Security Tools

A collection of my favourite tools to use in CTFs and computer science & security workflows.

Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking

• Vulnerabilities / Exploits

• Security Focus - Search vulnerabilties by CVE or by Vendor/Version

• Exploit DB - Exploits Database by Offensive Security

• Siphon - Exploits, Dumps, Leaks, Papers, Hashes

• Ethical Hacking / CTFs

• Practice CTF List

• Preparing for CTF - Tools and Resources to Prepare for a Hacker CTF Competition or Challenge

• Hack This Site! - Ethical Hacking Practice

• Hacking Lab

• List of Homebrew-installable Tools

Digital Forensics

• Cryptography

• cryptii - The ultimate decoder. Put your plaintext or ciphertext through a series of decoding steps. Includes morse code, base64, caeser cipher, ROT13, Enigma, and many more

• quipqiup - cryptogram solver

• Cipher Tools - List of cipher decoders/decrypters

• Decoder - Base64, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, etc

• Encoder / Decoder - A tool to help in breaking codes

• CyberChef - Analyzes and decodes data (data formats, compression, and encryption)

• CrackStation - Password Hash Cracker

• Steganography

• Image Steganography - Hide images inside other images

• Steganography Tools - Encode an image, Decode an image, Compare two images

• Reverse Engineering

• Hopper Disassembler

• hackme - Deconstructing an ELF file

• File Checker - Check File Type

• Binary Ninja - software - A reserve engineering tool (software)

• IDA - software - IDA is a Windows, Linux or Mac OS X hosted multi-processor disassembler and debugger...etc

Software Security

Web Applications

Malware Analysis

• Virus Total - Upload file, search URL, domain, IP, or hash. Get network information, signatures, malware classification, etc

Misc

• Packet Analysis - Upload pcaps and get summaries of connections, malicious activity, connection timelines, etc
• Wireshark - Examine & Analyze pcaps, or capture packets on an interface near you