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A collection of awesome penetration testing resources, tools and other shiny things
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Awesome Penetration Testing / Android Utilities | |||
| cSploit | Advanced IT security professional toolkit on Android featuring an integrated Metasploit daemon and MITM capabilities | ||
| Fing | Network scanning and host enumeration app that performs NetBIOS, UPnP, Bonjour, SNMP, and various other advanced device fingerprinting techniques | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Anonymity Tools | |||
| I2P | The Invisible Internet Project | ||
| Metadata Anonymization Toolkit (MAT) | Metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in Python3 | ||
| What Every Browser Knows About You | Comprehensive detection page to test your own Web browser's configuration for privacy and identity leaks | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Anonymity Tools / Tor Tools | |||
| Nipe | 1,929 | about 1 month ago | Script to redirect all traffic from the machine to the Tor network |
| OnionScan | Tool for investigating the Dark Web by finding operational security issues introduced by Tor hidden service operators | ||
| Tails | Live operating system aiming to preserve your privacy and anonymity | ||
| Tor | Free software and onion routed overlay network that helps you defend against traffic analysis | ||
| dos-over-tor | 32 | about 6 years ago | Proof of concept denial of service over Tor stress test tool |
| kalitorify | 1,015 | 6 months ago | Transparent proxy through Tor for Kali Linux OS |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Anti-virus Evasion Tools | |||
| AntiVirus Evasion Tool (AVET) | 1,638 | 12 months ago | Post-process exploits containing executable files targeted for Windows machines to avoid being recognized by antivirus software |
| CarbonCopy | 1,289 | about 4 years ago | Tool that creates a spoofed certificate of any online website and signs an Executable for AV evasion |
| Hyperion | Runtime encryptor for 32-bit portable executables ("PE s") | ||
| Shellter | Dynamic shellcode injection tool, and the first truly dynamic PE infector ever created | ||
| UniByAv | Simple obfuscator that takes raw shellcode and generates Anti-Virus friendly executables by using a brute-forcable, 32-bit XOR key | ||
| Veil | Generate metasploit payloads that bypass common anti-virus solutions | ||
| peCloakCapstone | 103 | over 8 years ago | Multi-platform fork of the peCloak.py automated malware antivirus evasion tool |
| Amber | 1,177 | 8 months ago | Reflective PE packer for converting native PE files to position-independent shellcode |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Books | |||
| Advanced Penetration Testing by Wil Allsopp, 2017 | |||
| Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments by Lee Allen, 2012 | |||
| Advanced Persistent Threat Hacking: The Art and Science of Hacking Any Organization by Tyler Wrightson, 2014 | |||
| Android Hacker's Handbook by Joshua J. Drake et al., 2014 | |||
| BTFM: Blue Team Field Manual by Alan J White & Ben Clark, 2017 | |||
| Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters by Justin Seitz, 2014 | |||
| Bug Hunter's Diary by Tobias Klein, 2011 | |||
| Car Hacker's Handbook by Craig Smith, 2016 | |||
| Effective Software Testing, 2021 | |||
| Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery by Michael Sutton et al., 2007 | |||
| Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide by David Kennedy et al., 2011 | |||
| Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking by Georgia Weidman, 2014 | |||
| Penetration Testing: Procedures & Methodologies by EC-Council, 2010 | |||
| Professional Penetration Testing by Thomas Wilhelm, 2013 | |||
| RTFM: Red Team Field Manual by Ben Clark, 2014 | |||
| The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson, 2008 | |||
| The Art of Network Penetration Testing, 2020 | |||
| The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing by Patrick Engebretson, 2013 | |||
| The Database Hacker's Handbook, David Litchfield et al., 2005 | |||
| The Hacker Playbook by Peter Kim, 2014 | |||
| The Mac Hacker's Handbook by Charlie Miller & Dino Dai Zovi, 2009 | |||
| The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook by Dominic Chell et al., 2015 | |||
| Unauthorised Access: Physical Penetration Testing For IT Security Teams by Wil Allsopp, 2010 | |||
| Violent Python by TJ O'Connor, 2012 | |||
| iOS Hacker's Handbook by Charlie Miller et al., 2012 | |||
Awesome Penetration Testing / CTF Tools | |||
| CTF Field Guide | Everything you need to win your next CTF competition | ||
| Ciphey | 17,859 | 6 months ago | Automated decryption tool using artificial intelligence and natural language processing |
| RsaCtfTool | 5,548 | 5 days ago | Decrypt data enciphered using weak RSA keys, and recover private keys from public keys using a variety of automated attacks |
| ctf-tools | 8,418 | 11 months ago | Collection of setup scripts to install various security research tools easily and quickly deployable to new machines |
| shellpop | 1,440 | over 5 years ago | Easily generate sophisticated reverse or bind shell commands to help you save time during penetration tests |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Cloud Platform Attack Tools | |||
| Cloud Container Attack Tool (CCAT) | Tool for testing security of container environments | ||
| CloudHunter | 116 | about 1 year ago | Looks for AWS, Azure and Google cloud storage buckets and lists permissions for vulnerable buckets |
| Cloudsplaining | Identifies violations of least privilege in AWS IAM policies and generates a pretty HTML report with a triage worksheet | ||
| Endgame | AWS Pentesting tool that lets you use one-liner commands to backdoor an AWS account's resources with a rogue AWS account | ||
| GCPBucketBrute | 479 | over 1 year ago | Script to enumerate Google Storage buckets, determine what access you have to them, and determine if they can be privilege escalated |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Collaboration Tools | |||
| Dradis | Open-source reporting and collaboration tool for IT security professionals | ||
| Hexway Hive | Commercial collaboration, data aggregation, and reporting framework for red teams with a limited free self-hostable option | ||
| Lair | 378 | over 4 years ago | Reactive attack collaboration framework and web application built with meteor |
| Pentest Collaboration Framework (PCF) | Open source, cross-platform, and portable toolkit for automating routine pentest processes with a team | ||
| Reconmap | Open-source collaboration platform for InfoSec professionals that streamlines the pentest process | ||
| RedELK | 2,360 | 25 days ago | Track and alarm about Blue Team activities while providing better usability in long term offensive operations |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Conferences and Events | |||
| BSides | Framework for organising and holding security conferences | ||
| CTFTime.org | Directory of upcoming and archive of past Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions with links to challenge writeups | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Conferences and Events / Asia | |||
| HITB | Deep-knowledge security conference held in Malaysia and The Netherlands | ||
| HITCON | Hacks In Taiwan Conference held in Taiwan | ||
| Nullcon | Annual conference in Delhi and Goa, India | ||
| SECUINSIDE | Security Conference in Seoul | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Conferences and Events / Europe | |||
| 44Con | Annual Security Conference held in London | ||
| BalCCon | Balkan Computer Congress, annually held in Novi Sad, Serbia | ||
| BruCON | Annual security conference in Belgium | ||
| CCC | Annual meeting of the international hacker scene in Germany | ||
| DeepSec | Security Conference in Vienna, Austria | ||
| DefCamp | Largest Security Conference in Eastern Europe, held annually in Bucharest, Romania | ||
| FSec | FSec - Croatian Information Security Gathering in Varaždin, Croatia | ||
| Hack.lu | Annual conference held in Luxembourg | ||
