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CTF-and-Computer-Security-Tools

List of tools & libraries that I have learn and use for Capture-The-Flags (CTFs) & Computer Security Learning

DISCLAIMER : Some of the tools below could damage personal and public properties, which may leads to illegal activities (especially in Network & Web sections). Thus, only educational and legally-permitted use

The difference of white-hat and black-hat is only their ethicity and legality
- Unknown

Educational & permitted platforms I have been practising on :

Cryptography

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Cyberchef https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis
2. Dcode https://www.dcode.fr/ For decrypting various kind of uncommon encoding methods
3. xortool https://github.com/hellman/xortool
4. Esolang https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page Information about Esoteric programming language, like brainfuck
5. Cryptii https://cryptii.com/
6. RsaCTFTool https://github.com/Ganapati/RsaCtfTool Instant RSA Encryption Decryptor, work better with basic knowledge of RSA, Sage Math package required
7. Cryptool https://www.cryptool.org/en/

Password Cracking

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Hashcat https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
2. John The Ripper https://www.openwall.com/john/
3. md5hashing https://md5hashing.net/ Hash cracking based on database record
4. Hydra https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra An online login password cracker that supports on multiple protocols, eg. HTTP & SSH

Forensics

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Binwalk https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk Used for analyzing, reverse engineering, and extracting firmware imagestool
2. Foremost https://github.com/korczis/foremost A console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.
3. Exiftool https://exiftool.org/ Perl library & CLI to read, write and edit meta information in a wide variety of file formats
4. Volatility https://www.volatilityfoundation.org/ An Open Source Memory Forensics Framework
5. Strings
6. The Sleuth Kit https://sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/ A library and collection of command line tools that allow you to investigate disk images
7. HexEditor
8. Autopsy https://www.autopsy.com/download/ An Open Source forensics platform for analyzing all types of mobile devices and digital media

Reverse Engineering

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Ghidra https://ghidra-sre.org/ Written in Java & C++, JDK v11+ required
2. GDB http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/
3. IDA Pro https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download.shtml Multi-purpose, payment required
4. radare2 http://www.radare.org/y/?p=download Unix-like RE framework * CLI
5. Apktool https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/ Andriod RE apk files
6. Cutter https://cutter.re/ GUI version of radare2, written in Python
7. Hopper https://www.hopperapp.com/ Analyse IPA files, ie. iOS application files
8. plistutil https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist C library to handle Apple .plist files in XML format.
9. dex2jar https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files
10. jd-gui https://java-decompiler.github.io/ A Java decompiler with GUI, worked with JAR files

Web

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Burp Suite https://portswigger.net/burp Community Edition should be enough
2. OWASP ZAP https://www.zaproxy.org/ Same use as Burp while maintained by OWASP, while different in certain features

Networking

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Wireshark https://www.wireshark.org/ An Open Source network & packet analyzer
2. tcpdump https://www.tcpdump.org/ Command-line packet analyzer
3. netcat https://sectools.org/tool/netcat/ A computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP, features includes port scanning, transferring files, and port listening, and it can be used as a backdoor
4. Nmap https://nmap.org/ A free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing
5. aircrack-ng https://www.aircrack-ng.org/ Tool for WiFi network security
6. OWASP Amass https://github.com/OWASP/Amass A network mapping tool by attacking surfaces and external asset discovery using open source information gathering and active reconnaissance techniques

Steganography

Images

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Steghide https://github.com/StefanoDeVuono/steghide
2. Stegoveritas https://github.com/bannsec/stegoVeritas
3. Exiftool https://exiftool.org/ Perl library & CLI to read, write and edit meta information in a wide variety of file formats
4. Stegosuite https://stegosuite.org/
5. Pngcheck http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/pngcheck.html
6. Foremost https://github.com/korczis/foremost A console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.

Audio

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/
2. Sonic Visualizer https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/

OSINT (Open Source INTelligence)

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. OSINT Framework https://osintframework.com/ Online framework for information gathering from free tools/resources
2. WayBack Machine https://web.archive.org/ Search for website snapshot version
3. Shodan https://www.shodan.io/ Search for internet connected devices info
4. Social Media eg. GitHub, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc
5. Recon-ng https://github.com/lanmaster53/recon-ng Open Source Intelligence gathering tool
6. Pastebin https://pastebin.com/ Search for raw data
7. Yandex https://yandex.com/ Search engine for reverse image search, powered by machine learning

Recon

No. Tool Homepage Description
1. Nmap https://nmap.org/ Used to get website information by sending designated packet
2. sublist3r https://github.com/aboul3la/Sublist3r Finding subdirectories of a website
3. Gobuster https://github.com/OJ/gobuster Directory bruteforcing (Recommended)
4. dirb https://tools.kali.org/web-applications/dirb Directory bruteforcing
5. Dirbuster https://tools.kali.org/web-applications/dirbuster Java-based GUI for directory enumeration
6. Wappalyzer https://www.wappalyzer.com/lookup/ Browser extension that can reveal the technology stack used by any website instantly

Malware Analysis

No. Tool/Sandbox Homepage Description
1. VirusTotal https://www.virustotal.com/gui/
2. Hybrid Analysis https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/
3. MobSF https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF Mobile Security Framework, all-in-one
4. Drozer https://labs.f-secure.com/tools/drozer/ Security and attack framework for Android
5. cycript http://www.cycript.org/ JS framework to RE iOS & Mac OS X applications
6. unc0ver https://unc0ver.dev/ One of the most advance jailbreak tool for iOS devices
7. Cydia https://cydia-app.com/ Unofficial iPhone appstore with jailbreak resources

Vulnerable VMs for exploitation practices

No. Virtual Machine Homepage Description
1. OWASP Security Shepherd https://owasp.org/www-project-security-shepherd/ Web and mobile application security training platform, to improve security awareness
2. Damn Vulnerable Web App https://github.com/digininja/DVWA A PHP/MySQL web application that is designed to be damn vulnerable
3. Metaspoitable 2 https://docs.rapid7.com/metasploit/metasploitable-2/ A secure test environment to perform penetration testing & research with Metaspoit
4. OWASP WebGoat https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat A designated insecure Java Spring Boot web application to introduce OWASP Top 10

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