awesome-pentest

Advanced IT security professional toolkit on Android featuring an integrated Metasploit daemon and MITM capabilities

Network scanning and host enumeration app that performs NetBIOS, UPnP, Bonjour, SNMP, and various other advanced device fingerprinting techniques

The Invisible Internet Project

Metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in Python3

Comprehensive detection page to test your own Web browser's configuration for privacy and identity leaks

Nipe

Script to redirect all traffic from the machine to the Tor network

Tool for investigating the Dark Web by finding operational security issues introduced by Tor hidden service operators

Live operating system aiming to preserve your privacy and anonymity

Free software and onion routed overlay network that helps you defend against traffic analysis

dos-over-tor

Proof of concept denial of service over Tor stress test tool

kalitorify

Transparent proxy through Tor for Kali Linux OS

AntiVirus Evasion Tool (AVET)

Post-process exploits containing executable files targeted for Windows machines to avoid being recognized by antivirus software

CarbonCopy

Tool that creates a spoofed certificate of any online website and signs an Executable for AV evasion

Runtime encryptor for 32-bit portable executables ("PE s")

Dynamic shellcode injection tool, and the first truly dynamic PE infector ever created

Simple obfuscator that takes raw shellcode and generates Anti-Virus friendly executables by using a brute-forcable, 32-bit XOR key

Generate metasploit payloads that bypass common anti-virus solutions

peCloakCapstone

Multi-platform fork of the peCloak.py automated malware antivirus evasion tool

Amber

Reflective PE packer for converting native PE files to position-independent shellcode

Everything you need to win your next CTF competition

Ciphey

Automated decryption tool using artificial intelligence and natural language processing

RsaCtfTool

Decrypt data enciphered using weak RSA keys, and recover private keys from public keys using a variety of automated attacks

ctf-tools

Collection of setup scripts to install various security research tools easily and quickly deployable to new machines

shellpop

Easily generate sophisticated reverse or bind shell commands to help you save time during penetration tests

Tool for testing security of container environments

CloudHunter

Looks for AWS, Azure and Google cloud storage buckets and lists permissions for vulnerable buckets

Identifies violations of least privilege in AWS IAM policies and generates a pretty HTML report with a triage worksheet

AWS Pentesting tool that lets you use one-liner commands to backdoor an AWS account's resources with a rogue AWS account

GCPBucketBrute

Script to enumerate Google Storage buckets, determine what access you have to them, and determine if they can be privilege escalated

Open-source reporting and collaboration tool for IT security professionals

Commercial collaboration, data aggregation, and reporting framework for red teams with a limited free self-hostable option

Lair

Reactive attack collaboration framework and web application built with meteor

Open source, cross-platform, and portable toolkit for automating routine pentest processes with a team

Open-source collaboration platform for InfoSec professionals that streamlines the pentest process

RedELK

Track and alarm about Blue Team activities while providing better usability in long term offensive operations

Framework for organising and holding security conferences

Directory of upcoming and archive of past Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions with links to challenge writeups

Deep-knowledge security conference held in Malaysia and The Netherlands

Hacks In Taiwan Conference held in Taiwan

Annual conference in Delhi and Goa, India

Security Conference in Seoul

Annual Security Conference held in London

Balkan Computer Congress, annually held in Novi Sad, Serbia

Annual security conference in Belgium

Annual meeting of the international hacker scene in Germany

Security Conference in Vienna, Austria

Largest Security Conference in Eastern Europe, held annually in Bucharest, Romania

FSec - Croatian Information Security Gathering in Varaždin, Croatia

Annual conference held in Luxembourg

Europe's number one information security event, held in London, UK

Security conference in Sheffield UK

Annual security conference in Lucerne, Switzerland

Annual international IT Security event with workshops held in Heidelberg, Germany

Annual Security Conference in Guadalajara, Spain. Organized by the HoneySEC association

Annual conference organized by OWASP

Annual security conference in Las Vegas

Infosec conference, held annually in North Carolina

Annual hacker convention in Las Vegas

Annual hacker conference based in Louisville

Cybersecurity and social technology conference held in New York City

Semi-annual conference held in New York City

Largest hacking conference in Canada

Annual US security conference held every spring in Los Angeles

Annual US security conference and Capture the Flag event, held in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

Technology conference held annually in middle Tennessee

Annual security conference in San Francisco, California, USA

Annual US East coast hacker convention

Technology conference in Nashville

One of the oldest hacker conventions in America, held during Summer

Annual US hacker conference held in Chicago

Annual conference going to be held in Denver, USA for 2016

Largest Security Conference in Latin America, held annually in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Oldest security research (hacking) conference in Latin America and one of the oldest ones still active in the world