| Infosecurity Europe | Europe's number one information security event, held in London, UK | ||
| SteelCon | Security conference in Sheffield UK | ||
| Swiss Cyber Storm | Annual security conference in Lucerne, Switzerland | ||
| Troopers | Annual international IT Security event with workshops held in Heidelberg, Germany | ||
| HoneyCON | Annual Security Conference in Guadalajara, Spain. Organized by the HoneySEC association | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Conferences and Events / North America | |||
| AppSecUSA | Annual conference organized by OWASP | ||
| Black Hat | Annual security conference in Las Vegas | ||
| CarolinaCon | Infosec conference, held annually in North Carolina | ||
| DEF CON | Annual hacker convention in Las Vegas | ||
| DerbyCon | Annual hacker conference based in Louisville | ||
| Hackers Next Door | Cybersecurity and social technology conference held in New York City | ||
| Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) | Semi-annual conference held in New York City | ||
| Hackfest | Largest hacking conference in Canada | ||
| LayerOne | Annual US security conference held every spring in Los Angeles | ||
| National Cyber Summit | Annual US security conference and Capture the Flag event, held in Huntsville, Alabama, USA | ||
| PhreakNIC | Technology conference held annually in middle Tennessee | ||
| RSA Conference USA | Annual security conference in San Francisco, California, USA | ||
| ShmooCon | Annual US East coast hacker convention | ||
| SkyDogCon | Technology conference in Nashville | ||
| SummerCon | One of the oldest hacker conventions in America, held during Summer | ||
| ThotCon | Annual US hacker conference held in Chicago | ||
| Virus Bulletin Conference | Annual conference going to be held in Denver, USA for 2016 | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Conferences and Events / South America | |||
| Ekoparty | Largest Security Conference in Latin America, held annually in Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Hackers to Hackers Conference (H2HC) | Oldest security research (hacking) conference in Latin America and one of the oldest ones still active in the world | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Conferences and Events / Zealandia | |||
| CHCon | Christchurch Hacker Con, Only South Island of New Zealand hacker con | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Exfiltration Tools | |||
| DET | 817 | almost 7 years ago | Proof of concept to perform data exfiltration using either single or multiple channel(s) at the same time |
| Iodine | Tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server; useful for exfiltration from networks where Internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed | ||
| TrevorC2 | 1,212 | over 2 years ago | Client/server tool for masking command and control and data exfiltration through a normally browsable website, not typical HTTP POST requests |
| dnscat2 | 3,428 | 7 months ago | 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 | 3,303 | 3 months ago | Punches holes in firewalls and NATs |
| tgcd | Simple Unix network utility to extend the accessibility of TCP/IP based network services beyond firewalls | ||
| QueenSono | 143 | almost 3 years ago | 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) |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Exploit Development Tools | |||
| H26Forge | 293 | 3 months ago | Domain-specific infrastructure for analyzing, generating, and manipulating syntactically correct but semantically spec-non-compliant video files |
| Magic Unicorn | 3,718 | 8 months ago | Shellcode generator for numerous attack vectors, including Microsoft Office macros, PowerShell, HTML applications (HTA), or (using fake certificates) |
| Pwntools | 11,978 | 2 days ago | Rapid exploit development framework built for use in CTFs |
| Wordpress Exploit Framework | 1,016 | almost 5 years ago | Ruby framework for developing and using modules which aid in the penetration testing of WordPress powered websites and systems |
| peda | 5,861 | 2 months ago | Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB |
Awesome Penetration Testing / File Format Analysis Tools | |||
| ExifTool | Platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files | ||
| Hachoir | Python library to view and edit a binary stream as tree of fields and tools for metadata extraction | ||
| Kaitai Struct | File formats and network protocols dissection language and web IDE, generating parsers in C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby | ||
| peepdf | Python tool to explore PDF files in order to find out if the file can be harmful or not | ||
| Veles | Binary data visualization and analysis tool | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / GNU/Linux Utilities | |||
| Hwacha | 104 | over 4 years ago | Post-exploitation tool to quickly execute payloads via SSH on one or more Linux systems simultaneously |
| Linux Exploit Suggester | 1,774 | over 10 years ago | Heuristic reporting on potentially viable exploits for a given GNU/Linux system |
| Lynis | Auditing tool for UNIX-based systems | ||
| checksec.sh | Shell script designed to test what standard Linux OS and PaX security features are being used | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Hash Cracking Tools | |||
| BruteForce Wallet | 352 | 7 months ago | Find the password of an encrypted wallet file (i.e. ) |
| CeWL | Generates custom wordlists by spidering a target's website and collecting unique words | ||
| duplicut | 849 | over 2 years ago | Quickly remove duplicates, without changing the order, and without getting OOM on huge wordlists |
| GoCrack | 1,114 | 3 months ago | Management Web frontend for distributed password cracking sessions using hashcat (or other supported tools) written in Go |
| Hashcat | The more fast hash cracker | ||
| hate_crack | 1,631 | 27 days ago | Tool for automating cracking methodologies through Hashcat |
| JWT Cracker | 1,001 | 3 months ago | Simple HS256 JSON Web Token (JWT) token brute force cracker |
| John the Ripper | Fast password cracker | ||
| Rar Crack | RAR bruteforce cracker | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Hex Editors | |||
| Bless | 66 | almost 6 years ago | High quality, full featured, cross-platform graphical hex editor written in Gtk# |
| Frhed | Binary file editor for Windows | ||
| Hex Fiend | Fast, open source, hex editor for macOS with support for viewing binary diffs | ||
| HexEdit.js | Browser-based hex editing | ||
| Hexinator | World's finest (proprietary, commercial) Hex Editor | ||
| hexedit | 98 | 2 months ago | Simple, fast, console-based hex editor |
| wxHexEditor | Free GUI hex editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Industrial Control and SCADA Systems | |||
| Industrial Exploitation Framework (ISF) | 1,024 | 9 months ago | Metasploit-like exploit framework based on routersploit designed to target Industrial Control Systems (ICS), SCADA devices, PLC firmware, and more |
| s7scan | 133 | almost 6 years ago | Scanner for enumerating Siemens S7 PLCs on a TCP/IP or LLC network |
| OpalOPC | Commercial OPC UA vulnerability assessment tool, sold by Molemmat | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Intentionally Vulnerable Systems | |||
| Pentest-Ground | |||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Intentionally Vulnerable Systems / Intentionally Vulnerable Systems as Docker Containers | |||
| Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) | |||
| OWASP Juice Shop | 10,213 | 13 days ago | |
| OWASP Mutillidae II Web Pen-Test Practice Application | |||
| OWASP NodeGoat | 1,869 | 4 months ago | |
| OWASP Security Shepherd | |||
| OWASP WebGoat Project 7.1 docker image | |||
| OWASP WebGoat Project 8.0 docker image | |||
| Vulnerability as a service: Heartbleed | |||
| Vulnerability as a service: SambaCry | |||
| Vulnerability as a service: Shellshock | |||
| Vulnerable WordPress Installation | |||
Awesome Penetration Testing / macOS Utilities | |||
| Bella | 183 | almost 2 years ago | Pure Python post-exploitation data mining and remote administration tool for macOS |
