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"Knowledge is powerful, be careful how you use it!"
A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.
📔 What is it?
This list is a collection of various materials and tools that I use every day in my work. It contains a lot of useful information gathered in one piece.
🚻 For whom?
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💢 Table of Contents
Only main chapters:
- CLI Tools
- GUI Tools
- Web Tools
- Systems/Services
- Networks
- Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials
- Inspiring Lists
- Blogs/Podcasts/Videos
- Hacking/Penetration Testing
- Your daily knowledge and news
- Other Cheat Sheets
- One-liners
- Shell functions
🔱 The Book of Secret Knowledge (Chapters)
CLI Tools [TOC]
▪️ Shells
🔸 GNU Bash - is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell and C shell.
🔸 Zsh - is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
🔸 bash-it - is a framework for using, developing and maintaining shell scripts and custom commands.
🔸 Oh My ZSH! - is the best framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
🔸 Oh My Fish - the Fishshell framework.
▪️ Managers
🔸 Midnight Commander - is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License.
🔸 ranger - is a VIM-inspired filemanager for the console.
🔸 nnn - is a tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
🔸 screen - is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
🔸 tmux - is a terminal multiplexer, lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal.
🔸 tmux-cssh - is a tool to set comfortable and easy to use functionality, clustering and synchronizing tmux-sessions.
▪️ Text editors
🔸 vi - is one of the most common text editors on Unix.
🔸 vim - is a highly configurable text editor.
🔸 emacs - is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor - and more.
▪️ Files and directories
🔸 fd - is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
▪️ Network
🔸 PuTTY - is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham.
🔸 nmap - is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing.
🔸 masscan - is the fastest Internet port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously.
🔸 pbscan - is a faster and more efficient stateless SYN scanner and banner grabber.
🔸 hping - is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
🔸 mtr - is a tool that combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
🔸 netcat - is a networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
🔸 tcpdump - is a powerful command-line packet analyzer.
🔸 tshark - is a tool that allows us to dump and analyze network traffic (wireshark cli).
🔸 Termshark - is a simple terminal user-interface for tshark.
🔸 ngrep - is like GNU grep applied to the network layer.
🔸 sockdump - dump unix domain socket traffic.
🔸 stenographer - is a packet capture solution which aims to quickly spool all packets to disk.
🔸 bmon - is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually.
🔸 iptraf-ng - is a console-based network monitoring program for Linux that displays information about IP traffic.
🔸 iPerf3 - is a tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks.
🔸 ethr - is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.
🔸 Etherate - is a Linux CLI based Ethernet and MPLS traffic testing tool.
🔸 Nemesis - packet manipulation CLI tool; craft and inject packets of several protocols.
🔸 packetfu - a mid-level packet manipulation library for Ruby.
🔸 Scapy - packet manipulation library; forge, send, decode, capture packets of a wide number of protocols.
🔸 impacket - is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.
🔸 ssh-audit - is a tool for SSH server auditing.
🔸 aria2 - is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
▪️ Network (DNS)
🔸 fierce - is a DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space.
🔸 subfinder - is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers valid subdomains for websites.
🔸 sublist3r - is a fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers.
🔸 amass - is tool that obtains subdomain names by scraping data sources, crawling web archives and more.
🔸 namebench - provides personalized DNS server recommendations based on your browsing history.
🔸 dnscrypt-proxy 2 - a flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
▪️ Network (HTTP)
🔸 Curl - is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs.
🔸 kurly - is an alternative to the widely popular curl program, written in Golang.
🔸 HTTPie - is an user-friendly HTTP client.
🔸 wuzz - is an interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection.
🔸 htrace.sh - is a simple Swiss Army knife for http/https troubleshooting and profiling.
🔸 httpstat - is a tool that visualizes curl statistics in a way of beauty and clarity.
🔸 httplab - is an interactive web server.
🔸 Lynx - is a text browser for the World Wide Web.
🔸 HeadlessBrowsers - a list of (almost) all headless web browsers in existence.
🔸 ab - is a single-threaded command line tool for measuring the performance of HTTP web servers.
🔸 siege - is an http load testing and benchmarking utility.
🔸 wrk - is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load.
🔸 bombardier - is a fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go.
🔸 gobench - http/https load testing and benchmarking tool.
🔸 hey - HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement, formerly known as rakyll/boom.
🔸 boom - is a script you can use to quickly smoke-test your web app deployment.
🔸 SlowHTTPTest - is a tool that simulates some Application Layer Denial of Service attacks by prolonging HTTP.
🔸 gobuster - is a free and open source directory/file & DNS busting tool written in Go.
▪️ SSL
🔸 openssl - is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the TLS and SSL protocols.
🔸 gnutls-cli - client program to set up a TLS connection to some other computer.
🔸 sslyze
- fast and powerful SSL/TLS server scanning library.
🔸 sslscan - tests SSL/TLS enabled services to discover supported cipher suites.
🔸 testssl.sh - testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port.
🔸 cipherscan - a very simple way to find out which SSL ciphersuites are supported by a target.
🔸 spiped - is a utility for creating symmetrically encrypted and authenticated pipes between socket addresses.
🔸 Certbot - is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server.
🔸 mkcert - simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
🔸 Sublert - is a security and reconnaissance tool to automatically monitor new subdomains.
🔸 mkchain - open source tool to help you build a valid SSL certificate chain.
▪️ Security
🔸 SELinux - provides a flexible Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system built into the Linux kernel.
🔸 AppArmor - proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats.
▪️ Auditing Tools
🔸 ossec - actively monitoring all aspects of system activity with file integrity monitoring.
🔸 auditd - provides a way to track security-relevant information on your system.
🔸 Tiger - is a security tool that can be use both as a security audit and intrusion detection system.
🔸 Lynis - battle-tested security tool for systems running Linux, macOS, or Unix-based operating system.
🔸 LinEnum - scripted Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation Checks.
🔸 Rkhunter - scanner tool for Linux systems that scans backdoors, rootkits and local exploits on your systems.
🔸 PE-sieve - is a light-weight tool that helps to detect malware running on the system.
▪️ System Diagnostics/Debuggers
🔸 strace - diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux.
🔸 DTrace - is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool.
🔸 ltrace - is a library call tracer, used to trace calls made by programs to library functions.
🔸 perf-tools - performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace.
🔸 bpftrace - high-level tracing language for Linux eBPF.
🔸 sysdig - system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers.
🔸 Valgrind - is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools.
🔸 gperftools - high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation, plus some performance analysis tools.
🔸 glances - cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.
🔸 htop - interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.
🔸 atop - ASCII performance monitor. Includes statistics for CPU, memory, disk, swap, network, and processes.
🔸 lsof - displays in its output information about files that are opened by processes.
🔸 FlameGraph - stack trace visualizer.
🔸 lsofgraph - small utility to convert Unix lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication.
🔸 rr - is a lightweight tool for recording, replaying and debugging execution of applications.
🔸 Performance Co-Pilot - a system performance analysis toolkit.
🔸 hexyl - a command-line hex viewer.
▪️ Log Analyzers
🔸 angle-grinder - slice and dice log files on the command line.
🔸 lnav - log file navigator with search and automatic refresh.
🔸 GoAccess - real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.
🔸 ngxtop - real-time metrics for nginx server.
