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qFlipper
Desktop application for updating Flipper Zero firmware via PC
qFlipper is a cross-platform desktop application that serves as the official graphical interface for managing and maintaining the Flipper Zero device from a computer environment. Built using the Qt framework, it runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, providing a consistent user experience across operating systems. Its primary function is to simplify firmware management by allowing users to update, repair, or install firmware with a single action, reducing the complexity typically associated with embedded device maintenance. In addition to firmware operations, qFlipper includes tools for backing up and restoring user data, ensuring that configurations and captured assets are preserved during updates or troubleshooting. The application also enables users to stream the Flipper Zero display and remotely control the device from their computer, effectively extending its interface beyond the physical hardware. -
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cyborghawk v1.1
Latest-v1.1 of The World's most advanced pen testing distribution ever
updated version of The most advanced, powerful and yet beautiful penetration testing distribution ever created.Lined up with ultimate collection of tools for pro Ethical Hackers and Cyber Security Experts. Simplify security in your IT infrastructure with Cyborg. Its real strength comes from the understanding that a tester requires a strong and efficient system,that benefits from a strong selection of tools, integrated with a stable linux environment. -
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NPS
Lightweight, high-performance, powerful intranet penetration proxy
NPS is a lightweight, high-performance, powerful intranet penetration proxy server, with a powerful web management terminal. Comprehensive protocol support, compatible with almost all commonly used protocols, such as tcp, udp, http(s), socks5, p2p, http proxy. Full platform compatibility (linux, windows, macos, Synology, etc.), support installation as a system service simply. Comprehensive control, both client and server control are allowed. Https integration, support to convert backend proxy and web services to https, and support multiple certificates. Just simple configuration on web ui can complete most requirements. Complete information display, such as traffic, system information, real-time bandwidth, client version, etc. Powerful extension functions, everything is available (cache, compression, encryption, traffic limit, bandwidth limit, port reuse, etc.) Domain name resolution has functions such as custom headers, 404 page configuration, host modification, etc. -
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Offensive Reverse Shell
Collection of reverse shells for red team operations
The Offensive Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet is a compilation of reverse shell payloads useful for red team operations and penetration testing. It provides ready-to-use code snippets in various programming languages, facilitating the establishment of reverse shells during security assessments. -
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mitmproxy
A free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
mitmproxy is an open source, interactive SSL/TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy, with a console interface fit for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets. It's the ideal tool for penetration testers and software developers, able to debug, test, and make privacy measurements. It can intercept, inspect, modify and replay web traffic, and can even prettify and decode a variety of message types. Its web-based interface mitmweb gives you a similar experience as Chrome's DevTools, with the addition of features like request interception and replay. Its command-line version mitmdump allows you to write powerful addons and script mitmproxy so it can automatically modify messages, redirect traffic, and perform many other custom commands. -
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ArpON
ARP handler inspection
ArpON (ARP handler inspection) is a Host-based solution that make the ARP standardized protocol secure in order to avoid the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through the ARP spoofing, ARP cache poisoning or ARP poison routing attack. -
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apk-mitm
Application that automatically prepares Android APK files for HTTPS
Inspecting a mobile app's HTTPS traffic using a proxy is probably the easiest way to figure out how it works. However, with the Network Security Configuration introduced in Android 7 and app developers trying to prevent MITM attacks using certificate pinning, getting an app to work with an HTTPS proxy has become quite tedious. -
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dirsearch
Web path scanner
An advanced command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers, AKA web path scanner. Wordlist is a text file, each line is a path. About extensions, unlike other tools, dirsearch only replaces the %EXT% keyword with extensions from -e flag. For wordlists without %EXT% (like SecLists), -f | --force-extensions switch is required to append extensions to every word in wordlist, as well as the /. To use multiple wordlists, you can separate your wordlists with commas. Example: wordlist1.txt,wordlist2.txt. Default values for dirsearch flags can be edited in the configuration file: default.conf. The thread number (-t | --threads) reflects the number of separated brute force processes. And so the bigger the thread number is, the faster dirsearch runs. By default, the number of threads is 30, but you can increase it if you want to speed up the progress. -