| EvilOSX | 2,250 | over 3 years ago | Modular RAT that uses numerous evasion and exfiltration techniques out-of-the-box |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Multi-paradigm Frameworks | |||
| Armitage | Java-based GUI front-end for the Metasploit Framework | ||
| AutoSploit | 5,014 | over 1 year ago | Automated mass exploiter, which collects target by employing the Shodan.io API and programmatically chooses Metasploit exploit modules based on the Shodan query |
| Decker | 288 | almost 5 years ago | 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 | 4,915 | 15 days ago | Multiuser integrated pentesting environment for red teams performing cooperative penetration tests, security audits, and risk assessments |
| Metasploit | Software for offensive security teams to help verify vulnerabilities and manage security assessments | ||
| Pupy | 8,380 | 7 months ago | Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android) remote administration and post-exploitation tool |
| Ronin | 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 | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools | |||
| CrackMapExec | 8,368 | 10 months ago | Swiss army knife for pentesting networks |
| IKEForce | 234 | about 5 years ago | Command line IPSEC VPN brute forcing tool for Linux that allows group name/ID enumeration and XAUTH brute forcing capabilities |
| Intercepter-NG | Multifunctional network toolkit | ||
| Legion | 1,013 | 3 months ago | Graphical semi-automated discovery and reconnaissance framework based on Python 3 and forked from SPARTA |
| Network-Tools.com | Website offering an interface to numerous basic network utilities like , , , and more | ||
| Ncrack | 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 | ||
| Praeda | Automated multi-function printer data harvester for gathering usable data during security assessments | ||
| Printer Exploitation Toolkit (PRET) | 3,876 | 2 months ago | Tool for printer security testing capable of IP and USB connectivity, fuzzing, and exploitation of PostScript, PJL, and PCL printer language features |
| SPARTA | Graphical interface offering scriptable, configurable access to existing network infrastructure scanning and enumeration tools | ||
| SigPloit | 68 | almost 5 years ago | 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) | 566 | almost 3 years ago | Scripts for identifying Cisco Smart Install-enabled switches on a network and then manipulating them |
| THC Hydra | 9,528 | about 2 months ago | 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 | 8,210 | 17 days ago | General purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence |
| Zarp | 1,443 | over 1 year ago | Network attack tool centered around the exploitation of local networks |
| dnstwist | 4,835 | 29 days ago | Domain name permutation engine for detecting typo squatting, phishing and corporate espionage |
| dsniff | Collection of tools for network auditing and pentesting | ||
| impacket | 13,338 | 9 days ago | Collection of Python classes for working with network protocols |
| pivotsuite | 431 | about 1 year ago | Portable, platform independent and powerful network pivoting toolkit |
| routersploit | 12,129 | 4 months ago | Open source exploitation framework similar to Metasploit but dedicated to embedded devices |
| rshijack | 457 | 8 months ago | TCP connection hijacker, Rust rewrite of |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools / DDoS Tools | |||
| Anevicon | Powerful UDP-based load generator, written in Rust | ||
| D(HE)ater | 183 | 5 months ago | D(HE)ater sends forged cryptographic handshake messages to enforce the Diffie-Hellman key exchange |
| HOIC | Updated version of Low Orbit Ion Cannon, has 'boosters' to get around common counter measures | ||
| Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) | 2,605 | 9 months ago | Open source network stress tool written for Windows |
| Memcrashed | 1,327 | almost 2 years ago | DDoS attack tool for sending forged UDP packets to vulnerable Memcached servers obtained using Shodan API |
| SlowLoris | 2,431 | 4 months ago | DoS tool that uses low bandwidth on the attacking side |
| T50 | Faster network stress tool | ||
| UFONet | 2,178 | about 1 month ago | Abuses OSI layer 7 HTTP to create/manage 'zombies' and to conduct different attacks using; / , multithreading, proxies, origin spoofing methods, cache evasion techniques, etc |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools / Network Reconnaissance Tools | |||
| ACLight | 786 | about 5 years ago | Script for advanced discovery of sensitive Privileged Accounts - includes Shadow Admins |
| AQUATONE | 5,605 | over 2 years ago | Subdomain discovery tool utilizing various open sources producing a report that can be used as input to other tools |
| CloudFail | 2,213 | 6 months ago | Unmask server IP addresses hidden behind Cloudflare by searching old database records and detecting misconfigured DNS |
| DNSDumpster | Online DNS recon and search service | ||
| Mass Scan | 23,456 | about 2 months ago | TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes |
| OWASP Amass | 11,840 | 11 days ago | Subdomain enumeration via scraping, web archives, brute forcing, permutations, reverse DNS sweeping, TLS certificates, passive DNS data sources, etc |
| ScanCannon | 429 | 5 months ago | 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 | 2,190 | 3 months ago | Network (sub)domain discovery and reconnaissance automation tool |
| dnsenum | 597 | almost 5 years ago | 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 | 110 | about 7 years ago | Passive DNS network mapper |
| dnsrecon | 2,600 | 12 days ago | DNS enumeration script |
| dnstracer | Determines where a given DNS server gets its information from, and follows the chain of DNS servers | ||
| fierce | 1,583 | about 1 month ago | Python3 port of the original DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space |
| netdiscover | 279 | about 2 months ago | Network address discovery scanner, based on ARP sweeps, developed mainly for those wireless networks without a DHCP server |
| nmap | Free security scanner for network exploration & security audits | ||
| passivedns-client | 197 | almost 3 years ago | Library and query tool for querying several passive DNS providers |
| passivedns | 1,669 | 4 months ago | Network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup |
| RustScan | 14,235 | 14 days ago | Lightweight and quick open-source port scanner designed to automatically pipe open ports into Nmap |
| scanless | 1,103 | about 1 year ago | Utility for using websites to perform port scans on your behalf so as not to reveal your own IP |
| smbmap | 1,760 | 12 days ago | Handy SMB enumeration tool |
| subbrute | 3,336 | over 2 years ago | DNS meta-query spider that enumerates DNS records, and subdomains |
| zmap | Open source network scanner that enables researchers to easily perform Internet-wide network studies | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools / Protocol Analyzers and Sniffers | |||
| Debookee | Simple and powerful network traffic analyzer for macOS | ||
| Dshell | 5,446 | 5 months ago | Network forensic analysis framework |
| Netzob | 758 | 6 months ago | Reverse engineering, traffic generation and fuzzing of communication protocols |
| Wireshark | Widely-used graphical, cross-platform network protocol analyzer | ||
| netsniff-ng | 1,216 | about 1 month ago | Swiss army knife for network sniffing |
| sniffglue | 1,095 | 27 days ago | Secure multithreaded packet sniffer |
| tcpdump/libpcap | Common packet analyzer that runs under the command line | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools / Network Traffic Replay and Editing Tools | |||
| TraceWrangler | Network capture file toolkit that can edit and merge or files with batch editing features | ||
| WireEdit | Full stack WYSIWYG pcap editor (requires a free license to edit packets) | ||
| bittwist | 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 | 1,423 | 3 months ago | Network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets |
| pig | 462 | almost 4 years ago | GNU/Linux packet crafting tool |
| scapy | 10,618 | 3 days ago | Python-based interactive packet manipulation program and library |
