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Browse free open source Penetration Testing tools and projects for Linux and BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Penetration Testing tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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ophcrack
A Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. -
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bWAPP
an extremely buggy web app !
bWAPP, or a buggy web application, is a free and open source deliberately insecure web application. bWAPP helps security enthusiasts, developers and students to discover and to prevent web vulnerabilities. bWAPP prepares one to conduct successful penetration testing and ethical hacking projects. What makes bWAPP so unique? Well, it has over 100 web bugs! It covers all major known web vulnerabilities, including all risks from the OWASP Top 10 project. The focus is not just on one specific issue... bWAPP is covering a wide range of vulnerabilities! bWAPP is a PHP application that uses a MySQL database. It can be hosted on Linux/Windows with Apache/IIS and MySQL. It is supported on WAMP or XAMPP. Another possibility is to download bee-box, a custom VM pre-installed with bWAPP. This project is part of the ITSEC GAMES project. You can find more about the ITSEC GAMES and bWAPP projects on our blog. For security-testing and educational purposes only! Cheers Malik Mesellem -
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DirBuster is a multi threaded java application designed to brute force directories and files names on web/application servers.
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Ettercap is a multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis. Development has been moved to GitHub, https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap
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emp3r0r
Linux/Windows post-exploitation framework made by linux user
A post-exploitation framework for Linux/Windows. Initially, emp3r0r was developed as one of my weaponizing experiments. It was a learning process for me trying to implement common Linux adversary techniques and some of my original ideas. So, what makes emp3r0r different? First of all, it is the first C2 framework that targets Linux platform including the capability of using any other tools through it. Take a look at the features for more valid reasons to use it. -
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WiFi-Pumpkin
WiFi-Pumpkin - Framework for Rogue Wi-Fi Access Point Attack
The WiFi-Pumpkin is a rogue AP framework to easily create these fake networks, all while forwarding legitimate traffic to and from the unsuspecting target. It comes stuffed with features, including rogue Wi-Fi access points, deauth attacks on client APs, a probe request and credentials monitor, transparent proxy, Windows update attack, phishing manager, ARP Poisoning, DNS Spoofing, Pumpkin-Proxy, and image capture on the fly. moreover, the WiFi-Pumpkin is a very complete framework for auditing Wi-Fi security check the list of features is quite broad. -
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Ligolo-ng
An advanced, yet simple, tunneling/pivoting tool
Ligolo-ng is a simple, lightweight and fast tool that allows pentesters to establish tunnels from a reverse TCP/TLS connection using a tun interface (without the need of SOCKS). When running the relay/proxy server, a tun interface is used, packets sent to this interface are translated and then transmitted to the agent's remote network. You need to download the Wintun driver (used by WireGuard) and place the wintun.dll in the same folder as Ligolo. You can listen to ports on the agent and redirect connections to your control/proxy server. You can easily hit more than 100 Mbits/sec. Here is a test using iperf from a 200Mbits/s server to a 200Mbits/s connection. -
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BlackMamba
C2/post-exploitation framework
Black Mamba is a Command and Control (C2) that works with multiple connections at same time. It was developed with Python and with Qt Framework and have multiple features for a post-exploitation step. -
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Merlin HTTP/2
Merlin is a cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command
Merlin is a cross-platform post-exploitation Command & Control server and agent written in Go. The Merlin server is a self-contained command line program that requires no installation. You just simply download it and run it. The command-line interface only works great if it will be used by a single operator at a time. The Merlin agent can be controlled through Mythic, which features a web-based user interface that enables multiplayer support, and a slew of other features inherent to the project. -
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Themis
Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection
Cross-platform high-level cryptographic library. Themis helps to build simple and complex cryptographic features easily, quickly, and securely. It’s a perfect fit for multi-platform apps. Themis hides cryptographic details and eliminates popular mistakes. Themis provides ready-made building blocks (“cryptosystems”) for secure data storage, message exchange, socket connections, and authentication. Secure Cell is a multi-mode cryptographic container suitable for storing anything from encrypted files to database records. Use Secure Cell to encrypt data at rest. Secure Cell is built around AES-256-GCM, and AES-256-CTR. Secure Message is a simple encrypted messaging solution for the widest scope of applications. Use Secure Message to send encrypted and signed data from one user to another, from client to server, to prevent MITM attacks and avoid single secret leakage. Based on ECC + ECDSA / RSA + PSS + PKCS#7. -
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lynis
Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based system
Lynis is a battle-tested security tool for systems running Linux, macOS, or Unix-based operating system. It performs an extensive health scan of your systems to support system hardening and compliance testing. The project is open source software with the GPL license and available since 2007. Since Lynis is flexible, it is used for several different purposes. Typical use cases for Lynis include security auditing, compliance testing (e.g. PCI, HIPAA, SOx), penetration testing, vulnerability detection, and system hardening. Test that Docker image, or improve the hardening of your deployed web application. Run daily health scans to discover new weaknesses. Show colleagues or clients what can be done to improve security. Discover security weaknesses on systems of your clients, that may eventually result in system compromise. Lynis runs on almost all UNIX-based systems and versions. -
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SSHGuard
Intelligently block brute-force attacks by aggregating system logs
SSHGuard protects hosts from brute-force attacks against SSH and other services. It aggregates system logs and blocks repeat offenders using several firewall backends, including iptables, ipfw, and pf. -
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Hyenae is a highly flexible platform independent network packet generator. It allows you to reproduce several MITM, DoS and DDoS attack scenarios, comes with a clusterable remote daemon and an interactive attack assistant. *** Hyenae is back *** Hyenae will be continued here: https://sourceforge.net/p/hyenae-ng
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JPassword Recovery Tool
Password recovery tool for compressed archives and md5, sha-1/2 hashes
This is a simple but sophisticated open source password recovery tool for M$ Windows, it can effectively 'crack' any password protected archive that can be decompressed by 7zip given enough time and resources. It can also bruteforce MD2, MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2 hashes (SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512), CRC16, CRC32, CRC64 and Adler32 hashed passwords for both Windows, and Linux. It requires java 7u4 and above, and 7-zip v9.20 and up for archive recovery. Keeping these above applications up to date ensures peak performance. if you have any ideas, bugs, tips/improvements and/or suggestions please dont hesitate to contact me NB AS OF V1.07 PLEASE MAKE SURE 'resources' FOLDER IS IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS THE JPasswordRecoveryTool.jar Known Bugs(v1.09): -although md2 was selceted by default for hash recovery if you did not slected another value and reselect md2 it would use md5 by default -
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Atlantis iOS
A lightweight and powerful iOS framework for intercepting HTTP/HTTPS
Don't let cumbersome web debugging tools hold you back. With Proxyman's native macOS app, you can capture, inspect, and manipulate HTTP(s) traffic with ease. Intuitive, thoughtful, and built with meticulous attention to detail. Dive into the network level to diagnose and fix problems with reliable and powerful tools. Proxyman acts as a man-in-the-middle server that captures the traffic between your applications and SSL Web Server. With a built-in macOS setup, so you can inspect your HTTP/HTTPS Request and Responses in plain text with just one click. Narrow down your search with Proxyman's Multiple Filters. You can combine complex filtered criteria like Protocol, Content-Type, URL, Request Header, Response Header, Body, etc that find exact what you're looking for. -
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Password Guessing Framework
A Framework for Comparing Password Guessing Strategies
The Password Guessing Framework is an open source tool to provide an automated and reliable way to compare password guessers. It can help to identify individual strengths and weaknesses of a guesser, its modes of operation or even the underlying guessing strategies. Therefor, it gathers information about how many passwords from an input file (password leak) have been cracked in relation to the amount of generated guesses. Subsequent to the guessing process an analysis of the cracked passwords is performed. In general though, any guesser that prints the password candidates via STDOUT can be used with the framework. The aforementioned password guessing / password cracking software is not part nor shipped with the framework and need to be installed separately. -
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Shennina
Automating Host Exploitation with AI