▪️ Databases
🔸 usql - universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
🔸 pgcli - postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
🔸 mycli - terminal client for MySQL with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
▪️ TOR
🔸 Nipe - script to make Tor Network your default gateway.
🔸 multitor - a tool that lets you create multiple TOR instances with a load-balancing.
▪️ Other
🔸 incron - is an inode-based filesystem notification technology.
🔸 GRV - is a terminal based interface for viewing Git repositories.
🔸 Tig - text-mode interface for Git.
🔸 tldr - simplified and community-driven man pages.
🔸 archiver - easily create and extract .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .tar.lz4, .tar.sz, and .rar.
🔸 commander.js - minimal CLI creator in JavaScript.
GUI Tools [TOC]
▪️ Terminal emulators
🔸 Guake - is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment.
🔸 Terminator - is based on GNOME Terminal, useful features for sysadmins and other users.
🔸 Kitty - is a GPU based terminal emulator that supports smooth scrolling and images.
▪️ Network
🔸 Wireshark - is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
🔸 Ettercap - is a comprehensive network monitor tool.
🔸 EtherApe - is a graphical network monitoring solution.
🔸 JMeter™ - open source software to load test functional behavior and measure performance.
🔸 locust - scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
▪️ Browsers
🔸 TOR Browser - protect your privacy and defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis.
▪️ Password Managers
🔸 KeePassXC - store your passwords safely and auto-type them into your everyday websites and apps.
🔸 Enpass - password manager and secure wallet.
▪️ Messengers/IRC Clients
🔸 HexChat - is an IRC client based on XChat.
🔸 Pidgin - is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions.
▪️ Messengers (end-to-end encryption)
🔸 Signal - is an encrypted communications app.
🔸 Wire - secure messaging, file sharing, voice calls and video conferences. All protected with end-to-end encryption.
🔸 TorChat - decentralized anonymous instant messenger on top of Tor Hidden Services.
▪️ Text editors
🔸 Sublime Text - is a lightweight, cross-platform code editor known for its speed, ease of use.
🔸 Visual Studio Code - an open-source and free source code editor developed by Microsoft.
🔸 Atom - a hackable text editor for the 21st Century.
Web Tools [TOC]
▪️ Browsers
🔸 SSL/TLS Capabilities of Your Browser - test your browser's SSL implementation.
🔸 Can I use - provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies.
🔸 Panopticlick 3.0 - is your browser safe against tracking?
🔸 Privacy Analyzer - see what data is exposed from your browser.
🔸 Web Browser Security - it's all about Web Browser fingerprinting.
🔸 How's My SSL? - help a web server developer learn what real world TLS clients were capable of.
🔸 sslClientInfo - client test (incl TLSv1.3 information).
▪️ SSL/Security
🔸 SSLLabs Server Test - free online service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server.
🔸 SSLLabs Server Test (DEV) - free online service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server.
🔸 ImmuniWeb® SSLScan - test SSL/TLS (PCI DSS, HIPAA and NIST).
🔸 COMODO SSL Analyzer - ssl analyzer and ssl certificate checker.*
🔸 SSL Check - scan your website for non-secure content.
🔸 CryptCheck - test your TLS server configuration (e.g. ciphers).
🔸 urlscan.io - service to scan and analyse websites.
🔸 Report URI - monitoring security policies like CSP and HPKP.
🔸 CSP Evaluator - allows developers and security experts to check if a Content Security Policy.
🔸 Useless CSP - public list about CSP in some big players (might make them care a bit more).
🔸 Why No HTTPS? - list of the world's top 100 websites by Alexa rank not automatically redirecting insecure requests.
🔸 cipherli.st - strong ciphers for Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd and more.
🔸 dhtool - public Diffie-Hellman parameter service/tool.
🔸 badssl.com - memorable site for testing clients against bad SSL configs.
🔸 tlsfun.de - registered for various tests regarding the TLS/SSL protocol.
🔸 CAA Record Helper - generate a CAA policy.
🔸 Common CA Database - repository of information about CAs, and their root and intermediate certificates.
🔸 CERTSTREAM - real-time certificate transparency log update stream.
🔸 crt.sh - discovers certificates by continually monitoring all of the publicly known CT.
🔸 Hardenize - deploy the security standards.
🔸 Cipher suite compatibility - test TLS cipher suite compatibility.
🔸 urlvoid - this service helps you detect potentially malicious websites.
🔸 security.txt - a proposed standard (generator) which allows websites to define security policies.
▪️ HTTP Headers & Web Linters
🔸 Security Headers - analyse the HTTP response headers (with rating system to the results).
🔸 Observatory by Mozilla - set of tools to analyze your website.
🔸 webhint - is a linting tool that will help you with your site's accessibility, speed, security and more.
▪️ DNS
🔸 ViewDNS - one source for free DNS related tools and information.
🔸 DNSLookup - is an advanced DNS lookup tool.
🔸 DNSlytics - online DNS investigation tool.
🔸 DNS Spy - monitor, validate and verify your DNS configurations.
🔸 Zonemaster - helps you to control how your DNS works.
🔸 Leaf DNS - comprehensive DNS tester.
🔸 Find subdomains online - find subdomains for security assessment penetration test.
🔸 DNSdumpster - dns recon & research, find & lookup dns records.
🔸 DNS Table online - search for DNS records by domain, IP, CIDR, ISP.
🔸 intoDNS - DNS and mail server health checker.
🔸 DNS Bajaj - check the delegation of your domain.
🔸 BuddyDNS Delegation LAB - check, trace and visualize delegation of your domain.
🔸 dnssec-debugger - DS or DNSKEY records validator.
🔸 PTRarchive.com - this site is responsible for the safekeeping of historical reverse DNS records.
🔸 xip.io - wildcard DNS for everyone.
🔸 dnslookup (ceipam) - one of the best DNS propagation checker (and not only).
🔸 What's My DNS - DNS propagation checking tool.
▪️ Mail
🔸 MX Toolbox - all of your MX record, DNS, blacklist and SMTP diagnostics in one integrated tool.
🔸 blacklistalert - checks to see if your domain is on a Real Time Spam Blacklist.
🔸 MultiRBL - complete IP check for sending Mailservers.
🔸 DKIM SPF & Spam Assassin Validator - checks mail authentication and scores messages with Spam Assassin.
▪️ Encoders/Decoders and Regex testing
🔸 URL Encode/Decode - tool from above to either encode or decode a string of text.
🔸 Uncoder - the online translator for search queries on log data.
🔸 Regex101 - online regex tester and debugger: PHP, PCRE, Python, Golang and JavaScript.
🔸 RegExr - online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions (RegEx / RegExp).
🔸 RegEx Testing - online regex testing tool.
🔸 RegEx Pal - online regex testing tool + other tools.
🔸 The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis.
▪️ Net-tools
🔸 Netcraft - detailed report about the site, helping you to make informed choices about their integrity.*
🔸 RIPE NCC - not-for-profit membership association, a Regional Internet Registry and the secretariat for the RIPE.
🔸 Robtex - uses various sources to gather public information about IP numbers, domain names, host names, routes etc.
🔸 Security Trails - APIs for Security Companies, Researchers and Teams.
🔸 Online Curl - curl test, analyze HTTP Response Headers.