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sqlmap
Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
sqlmap is a powerful, feature-filled, open source penetration testing tool. It makes detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over the database servers an automated process. sqlmap comes with a great range of features that along with its powerful detection engine make it the ultimate penetration tester. It offers full support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, IBM DB2, SQLite, Firebird, and many other database management systems. It also comes with a wide set of switches which include database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, accessing the underlying file system, and more. -
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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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PDFRip
A multi-threaded PDF password cracking utility
A multi-threaded PDF password cracking utility equipped with commonly encountered password format builders and dictionary attacks. pdfrip is a fast multithreaded PDF password cracking utility written in Rust with support for wordlist-based dictionary attacks, date and number range bruteforcing, and a custom query builder for password formats. You can write your own queries like STRING{69-420} with the -q option which would generate a wordlist with the full number range. You can pass in an year as the input with the -d option which would bruteforce all 365 days of the year in DDMMYYYY format which is a pretty commonly used password format for PDFs. Just give a number range like 5000-100000 with the -n option and it would bruteforce with the whole range. -
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Wifipumpkin3
Powerful framework for rogue access point attack
wifipumpkin3 is powerful framework for rogue access point attack, written in Python, that allow and offer to security researchers, red teamers and reverse engineers to mount a wireless network to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack. -
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Brook
Brook is a cross-platform strong encryption and not detectable proxy
Brook is a cross-platform strong encryption and not detectable proxy. Brook's goal is to keep it simple, stupid and not detectable. You can run commands after entering the command-line interface. Usually, everyone uses the command line interface on Linux servers. Of course, Linux also has desktops that can also run GUI. Of course, macOS and Windows also have command-line interfaces, but you may not use them frequently. Usually, the applications opened by double-clicking/clicking on macOS/Windows/iOS/Android are all GUIs. Usually, if you use Brook, you will need a combination of Server and Client, Of course Brook CLI also has many other independent functions. The Brook CLI file is an independent command file, it can be said that there is no concept of installation, just download this file to your computer, run it after granting it executable permissions in the command line interface. -
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Ray Tracing in One Weekend Book Series
The Ray Tracing in One Weekend series of books
The Ray Tracing in One Weekend series of books are now available to the public for free online. They are now released under the CC0 license. This means that they are as close to public domain as we can get. (While that also frees you from the requirement of providing attribution, it would help the overall project if you could point back to this web site as a service to other users.) These books are formatted for printing directly from your browser, where you can also (on most browsers) save them as PDF. In Ray Tracing in One Weekend, you will build a simple brute-force path tracer. Continuing with Ray Tracing: The Next Week, you will add textures, volumes (like fog), rectangles, instances, lights, and support for lots of objects using a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH). Finally, with Ray Tracing: The Rest Of Your Life, we'll dive into the math of creating a very serious ray tracer. -
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Retire.js
Scanner detecting the use of JavaScript libraries
There is a plethora of JavaScript libraries for use on the web and in node.js apps out there. This greatly simplifies, but we need to stay updated on security fixes. "Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities" is now a part of the OWASP Top 10 and insecure libraries can pose a huge risk for your web app. The goal of Retire.js is to help you detect the use of versions with known vulnerabilities. Scan a web app or node app for use of vulnerable JavaScript libraries and/or node modules. grunt-retire scans your grunt-enabled app for use of vulnerable JavaScript libraries and/or node modules. Scans visited sites for references to insecure libraries and puts warnings in the developer console. An icon on the address bar displays will also indicate if vulnerable libraries were loaded. Retire.js has been adapted as a plugin for the penetration testing tools Burp and OWASP ZAP. -
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Matriux is a GNU/Linux, Debian based security distribution designed for penetration testing and cyber forensic investigations. It is a distribution designed for security enthusiasts and professionals, can also be used normally as your default OS.