| tcpreplay | Suite of free Open Source utilities for editing and replaying previously captured network traffic | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools / Proxies and Machine-in-the-Middle (MITM) Tools | |||
| BetterCAP | Modular, portable and easily extensible MITM framework | ||
| Ettercap | Comprehensive, mature suite for machine-in-the-middle attacks | ||
| Habu | 879 | 11 months ago | Python utility implementing a variety of network attacks, such as ARP poisoning, DHCP starvation, and more |
| Lambda-Proxy | 36 | over 5 years ago | Utility for testing SQL Injection vulnerabilities on AWS Lambda serverless functions |
| MITMf | 3,555 | about 6 years ago | Framework for Man-In-The-Middle attacks |
| Morpheus | 836 | almost 6 years ago | Automated ettercap TCP/IP Hijacking tool |
| SSH MITM | 1,610 | over 3 years ago | Intercept SSH connections with a proxy; all plaintext passwords and sessions are logged to disk |
| dnschef | 889 | about 2 months ago | Highly configurable DNS proxy for pentesters |
| evilgrade | 1,282 | about 3 years ago | Modular framework to take advantage of poor upgrade implementations by injecting fake updates |
| mallory | 323 | 10 months ago | HTTP/HTTPS proxy over SSH |
| oregano | 24 | over 4 years ago | Python module that runs as a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) accepting Tor client requests |
| sylkie | Command line tool and library for testing networks for common address spoofing security vulnerabilities in IPv6 networks using the Neighbor Discovery Protocol | ||
| PETEP | 177 | 10 months ago | Extensible TCP/UDP proxy with GUI for traffic analysis & modification with SSL/TLS support |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools / Transport Layer Security Tools | |||
| CryptoLyzer | Fast and flexible server cryptographic (TLS/SSL/SSH/HTTP) settings analyzer library for Python with CLI | ||
| SSLyze | 3,237 | about 2 months ago | Fast and comprehensive TLS/SSL configuration analyzer to help identify security mis-configurations |
| crackpkcs12 | 141 | over 5 years ago | Multithreaded program to crack PKCS#12 files ( and extensions), such as TLS/SSL certificates |
| testssl.sh | 7,895 | 15 days ago | 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 | 263 | almost 3 years ago | Fingerprint a server's SSL/TLS implementation |
| tlsmate | Framework to create arbitrary TLS test cases. Comes with a TLS server scanner plugin | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools / Secure Shell Tools | |||
| ssh-audit | 3,335 | 11 days ago | SSH server & client auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc) |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Tools / Wireless Network Tools | |||
| Aircrack-ng | Set of tools for auditing wireless networks | ||
| Airgeddon | 6,395 | 24 days ago | Multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks |
| BoopSuite | Suite of tools written in Python for wireless auditing | ||
| Bully | Implementation of the WPS brute force attack, written in C | ||
| Cowpatty | 181 | almost 6 years ago | Brute-force dictionary attack against WPA-PSK |
| Fluxion | 4,913 | 11 months ago | Suite of automated social engineering based WPA attacks |
| KRACK Detector | 179 | almost 7 years ago | Detect and prevent KRACK attacks in your network |
| Kismet | Wireless network detector, sniffer, and IDS | ||
| PSKracker | 397 | about 1 year ago | Collection of WPA/WPA2/WPS default algorithms, password generators, and PIN generators written in C |
| Reaver | Brute force attack against WiFi Protected Setup | ||
| WiFi Pineapple | Wireless auditing and penetration testing platform | ||
| WiFi-Pumpkin | 3,078 | over 4 years ago | Framework for rogue Wi-Fi access point attack |
| Wifite | 3,193 | about 2 years ago | Automated wireless attack tool |
| infernal-twin | 1,228 | almost 2 years ago | Automated wireless hacking tool |
| krackattacks-scripts | 3,323 | 5 months ago | WPA2 Krack attack scripts |
| pwnagotchi | 7,613 | about 2 months ago | 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 | 1,881 | about 4 years ago | Resources for Wi-Fi Pentesting |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Vulnerability Scanners | |||
| celerystalk | 397 | over 3 years ago | Asynchronous enumeration and vulnerability scanner that "runs all the tools on all the hosts" in a configurable manner |
| kube-hunter | 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 | ||
| Nessus | Commercial vulnerability management, configuration, and compliance assessment platform, sold by Tenable | ||
| Netsparker Application Security Scanner | Application security scanner to automatically find security flaws | ||
| Nexpose | Commercial vulnerability and risk management assessment engine that integrates with Metasploit, sold by Rapid7 | ||
| OpenVAS | Free software implementation of the popular Nessus vulnerability assessment system | ||
| Vuls | 10,915 | 11 days ago | Agentless vulnerability scanner for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, written in Go |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Network Vulnerability Scanners / Web Vulnerability Scanners | |||
| ACSTIS | 301 | almost 3 years ago | Automated client-side template injection (sandbox escape/bypass) detection for AngularJS |
| Arachni | Scriptable framework for evaluating the security of web applications | ||
| JCS | 61 | about 6 years ago | Joomla Vulnerability Component Scanner with automatic database updater from exploitdb and packetstorm |
| Nikto | Noisy but fast black box web server and web application vulnerability scanner | ||
| SQLmate | 425 | over 5 years ago | Friend of that identifies SQLi vulnerabilities based on a given dork and (optional) website |
| SecApps | In-browser web application security testing suite | ||
| WPScan | Black box WordPress vulnerability scanner | ||
| Wapiti | Black box web application vulnerability scanner with built-in fuzzer | ||
| WebReaver | Commercial, graphical web application vulnerability scanner designed for macOS | ||
| cms-explorer | Reveal the specific modules, plugins, components and themes that various websites powered by content management systems are running | ||
| joomscan | Joomla vulnerability scanner | ||
| skipfish | Performant and adaptable active web application security reconnaissance tool | ||
| w3af | 4,534 | over 1 year ago | Web application attack and audit framework |
| nuclei | 20,069 | 8 days ago | Fast and customizable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Online Resources / Online Operating Systems Resources | |||
| DistroWatch.com's Security Category | Website dedicated to talking about, reviewing, and keeping up to date with open source operating systems | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Online Resources / Online Penetration Testing Resources | |||
| MITRE's Adversarial Tactics, Techniques & Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) | Curated knowledge base and model for cyber adversary behavior | ||
| Metasploit Unleashed | Free Offensive Security Metasploit course | ||
| Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) | Worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of especially Web-based and Application-layer software | ||
| PENTEST-WIKI | 3,435 | about 1 year ago | Free online security knowledge library for pentesters and researchers |
| Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) | Documentation designed to provide a common language and scope for performing and reporting the results of a penetration test | ||
| Penetration Testing Framework (PTF) | Outline for performing penetration tests compiled as a general framework usable by vulnerability analysts and penetration testers alike | ||
| XSS-Payloads | Resource dedicated to all things XSS (cross-site), including payloads, tools, games, and documentation | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Online Resources / Other Lists Online | |||
| .NET Programming | 19,152 | 5 days ago | Software framework for Microsoft Windows platform development |
| Infosec/hacking videos recorded by cooper | Collection of security conferences recorded by Cooper | ||
| Android Exploits | 772 | almost 5 years ago | Guide on Android Exploitation and Hacks |