Shennina is an automated host exploitation framework. The mission of the project is to fully automate the scanning, vulnerability scanning/analysis, and exploitation using Artificial Intelligence. Shennina is integrated with Metasploit and Nmap for performing the attacks, as well as being integrated with an in-house Command-and-Control Server for exfiltrating data from compromised machines automatically. Shennina scans a set of input targets for available network services, uses its AI engine to identify recommended exploits for the attacks, and then attempts to test and attack the targets. If the attack succeeds, Shennina proceeds with the post-exploitation phase. The AI engine is initially trained against live targets to learn reliable exploits against remote services. Shennina also supports a "Heuristics" mode for identfying recommended exploits. -
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Splunk Attack Range
Tool to simulate attacks and collect the data
Attack Range Log The Splunk Attack Range is an open-source project maintained by the Splunk Threat Research Team. It builds instrumented cloud (AWS, Azure) and local environments (Virtualbox), simulates attacks, and forwards the data into a Splunk instance. This environment can then be used to develop and test the effectiveness of detections. -
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Teardroid
It's easy to use android botnet work without port forwarding
It's easy to use Android botnet work without port forwarding, VPS, and Android Studio. Run Shell Command ( use findphno command in a run shell command to get the device phone number and use findx:pdf to find all the pdf files on the device ) It will prompt you with your Control Panel url enter your deta space control panel url without /v4 or your own server URL (without/at the end of the URL). You will also be prompted for the title and text of the notification. Enter what you want to display on the notification. Using your own keystore it's not recommended to use the default keystore you can modify the values in the Config.py file to use your own keystore with Teardroid v4. -
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sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers.
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Zynix-Fusion
zynix-Fusion is a framework for hacking
zynix-Fusion is a framework that aims to centralize, standardizeand simplify the use of various security tools for pentest professionals.zynix-Fusion (old name: Linux evil toolkit) has few simple commands, one of which is theinit function that allows you to define a target, and thus use all the toolswithout typing anything else. -
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Hcon Security Testing Framework
Open Source Penetration Testing / Ethical Hacking Framework
HconSTF is Open Source Penetration Testing Framework based on different browser technologies, Which helps any security professional to assists in the Penetration testing or vulnerability scanning assessments.contains webtools which are powerful in doing xss(cross site scripting), Sql injection, siXSS, CSRF, Trace XSS, RFI, LFI, etc. Even useful to anybody interested in information security domain - students, Security Professionals,web developers, manual vulnerability assessments and much more. -
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HTTP Anti Flood/DoS Security Module
Detect Flooder IPs, Reduce Attack Surface against HTTP Flood Attacks
This module provides attack surface reduction enhancements against the HTTP Flood Attacks at the web application level. Massive crawling/scanning tools, HTTP Flood tools can be detected and blocked by this module via htaccess, firewall or iptables, etc. (like mod_evasive) You can use this module by including "iosec.php" to any PHP file which wants to be protected. You can test module here: http://www.iosec.org/test.php (demo) Watch the Proof of Concept video: http://goo.gl/dSiAL Hakin9 IT Security Magazine Article about IOSEC http://goo.gl/aQM4Di (different format -> http://goo.gl/JKMUPN) IJNSA Article at http://goo.gl/LLxRdX WP Plugin Page http://goo.gl/nF5nD CHANGES v.1.8.2 - Iptables Auto Ban Bash Script Included - Token Access via Implicit Deny - Reverse Proxy Support - reCAPTCHA Support Do you want more features? Check for third party addons http://sf.net/projects/iosecaddons Gökhan Muharremoğlu -
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jsql-injection
jSQL Injection is a Java application for automatic SQL database injec
jSQL project has moved to https://github.com/ron190/jsql-injection jSQL Injection is a lightweight application used to find database information from a distant server. It is free, open source and cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). Kali Linux logo jSQL Injection is also part of the official penetration testing distribution Kali Linux and is included in distributions like Pentest Box, Parrot Security OS, ArchStrike or BlackArch Linux. -
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CSVHashCrack Suite
Multi hash crack suite
This script is capable of cracking multiple hashes from a CSV-file like e.g. dumps from sqlmap. Over 17.000 md5-hashes in a CSV-file get cracked with a 14.300.000 lines wordlist in less then 1 min. Lines wich cant get cracked with the wordlist get stored in a .leftToCrack-File to further process with another Wordlist or the bruteforce-tool. In addition to the wordlist-cracker I created also a bruteforce-tool named CSVHashBrutforcer.