Christchurch Hacker Con, Only South Island of New Zealand hacker con

DET

Proof of concept to perform data exfiltration using either single or multiple channel(s) at the same time

Tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server; useful for exfiltration from networks where Internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed

TrevorC2

Client/server tool for masking command and control and data exfiltration through a normally browsable website, not typical HTTP POST requests

dnscat2

Tool designed to create an encrypted command and control channel over the DNS protocol, which is an effective tunnel out of almost every network

pwnat

Punches holes in firewalls and NATs

Simple Unix network utility to extend the accessibility of TCP/IP based network services beyond firewalls

QueenSono

Client/Server Binaries for data exfiltration with ICMP. Useful in a network where ICMP protocol is less monitored than others (which is a common case)

H26Forge

Domain-specific infrastructure for analyzing, generating, and manipulating syntactically correct but semantically spec-non-compliant video files

Magic Unicorn

Shellcode generator for numerous attack vectors, including Microsoft Office macros, PowerShell, HTML applications (HTA), or (using fake certificates)

Pwntools

Rapid exploit development framework built for use in CTFs

Wordpress Exploit Framework

Ruby framework for developing and using modules which aid in the penetration testing of WordPress powered websites and systems

peda

Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB

Platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files

Python library to view and edit a binary stream as tree of fields and tools for metadata extraction

File formats and network protocols dissection language and web IDE, generating parsers in C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Python tool to explore PDF files in order to find out if the file can be harmful or not

Binary data visualization and analysis tool

Hwacha

Post-exploitation tool to quickly execute payloads via SSH on one or more Linux systems simultaneously

Linux Exploit Suggester

Heuristic reporting on potentially viable exploits for a given GNU/Linux system

Auditing tool for UNIX-based systems

Shell script designed to test what standard Linux OS and PaX security features are being used

BruteForce Wallet

Find the password of an encrypted wallet file (i.e. )

Generates custom wordlists by spidering a target's website and collecting unique words

duplicut

Quickly remove duplicates, without changing the order, and without getting OOM on huge wordlists

GoCrack

Management Web frontend for distributed password cracking sessions using hashcat (or other supported tools) written in Go

The more fast hash cracker

hate_crack

Tool for automating cracking methodologies through Hashcat

JWT Cracker

Simple HS256 JSON Web Token (JWT) token brute force cracker

Fast password cracker

RAR bruteforce cracker

Bless

High quality, full featured, cross-platform graphical hex editor written in Gtk#

Binary file editor for Windows

Fast, open source, hex editor for macOS with support for viewing binary diffs

Browser-based hex editing

World's finest (proprietary, commercial) Hex Editor

hexedit

Simple, fast, console-based hex editor

Free GUI hex editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows

Industrial Exploitation Framework (ISF)

Metasploit-like exploit framework based on routersploit designed to target Industrial Control Systems (ICS), SCADA devices, PLC firmware, and more

s7scan

Scanner for enumerating Siemens S7 PLCs on a TCP/IP or LLC network

Commercial OPC UA vulnerability assessment tool, sold by Molemmat

Bella

Pure Python post-exploitation data mining and remote administration tool for macOS

EvilOSX

Modular RAT that uses numerous evasion and exfiltration techniques out-of-the-box

Java-based GUI front-end for the Metasploit Framework

AutoSploit

Automated mass exploiter, which collects target by employing the Shodan.io API and programmatically chooses Metasploit exploit modules based on the Shodan query

Decker

Penetration testing orchestration and automation framework, which allows writing declarative, reusable configurations capable of ingesting variables and using outputs of tools it has run as inputs to others

Faraday

Multiuser integrated pentesting environment for red teams performing cooperative penetration tests, security audits, and risk assessments

Software for offensive security teams to help verify vulnerabilities and manage security assessments

Pupy

Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android) remote administration and post-exploitation tool

Free and Open Source Ruby Toolkit for Security Research and Development, providing many different libraries and commands for a variety of security tasks, such as recon, vulnerability scanning, exploit development, exploitation, post-exploitation, and more

CrackMapExec

Swiss army knife for pentesting networks

IKEForce

Command line IPSEC VPN brute forcing tool for Linux that allows group name/ID enumeration and XAUTH brute forcing capabilities

Multifunctional network toolkit

Legion

Graphical semi-automated discovery and reconnaissance framework based on Python 3 and forked from SPARTA

Website offering an interface to numerous basic network utilities like , , , and more

High-speed network authentication cracking tool built to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords

Automated multi-function printer data harvester for gathering usable data during security assessments

Printer Exploitation Toolkit (PRET)

