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234,016 stars

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.

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Stars234,016
116,474 stars

Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking

A collection of various awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers

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Stars116,474
78,355 stars

Z4nzu/hackingtool

ALL IN ONE Hacking Tool For Hackers

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Stars78,355
54,230 stars

WerWolv/ImHex

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

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Stars54,230
48,938 stars

x64dbg/x64dbg

An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

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Stars48,938
28,537 stars

The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker

This repository is maintained by Omar Santos (@santosomar) and includes thousands of resources related to ethical hacking, bug bounties, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), AI security, vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, and more. 🔥 Also check: https://hackertraining.org

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Stars28,537
19,767 stars

smicallef/spiderfoot

SpiderFoot automates OSINT for threat intelligence and mapping your attack surface.

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Stars19,767
19,534 stars

bettercap/bettercap

The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.

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Stars19,534
17,250 stars

vitalysim/Awesome-Hacking-Resources

A collection of hacking / penetration testing resources to make you better!

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Stars17,250
16,737 stars

carpedm20/awesome-hacking

A curated list of awesome Hacking tutorials, tools and resources

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Stars16,737
15,505 stars

sundowndev/hacker-roadmap

A collection of hacking tools, resources and references to practice ethical hacking.

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Stars15,505
14,597 stars

Ciphey/Ciphey

⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡

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Stars14,597
14,524 stars

HunxByts/GhostTrack

Useful tool to track location or mobile number

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Stars14,524
14,521 stars

maurosoria/dirsearch

Web path scanner

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Stars14,521
14,486 stars

Hacker0x01/hacker101

Source code for Hacker101.com - a free online web and mobile security class.

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Stars14,486
14,352 stars

moonD4rk/HackBrowserData

Extract and decrypt browser data, supporting multiple data types, runnable on various operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux).

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Stars14,352
14,043 stars

projectdiscovery/subfinder

Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool.

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Stars14,043
13,953 stars

mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering

A FREE comprehensive reverse engineering tutorial covering x86, x64, 32-bit/64-bit ARM, 8-bit AVR and 32-bit RISC-V architectures.

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Stars13,953
13,604 stars

Datalux/Osintgram

Osintgram is a OSINT tool on Instagram. It offers an interactive shell to perform analysis on Instagram account of any users by its nickname

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Stars13,604
13,520 stars

juice-shop/juice-shop

OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application

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Stars13,520
13,383 stars

digininja/DVWA

Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA)

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Stars13,383
13,061 stars

OWASP/owasp-mastg

The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.

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Stars13,061
12,543 stars

jopohl/urh

Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like A Boss

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Stars12,543
12,533 stars

brannondorsey/wifi-cracking

Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Airodump-ng and Aircrack-ng/Hashcat

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Stars12,533
12,198 stars

Manisso/fsociety

fsociety Hacking Tools Pack – A Penetration Testing Framework

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Stars12,198
12,119 stars

nahamsec/Resources-for-Beginner-Bug-Bounty-Hunters

A list of resources for those interested in getting started in bug bounties

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Stars12,119
11,886 stars

carlospolop/hacktricks

Welcome to the page where you will find each trick/technique/whatever I have learnt in CTFs, real life apps, and reading researches and news.

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Stars11,886
11,830 stars

k4m4/movies-for-hackers

🎬 A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch.

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Stars11,830
11,352 stars

screetsec/TheFatRat

Thefatrat a massive exploiting tool : Easy tool to generate backdoor and easy tool to post exploitation attack like browser attack and etc . This tool compiles a malware with popular payload and then the compiled malware can be execute on windows, android, mac . The malware that created with this tool also have an ability to bypass most AV software protection .

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Stars11,352
10,921 stars

edoardottt/awesome-hacker-search-engines

A curated list of awesome search engines useful during Penetration testing, Vulnerability assessments, Red/Blue Team operations, Bug Bounty and more

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Stars10,921
10,499 stars

infosecn1nja/Red-Teaming-Toolkit

This repository contains cutting-edge open-source security tools (OST) for a red teamer and threat hunter.

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Stars10,499
10,320 stars

1N3/Sn1per

Automated penetration testing & attack surface management platform. Recon, scan, exploit, report — 600+ exploits, 90+ integrations, 10K+ detections.