🔸 Ping.eu - online Ping, Traceroute, DNS lookup, WHOIS and others.
🔸 Network-Tools - network tools for webmasters, IT technicians & geeks.
🔸 Riseup - provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.
🔸 VirusTotal - analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware.
▪️ Privacy
🔸 privacytools.io - provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
🔸 DNS Privacy Test Servers - DNS privacy recursive servers list (with a 'no logging' policy).
▪️ Code parsers/playgrounds
🔸 ShellCheck - finds bugs in your shell scripts.
🔸 explainshell - get interactive help texts for shell commands.
🔸 jsbin - live pastebin for HTML, CSS & JavaScript and more.
🔸 CodeSandbox - online code editor for web application development. Supports React, Vue, Angular, CxJS, Dojo, etc.
🔸 PHP Sandbox - test your PHP code with this code tester.
🔸 Repl.it - an instant IDE to learn, build, collaborate, and host all in one place.
▪️ Performance
🔸 GTmetrix - analyze your site’s speed and make it faster.
🔸 Sucuri loadtimetester - test here the
performance of any of your sites from across the globe.
🔸 Pingdom Tools - analyze your site’s speed around the world.
🔸 PingMe.io - run website latency tests across multiple geographic regions.
🔸 PageSpeed Insights - analyze your site’s speed and make it faster.
🔸 web.dev - helps developers like you learn and apply the web's modern capabilities to your own sites and apps.
▪️ Mass scanners (search engines)
🔸 Censys - platform that helps information security practitioners discover, monitor, and analyze devices.
🔸 Shodan - the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices.
🔸 Shodan 2000 - do you use Shodan for everyday work? This tool looks for randomly generated data from Shodan.
🔸 GreyNoise - mass scanner such as Shodan and Censys.
🔸 ZoomEye - search engine for cyberspace that lets the user find specific network components.
🔸 FOFA - is a cyberspace search engine.
🔸 onyphe - is a search engine for open-source and cyber threat intelligence data collected.
🔸 IntelligenceX - is a search engine and data archive.
🔸 binaryedge - it scan the entire internet space and create real-time threat intelligence streams and reports.
🔸 wigle - is a submission-based catalog of wireless networks. All the networks. Found by Everyone.
🔸 PublicWWW - find any alphanumeric snippet, signature or keyword in the web pages HTML, JS and CSS code.
🔸 IntelTechniques - this repository contains hundreds of online search utilities.
🔸 Hackle - search engine for hackers and security professionals.*
🔸 hunter - lets you find email addresses in seconds and connect with the people that matter for your business.
🔸 GhostProject? - search by full email address or username.
🔸 databreaches - was my email affected by data breach?
🔸 Buckets by Grayhatwarfar - database with public search for Open Amazon S3 Buckets and their contents.
🔸 Vigilante.pw - the breached database directory.
🔸 builtwith - find out what websites are built with.
🔸 Mamont's open FTP Index - if a target has an open FTP site with accessible content it will be listed here.
🔸 OSINT Framework - focused on gathering information from free tools or resources.
🔸 maltiverse - is a service oriented to cybersecurity analysts for the advanced analysis of indicators of compromise.
🔸 Leaked Source - is a collaboration of data found online in the form of a lookup.
🔸 We Leak Info - to help everyday individuals secure their online life, avoiding getting hacked.
🔸 pipl - is the place to find the person behind the email address, social username or phone number.
🔸 abuse.ch - is operated by a random swiss guy fighting malware for non-profit.
🔸 malc0de - malware search engine.
🔸 Cybercrime Tracker - monitors and tracks various malware families that are used to perpetrate cyber crimes.
🔸 NerdyData - search source code across 65 million websites.
🔸 searchcode - helping you find real world examples of functions, API's and libraries.
🔸 Insecam - the world biggest directory of online surveillance security cameras.
🔸 index-of - contains great stuff like: security, hacking, reverse engineering, cryptography, programming etc.
▪️ Generators
🔸 thispersondoesnotexist - generate fake faces in one click - endless possibilities.
🔸 Intigriti Redirector - open redirect/SSRF payload generator.
▪️ Passwords
🔸 Gotcha? - list of 1.4 billion accounts circulates around the Internet.*
🔸 have i been pwned? - check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach.
▪️ CVE/Exploits databases
🔸 CVE Mitre - list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
🔸 CVE Details - CVE security vulnerability advanced database.
🔸 Exploit DB - CVE compliant archive of public exploits and corresponding vulnerable software.
🔸 0day.today - exploits market provides you the possibility to buy zero-day exploits and also to sell 0day exploits.
🔸 sploitus - the exploit and tools database.
🔸 cxsecurity - free vulnerability database.
🔸 Vulncode-DB - is a database for vulnerabilities and their corresponding source code if available.
🔸 cveapi - free API for CVE data.
▪️ Mobile apps scanners
🔸 ImmuniWeb® Mobile App Scanner - test security and privacy of mobile apps (iOS & Android).
🔸 Quixxi - free Mobile App Vulnerability Scanner for Android & iOS.
🔸 Ostorlab - analyzes mobile application to identify vulnerabilities and potential weaknesses.
▪️ Private Search Engines
🔸 Startpage - the world's most private search engine.
🔸 searX - a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.
🔸 darksearch - the 1st real Dark Web search engine.
▪️ Secure WebMail Providers
🔸 CounterMail - is a secure and easy to use online email service, designed to provide maximum security and privacy.
🔸 Mail2Tor - is a Tor Hidden Service that allows anyone to send and receive emails anonymously.
🔸 Tutanota - is the world's most secure email service and amazingly easy to use.
🔸 Protonmail - is the world's largest secure email service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists.
🔸 Startmail - private & encrypted email made easy.
▪️ Crypto
🔸 Keybase - it's open source and powered by public-key cryptography.
▪️ PGP Keyservers
🔸 SKS OpenPGP Key server - services for the SKS keyservers used by OpenPGP.
Systems/Services [TOC]
▪️ Operating Systems
🔸 Slackware - the most "Unix-like" Linux distribution.
🔸 OpenBSD - multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system.
🔸 HardenedBSD - HardenedBSD aims to implement innovative exploit mitigation and security solutions.
🔸 Kali Linux - Linux distribution used for Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and network security assessments.
🔸 Backbox Linux - penetration test and security assessment oriented Ubuntu-based Linux distribution.
🔸 BlackArch - is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers.
🔸 Security Onion - Linux distro for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.
🔸 Tails - is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity.
▪️ HTTP(s) Services
🔸 Varnish Cache - HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites.
🔸 Nginx - open source web and reverse proxy server that is similar to Apache, but very light weight.
🔸 Tengine - a distribution of Nginx with some advanced features.
🔸 Caddy Server - is an open source, HTTP/2-enabled web server with HTTPS by default.
🔸 HAProxy - the reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer.
🔸 Traefik - open source reverse proxy/load balancer provides easier integration with Docker and Let's encrypt.
▪️ DNS Services
🔸 Unbound - validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver (with TLS).
🔸 Knot Resolver - caching full resolver implementation, including both a resolver library and a daemon.
🔸 PowerDNS - is an open source authoritative DNS server, written in C++ and licensed under the GPL.
▪️ Other Services
🔸 3proxy - tiny free proxy server.