Tool for printer security testing capable of IP and USB connectivity, fuzzing, and exploitation of PostScript, PJL, and PCL printer language features

Graphical interface offering scriptable, configurable access to existing network infrastructure scanning and enumeration tools

SigPloit

Signaling security testing framework dedicated to telecom security for researching vulnerabilites in the signaling protocols used in mobile (cellular phone) operators

Smart Install Exploitation Tool (SIET)

Scripts for identifying Cisco Smart Install-enabled switches on a network and then manipulating them

THC Hydra

Online password cracking tool with built-in support for many network protocols, including HTTP, SMB, FTP, telnet, ICQ, MySQL, LDAP, IMAP, VNC, and more

Tsunami

General purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence

Zarp

Network attack tool centered around the exploitation of local networks

dnstwist

Domain name permutation engine for detecting typo squatting, phishing and corporate espionage

Collection of tools for network auditing and pentesting

impacket

Collection of Python classes for working with network protocols

pivotsuite

Portable, platform independent and powerful network pivoting toolkit

routersploit

Open source exploitation framework similar to Metasploit but dedicated to embedded devices

rshijack

TCP connection hijacker, Rust rewrite of

Powerful UDP-based load generator, written in Rust

D(HE)ater

D(HE)ater sends forged cryptographic handshake messages to enforce the Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Updated version of Low Orbit Ion Cannon, has 'boosters' to get around common counter measures

Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC)

Open source network stress tool written for Windows

Memcrashed

DDoS attack tool for sending forged UDP packets to vulnerable Memcached servers obtained using Shodan API

SlowLoris

DoS tool that uses low bandwidth on the attacking side

Faster network stress tool

UFONet

Abuses OSI layer 7 HTTP to create/manage 'zombies' and to conduct different attacks using; / , multithreading, proxies, origin spoofing methods, cache evasion techniques, etc

ACLight

Script for advanced discovery of sensitive Privileged Accounts - includes Shadow Admins

AQUATONE

Subdomain discovery tool utilizing various open sources producing a report that can be used as input to other tools

CloudFail

Unmask server IP addresses hidden behind Cloudflare by searching old database records and detecting misconfigured DNS

Online DNS recon and search service

Mass Scan

TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes

OWASP Amass

Subdomain enumeration via scraping, web archives, brute forcing, permutations, reverse DNS sweeping, TLS certificates, passive DNS data sources, etc

ScanCannon

POSIX-compliant BASH script to quickly enumerate large networks by calling to quickly identify open ports and then to gain details on the systems/services on those ports

XRay

Network (sub)domain discovery and reconnaissance automation tool

dnsenum

Perl script that enumerates DNS information from a domain, attempts zone transfers, performs a brute force dictionary style attack, and then performs reverse look-ups on the results

dnsmap

Passive DNS network mapper

dnsrecon

DNS enumeration script

Determines where a given DNS server gets its information from, and follows the chain of DNS servers

fierce

Python3 port of the original DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space

netdiscover

Network address discovery scanner, based on ARP sweeps, developed mainly for those wireless networks without a DHCP server

Free security scanner for network exploration & security audits

passivedns-client

Library and query tool for querying several passive DNS providers

passivedns

Network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup

RustScan

Lightweight and quick open-source port scanner designed to automatically pipe open ports into Nmap

scanless

Utility for using websites to perform port scans on your behalf so as not to reveal your own IP

smbmap

Handy SMB enumeration tool

subbrute

DNS meta-query spider that enumerates DNS records, and subdomains

Open source network scanner that enables researchers to easily perform Internet-wide network studies

Simple and powerful network traffic analyzer for macOS

Dshell

Network forensic analysis framework

Netzob

Reverse engineering, traffic generation and fuzzing of communication protocols

Widely-used graphical, cross-platform network protocol analyzer

netsniff-ng

Swiss army knife for network sniffing

sniffglue

Secure multithreaded packet sniffer

Common packet analyzer that runs under the command line

Network capture file toolkit that can edit and merge or files with batch editing features

Full stack WYSIWYG pcap editor (requires a free license to edit packets)

Simple yet powerful libpcap-based Ethernet packet generator useful in simulating networking traffic or scenario, testing firewall, IDS, and IPS, and troubleshooting various network problems

hping3

Network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets

pig

GNU/Linux packet crafting tool

scapy

Python-based interactive packet manipulation program and library

Suite of free Open Source utilities for editing and replaying previously captured network traffic

Modular, portable and easily extensible MITM framework

Comprehensive, mature suite for machine-in-the-middle attacks

Habu

Python utility implementing a variety of network attacks, such as ARP poisoning, DHCP starvation, and more

Lambda-Proxy

Utility for testing SQL Injection vulnerabilities on AWS Lambda serverless functions