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Stars10,320
10,189 stars

blacklanternsecurity/bbot

The recursive internet scanner for hackers. 🧡

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Stars10,189
10,007 stars

samratashok/nishang

Nishang - Offensive PowerShell for red team, penetration testing and offensive security.

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Stars10,007
9,601 stars

OWASP/wstg

The Web Security Testing Guide is a comprehensive Open Source guide to testing the security of web applications and web services.

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Stars9,601
9,487 stars

A-poc/RedTeam-Tools

Tools and Techniques for Red Team / Penetration Testing

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Stars9,487
8,906 stars

jofpin/trape

People tracker on the Internet: OSINT analysis and research tool by Jose Pino

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Stars8,906
8,746 stars

yogeshojha/rengine

reNgine is an automated reconnaissance framework for web applications with a focus on highly configurable streamlined recon process via Engines, recon data correlation and organization, continuous monitoring, backed by a database, and simple yet intuitive User Interface. reNgine makes it easy for penetration testers to gather reconnaissance with minimal configuration and with the help of reNgine's correlation, it just makes recon effortless.

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Stars8,746
8,510 stars

cipher387/osint_stuff_tool_collection

A collection of several hundred online tools for OSINT

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Stars8,510
7,953 stars

trickest/cve

Gather and update all available and newest CVEs with their PoC.

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Stars7,953
7,866 stars

six2dez/reconftw

reconFTW is a tool designed to perform automated recon on a target domain by running the best set of tools to perform scanning and finding out vulnerabilities

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Stars7,866
7,860 stars

v1s1t0r1sh3r3/airgeddon

This is a multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks.

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Stars7,860
7,612 stars

yaklang/yakit

Cyber Security ALL-IN-ONE Platform

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Stars7,612
7,577 stars

jakejarvis/awesome-shodan-queries

🔍 A collection of interesting, funny, and depressing search queries to plug into shodan.io 👩‍💻

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Stars7,577
7,272 stars

bee-san/pyWhat

🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙‍♀️

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Stars7,272
7,115 stars

infoslack/awesome-web-hacking

A list of web application security

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Stars7,115
7,082 stars

Juanpe/About-SwiftUI

Gathering all info published, both by Apple and by others, about new framework SwiftUI.

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Stars7,082
6,968 stars

mitre/caldera

Automated Adversary Emulation Platform

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Stars6,968
6,893 stars

LasCC/HackTools

The all-in-one browser extension for offensive security professionals 🛠

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Stars6,893
6,809 stars

daffainfo/AllAboutBugBounty

All about bug bounty (bypasses, payloads, and etc)

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Stars6,809
6,730 stars

urbanadventurer/WhatWeb

Next generation web scanner

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Stars6,730
6,690 stars

S1ckB0y1337/Active-Directory-Exploitation-Cheat-Sheet

A cheat sheet that contains common enumeration and attack methods for Windows Active Directory.

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Stars6,690
6,484 stars

j3ssie/osmedeus

A Modern Orchestration Engine for Security

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Stars6,484
6,395 stars

yeahhub/Hacking-Security-Ebooks

Top 100 Hacking & Security E-Books (Free Download)

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Stars6,395
6,345 stars

twostraws/HackingWithSwift

The project source code for Hacking with iOS.

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Stars6,345
6,182 stars

k8gege/K8tools

K8工具合集(内网渗透/提权工具/远程溢出/漏洞利用/扫描工具/密码破解/免杀工具/Exploit/APT/0day/Shellcode/Payload/priviledge/BypassUAC/OverFlow/WebShell/PenTest) Web GetShell Exploit(Struts2/Zimbra/Weblogic/Tomcat/Apache/Jboss/DotNetNuke/zabbix)

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Stars6,182
6,051 stars

frappe/gantt

Open Source Javascript Gantt

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Stars6,051
6,040 stars

AzeemIdrisi/PhoneSploit-Pro

An all-in-one hacking tool to remotely exploit Android devices using ADB and Metasploit-Framework to get a Meterpreter session.

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Stars6,040
5,978 stars

rmusser01/Infosec_Reference

An Information Security Reference That Doesn't Suck; https://rmusser.net/git/admin-2/Infosec_Reference for non-MS Git hosted version.

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Stars5,978
5,940 stars

alpkeskin/mosint

An automated e-mail OSINT tool

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Stars5,940
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