| Android Security | 8,076 | about 1 month ago | Collection of Android security related resources |
| AppSec | 6,276 | 3 months ago | Resources for learning about application security |
| Awesome Awesomness | 31,706 | 4 months ago | The List of the Lists |
| Awesome Malware | 233 | over 3 years ago | Curated collection of awesome malware, botnets, and other post-exploitation tools |
| Awesome Shodan Queries | 5,624 | 4 months ago | Awesome list of useful, funny, and depressing search queries for Shodan |
| Awesome Censys Queries | 896 | 4 days ago | A collection of fascinating and bizarre Censys Search Queries |
| AWS Tool Arsenal | 8,911 | 9 months ago | List of tools for testing and securing AWS environments |
| Blue Team | 4,316 | 3 months ago | Awesome resources, tools, and other shiny things for cybersecurity blue teams |
| C/C++ Programming | 59,090 | 4 days ago | One of the main language for open source security tools |
| CTFs | 9,669 | 2 months ago | Capture The Flag frameworks, libraries, etc |
| Forensics | 3,902 | 3 days ago | Free (mostly open source) forensic analysis tools and resources |
| Hacking | 12,929 | 4 months ago | Tutorials, tools, and resources |
| Honeypots | 8,497 | about 2 months ago | Honeypots, tools, components, and more |
| InfoSec § Hacking challenges | 505 | over 1 year ago | Comprehensive directory of CTFs, wargames, hacking challenge websites, pentest practice lab exercises, and more |
| Infosec | 5,154 | 7 months ago | Information security resources for pentesting, forensics, and more |
| JavaScript Programming | 33,524 | about 1 month ago | In-browser development and scripting |
| Kali Linux Tools | List of tools present in Kali Linux | ||
| Node.js Programming by @sindresorhus | 58,052 | about 2 months ago | Curated list of delightful Node.js packages and resources |
| Pentest Cheat Sheets | 344 | 3 months ago | Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets |
| Python Programming by @svaksha | 956 | over 1 year ago | General Python programming |
| Python Programming by @vinta | 220,437 | about 2 months ago | General Python programming |
| Python tools for penetration testers | 2,708 | about 4 years ago | Lots of pentesting tools are written in Python |
| Rawsec's CyberSecurity Inventory | An open-source inventory of tools, resources, CTF platforms and Operating Systems about CyberSecurity. ( ) | ||
| Red Teaming | 6,846 | 9 months ago | List of Awesome Red Teaming Resources |
| Ruby Programming by @Sdogruyol | 1,249 | about 2 months ago | The de-facto language for writing exploits |
| Ruby Programming by @dreikanter | 2,215 | 8 months ago | The de-facto language for writing exploits |
| Ruby Programming by @markets | 13,548 | 10 days ago | The de-facto language for writing exploits |
| SecLists | 57,163 | 5 days ago | Collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments |
| SecTools | Top 125 Network Security Tools | ||
| Security Talks | 3,999 | over 3 years ago | Curated list of security conferences |
| Security | 12,288 | 2 months ago | Software, libraries, documents, and other resources |
| Serverless Security | 589 | over 2 years ago | Curated list of awesome serverless security resources such as (e)books, articles, whitepapers, blogs and research papers |
| Shell Scripting | 32,806 | about 2 months ago | Command line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos |
| YARA | 3,503 | about 1 month ago | YARA rules, tools, and people |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Online Resources / Penetration Testing Report Templates | |||
| Public Pentesting Reports | 8,383 | 4 months ago | Curated list of public penetration test reports released by several consulting firms and academic security groups |
| T&VS Pentesting Report Template | Pentest report template provided by Test and Verification Services, Ltd | ||
| Web Application Security Assessment Report Template | Sample Web application security assessment reporting template provided by Lucideus | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) | |||
| DataSploit | 3,005 | over 4 years ago | OSINT visualizer utilizing Shodan, Censys, Clearbit, EmailHunter, FullContact, and Zoomeye behind the scenes |
| Depix | 25,845 | about 2 months ago | Tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots (by de-pixelating text) |
| GyoiThon | 736 | over 1 year ago | GyoiThon is an Intelligence Gathering tool using Machine Learning |
| Intrigue | Automated OSINT & Attack Surface discovery framework with powerful API, UI and CLI | ||
| Maltego | Proprietary software for open sources intelligence and forensics | ||
| PacketTotal | 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 | 1,046 | almost 2 years ago | 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 | 7,970 | 2 months ago | Automated Pentest Recon Scanner |
| Spiderfoot | Multi-source OSINT automation tool with a Web UI and report visualizations | ||
| creepy | 1,261 | over 8 years ago | Geolocation OSINT tool |
| gOSINT | 615 | over 3 years ago | OSINT tool with multiple modules and a telegram scraper |
| image-match | 2,937 | almost 2 years ago | Quickly search over billions of images |
| recon-ng | 3,884 | 3 months ago | Full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python |
| sn0int | 1,993 | 11 days ago | Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager |
| Keyscope | 383 | 5 months ago | An extensible key and secret validation for auditing active secrets against multiple SaaS vendors |
| Facebook Friend List Scraper | 246 | almost 2 years ago | Tool to scrape names and usernames from large friend lists on Facebook, without being rate limited |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) / Data Broker and Search Engine Services | |||
| Hunter.io | Data broker providing a Web search interface for discovering the email addresses and other organizational details of a company | ||
| Threat Crowd | Search engine for threats | ||
| Virus Total | Free service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware | ||
| surfraw | 72 | over 6 years ago | Fast UNIX command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) / Dorking tools | |||
| BinGoo | 220 | almost 6 years ago | GNU/Linux bash based Bing and Google Dorking Tool |
| dorkbot | 511 | about 2 months ago | Command-line tool to scan Google (or other) search results for vulnerabilities |
| github-dorks | 2,764 | 10 months ago | CLI tool to scan GitHub repos/organizations for potential sensitive information leaks |
| GooDork | 132 | over 11 years ago | Command line Google dorking tool |
| Google Hacking Database | Database of Google dorks; can be used for recon | ||
| dork-cli | 143 | about 7 years ago | Command line Google dork tool |
| dorks | 199 | almost 7 years ago | Google hack database automation tool |
| fast-recon | 157 | over 4 years ago | Perform Google dorks against a domain |
| pagodo | 2,757 | 4 months ago | Automate Google Hacking Database scraping |
| snitch | 372 | over 2 years ago | Information gathering via dorks |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) / Email search and analysis tools | |||
| SimplyEmail | 942 | over 1 year ago | Email recon made fast and easy |
| WhatBreach | 1,136 | over 1 year ago | 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 |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) / Metadata harvesting and analysis | |||
| FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives) | Automated document harvester that searches Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo to find and extrapolate internal company organizational structures | ||
| metagoofil | 1,009 | 7 months ago | Metadata harvester |
| theHarvester | 11,144 | 11 days ago | E-mail, subdomain and people names harvester |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) / Network device discovery tools | |||
| Censys | Collects data on hosts and websites through daily ZMap and ZGrab scans | ||
| Shodan | World's first search engine for Internet-connected devices | ||
| ZoomEye | Search engine for cyberspace that lets the user find specific network components | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) / OSINT Online Resources | |||