MITMf

Framework for Man-In-The-Middle attacks

Morpheus

Automated ettercap TCP/IP Hijacking tool

SSH MITM

Intercept SSH connections with a proxy; all plaintext passwords and sessions are logged to disk

dnschef

Highly configurable DNS proxy for pentesters

evilgrade

Modular framework to take advantage of poor upgrade implementations by injecting fake updates

mallory

HTTP/HTTPS proxy over SSH

oregano

Python module that runs as a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) accepting Tor client requests

Command line tool and library for testing networks for common address spoofing security vulnerabilities in IPv6 networks using the Neighbor Discovery Protocol

PETEP

Extensible TCP/UDP proxy with GUI for traffic analysis & modification with SSL/TLS support

friTap

Intercept SSL/TLS connections with frida; Allows TLS key extraction and decryption of TLS payload as PCAP in real time

Fast and flexible server cryptographic (TLS/SSL/SSH/HTTP) settings analyzer library for Python with CLI

SSLyze

Fast and comprehensive TLS/SSL configuration analyzer to help identify security mis-configurations

crackpkcs12

Multithreaded program to crack PKCS#12 files ( and extensions), such as TLS/SSL certificates

testssl.sh

Command line tool which checks a server's service on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols as well as some cryptographic flaws

tls_prober

Fingerprint a server's SSL/TLS implementation

Framework to create arbitrary TLS test cases. Comes with a TLS server scanner plugin

ssh-audit

SSH server & client auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc)

Set of tools for auditing wireless networks

Airgeddon

Multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks

Suite of tools written in Python for wireless auditing

Implementation of the WPS brute force attack, written in C

Cowpatty

Brute-force dictionary attack against WPA-PSK

Fluxion

Suite of automated social engineering based WPA attacks

KRACK Detector

Detect and prevent KRACK attacks in your network

Wireless network detector, sniffer, and IDS

PSKracker

Collection of WPA/WPA2/WPS default algorithms, password generators, and PIN generators written in C

Brute force attack against WiFi Protected Setup

Wireless auditing and penetration testing platform

WiFi-Pumpkin

Framework for rogue Wi-Fi access point attack

Wifite

Automated wireless attack tool

infernal-twin

Automated wireless hacking tool

krackattacks-scripts

WPA2 Krack attack scripts

pwnagotchi

Deep reinforcement learning based AI that learns from the Wi-Fi environment and instruments BetterCAP in order to maximize the WPA key material captured

wifi-arsenal

Resources for Wi-Fi Pentesting

celerystalk

Asynchronous enumeration and vulnerability scanner that "runs all the tools on all the hosts" in a configurable manner

Open-source tool that runs a set of tests ("hunters") for security issues in Kubernetes clusters from either outside ("attacker's view") or inside a cluster

Commercial vulnerability management, configuration, and compliance assessment platform, sold by Tenable

Application security scanner to automatically find security flaws

Commercial vulnerability and risk management assessment engine that integrates with Metasploit, sold by Rapid7

Free software implementation of the popular Nessus vulnerability assessment system

Vuls

Agentless vulnerability scanner for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, written in Go

ACSTIS

Automated client-side template injection (sandbox escape/bypass) detection for AngularJS

Scriptable framework for evaluating the security of web applications

JCS

Joomla Vulnerability Component Scanner with automatic database updater from exploitdb and packetstorm

Noisy but fast black box web server and web application vulnerability scanner

SQLmate

Friend of that identifies SQLi vulnerabilities based on a given dork and (optional) website

In-browser web application security testing suite

Black box WordPress vulnerability scanner

Black box web application vulnerability scanner with built-in fuzzer

Commercial, graphical web application vulnerability scanner designed for macOS

Reveal the specific modules, plugins, components and themes that various websites powered by content management systems are running

Joomla vulnerability scanner

Performant and adaptable active web application security reconnaissance tool

w3af

Web application attack and audit framework

nuclei

Fast and customizable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL

Website dedicated to talking about, reviewing, and keeping up to date with open source operating systems

Curated knowledge base and model for cyber adversary behavior

Free Offensive Security Metasploit course

Worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of especially Web-based and Application-layer software

PENTEST-WIKI

Free online security knowledge library for pentesters and researchers

Documentation designed to provide a common language and scope for performing and reporting the results of a penetration test

Outline for performing penetration tests compiled as a general framework usable by vulnerability analysts and penetration testers alike

Resource dedicated to all things XSS (cross-site), including payloads, tools, games, and documentation

