammer
Free program to jam all wifi clients in range
- Firesheep
Free program for HTTP session hijacking attacks
Scapy
A Python tool and library for low level packet creation and manipulation
Amass
In-depth subdomain enumeration tool that performs scraping, recursive brute forcing, crawling of web archives, name altering and reverse DNS sweeping
sniffglue
Secure multithreaded packet sniffer
Netz
Discover internet-wide misconfigurations, using zgrab2 and others
RustScan
Extremely fast port scanner built with Rust, designed to scan all ports in a couple of seconds and utilizes nmap to perform port enumeration in a fraction of the time
PETEP
Extensible TCP/UDP proxy with GUI for traffic analysis & modification with SSL/TLS support
Forensic / Tools
- Autopsy
A digital forensics platform and graphical interface to and other digital forensics tools
sleuthkit
A library and collection of command-line digital forensics tools
- EnCase
The shared technology within a suite of digital investigations products by Guidance Software
- malzilla
Malware hunting tool
- IPED - Indexador e Processador de Evidências Digitais
Brazilian Federal Police Tool for Forensic Investigation
CyLR
NTFS forensic image collector
- CAINE
CAINE is a Ubuntu-based app that offers a complete forensic environment that provides a graphical interface. This tool can be integrated into existing software tools as a module. It automatically extracts a timeline from RAM
Cryptography / Tools
xortool
A tool to analyze multi-byte XOR cipher
- John the Ripper
A fast password cracker
- Aircrack
Aircrack is 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program
Ciphey
Automated decryption tool using artificial intelligence & natural language processing
Wargame / System
- pwnable.kr
Provide various pwn challenges regarding system security
Wargame / Reverse Engineering
- Reversing.kr
This site tests your ability to Cracking & Reverse Code Engineering
- CodeEngn
(Korean)
- simples.kr
(Korean)
- Crackmes.de
The world first and largest community website for crackmes and reversemes
Wargame / Web
- Hack This Site!
a free, safe and legal training ground for hackers to test and expand their hacking skills
- Hack The Box
a free site to perform pentesting in a variety of different systems
- 0xf.at
a website without logins or ads where you can solve password-riddles (so called hackits)
- fuzzy.land
Website by an Austrian group. Lots of challenges taken from CTFs they participated in
- TryHackMe
Hands-on cyber security training through real-world scenarios
Wargame / Cryptography
Wargame / Bug bounty
Wargame / Bug bounty - Earn Some Money
- Intigriti
Europe's #1 ethical hacking and bug bounty program
CTF / Competition
- prompt(1) to win
XSS Challenges
CTF / General
- Hack+
An Intelligent network of bots that fetch the latest InfoSec content
- CTFtime.org
All about CTF (Capture The Flag)
- Rookit Arsenal
OS RE and rootkit development
Pentest Cheat Sheets
Collection of cheat sheets useful for pentesting
Movies For Hackers
A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch
- Roppers CTF Fundamentals Course
Free course designed to get a student crushing CTFs as quickly as possible. Teaches the mentality and skills required for crypto, forensics, and more. Full text available as a
OS / Online resources
- Security related Operating Systems @ Rawsec
Complete list of security related operating systems
- Best Linux Penetration Testing Distributions @ CyberPunk
Description of main penetration testing distributions
- Security @ Distrowatch
Website dedicated to talking about, reviewing and keeping up to date with open source operating systems
Post exploitation / tools
empire
A post exploitation framework for powershell and python
silenttrinity
A post exploitation tool that uses iron python to get past powershell restrictions
PowerSploit
A PowerShell post exploitation framework
ebowla
Framework for Making Environmental Keyed Payloads
ETC
- SecTools
Top 125 Network Security Tools
- Roppers Security Fundamentals
Free course that teaches a beginner how security works in the real world. Learn security theory and execute defensive measures so that you are better prepared against threats online and in the physical world. Full text available as a
- Roppers Practical Networking
A hands-on, wildly practical introduction to networking and making packets dance. No wasted time, no memorizing, just learning the fundamentals
- Rawsec's CyberSecurity Inventory
An open-source inventory of tools, resources, CTF platforms and Operating Systems about CyberSecurity. ( )
- The Cyberclopaedia
The open-source encyclopedia of cybersecurity
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