▪️ Security/hardening
🔸 Emerald Onion - is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and transit internet service provider (ISP) based in Seattle.
🔸 pi-hole - the Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content.
🔸 maltrail - malicious traffic detection system.
🔸 security_monkey - monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.
Networks [TOC]
▪️ Tools
🔸 CapAnalysis - web visual tool to analyze large amounts of captured network traffic (PCAP analyzer).
🔸 netbox - IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.
▪️ Labs
🔸 NRE Labs - learn automation by doing it. Right now, right here, in your browser.
▪️ Other
🔸 LBNL's Network Research Group - home page of the Network Research Group (NRG); tools, talks, papers and more.
Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials [TOC]
▪️ Shell/Command line
🔸 pure-bash-bible - a collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.
🔸 The Bash Hackers Wiki - hold documentation of any kind about GNU Bash.
🔸 Shell & Utilities - describes the commands and utilities offered to application programs by POSIX-conformant systems.
🔸 the-art-of-command-line - master the command line, in one page.
🔸 Shell Style Guide - a shell style guide for Google-originated open-source projects.
▪️ Text Editors
🔸 Vim Cheat Sheet - great multi language vim guide.
▪️ Python
🔸 Awesome Python - a curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
🔸 python-cheatsheet - comprehensive Python cheatsheet.
▪️ Sed & Awk & Other
🔸 F’Awk Yeah! - advanced sed and awk usage (Parsing for Pentesters 3).
▪️ *nix & Network
🔸 nixCraft - linux and unix tutorials for new and seasoned sysadmin.
🔸 TecMint - the ideal Linux blog for Sysadmins & Geeks.
🔸 Omnisecu - free Networking, System Administration and Security tutorials.
🔸 linux-cheat - Linux tutorials and cheatsheets. Minimal examples. Mostly user-land CLI utilities.
🔸 Unix Toolbox - collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users.
🔸 Linux Guide and Hints - tutorials on system administration in Fedora and CentOS.
🔸 strace-little-book - a little book which introduces strace.
🔸 http2-explained - a detailed document explaining and documenting HTTP/2.
🔸 http3-explained - a document describing the HTTP/3 and QUIC protocols.
🔸 Nginx Admin's Handbook - describes how to improve NGINX performance, security and other important things.
🔸 openssh guideline - is to help operational teams with the configuration of OpenSSH server and client.
▪️ Large-scale systems
🔸 The System Design Primer - learn how to design large-scale systems.
🔸 Awesome Scalability - best practices in building High Scalability, High Availability, High Stability and more.
🔸 Web Architecture 101 - the basic architecture concepts.
▪️ System hardening
🔸 CIS Benchmarks - are secure configuration settings for over 100 technologies, available as a free PDF download.
🔸 STIGs - are the configuration standards for DOD IA and IA-enabled devices/systems.
🔸 Security Harden CentOS 7 - this walks you through the steps required to security harden CentOS.
🔸 CentOS 7 Server Hardening Guide - great guide for hardening CentOS; familiar with OpenSCAP.
🔸 The Practical Linux Hardening Guide - provides a high-level overview of hardening GNU/Linux systems.
▪️ Security & Privacy
🔸 Hacking Articles - LRaj Chandel's Security & Hacking Blog.
🔸 AWS security tools - make your AWS cloud environment more secure.
🔸 Rawsec's CyberSecurity Inventory - an inventory of tools and resources about CyberSecurity.
🔸 The Illustrated TLS Connection - every byte of a TLS connection explained and reproduced.
🔸 SSL Research - SSL and TLS Deployment Best Practices by SSL Labs.
🔸 Certificates and PKI - everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask.
🔸 The Art of Subdomain Enumeration - a reference for subdomain enumeration techniques.
🔸 Quitting Google - the comprehensive guide to quitting Google.
▪️ Web Apps
🔸 OWASP - worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of software.
🔸 OWASP ASVS 3.0.1 - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard Project.
🔸 OWASP ASVS 3.0.1 Web App - simple web app that helps developers understand the ASVS requirements.
🔸 OWASP ASVS 4.0 - is a list of application security requirements or tests.
🔸 OWASP Testing Guide v4 - includes a "best practice" penetration testing framework.
🔸 OWASP Dev Guide - this is the development version of the OWASP Developer Guide.
🔸 Mozilla Web Security - help operational teams with creating secure web applications.
🔸 Enable CORS - enable cross-origin resource sharing.
🔸 Application Security Wiki - is an initiative to provide all application security related resources at one place.
🔸 Weird Proxies - reverse proxy related attacks; it is a result of analysis of various reverse proxies, cache proxies, etc.
🔸 Webshells - great series about malicious payloads.
🔸 Practical Web Cache Poisoning - show you how to compromise websites by using esoteric web features.
🔸 Hidden directories and files - as a source of sensitive information about web application.
🔸 Explosive blog - great blog about cybersec and pentests.
🔸 Security Cookies - this paper will take a close look at cookie security.
🔸 APISecurityBestPractices - help you keep secrets (API keys, db credentials, certificates) out of source code.
▪️ All-in-one
🔸 LZone Cheat Sheets - all cheat sheets.
🔸 Dan’s Cheat Sheets’s - massive cheat sheets documentation.
🔸 Rico's cheatsheets - this is a modest collection of cheatsheets.
🔸 DevDocs API - combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.
▪️ Other
🔸 CTF Series : Vulnerable Machines - the steps below could be followed to find vulnerabilities and exploits.
🔸 50M_CTF_Writeup - $50 million CTF from Hackerone - writeup.
🔸 ctf-tasks - an archive of low-level CTF challenges developed over the years.
🔸 How to start RE/malware analysis? - collection of some hints and useful links for the beginners.
🔸 The C10K problem - it's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously, don't you think?
🔸 Bank Grade Security - when companies say they have "Bank Grade Security" they imply that it is a good thing.*
🔸 HTTPS on Stack Overflow - this is the story of a long journey regarding the implementation of SSL.
🔸 Julia's Drawings - some drawings about programming and unix world, zines about systems & debugging tools.
🔸 Hash collisions - this great repository is focused on hash collisions exploitation.
🔸 BGP Meets Cat - after 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, Job Snijders has succeeded in drawing a Nyancat.
🔸 HTTPS in the real world - great tutorial explain how HTTPS works in the real world.
🔸 Gitlab and NFS bug - how we spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel.
🔸 How To Become A Hacker - if you want to be a hacker, keep reading.
🔸 Operation Costs in CPU - an infographics which should help to estimate costs of certain operations in CPU clocks.
🔸 Let's Build a Simple Database - writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C.
🔸 simple-computer - great resource to understand how computers work under the hood.
🔸 The story of "Have I been pwned?" - working with 154 million records on Azure Table Storage.
🔸 TOP500 Supercomputers - this list shows the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems known to us.
Inspiring Lists [TOC]
▪️ SysOps/DevOps
🔸 Awesome Sysadmin - amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
🔸 Awesome Shell - awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos.
🔸 Command-line-text-processing - from finding text to search and replace, from sorting to beautifying text and more.
🔸 Awesome Pcaptools - collection of tools developed by other researchers to process network traces.
🔸 awesome-ebpf - a curated list of awesome projects related to eBPF.
🔸 Linux Network Performance - learn where some of the network sysctl variables fit into the Linux/Kernel network flow.