.NET Programming

Software framework for Microsoft Windows platform development

Collection of security conferences recorded by Cooper

Android Exploits

Guide on Android Exploitation and Hacks

Android Security

Collection of Android security related resources

AppSec

Resources for learning about application security

Awesome Awesomeness

The List of the Lists

Awesome Malware

Curated collection of awesome malware, botnets, and other post-exploitation tools

Awesome Shodan Queries

Awesome list of useful, funny, and depressing search queries for Shodan

Awesome Censys Queries

A collection of fascinating and bizarre Censys Search Queries

AWS Tool Arsenal

List of tools for testing and securing AWS environments

Blue Team

Awesome resources, tools, and other shiny things for cybersecurity blue teams

C/C++ Programming

One of the main language for open source security tools

CTFs

Capture The Flag frameworks, libraries, etc

Forensics

Free (mostly open source) forensic analysis tools and resources

Hacking

Tutorials, tools, and resources

Honeypots

Honeypots, tools, components, and more

InfoSec § Hacking challenges

Comprehensive directory of CTFs, wargames, hacking challenge websites, pentest practice lab exercises, and more

Infosec

Information security resources for pentesting, forensics, and more

JavaScript Programming

In-browser development and scripting

List of tools present in Kali Linux

Node.js Programming by @sindresorhus

Curated list of delightful Node.js packages and resources

Pentest Cheat Sheets

Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets

Python Programming by @svaksha

General Python programming

Python Programming by @vinta

General Python programming

Python tools for penetration testers

Lots of pentesting tools are written in Python

An open-source inventory of tools, resources, CTF platforms and Operating Systems about CyberSecurity. ( )

Red Teaming

List of Awesome Red Teaming Resources

Ruby Programming by @Sdogruyol

The de-facto language for writing exploits

Ruby Programming by @dreikanter

The de-facto language for writing exploits

Ruby Programming by @markets

The de-facto language for writing exploits

SecLists

Collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments

Top 125 Network Security Tools

Security Talks

Curated list of security conferences

Security

Software, libraries, documents, and other resources

Serverless Security

Curated list of awesome serverless security resources such as (e)books, articles, whitepapers, blogs and research papers

Shell Scripting

Command line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos

YARA

YARA rules, tools, and people

Public Pentesting Reports

Curated list of public penetration test reports released by several consulting firms and academic security groups

Information hub with list of public penetration test reports, companies, tools and vulnerabilities all in one place

Pentest report template provided by Test and Verification Services, Ltd

Sample Web application security assessment reporting template provided by Lucideus

DataSploit

OSINT visualizer utilizing Shodan, Censys, Clearbit, EmailHunter, FullContact, and Zoomeye behind the scenes

Depix

Tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots (by de-pixelating text)

GyoiThon

GyoiThon is an Intelligence Gathering tool using Machine Learning

Automated OSINT & Attack Surface discovery framework with powerful API, UI and CLI

Proprietary software for open sources intelligence and forensics

Simple, free, high-quality packet capture file analysis facilitating the quick detection of network-borne malware (using Zeek and Suricata IDS signatures under the hood)

Skiptracer

OSINT scraping framework that utilizes basic Python webscraping (BeautifulSoup) of PII paywall sites to compile passive information on a target on a ramen noodle budget

Sn1per

Automated Pentest Recon Scanner

Multi-source OSINT automation tool with a Web UI and report visualizations

creepy

Geolocation OSINT tool

gOSINT

OSINT tool with multiple modules and a telegram scraper

image-match

Quickly search over billions of images

recon-ng

Full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python

sn0int

Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager

Keyscope

An extensible key and secret validation for auditing active secrets against multiple SaaS vendors

Facebook Friend List Scraper

Tool to scrape names and usernames from large friend lists on Facebook, without being rate limited

Data broker providing a Web search interface for discovering the email addresses and other organizational details of a company

Search engine for threats

Free service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware

surfraw

Fast UNIX command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines

BinGoo

GNU/Linux bash based Bing and Google Dorking Tool

dorkbot

Command-line tool to scan Google (or other) search results for vulnerabilities

github-dorks

CLI tool to scan GitHub repos/organizations for potential sensitive information leaks

GooDork

Command line Google dorking tool

Database of Google dorks; can be used for recon

dork-cli

Command line Google dork tool

dorks

Google hack database automation tool

fast-recon

Perform Google dorks against a domain

pagodo

Automate Google Hacking Database scraping

snitch

Information gathering via dorks

SimplyEmail

Email recon made fast and easy

WhatBreach

Search email addresses and discover all known breaches that this email has been seen in, and download the breached database if it is publicly available

