Hackers or security experts must have support tools at hand. Have you mastered 20 hacking tools that everyone should have? In this article, we will explore 20 Hacking Tools used by Hackers and Security Professionals that you need to have in your arsenal.
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Top 20 security tools that you should have
Nmap
Scanning is one of the mandatory steps in every attack. After gathering the target’s information, you need to move on to another step, scanning. If you care about information security, you should have Nmap in his arsenal. Nmap (short for Network mapper) is the most powerful network scanner. It is open source and completely free. Nmap gives you the ability to perform different types of network scans in addition to other capabilities thanks to the provided scripts. Alternatively, you can write your own NSE scripts.
The beauty of NMAP is that after scanning the target, you can execute the attack command.
Metasploit
Metasploit is the best known miner in the security world. The Metasploit project is a security project that integrates a variety of computer hacking tools that provide information on security vulnerabilities, support penetration testing, and development of IDS signatures. It is an open source miner developed by HD Moore. If you are using the distro Kali Linux, you don’t need to install it because it’s already built in. Metasploit is provided for Linux and Windows operating systems.
Burp Suite
If you’re interested in web security and maybe in the bug hunter field, you’ve definitely used Burp suite, at least the Community (free) version. Burp Suite is really a great hack tool. It is widely used to test web applications. It is developed in java and maintained by PortSwigger. It provides a graphical interface with many useful features and tools to assist you in all stages of your mission including intruders, repeaters, scanners, etc.
Mimikatz
Mimikatz is a powerful project written in C by Benjamin DELPY used to perform many windows security tests including: plaintext password and hashes extraction, pass-the-hash,pass-the-ticket, Over-Pass the Hash and Kerberos Golden Ticket techniques… This tool is often used in the post-mining phase. Mimikatz will in most cases run in interactive mode and it needs to be run as administrator.
Powersploit
PowerSploit is a set of Microsoft PowerShell modules used to assist pentesters in all stages of the assessment process. Powersploit is developed by PowerShellMafia and it is often used during post-exploitation. PowerSploit includes the following modules and scripts: CodeExecution, Persistence, AntivirusBypass, Exfiltration, Mayhem, Privesc, and Recon. One of the most useful scripts in Powersploit is Powerview.ps1. It’s a very useful scouting script.
Radare2
As a malware analyst, your primary role is to gather all the malware information and get a clear understanding of what happened to the infected machines. One of the required stages to understand malware is reverse engineering. One of the best known tools for doing that is Radare2. It’s not just a reverse engineering tool. R2 can perform many other tasks. It is a console-mode project that supports Linux. Radare2 contains many tools like rabin2, radiff2, rax2, rasm2,… Normally, you will have a hard time getting used to Radare2 but after a while you will understand most of its tools.
Ghidra
Another great reverse engineering tool is Ghidra. This open source project is maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate. Ghidra gives you the ability to analyze various file formats. It supports Windows, Linux and MacOS. You need Java installed to run it. This project comes with many helpful, detailed training materials. In addition, it gives you the ability to develop your own plugins using Java or Python.
SEToolkit
Social engineering is the art of hacking into the human psyche. In other words, it is a set of techniques used to obtain useful and sensitive information from others using psychological manipulations. One of the most powerful social engineering tools is the Social Engineering Toolkit or simply SETkit. It is developed and maintained by Trustedsec to help pentesters and ethical hackers perform social engineering attacks.
Recon-Language
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is data collected from publicly available sources for use in an intelligence context. Recon-ng is one of the must have OSINT tools. It is written in Python by lanmaster53 with many built-in modules and features. It contains 4 different types of modules: Reconnaissance, Exploration, Reporting and Experimental Modules.
With only a small information about the object, Recon-NG will help you find relevant information about the object that is publicly available on the Internet.
Maltego
Maltego is also an OSINT tool. It is an interactive data miner that displays directed graphs for association analysis. This tool is used in online surveys to find relationships between pieces of information from various sources on the Internet. Maltego uses the idea of ​​transformations to automate the process of querying different data sources. It is developed by Paterva. Maltego gives you transitions to help you gather information and visualize them.
Sublist3er
When doing web scouting, one of the required steps is to find the subdomain of the web application. For automation, you just need to use a great tool called “Sublist3r“. This project is written in python by aboul3la and it lists the subdomains of the website using many search engines including Google, Bing, Baidu and many more services like: VirusTotal, DNSdumpster,…
Dirsearch
As its name suggests, Dirsearch is a powerful tool to help you find the path of your target website. It is developed by maurosoria and supports Windows, Linux and MacOS. The great thing about Dirsearch is that it uses multithreading, supports many extensions, keeps direct connections, and reports in different formats like text and JSON.
OpenVAS
Vulnerability is a known weakness or vulnerability in an asset. As an information security professional, you will deal with vulnerabilities and use vulnerability scanners in many cases. OpenVAS will help you do that. It is a powerful vulnerability scanner written in C with over 50k vulnerabilities. It has been maintained by Greenbone Networks since 2009.
Wireshark
Communication and networking are vital to every modern organization. Ensuring that all of an organization’s networks are secure is an extremely important task. The most suitable tool to help you monitor your network is definitely Wireshark. Wireshark is an open source tool that helps you panalyze network protocols with deep inspection capabilities. It gives you the ability to perform packet capture directly or analyze the packet after it is captured. It supports many operating systems including Windows, Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD and many more.
ZAP
Zed Attack Proxy or simply ZAP, an open source tool used to help information security professionals scan websites for vulnerabilities. It uses the Apache license. ZAP is maintained by many volunteers and supported by an open web application project called OWASP. It acts as a man-in-the-middle proxy. So you need to configure your browser to use it.
John the Ripper
John the Ripper is an open source project developed by OpenWall. It is the fastest password cracking software available today. John the Ripper can run on different operating systems. It uses multiple jailbreak models to do its job, and it’s under the GPL v2.
Dradis
Reporting is a very important stage in information security. Having good writing skills is a must. Dradis is a reporting framework for information security professionals. It is cross-platform and open source. It can be integrated with more than 19 different platforms and tools.
Volatility
In-memory malware analysis is widely used for digital forensics and malware analysis. It refers to the act of analyzing the in-memory image dumped from the target machine after malware execution to obtain a variety of information including network information, API hooks, kernel loaded modules, schedule Bash history,… Volatility is the best tool to do it. It is an open source project developed by volatility foundation.
Volatility can run on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Volability supports various memory dump formats including dd, Lime, EWF and many more.
Autopsy
Digital forensics is one of the most exciting areas of information security. A digital forensic computer needs to be equipped with many DF tools. One of the most used tools in digital forensics is undoubtedly Autopsy. This is a graphical interface project based on the Sleuth toolkit to help forensic professionals investigate volumes and file systems.
Bloodhound
Bloodhound is a web application that uses graph theory to plot relationships in an active directory environment. Active Directory plays an important role in many modern organizations and agencies. Communication is an important aspect for business and a directory service is a wise choice as it acts as a single container for all requested information. Active Directory is based on client/server architecture.
This project is developed by @_wald0, @CptJesus and @harmj0y and it helps Hacker to identify attack paths and also to secure them.
In addition, the software needs to buy a license such as: Nessus, Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner… but almost no one buys it, only large financial or security companies use it because of the high price.