🔸 Awesome Postgres - list of awesome PostgreSQL software, libraries, tools and resources.
🔸 quick-SQL-cheatsheet - a quick reminder of all SQL queries and examples on how to use them.
🔸 Awesome-Selfhosted - list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally.
🔸 kubernetes-the-hard-way - bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts.
🔸 kubernetes-the-easy-way - bootstrap Kubernetes the easy way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts.
🔸 List of applications - huge collection of applications sorted by category, as a reference for those looking for packages.
▪️ Developers
🔸 Front-End-Checklist - the perfect Front-End Checklist for modern websites and meticulous developers.
🔸 Python's Magic Methods - what are magic methods? They're everything in object-oriented Python.
🔸 wtfpython - a collection of surprising Python snippets and lesser-known features.
🔸 js-dev-reads - a list of books and articles for the discerning web developer to read.
🔸 Commit messages guide - a guide to understand the importance of commit messages.
▪️ Security/Pentesting
🔸 Awesome Web Security - a curated list of Web Security materials and resources.
🔸 awesome-cyber-skills - a curated list of hacking environments where you can train your cyber skills.
🔸 awesome-threat-intelligence - a curated list of Awesome Threat Intelligence resources.
🔸 Red-Teaming-Toolkit - a collection of open source and commercial tools that aid in red team operations.
🔸 awesome-burp-extensions - a curated list of amazingly awesome Burp Extensions.
🔸 Free Security eBooks - list of a Free Security and Hacking eBooks.
🔸 reverse-engineering - list of awesome reverse engineering resources.
🔸 linux-re-101 - a collection of resources for linux reverse engineering.
🔸 reverseengineering-reading-list - a list of Reverse Engineering articles, books, and papers.
🔸 Awesome-WAF - a curated list of awesome web-app firewall (WAF) stuff.
🔸 RobotsDisallowed - a curated list of the most common and most interesting robots.txt disallowed directories.
🔸 awesome-yara - a curated list of awesome YARA rules, tools, and people.
🔸 Movies for Hackers - list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch.
🔸 technical-whitepapers - IT whitepapers; hacking, web app security, db, reverse engineering and more; EN/PL.
▪️ Other
🔸 Cheatography - over 3,000 free cheat sheets, revision aids and quick references.
🔸 awesome-static-analysis - static analysis tools for all programming languages.
Blogs/Podcasts/Videos [TOC]
▪️ SysOps/DevOps
🔸 Varnish for PHP developers - very interesting presentation of Varnish by Mattias Geniar.
🔸 A Netflix Guide to Microservices - Josh Evans talks about the chaotic and vibrant world of microservices at Netflix.
▪️ Developers
🔸 Comparing C to machine language - compare a simple C program with the compiled machine code of that program.
▪️ Geeky Persons
🔸 Brendan Gregg's Blog - is an industry expert in computing performance and cloud computing.
🔸 Gynvael "GynDream" Coldwind - is a IT security engineer at Google.
🔸 Michał "lcamtuf" Zalewski - white hat hacker, computer security expert.
🔸 Mattias Geniar - developer, sysadmin, blogger, podcaster and public speaker.
🔸 Nick Craver - software developer and systems administrator for Stack Exchange.
🔸 Scott Helme - security researcher, international speaker and founder of securityheaders.com and report-uri.com.
🔸 Brian Krebs - The Washington Post and now an Independent investigative journalist.
🔸 Bruce Schneier - is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru".
🔸 Chrissy Morgan - advocate of practical learning, Chrissy also takes part in bug bounty programs.
🔸 Andy Gill - is a hacker at heart who works as a senior penetration tester.
🔸 Daniel Miessler - cybersecurity expert and writer.
🔸 Javvad Malik - is a security advocate at AlienVault, a blogger event speaker and industry commentator.
🔸 Graham Cluley - public speaker and independent computer security analyst.
🔸 Kacper Szurek - detection engineer at ESET.
🔸 Troy Hunt - web security expert known for public education and outreach on security topics.
🔸 raymii.org - sysadmin specializing in building high availability cloud environments.
🔸 Robert Penz - IT security expert.
▪️ Geeky Blogs
🔸 Linux Audit - the Linux security blog about auditing, hardening and compliance by Michael Boelen.
🔸
Linux Security Expert - trainings, howtos, checklists, security tools and more.
🔸 The Grymoire - collection of useful incantations for wizards, be you computer wizards, magicians, or whatever.
🔸 PortSwigger Web Security Blog - about web app security vulns and top tips from our team of web security.
🔸 Secjuice - is the only non-profit, independent and volunteer led publication in the information security space.
🔸 Decipher - security news that informs and inspires.
▪️ Geeky Vendor Blogs
🔸 Tenable Podcast - conversations and interviews related to Cyber Exposure, and more.
🔸 Sophos - threat news room, giving you news, opinion, advice and research on computer security issues.
🔸 Tripwire State of Security - blog featuring the latest news, trends and insights on current information security issues.
🔸 Malwarebytes Labs Blog - security blog aims to provide insider news about cybersecurity.
🔸 TrustedSec - latest news, and trends about cybersecurity.
🔸 AT&T Cybersecurity blog - news on emerging threats and practical advice to simplify threat detection.
🔸 Thycotic - where CISOs and IT Admins come to learn about industry trends, IT security, data breaches, and more.
▪️ Geeky Cybersecurity Podcasts
🔸 Risky Business - is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews.
🔸 Cyber, by Motherboard - stories, and focus on the ideas about cybersecurity.
🔸 Tenable Podcast - conversations and interviews related to Cyber Exposure, and more.
🔸
Cybercrime Investigations - podcast by Geoff White about cybercrimes.
🔸 The many hats club - featuring stories from a wide range of Infosec people (Whitehat, Greyhat and Blackhat).
🔸 Darknet Diaries - true stories from the dark side of the Internet.
🔸 OSINTCurious Webcasts - is the investigative curiousity that helps people be successful in OSINT.
▪️ Geeky Cybersecurity Video Blogs
🔸 rev3rse security - offensive, binary exploitation, web application security, vulnerability, hardening, red team, blue team.
🔸 LiveOverflow - a lot more advanced topics than what is typically offered in paid online courses - but for free.
🔸 J4vv4D - the important information regarding our internet security.
🔸
CyberTalks - talks, interviews, and article about cybersecurity.
▪️ Best Personal Twitter Accounts
🔸 @blackroomsec - a white-hat hacker/pentester. Intergalactic Minesweeper Champion 1990.
🔸 @MarcoCiappelli - Co-Founder @ITSPmagazine, at the intersection of IT security and society.
🔸 @binitamshah - Linux Evangelist. Malwares. Kernel Dev. Security Enthusiast.
🔸 @joe_carson - an InfoSec Professional and Tech Geek.
🔸 @mikko - CRO at F-Secure, Reverse Engineer, TED Speaker, Supervillain
▪️ Best Commercial Twitter Accounts
🔸 @haveibeenpwned - check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach.
🔸 @bugcrowd - trusted by more of the Fortune 500 than any other crowdsourced security platform.
🔸 @Malwarebytes - most trusted security company. Unmatched threat visibility.
🔸 @sansforensics - the world's leading Digital Forensics and Incident Response provider.