Automated document harvester that searches Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo to find and extrapolate internal company organizational structures

metagoofil

Metadata harvester

theHarvester

E-mail, subdomain and people names harvester

Collects data on hosts and websites through daily ZMap and ZGrab scans

World's first search engine for Internet-connected devices

Search engine for cyberspace that lets the user find specific network components

CertGraph

Crawls a domain's SSL/TLS certificates for its certificate alternative names

Searchable database of billions of cleartext passwords, partially visible for free

Collection of OSINT links and custom Web interfaces to other services

Collection of various OSINT tools broken out by category

Information about wireless networks world-wide, with user-friendly desktop and web applications

vcsmap

Plugin-based tool to scan public version control systems for sensitive information

Yar

Clone git repositories to search through the whole commit history in order of commit time for secrets, tokens, or passwords

Web application fingerprinter

EyeWitness

Tool to take screenshots of websites, provide some server header info, and identify default credentials if possible

Represent any GraphQL API as an interactive graph, letting you explore data models from any Web site with a GraphQL query endpoint

VHostScan

Virtual host scanner that performs reverse lookups, can be used with pivot tools, detect catch-all scenarios, aliases and dynamic default pages

Wappalyzer uncovers the technologies used on websites

WhatWaf

Detect and bypass web application firewalls and protection systems

WhatWeb

Website fingerprinter

wafw00f

Identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall (WAF) products

webscreenshot

Simple script to take screenshots of websites from a list of sites

Distribution built for Android security professionals that includes tools required for Android security testing

Arch GNU/Linux repository for security professionals and enthusiasts

AttifyOS

GNU/Linux distribution focused on tools useful during Internet of Things (IoT) security assessments

Arch GNU/Linux-based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers

GNU/Linux virtual machine that is pre-configured for online investigators

Rolling Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution designed for penetration testing and digital forensics

Fedora-based GNU/Linux bootable live Operating System designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed open source network security applications

Distribution similar to Kali, with support for multiple hardware architectures

Open source pre-configured portable penetration testing environment for the Windows Operating System

The Pentesters Framework

Distro organized around the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), providing a curated collection of utilities that omits less frequently used utilities

American publication about technology and computer "underground" culture

By far the longest running hacker zine

Use AT commands over an Android device's USB port to rewrite device firmware, bypass security mechanisms, exfiltrate sensitive information, perform screen unlocks, and inject touch events

Local exploit delivery tool in the form of a USB thumbdrive in which you write payloads in a DSL called BunnyScript

Covert "USB Ethernet Adapter" that provides remote access, network intelligence gathering, and MITM capabilities when installed in a local network

PCILeech

Uses PCIe hardware devices to read and write from the target system memory via Direct Memory Access (DMA) over PCIe

Ethernet multi-tool designed to enable covert remote access, painless packet captures, and secure VPN connections with the flip of a switch

Siphons cookies, exposes internal (LAN-side) router and installs web backdoor on locked computers

RFID/NFC cloning, replay, and spoofing toolkit often used for analyzing and attacking proximity cards/readers, wireless keys/keyfobs, and more

Open source I/O security research platform for auditing physical DMA-enabled hardware peripheral ports

Customizable keystroke injection attack platform masquerading as a USB thumbdrive

Active Directory and Privilege Escalation (ADAPE)

Umbrella script that automates numerous useful PowerShell modules to discover security misconfigurations and attempt privilege escalation against Active Directory

Curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems

Documents binaries, scripts, and libraries that can be used for "Living Off The Land" techniques, i.e., binaries that can be used by an attacker to perform actions beyond their original purpose

LinEnum

Scripted local Linux enumeration and privilege escalation checker useful for auditing a host and during CTF gaming

Postenum

Shell script used for enumerating possible privilege escalation opportunities on a local GNU/Linux system

unix-privesc-check

Shell script to check for simple privilege escalation vectors on UNIX systems

DomainPasswordSpray

Tool written in PowerShell to perform a password spray attack against users of a domain

SprayingToolkit

Scripts to make password spraying attacks against Lync/S4B, Outlook Web Access (OWA) and Office 365 (O365) a lot quicker, less painful and more efficient

Platform-agnostic binary analysis framework

Lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

Detect It Easy(DiE)

Program for determining types of files for Windows, Linux and MacOS

OllyDbg-like debugger for GNU/Linux

Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers

Fridax

Read variables and intercept/hook functions in Xamarin/Mono JIT and AOT compiled iOS/Android applications

Suite of free software reverse engineering tools developed by NSA's Research Directorate originally exposed in WikiLeaks's "Vault 7" publication and now maintained as open source software

Powerful way to write exploits and analyze malware

Proprietary multi-processor disassembler and debugger for Windows, GNU/Linux, or macOS; also has a free version,