| CertGraph | 342 | 8 months ago | Crawls a domain's SSL/TLS certificates for its certificate alternative names |
| GhostProject | Searchable database of billions of cleartext passwords, partially visible for free | ||
| NetBootcamp OSINT Tools | Collection of OSINT links and custom Web interfaces to other services | ||
| OSINT Framework | Collection of various OSINT tools broken out by category | ||
| WiGLE.net | Information about wireless networks world-wide, with user-friendly desktop and web applications | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) / Source code repository searching tools | |||
| vcsmap | 134 | about 3 years ago | Plugin-based tool to scan public version control systems for sensitive information |
| Yar | 231 | almost 4 years ago | Clone git repositories to search through the whole commit history in order of commit time for secrets, tokens, or passwords |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Open Sources Intelligence (OSINT) / Web application and resource analysis tools | |||
| BlindElephant | Web application fingerprinter | ||
| EyeWitness | 11 | 4 months ago | Tool to take screenshots of websites, provide some server header info, and identify default credentials if possible |
| GraphQL Voyager | Represent any GraphQL API as an interactive graph, letting you explore data models from any Web site with a GraphQL query endpoint | ||
| VHostScan | 1,188 | 10 months ago | Virtual host scanner that performs reverse lookups, can be used with pivot tools, detect catch-all scenarios, aliases and dynamic default pages |
| Wappalyzer | Wappalyzer uncovers the technologies used on websites | ||
| WhatWaf | 2,629 | about 2 months ago | Detect and bypass web application firewalls and protection systems |
| WhatWeb | 5,472 | 3 months ago | Website fingerprinter |
| wafw00f | 5,182 | 3 months ago | Identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall (WAF) products |
| webscreenshot | 655 | about 4 years ago | Simple script to take screenshots of websites from a list of sites |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Operating System Distributions | |||
| Android Tamer | Distribution built for Android security professionals that includes tools required for Android security testing | ||
| ArchStrike | Arch GNU/Linux repository for security professionals and enthusiasts | ||
| AttifyOS | 942 | about 3 years ago | GNU/Linux distribution focused on tools useful during Internet of Things (IoT) security assessments |
| BlackArch | Arch GNU/Linux-based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers | ||
| Buscador | GNU/Linux virtual machine that is pre-configured for online investigators | ||
| Kali | Rolling Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution designed for penetration testing and digital forensics | ||
| Network Security Toolkit (NST) | Fedora-based GNU/Linux bootable live Operating System designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed open source network security applications | ||
| Parrot | Distribution similar to Kali, with support for multiple hardware architectures | ||
| PentestBox | Open source pre-configured portable penetration testing environment for the Windows Operating System | ||
| The Pentesters Framework | 5,098 | 13 days ago | Distro organized around the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), providing a curated collection of utilities that omits less frequently used utilities |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Periodicals | |||
| 2600: The Hacker Quarterly | American publication about technology and computer "underground" culture | ||
| Phrack Magazine | By far the longest running hacker zine | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Physical Access Tools | |||
| AT Commands | 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 | ||
| Bash Bunny | Local exploit delivery tool in the form of a USB thumbdrive in which you write payloads in a DSL called BunnyScript | ||
| LAN Turtle | Covert "USB Ethernet Adapter" that provides remote access, network intelligence gathering, and MITM capabilities when installed in a local network | ||
| PCILeech | 4,804 | 30 days ago | Uses PCIe hardware devices to read and write from the target system memory via Direct Memory Access (DMA) over PCIe |
| Packet Squirrel | Ethernet multi-tool designed to enable covert remote access, painless packet captures, and secure VPN connections with the flip of a switch | ||
| Poisontap | Siphons cookies, exposes internal (LAN-side) router and installs web backdoor on locked computers | ||
| Proxmark3 | RFID/NFC cloning, replay, and spoofing toolkit often used for analyzing and attacking proximity cards/readers, wireless keys/keyfobs, and more | ||
| Thunderclap | Open source I/O security research platform for auditing physical DMA-enabled hardware peripheral ports | ||
| USB Rubber Ducky | Customizable keystroke injection attack platform masquerading as a USB thumbdrive | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Privilege Escalation Tools | |||
| Active Directory and Privilege Escalation (ADAPE) | 1,090 | almost 2 years ago | Umbrella script that automates numerous useful PowerShell modules to discover security misconfigurations and attempt privilege escalation against Active Directory |
| GTFOBins | Curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems | ||
| LOLBAS (Living Off The Land Binaries and Scripts) | 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 | 6,948 | about 1 year ago | Scripted local Linux enumeration and privilege escalation checker useful for auditing a host and during CTF gaming |
| Postenum | 274 | about 3 years ago | Shell script used for enumerating possible privilege escalation opportunities on a local GNU/Linux system |
| unix-privesc-check | 1,024 | over 3 years ago | Shell script to check for simple privilege escalation vectors on UNIX systems |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Privilege Escalation Tools / Password Spraying Tools | |||
| DomainPasswordSpray | 1,740 | 3 months ago | Tool written in PowerShell to perform a password spray attack against users of a domain |
| SprayingToolkit | 1,445 | almost 2 years ago | 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 |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Reverse Engineering / Reverse Engineering Books | |||
| Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hacker's Handbook by Daniel Regalado et al., 2015 | |||
| Hacking the Xbox by Andrew Huang, 2003 | |||
| Practical Reverse Engineering by Bruce Dang et al., 2014 | |||
| Reverse Engineering for Beginners by Dennis Yurichev | |||
| The IDA Pro Book by Chris Eagle, 2011 | |||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Reverse Engineering / Reverse Engineering Tools | |||
| angr | Platform-agnostic binary analysis framework | ||
| Capstone | Lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework | ||
| Detect It Easy(DiE) | 7,322 | 16 days ago | Program for determining types of files for Windows, Linux and MacOS |
| Evan's Debugger | OllyDbg-like debugger for GNU/Linux | ||
| Frida | Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers | ||
| Fridax | 161 | over 1 year ago | Read variables and intercept/hook functions in Xamarin/Mono JIT and AOT compiled iOS/Android applications |
| Ghidra | 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 | ||
| Immunity Debugger | Powerful way to write exploits and analyze malware | ||
| Interactive Disassembler (IDA Pro) | Proprietary multi-processor disassembler and debugger for Windows, GNU/Linux, or macOS; also has a free version, | ||
| Medusa | 1,034 | about 5 years ago | Open source, cross-platform interactive disassembler |
| OllyDbg | x86 debugger for Windows binaries that emphasizes binary code analysis | ||
| PyREBox | 1,651 | 8 months ago | Python scriptable Reverse Engineering sandbox by Cisco-Talos |
| Radare2 | Open source, crossplatform reverse engineering framework | ||
| UEFITool | 4,331 | 3 months ago | UEFI firmware image viewer and editor |
| Voltron | 6,156 | 3 months ago | Extensible debugger UI toolkit written in Python |
| WDK/WinDbg | Windows Driver Kit and WinDbg | ||