🔸 @attcyber - AT&T Cybersecurity’s Edge-to-Edge technologies provide threat intelligence, and more.
🔸 @TheManyHatsClub - an information security focused podcast and group of individuals from all walks of life.
🔸 @hedgehogsec - Hedgehog Cyber. Gibraltar and Manchester's top boutique information security firm.
🔸 @NCSC - the National Cyber Security Centre. Helping to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.
🔸 @Synacktiv - IT security experts.
▪️ A piece of history
🔸 How to Do Things at ARL - how to configure modems, scan images, record CD-ROMs, and other useful techniques.*
▪️ Other
🔸 Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (short version) - how Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange worked.
Hacking/Penetration Testing [TOC]
▪️ Pentesters arsenal tools
🔸 Sandcat Browser - a penetration-oriented browser with plenty of advanced functionality already built in.
🔸 Metasploit - tool and framework for pentesting system, web and many more, contains a lot a ready to use exploit.
🔸 Burp Suite - tool for testing web application security, intercepting proxy to replay, inject, scan and fuzz HTTP requests.
🔸 OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - intercepting proxy to replay, inject, scan and fuzz HTTP requests.
🔸 w3af - is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework.
🔸 mitmproxy - an interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
🔸 Nikto2 - web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items.
🔸 sqlmap - tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws.
🔸 Faraday - an Integrated Multiuser Pentest Environment.
🔸 Photon - incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.
🔸 XSStrike - most advanced XSS detection suite.
🔸 Sn1per - automated pentest framework for offensive security experts.
🔸 aquatone - a tool for domain flyovers.
🔸 WhatWaf - detect and bypass web application firewalls and protection systems.
🔸 John The Ripper - is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, and other.
🔸 hashcat - world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility.
🔸 p0f - is a tool to identify the players behind any incidental TCP/IP communications.
🔸 Recon-ng - is a full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python.
🔸 ssh_scan - a prototype SSH configuration and policy scanner.
🔸 exploitdb - searchable archive from The Exploit Database.
🔸 ctf-tools - some setup scripts for security research tools.
🔸 pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library.
🔸 security-tools - collection of small security tools created mostly in Python. CTFs, pentests and so on.
🔸 fuzzdb - dictionary of attack patterns and primitives for black-box application fault injection and resource discovery.
🔸 syzkaller - is an unsupervised, coverage-guided kernel fuzzer.
🔸 pwndbg - exploit development and reverse engineering with GDB made easy.
🔸 GDB PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB.
🔸 IDA - multi-processor disassembler and debugger useful for reverse engineering malware.
🔸 radare2 - framework for reverse-engineering and analyzing binaries.
🔸 routersploit - exploitation framework for embedded devices.
🔸 Ghidra - is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework.
🔸 Vulnreport - open-source pentesting management and automation platform by Salesforce Product Security.
🔸 Mentalist - is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation.
🔸 archerysec - vulnerability assessment and management helps to perform scans and manage vulnerabilities.
🔸 Osmedeus - fully automated offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning.
🔸 beef - the browser exploitation framework project.
🔸 AutoSploit - automated mass exploiter.
▪️ Backdoors/exploits
🔸 PHP-backdoors - a collection of PHP backdoors. For educational or testing purposes only.
▪️ Pentests bookmarks collection
🔸 PTES - the penetration testing execution standard.
🔸 Pentests MindMap - amazing mind map with vulnerable apps and systems.
🔸 WebApps Security Tests MindMap - incredible mind map for WebApps security tests.
🔸 Brute XSS - master the art of Cross Site Scripting.
🔸 Offensive Security Bookmarks - security bookmarks collection, all that things I need to pass OSCP.
🔸 Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets - collection of the cheat sheets useful for pentesting.
🔸 Awesome Hacking by HackWithGithub - awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers.
🔸 Awesome Hacking by carpedm20 - a curated list of awesome hacking tutorials, tools and resources.
🔸 Awesome Hacking Resources - collection of hacking/penetration testing resources to make you better.
🔸 Awesome Pentest - collection of awesome penetration testing resources, tools and other shiny things.
🔸 Hacking Cheat Sheet - author hacking and pentesting notes.
🔸 Web App Pentesting Cheat Sheet - the typical steps performed when conducting a web application penetration test.*
🔸 Cyber Security Resources - includes thousands of cybersecurity-related references and resources.
🔸 Pentest Bookmarks - there are a LOT of pentesting blogs.
🔸 PayloadsAllTheThings - a list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF.
🔸 payloads - git all the Payloads! A collection of web attack payloads.
🔸 Pentesting Tools Cheat Sheet - a quick reference high level overview for typical penetration testing engagements.
🔸 OWASP Cheat Sheet Series - collection of high value information on specific application security topics.
🔸 DEF CON Media Server - great stuff from DEFCON.
🔸 Awesome Malware Analysis - a curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources.
🔸 SQL Injection Cheat Sheet - detailed technical information about the many different variants of the SQL Injection.
🔸 Entersoft Knowledge Base - great and detailed reference about vulnerabilities.
🔸 HTML5 Security Cheatsheet - a collection of HTML5 related XSS attack vectors.
🔸 XSS String Encoder - for generating XSS code to check your input validation filters against XSS.
🔸 GTFOBins - list of Unix binaries that can be exploited by an attacker to bypass local security restrictions.
🔸 Guifre Ruiz Notes - collection of security, system, network and pentest cheatsheets.
🔸 SSRF Tips - a collection of SSRF Tips.
🔸 shell-storm repo CTF - great archive of CTFs.
🔸 ctf - CTF (Capture The Flag) writeups, code snippets, notes, scripts.
🔸 MSTG - The Mobile Security Testing Guide (MSTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing.
▪️ Wordlists and Weak passwords
🔸 Weakpass - for any kind of bruteforce find wordlists or unleash the power of them all at once!
🔸 Hashes.org - is a free online hash resolving service incorporating many unparalleled techniques.
🔸 SecLists - collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place.
🔸 Probable-Wordlists - sorted by probability originally created for password generation and testing.
🔸 skullsecurity passwords - password dictionaries and leaked passwords repository.
🔸 Polish PREMIUM Dictionary - official dictionary created by the team on the forum bezpieka.org.* 1
:black_small_square: Bounty platforms
:small_orange_diamond: YesWeHack - bug bounty platform with infosec jobs.
🔸 Openbugbounty - allows any security researcher reporting a vulnerability on any website.
🔸 hackerone - global hacker community to surface the most relevant security issues.
🔸 bugcrowd - crowdsourced cybersecurity for the enterprise.
🔸 Crowdshield - crowdsourced security & bug bounty management.
🔸 Synack - crowdsourced security & bug bounty programs, crowd security intelligence platform and more.
🔸 Hacktrophy - bug bounty platform.
▪️ Web Training Apps (local installation)
🔸 OWASP-VWAD - comprehensive and well maintained registry of all known vulnerable web applications.
🔸 Metasploitable 2 - vulnerable web application amongst security researchers.
🔸 DVWA - PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable.
🔸 OWASP Mutillidae II - free, open source, deliberately vulnerable web-application.
🔸 OWASP Juice Shop Project - the most bug-free vulnerable application in existence.
🔸 OWASP WebGoat Project - insecure web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web app security.
🔸 Security Ninjas - open source application security training program.