Medusa

Open source, cross-platform interactive disassembler

x86 debugger for Windows binaries that emphasizes binary code analysis

PyREBox

Python scriptable Reverse Engineering sandbox by Cisco-Talos

Open source, crossplatform reverse engineering framework

UEFITool

UEFI firmware image viewer and editor

Voltron

Extensible debugger UI toolkit written in Python

Windows Driver Kit and WinDbg

binwalk

Fast, easy to use tool for analyzing, reverse engineering, and extracting firmware images

boxxy

Linkable sandbox explorer

dnSpy

Tool to reverse engineer .NET assemblies

plasma

Interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS. Generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax code

pwndbg

GDB plug-in that eases debugging with GDB, with a focus on features needed by low-level software developers, hardware hackers, reverse-engineers, and exploit developers

rVMI

Debugger on steroids; inspect userspace processes, kernel drivers, and preboot environments in a single tool

Open source x64/x32 debugger for windows

24x7 live fire exercises for beginners through real world operations; capability for upward progression into the real world of cyber warfare

Free courses in ethical hacking and advanced penetration testing. Advanced penetration testing courses are based on the book 'Penetration Testing for Highly Secured Environments'

ENISA Cyber Security Training material

Training from BackTrack/Kali developers

Training material for computer security classes

Free courses on computing and security fundamentals designed to train a beginner to crush their first CTF

Computer Security Training & Certification

Tutorials on how to develop exploits

Shellcodes database

Tutorial on how to write shellcode

Complete open-source toolchain for side-channel power analysis and glitching attacks

SGX-Step

Open-source framework to facilitate side-channel attack research on Intel x86 processors in general and Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) platforms in particular

TRRespass

Many-sided rowhammer tool suite able to reverse engineer the contents of DDR3 and DDR4 memory chips protected by Target Row Refresh mitigations

Information resource for social engineers

Beelogger

Tool for generating keylooger

Catphish

Tool for phishing and corporate espionage written in Ruby

Evilginx2

Standalone Machine-in-the-Middle (MitM) reverse proxy attack framework for setting up phishing pages capable of defeating most forms of 2FA security schemes

FiercePhish

Full-fledged phishing framework to manage all phishing engagements

Open-source phishing framework

King Phisher

Phishing campaign toolkit used for creating and managing multiple simultaneous phishing attacks with custom email and server content

Modlishka

Flexible and powerful reverse proxy with real-time two-factor authentication

ReelPhish

Real-time two-factor phishing tool

Social Engineer Toolkit (SET)

Open source pentesting framework designed for social engineering featuring a number of custom attack vectors to make believable attacks quickly

SocialFish

Social media phishing framework that can run on an Android phone or in a Docker container

phishery

TLS/SSL enabled Basic Auth credential harvester

wifiphisher

Automated phishing attacks against WiFi networks

Brakeman

Static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

Free software static analyzer to look for bugs in Java code

Progpilot

Static security analysis tool for PHP code

RegEx-DoS

Analyzes source code for Regular Expressions susceptible to Denial of Service attacks

Security oriented static analyser for Python code

Extensible C/C++ static analyzer focused on finding bugs

sobelow

Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework

cwe_checker

Suite of tools built atop the Binary Analysis Platform (BAP) to heuristically detect CWEs in compiled binaries and firmware

Cloakify

Textual steganography toolkit that converts any filetype into lists of everyday strings

Web-based, enhanced, and open-source port of StegSolve

StegCracker

Steganography brute-force utility to uncover hidden data inside files

Software security bug identification database compiled from submissions to the SecurityFocus mailing list and other sources, operated by Symantec, Inc

Vulnerabilities in various systems already known to America's cyber defense agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to be actively exploited

Archive of published CVE and Bugtraq software vulnerabilities cross-referenced with a Google dork database for discovering the listed vulnerability

Chinese government-run vulnerability database analoguous to the United States's CVE database hosted by Mitre Corporation

Dictionary of common names (i.e., CVE Identifiers) for publicly known security vulnerabilities

Non-profit project hosting exploits for software vulnerabilities, provided as a public service by Offensive Security

Public, vendor-neutral forum for detailed discussion of vulnerabilities, often publishes details before many other sources

Public vulnerability advisories published by or affecting codebases hosted by GitHub, including open source projects

Aggregator of cross-referenced software vulnerabilities offering free-of-charge API access, provided by the Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam

Exploit marketplace and vulnerability information aggregator. ( .)