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MITMf
Framework for Man-In-The-Middle attacks
MITMf aims to provide a one-stop-shop for Man-In-The-Middle and network attacks while updating and improving existing attacks and techniques. Originally built to address the significant shortcomings of other tools (e.g Ettercap, Mallory), it's been almost completely rewritten from scratch to provide a modular and easily extendible framework that anyone can use to implement their own MITM attack. The framework contains a built-in SMB, HTTP and DNS server that can be controlled and used by the various plugins, it also contains a modified version of the SSLStrip proxy that allows for HTTP modification and a partial HSTS bypass. As of version 0.9.8, MITMf supports active packet filtering and manipulation (basically what better filters did, only better), allowing users to modify any type of traffic or protocol. The configuration file can be edited on-the-fly while MITMf is running, the changes will be passed down through the framework. -
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SSH-MITM
Server for security audits supporting public key authentication
ssh man-in-the-middle (ssh-mitm) server for security audits supporting publickey authentication, session hijacking and file manipulation. SSH-MITM is a man in the middle SSH Server for security audits and malware analysis. Password and publickey authentication are supported and SSH-MITM is able to detect, if a user is able to login with publickey authentication on the remote server. This allows SSH-MITM to accept the same key as the destination server. If publickey authentication is not possible, the authentication will fall back to password-authentication. When publickey authentication is possible, a forwarded agent is needed to login to the remote server. In cases, when no agent was forwarded, SSH-MITM can rediredt the session to a honeypot. -
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Tamper Dev
Extension that allows you to intercept and edit HTTP/HTTPS requests
If you are a developer, you can use Tamper Dev to debug your websites, or if you are a pentester, you can use it to search for security vulnerabilities by inspecting the HTTP traffic from your browser. Unlike most other extensions, Tamper Dev allows you to intercept, inspect and modify the requests before they are sent to the server. This extension provides functionality similar to Burp Proxy, MITM Proxy, OWASP ZAP, Tamper Data, and Postman Proxy, but without the need of additional software, with full support of HTTPS connections, and trivial to set-up (just install). -
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proxy.py
Utilize all available CPU cores for accepting new client connections
proxy.py is made with performance in mind. By default, proxy.py will try to utilize all available CPU cores to it for accepting new client connections. This is achieved by starting AcceptorPool which listens on configured server port. Then, AcceptorPool starts Acceptor processes (--num-acceptors) to accept incoming client connections. Alongside, if --threadless is enabled, ThreadlessPool is setup which starts Threadless processes (--num-workers) to handle the incoming client connections. Each Acceptor process delegates the accepted client connection to a threadless process via Work class. Currently, HttpProtocolHandler is the default work class. HttpProtocolHandler simply assumes that incoming clients will follow HTTP specification. Specific HTTP proxy and HTTP server implementations are written as plugins of HttpProtocolHandler. -
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ESSPEE - Penetration Testing & Forensics
(Android Forensics & Malware Analysis Included)
ESSPEE - Extreme Security Scanning Penetration testing & Exploitation Environment Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is purposefully selected as the base Operating System to obtain supports from Ubuntu for a long duration (till Apr 2017). It is packed with featured security tools with very less resource consumption and higher degree of stability. Thanks to Back Track, Blackbuntu, CAINE and DEFT and many others for inspiration. Being a sole developer to this distro, I wish it would help Open Source community with a better interface for Vulnerability Analysis, Penetration Testing, Malware analysis, Android and Cyber Forensics. I really enjoyed my work for the last three years. Please let me know about bugs and if possible provide solution also. -
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<<Hack|Track GNU/Linux
Distro Penetrasing Live System Burn to USB Flash Disk & Run.
<<Hack|Track GNU/Linux is an open source operating system developed by the HTGL Project from Indonesia which provides penetration testing. -
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GoSpider
Gospider - Fast web spider written in Go
GoSpider - Fast web spider written in Go. Fast web crawling. Brute force and parse sitemap.xml. Parse robots.txt. Generate and verify link from JavaScript files. Link Finder. Find AWS-S3 from response source. Find subdomains from the response source. Get URLs from Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, Virus Total, Alien Vault. Format output easy to Grep. Support Burp input. Crawl multiple sites in parallel. -
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Hoverfly
Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool
Hoverfly is a lightweight, open source API simulation tool. Using Hoverfly, you can create realistic simulations of the APIs your application depends on. Replace unreliable test systems and restrictive API sandboxes with high-performance simulations in seconds. Run on MacOS, Windows or Linux, or use native Java or Python language bindings to get started quickly. Simulate API latency or failure when required by writing custom scripts in the language of your choice. -
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Shannon
Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps
Shannon is an autonomous AI penetration testing system built to find and prove real, exploitable vulnerabilities in web applications rather than stopping at static warnings or best-guess alerts. It focuses on “proof by exploitation,” meaning it actively hunts for attack vectors in your code and then attempts to execute end-to-end exploits to demonstrate impact. The project blends source-aware analysis with automated web interaction so it can validate issues like injection flaws, authentication bypasses, and other exploitable paths in a way that resembles an actual attacker’s workflow. Instead of requiring you to manually reproduce findings, Shannon is designed to produce actionable evidence that a weakness can be weaponized, which helps teams prioritize what truly matters. It positions itself as a pre-attacker safety net, aiming to break your web app before someone else does and thereby reduce the gap between “potentially vulnerable” and “confirmed exploitable.”