🔸 hackazon - a modern vulnerable web app.
🔸 dvna - damn vulnerable NodeJS application.
🔸 Google Gruyere - web application exploits and defenses.
🔸 Bodhi - is a playground focused on learning the exploitation of client-side web vulnerabilities.
🔸 Websploit - single vm lab with the purpose of combining several vulnerable appliations in one environment.
🔸 vulhub - pre-built Vulnerable Environments based on docker-compose
▪️ Labs (ethical hacking platforms/trainings/CTFs)
🔸 Offensive Security - true performance-based penetration testing training for over a decade.
🔸 Hack The Box - online platform allowing you to test your penetration testing skills.
🔸 Hacking-Lab - online ethical hacking, computer network and security challenge platform.
🔸 pwnable.kr - non-commercial wargame site which provides various pwn challenges regarding system exploitation.
🔸 Pwnable.tw - is a wargame site for hackers to test and expand their binary exploiting skills.
🔸 picoCTF - is a free computer security game targeted at middle and high school students.
🔸 CTFlearn - is an online platform built to help ethical hackers learn and practice their cybersecurity knowledge and skills.
🔸 ctftime - CTF archive and a place, where you can get some another CTF-related info.
🔸 Silesia Security Lab - high quality security testing services.
🔸 Practical Pentest Labs - pentest lab, take your Hacking skills to the next level.
🔸 Root Me - the fast, easy, and affordable way to train your hacking skills.
🔸 rozwal.to - a great platform to train your pentesting skills.
🔸 TryHackMe - learning Cyber Security made easy.
🔸 hackxor - is a realistic web application hacking game, designed to help players of all abilities develop their skills.
🔸 Hack Yourself First - it's full of nasty app sec holes.
🔸 OverTheWire - can help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games.
🔸 Wizard Labs - is an online Penetration Testing Lab.
🔸 PentesterLab - provides vulnerable systems that can be used to test and understand vulnerabilities.
🔸 RingZer0 - tons of challenges designed to test and improve your hacking skills.
🔸 Ubeeri - preconfigured lab environments.
🔸 Pentestit - emulate IT infrastructures of real companies for legal pen testing and improving penetration testing skills.
🔸 Microcorruption - reversal challenges done in the web interface.
🔸 Crackmes - download crackmes to help improve your reverse engineering skills.
🔸 DomGoat - DOM XSS security learning and practicing platform.
🔸 Stereotyped Challenges - is intended for offensive security experts who are willing to overcome situations of getting stuck in breaking into web services or web-based solutions.
🔸 OverTheWire - can help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games.
🔸 Vulnhub - allows anyone to gain practical 'hands-on' experience in digital security.
🔸 W3Challs - is a penetration testing training platform, which offers various computer challenges.
🔸 RingZer0 CTF - offers you tons of challenges designed to test and improve your hacking skills.
🔸 try2hack - several security-oriented challenges for your entertainment.
🔸 Hack.me - a platform where you can build, host and share vulnerable web apps for educational and research purposes.
🔸 HackThis! - discover how hacks, dumps and defacements are performed and secure your website against hackers.
🔸 Enigma Group WebApp Training - these challenges cover the exploits listed in the OWASP Top 10 Project.
🔸 0x00sec - the home of the Hacker - Malware, Reverse Engineering, and Computer Science.
🔸 We Chall - there are exist a lots of different challenge types.
🔸 Hacker Gateway - is the go-to place for hackers who want to test their skills.
🔸 Hacker101 - is a free class for web security.
🔸 contained.af - a stupid game for learning about containers, capabilities, and syscalls.
▪️ Other resources
🔸 Bugcrowd University - open source education content for the researcher community.
🔸 OSCPRepo - a list of resources and scripts that I have been gathering in preparation for the OSCP.
🔸 OWASP Top 10: Real-World Examples - test your web apps with real-world examples (two-part series).
Your daily knowledge and news [TOC]
▪️ RSS Readers
🔸 Feedly - organize, read and share what matters to you.
🔸 Inoreader - similar to feedly with a support for filtering what you fetch from rss.
▪️ IRC Channels
🔸 #hackerspaces - hackerspace IRC channels.
▪️ Security
🔸 The Hacker News - leading news source dedicated to promoting awareness for security experts and hackers.
🔸 Latest Hacking News - provides the latest hacking news, exploits and vulnerabilities for ethical hackers.
🔸 Security Newsletter - security news as a weekly digest (email notifications).
🔸 Google Online Security Blog - the latest news and insights from Google on security and safety on the Internet.
🔸 Qualys Blog - expert network security guidance and news.
🔸 DARKReading - connecting the Information Security Community.
🔸 Darknet - latest hacking tools, hacker news, cybersecurity best practices, ethical hacking & pen-testing.
🔸 publiclyDisclosed - public disclosure watcher who keeps you up to date about the recently disclosed bugs.
🔸 Reddit - Hacking - a subreddit dedicated to hacking and hackers.
🔸 Packet Storm - information security services, news, files, tools, exploits, advisories and whitepapers.
🔸 Sekurak - about security, penetration tests, vulnerabilities and many others (PL/EN).
🔸 nf.sec - basic aspects and mechanisms of Linux operating system security (PL).
▪️ Other/All-in-one
🔸 Changelog - is a community of hackers; news & podcasts for developers and hackers.
Other Cheat Sheets [TOC]
Build your own DNS Servers
🔸 Unbound DNS Tutorial - a validating, recursive, and caching DNS server.
🔸 Knot Resolver on Fedora - how to get faster and more secure DNS resolution with Knot Resolver on Fedora.
🔸 DNS-over-HTTPS - tutorial to setup your own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) server.
🔸 DNS-over-TLS - following to your DoH server, setup your DNS-over-TLS (DoT) server.
🔸 DNS Servers - how (and why) i run my own DNS Servers.
Build your own Certificate Authority
🔸 OpenSSL Certificate Authority - build your own certificate authority (CA) using the OpenSSL command-line tools.
Build your own System/Virtual Machine
🔸 os-tutorial - how to create an OS from scratch.
🔸 Write your Own Virtual Machine - how to write your own virtual machine (VM).
🔸 x86 Bare Metal Examples - dozens of minimal operating systems to learn x86 system programming.
🔸 simple-computer - the scott CPU from "But How Do It Know?" by J. Clark Scott.