| binwalk | 10,749 | 1 day ago | Fast, easy to use tool for analyzing, reverse engineering, and extracting firmware images |
| boxxy | 77 | almost 2 years ago | Linkable sandbox explorer |
| dnSpy | 26,416 | almost 4 years ago | Tool to reverse engineer .NET assemblies |
| plasma | 3,050 | about 3 years ago | Interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS. Generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax code |
| pwndbg | 7,440 | 1 day ago | 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 | 350 | about 7 years ago | Debugger on steroids; inspect userspace processes, kernel drivers, and preboot environments in a single tool |
| x64dbg | Open source x64/x32 debugger for windows | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Security Education Courses | |||
| ARIZONA CYBER WARFARE RANGE | 24x7 live fire exercises for beginners through real world operations; capability for upward progression into the real world of cyber warfare | ||
| Cybrary | Free courses in ethical hacking and advanced penetration testing. Advanced penetration testing courses are based on the book 'Penetration Testing for Highly Secured Environments' | ||
| European Union Agency for Network and Information Security | ENISA Cyber Security Training material | ||
| Offensive Security Training | Training from BackTrack/Kali developers | ||
| Open Security Training | Training material for computer security classes | ||
| Roppers Academy Training | Free courses on computing and security fundamentals designed to train a beginner to crush their first CTF | ||
| SANS Security Training | Computer Security Training & Certification | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Shellcoding Guides and Tutorials | |||
| Exploit Writing Tutorials | Tutorials on how to develop exploits | ||
| Shellcode Examples | Shellcodes database | ||
| Shellcode Tutorial | Tutorial on how to write shellcode | ||
| The Shellcoder's Handbook by Chris Anley et al., 2007 | |||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Side-channel Tools | |||
| ChipWhisperer | Complete open-source toolchain for side-channel power analysis and glitching attacks | ||
| SGX-Step | 436 | 11 days ago | 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 | 119 | over 3 years ago | Many-sided rowhammer tool suite able to reverse engineer the contents of DDR3 and DDR4 memory chips protected by Target Row Refresh mitigations |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Social Engineering / Social Engineering Books | |||
| Ghost in the Wires by Kevin D. Mitnick & William L. Simon, 2011 | |||
| No Tech Hacking by Johnny Long & Jack Wiles, 2008 | |||
| Social Engineering in IT Security: Tools, Tactics, and Techniques by Sharon Conheady, 2014 | |||
| The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick & William L. Simon, 2002 | |||
| The Art of Intrusion by Kevin D. Mitnick & William L. Simon, 2005 | |||
| Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security by Christopher Hadnagy, 2014 | |||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Social Engineering / Social Engineering Online Resources | |||
| Social Engineering Framework | Information resource for social engineers | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Social Engineering / Social Engineering Tools | |||
| Beelogger | 1,001 | almost 2 years ago | Tool for generating keylooger |
| Catphish | 599 | almost 6 years ago | Tool for phishing and corporate espionage written in Ruby |
| Evilginx2 | 10,673 | about 2 months ago | 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 | 1,316 | 9 months ago | Full-fledged phishing framework to manage all phishing engagements |
| Gophish | Open-source phishing framework | ||
| King Phisher | 2,216 | 2 months ago | Phishing campaign toolkit used for creating and managing multiple simultaneous phishing attacks with custom email and server content |
| Modlishka | 4,797 | 6 months ago | Flexible and powerful reverse proxy with real-time two-factor authentication |
| ReelPhish | 506 | about 1 year ago | Real-time two-factor phishing tool |
| Social Engineer Toolkit (SET) | 10,780 | 26 days ago | Open source pentesting framework designed for social engineering featuring a number of custom attack vectors to make believable attacks quickly |
| SocialFish | 4,018 | 6 months ago | Social media phishing framework that can run on an Android phone or in a Docker container |
| phishery | 968 | about 7 years ago | TLS/SSL enabled Basic Auth credential harvester |
| wifiphisher | 13,090 | 10 months ago | Automated phishing attacks against WiFi networks |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Static Analyzers | |||
| Brakeman | 6,988 | 16 days ago | Static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications |
| FindBugs | Free software static analyzer to look for bugs in Java code | ||
| Progpilot | 324 | 2 months ago | Static security analysis tool for PHP code |
| RegEx-DoS | 162 | almost 7 years ago | Analyzes source code for Regular Expressions susceptible to Denial of Service attacks |
| bandit | Security oriented static analyser for Python code | ||
| cppcheck | Extensible C/C++ static analyzer focused on finding bugs | ||
| sobelow | 1,667 | about 2 months ago | Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework |
| cwe_checker | 1,104 | about 2 months ago | Suite of tools built atop the Binary Analysis Platform (BAP) to heuristically detect CWEs in compiled binaries and firmware |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Steganography Tools | |||
| Cloakify | 1,531 | almost 4 years ago | Textual steganography toolkit that converts any filetype into lists of everyday strings |
| StegOnline | Web-based, enhanced, and open-source port of StegSolve | ||
| StegCracker | 548 | almost 4 years ago | Steganography brute-force utility to uncover hidden data inside files |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Vulnerability Databases | |||
| Bugtraq (BID) | Software security bug identification database compiled from submissions to the SecurityFocus mailing list and other sources, operated by Symantec, Inc | ||
| CISA Known Vulnerabilities Database (KEV) | Vulnerabilities in various systems already known to America's cyber defense agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to be actively exploited | ||
| CXSecurity | Archive of published CVE and Bugtraq software vulnerabilities cross-referenced with a Google dork database for discovering the listed vulnerability | ||
| China National Vulnerability Database (CNNVD) | Chinese government-run vulnerability database analoguous to the United States's CVE database hosted by Mitre Corporation | ||
| Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) | Dictionary of common names (i.e., CVE Identifiers) for publicly known security vulnerabilities | ||
| Exploit-DB | Non-profit project hosting exploits for software vulnerabilities, provided as a public service by Offensive Security | ||
| Full-Disclosure | Public, vendor-neutral forum for detailed discussion of vulnerabilities, often publishes details before many other sources | ||
| GitHub Advisories | Public vulnerability advisories published by or affecting codebases hosted by GitHub, including open source projects | ||
| HPI-VDB | Aggregator of cross-referenced software vulnerabilities offering free-of-charge API access, provided by the Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam | ||
| Inj3ct0r | Exploit marketplace and vulnerability information aggregator. ( .) | ||
| Microsoft Security Advisories and Bulletins | Archive and announcements of security advisories impacting Microsoft software, published by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) | ||
| Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories | Archive of security advisories impacting Mozilla software, including the Firefox Web Browser | ||
| National Vulnerability Database (NVD) | 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 | ||
| Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) | Database of vulnerabilities affecting open source software, queryable by project, Git commit, or version | ||
| Packet Storm | Compendium of exploits, advisories, tools, and other security-related resources aggregated from across the industry | ||