Archive and announcements of security advisories impacting Microsoft software, published by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Archive of security advisories impacting Mozilla software, including the Firefox Web Browser

United States government's National Vulnerability Database provides additional meta-data (CPE, CVSS scoring) of the standard CVE List along with a fine-grained search engine

Database of vulnerabilities affecting open source software, queryable by project, Git commit, or version

Compendium of exploits, advisories, tools, and other security-related resources aggregated from across the industry

Independent source of software vulnerability information

Detailed information and remediation guidance for vulnerabilities known by Snyk

Summaries, technical details, remediation information, and lists of vendors affected by software vulnerabilities, aggregated by the United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT)

Independent vulnerability database with user community, exploit details, and additional meta data (e.g. CPE, CVSS, CWE)

Open forum for security advisories organized by category of exploit target

Security database of software vulnerabilities

Vulnerability search engine with vulnerability intelligence features that conducts full text searches in its database

Bug bounty program with publicly accessible archive of published security advisories, operated by TippingPoint

FuzzDB

Dictionary of attack patterns and primitives for black-box application fault injection and resource discovery

Python-based framework for pentesting Web applications based on the OWASP Testing Guide

Raccoon

High performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning

WPSploit

Exploit WordPress-powered websites with Metasploit

Chrome browser profile preconfigured with appropriate settings needed for web application testing

authoscope

Scriptable network authentication cracker

gobuster

Lean multipurpose brute force search/fuzzing tool for Web (and DNS) reconnaissance

sslstrip2

SSLStrip version to defeat HSTS

Demonstration of the HTTPS stripping attacks

Integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications

Free cross-platform web debugging proxy with user-friendly companion tools

Feature-rich, scriptable HTTP intercepting proxy and fuzzer for penetration testing web applications

Interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers

Kadimus

LFI scan and exploit tool

LFISuite

Automatic LFI scanner and exploiter

fimap

Find, prepare, audit, exploit and even Google automatically for LFI/RFI bugs

liffy

LFI exploitation tool

Commix

Automated all-in-one operating system command injection and exploitation tool

NoSQLmap

Automatic NoSQL injection and database takeover tool

Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

tplmap

Automatic server-side template injection and Web server takeover tool

Directory traversal fuzzer

dirsearch

Web path scanner

recursebuster

Content discovery tool to perform directory and file bruteforcing

Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF)

Command and control server for delivering exploits to commandeered Web browsers

DAws

Advanced Web shell

Merlin

Cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command and Control server and agent written in Golang

PhpSploit

Full-featured C2 framework which silently persists on webserver via evil PHP oneliner

SharPyShell

Tiny and obfuscated ASP.NET webshell for C# web applications

weevely3

Weaponized PHP-based web shell

DVCS Ripper

Rip web accessible (distributed) version control systems: SVN/GIT/HG/BZR

GitTools

Automatically find and download Web-accessible repositories

git-dumper

Tool to dump a git repository from a website

git-scanner

Tool for bug hunting or pentesting websites that have open repositories available in public

Bloodhound

Graphical Active Directory trust relationship explorer

Commando VM

Automated installation of over 140 Windows software packages for penetration testing and red teaming

Covenant

ASP.NET Core application that serves as a collaborative command and control platform for red teamers

ctftool

Interactive Collaborative Translation Framework (CTF) exploration tool capable of launching cross-session edit session attacks

DeathStar

Python script that uses Empire's RESTful API to automate gaining Domain Admin rights in Active Directory environments

Pure PowerShell post-exploitation agent

Fibratus

Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel

Inveigh

Windows PowerShell ADIDNS/LLMNR/mDNS/NBNS spoofer/machine-in-the-middle tool

LaZagne

Credentials recovery project

MailSniper

Modular tool for searching through email in a Microsoft Exchange environment, gathering the Global Address List from Outlook Web Access (OWA) and Exchange Web Services (EWS), and more

PowerSploit

PowerShell Post-Exploitation Framework

RID_ENUM

Python script that can enumerate all users from a Windows Domain Controller and crack those user's passwords using brute-force

Responder

Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR), NBT-NS, and mDNS poisoner

Rubeus

Toolset for raw Kerberos interaction and abuses

Ruler

Abuses client-side Outlook features to gain a remote shell on a Microsoft Exchange server

SCOMDecrypt

Retrieve and decrypt RunAs credentials stored within Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) databases

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities

Inspect logon sessions and add, change, list, and delete associated credentials, including Kerberos tickets

Windows Exploit Suggester

Detects potential missing patches on the target

Credentials extraction tool for Windows operating system

redsnarf

Post-exploitation tool for retrieving password hashes and credentials from Windows workstations, servers, and domain controllers

Generates architecture independent VBA code to be used in Office documents or templates and automates bypassing application control and exploit mitigation software

WinPwn

Internal penetration test script to perform local and domain reconnaissance, privilege escalation and exploitation