| SecuriTeam | Independent source of software vulnerability information | ||
| Snyk Vulnerability DB | Detailed information and remediation guidance for vulnerabilities known by Snyk | ||
| US-CERT Vulnerability Notes Database | Summaries, technical details, remediation information, and lists of vendors affected by software vulnerabilities, aggregated by the United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) | ||
| VulDB | Independent vulnerability database with user community, exploit details, and additional meta data (e.g. CPE, CVSS, CWE) | ||
| Vulnerability Lab | Open forum for security advisories organized by category of exploit target | ||
| Vulners | Security database of software vulnerabilities | ||
| Vulmon | Vulnerability search engine with vulnerability intelligence features that conducts full text searches in its database | ||
| Zero Day Initiative | Bug bounty program with publicly accessible archive of published security advisories, operated by TippingPoint | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Web Exploitation | |||
| FuzzDB | 8,160 | 11 months ago | Dictionary of attack patterns and primitives for black-box application fault injection and resource discovery |
| Offensive Web Testing Framework (OWTF) | Python-based framework for pentesting Web applications based on the OWASP Testing Guide | ||
| Raccoon | 3,075 | 4 months ago | High performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning |
| WPSploit | 213 | over 6 years ago | Exploit WordPress-powered websites with Metasploit |
| autochrome | Chrome browser profile preconfigured with appropriate settings needed for web application testing | ||
| authoscope | 396 | 10 months ago | Scriptable network authentication cracker |
| gobuster | 9,605 | 12 days ago | Lean multipurpose brute force search/fuzzing tool for Web (and DNS) reconnaissance |
| sslstrip2 | 312 | about 7 years ago | SSLStrip version to defeat HSTS |
| sslstrip | Demonstration of the HTTPS stripping attacks | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Web Exploitation / Intercepting Web proxies | |||
| Burp Suite | Integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications | ||
| Fiddler | Free cross-platform web debugging proxy with user-friendly companion tools | ||
| OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) | Feature-rich, scriptable HTTP intercepting proxy and fuzzer for penetration testing web applications | ||
| mitmproxy | Interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers | ||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Web Exploitation / Web file inclusion tools | |||
| Kadimus | 511 | about 4 years ago | LFI scan and exploit tool |
| LFISuite | 1,667 | over 2 years ago | Automatic LFI scanner and exploiter |
| fimap | 512 | about 2 years ago | Find, prepare, audit, exploit and even Google automatically for LFI/RFI bugs |
| liffy | 121 | over 7 years ago | LFI exploitation tool |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Web Exploitation / Web injection tools | |||
| Commix | 4,531 | 2 days ago | Automated all-in-one operating system command injection and exploitation tool |
| NoSQLmap | 2,868 | 2 months ago | Automatic NoSQL injection and database takeover tool |
| SQLmap | Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool | ||
| tplmap | 3,746 | 6 months ago | Automatic server-side template injection and Web server takeover tool |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Web Exploitation / Web path discovery and bruteforcing tools | |||
| DotDotPwn | Directory traversal fuzzer | ||
| dirsearch | 11,900 | 17 days ago | Web path scanner |
| recursebuster | 242 | almost 5 years ago | Content discovery tool to perform directory and file bruteforcing |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Web Exploitation / Web shells and C2 frameworks | |||
| Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF) | 9,717 | 20 days ago | Command and control server for delivering exploits to commandeered Web browsers |
| DAws | 571 | over 7 years ago | Advanced Web shell |
| Merlin | 5,041 | 6 months ago | Cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command and Control server and agent written in Golang |
| PhpSploit | 2,195 | 5 months ago | Full-featured C2 framework which silently persists on webserver via evil PHP oneliner |
| SharPyShell | 900 | 10 months ago | Tiny and obfuscated ASP.NET webshell for C# web applications |
| weevely3 | 3,167 | 5 months ago | Weaponized PHP-based web shell |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Web Exploitation / Web-accessible source code ripping tools | |||
| DVCS Ripper | 1,694 | 3 months ago | Rip web accessible (distributed) version control systems: SVN/GIT/HG/BZR |
| GitTools | 3,821 | over 1 year ago | Automatically find and download Web-accessible repositories |
| git-dumper | 1,775 | 7 months ago | Tool to dump a git repository from a website |
| git-scanner | 337 | over 4 years ago | Tool for bug hunting or pentesting websites that have open repositories available in public |
Awesome Penetration Testing / Web Exploitation / Web Exploitation Books | |||
| The Browser Hacker's Handbook by Wade Alcorn et al., 2014 | |||
| The Web Application Hacker's Handbook by D. Stuttard, M. Pinto, 2011 | |||
Awesome Penetration Testing / Windows Utilities | |||
| Bloodhound | 9,779 | 3 months ago | Graphical Active Directory trust relationship explorer |
| Commando VM | 6,893 | 11 days ago | Automated installation of over 140 Windows software packages for penetration testing and red teaming |
| Covenant | 4,145 | 3 months ago | ASP.NET Core application that serves as a collaborative command and control platform for red teamers |
| ctftool | 1,640 | about 3 years ago | Interactive Collaborative Translation Framework (CTF) exploration tool capable of launching cross-session edit session attacks |
| DeathStar | 1,577 | 9 months ago | Python script that uses Empire's RESTful API to automate gaining Domain Admin rights in Active Directory environments |
| Empire | Pure PowerShell post-exploitation agent | ||
| Fibratus | 2,205 | 1 day ago | Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel |
| Inveigh | 2,502 | 2 months ago | Windows PowerShell ADIDNS/LLMNR/mDNS/NBNS spoofer/machine-in-the-middle tool |
| LaZagne | 9,479 | 4 months ago | Credentials recovery project |
| MailSniper | 2,909 | about 2 months ago | 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 | 11,812 | about 4 years ago | PowerShell Post-Exploitation Framework |
| RID_ENUM | 228 | 2 months ago | Python script that can enumerate all users from a Windows Domain Controller and crack those user's passwords using brute-force |
| Responder | 4,479 | over 4 years ago | Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR), NBT-NS, and mDNS poisoner |
| Rubeus | 4,045 | 23 days ago | Toolset for raw Kerberos interaction and abuses |
| Ruler | 2,152 | 4 months ago | Abuses client-side Outlook features to gain a remote shell on a Microsoft Exchange server |
| SCOMDecrypt | 118 | 11 months ago | Retrieve and decrypt RunAs credentials stored within Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) databases |
| Sysinternals Suite | The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities | ||
| Windows Credentials Editor | Inspect logon sessions and add, change, list, and delete associated credentials, including Kerberos tickets | ||
| Windows Exploit Suggester | 3,940 | over 1 year ago | Detects potential missing patches on the target |
| mimikatz | Credentials extraction tool for Windows operating system | ||
| redsnarf | 1,199 | about 4 years ago | Post-exploitation tool for retrieving password hashes and credentials from Windows workstations, servers, and domain controllers |
| wePWNise | Generates architecture independent VBA code to be used in Office documents or templates and automates bypassing application control and exploit mitigation software | ||
| WinPwn | 3,291 | 8 months ago | Internal penetration test script to perform local and domain reconnaissance, privilege escalation and exploitation |
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