DNS Servers list (privacy)
| IP | URL |
|---|---|
84.200.69.80 |
dns.watch |
94.247.43.254 |
opennic.org |
64.6.64.6 |
verisign.com |
89.233.43.71 |
censurfridns.dk |
1.1.1.1 |
cloudflare.com |
94.130.110.185 |
dnsprivacy.at |
TOP Browser extensions
| Extension name | Description |
|---|---|
IPvFoo |
Display the server IP address and HTTPS information across all page elements. |
FoxyProxy |
Simplifies configuring browsers to access proxy-servers. |
HTTPS Everywhere |
Automatically use HTTPS security on many sites. |
uMatrix |
Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. |
uBlock Origin |
An efficient blocker: easy on memory and CPU footprint. |
Session Buddy |
Manage browser tabs and bookmarks with ease. |
SuperSorter |
Sort bookmarks recursively, delete duplicates, merge folders and more. |
Clear Cache |
Clear your cache and browsing data. |
d3coder |
Encoding/Decoding plugin for various types of encoding. |
Web Developer |
Adds a toolbar button with various web developer tools. |
ThreatPinch Lookup |
Add threat intelligence hover tool tips. |
TOP Burp extensions
| Extension name | Description |
|---|---|
Autorize |
Automatically detects authorization enforcement. |
Reflection |
An efficient blocker: easy on memory and CPU footprint. |
Logger++ |
Logs requests and responses for all Burp tools in a sortable table. |
Bypass WAF |
Adds headers useful for bypassing some WAF devices. |
JSON Beautifier |
Beautifies JSON content in the HTTP message viewer. |
JSON Web Tokens |
Enables Burp to decode and manipulate JSON web tokens. |
CSP Auditor |
Displays CSP headers for responses, and passively reports CSP weaknesses. |
CSP-Bypass |
Passively scans for CSP headers that contain known bypasses.. |
Hackvertor |
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One-liners [TOC]
Table of Contents
- terminal
- mount
- fuser
- lsof
- ps
- top
- vmstat
- iostat
- strace
- kill
- find
- diff
- vimdiff
- tail
- cpulimit
- pwdx
- tr
- chmod
- who
- last
- screen
- script
- du
- inotifywait
- openssl
- secure-delete
- dd
- gpg
- system-other
- curl
- httpie
- ssh
- linux-dev
- tcpdump
- tcpick
- ngrep
- hping3
- nmap
- netcat
- socat
- p0f
- gnutls-cli
- netstat
- rsync
- host
- dig
- certbot
- network-other
- git
- awk
- sed
- grep
Tool: terminal
Reload shell without exit
exec $SHELL -l
Close shell keeping all subprocess running
disown -a && exit
Exit without saving shell history
kill -9 $$
unset HISTFILE && exit
Perform a branching conditional
true && echo success
false || echo failed
Pipe stdout and stderr to separate commands
some_command > >(/bin/cmd_for_stdout) 2> >(/bin/cmd_for_stderr)
Redirect stdout and stderr each to separate files and print both to the screen
(some_command 2>&1 1>&3 | tee errorlog ) 3>&1 1>&2 | tee stdoutlog
List of commands you use most often
history | \
awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | \
grep -v "./" | \
column -c3 -s " " -t | \
sort -nr | nl | head -n 20
Sterilize bash history
function sterile() {
history | awk '$2 != "history" { $1=""; print $0 }' | egrep -vi "\
curl\b+.*(-E|--cert)\b+.*\b*|\
curl\b+.*--pass\b+.*\b*|\
curl\b+.*(-U|--proxy-user).*:.*\b*|\
curl\b+.*(-u|--user).*:.*\b*
.*(-H|--header).*(token|auth.*)\b+.*|\
wget\b+.*--.*password\b+.*\b*|\
http.?://.+:.+@.*\
" > $HOME/histbuff; history -r $HOME/histbuff;
}
export PROMPT_COMMAND="sterile"
Quickly backup a file
cp filename{,.orig}
Empty a file (truncate to 0 size)
>filename
Delete all files in a folder that don’t match a certain file extension
rm !(*.foo|*.bar|*.baz)
Pass multi-line string to a file
# cat >filename ... - overwrite the file
# cat >>filename ... - append to a file
cat > filename << __EOF__
data data data
__EOF__
Edit a file on a remote host using vim
vim scp://user@host//etc/fstab
Create a directory and change into it at the same time
mkd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$@"; }
Convert uppercase files to lowercase files
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
Print a row of characters across the terminal
printf "%`tput cols`s" | tr ' ' '#'
Show shell history without line numbers
history | cut -c 8-
fc -l -n 1 | sed 's/^\s*//'
Run command(s) after exit session
cat > /etc/profile << __EOF__
_after_logout() {
username=$(whoami)
for _pid in $(ps afx | grep sshd | grep "$username" | awk '{print $1}') ; do
kill -9 $_pid
done
}
trap _after_logout EXIT
__EOF__
Generate a sequence of numbers
for ((i=1; i<=10; i+=2)) ; do echo $i ; done
# alternative: seq 1 2 10
for ((i=5; i<=10; ++i)) ; do printf '%02d\n' $i ; done
# alternative: seq -w 5 10
for i in {1..10} ; do echo $i ; done
Simple Bash filewatching
unset MAIL; export MAILCHECK=1; export MAILPATH='$FILE_TO_WATCH?$MESSAGE'
Tool: mount
Mount a temporary ram partition
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt -o size=64M
-t- filesystem type-o- mount options
Remount a filesystem as read/write
mount -o remount,rw /
Tool: fuser
Show which processes use the files/directories
fuser /var/log/daemon.log
fuser -v /home/supervisor
Kills a process that is locking a file
fuser -ki filename
-i- interactive option
Kills a process that is locking a file with specific signal
fuser -k -HUP filename
--list-signals- list available signal names
Show what PID is listening on specific port
fuser -v 53/udp
Show all processes using the named filesystems or block device
fuser -mv /var/www
Tool: lsof
Show process that use internet connection at the moment
lsof -P -i -n
Show process that use specific port number
lsof -i tcp:443
Lists all listening ports together with the PID of the associated process
lsof -Pan -i tcp -i udp
List all open ports and their owning executables
lsof -i -P | grep -i "listen"
Show all open ports
lsof -Pnl -i
Show open ports (LISTEN)
lsof -Pni4 | grep LISTEN | column -t
List all files opened by a particular command
lsof -c "process"
View user activity per directory
lsof -u username -a +D /etc
Show 10 largest open files
lsof / | \
awk '{ if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB" " " $9 " " $1 }' | \
sort -n -u | tail | column -t
Show current working directory of a process
lsof -p <PID> | grep cwd
Tool: ps
Show a 4-way scrollable process tree with full details
ps awwfux | less -S
Processes per user counter
ps hax -o user | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
Show all processes by name with main header
ps -lfC nginx
Tool: find
Find files that have been modified on your system in the past 60 minutes
find / -mmin 60 -type f
Find all files larger than 20M
find / -type f -size +20M
Find duplicate files (based on MD5 hash)
find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq --all-repeated=separate -w 33
Change permission only for files
cd /var/www/site && find . -type f -exec chmod 766 {} \;
cd /var/www/site && find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} +
Change permission only for directories
cd /var/www/site && find . -type d -exec chmod g+x {} \;
cd /var/www/site && find . -type d -exec chmod g+rwx {} +
Find files and directories for specific user
find . -user <username> -print
Find files and directories for all without specific user
find . \!-user <username> -print
Delete older files than 60 days
find . -type f -mtime +60 -delete
Recursively remove all empty sub-directories from a directory
find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
How to find all hard links to a file
find </path/to/dir> -xdev -samefile filename
Recursively find the latest modified files
find . -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' "{}" \; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head
Recursively find/replace of a string with sed
find . -not -path '*/\.git*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'
Recursively find/replace of a string in directories and file names
find . -depth -name '*test*' -execdir bash -c 'mv -v "$1" "${1//foo/bar}"' _ {} \;
Recursively find suid executables
find / \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -type f -exec ls -la {} \;
Tool: top
Use top to monitor only all processes with the specific string
top -p $(pgrep -d , <str>)
<str>- process containing string (eg. nginx, worker)
Tool: vmstat
Show current system utilization (fields in kilobytes)
vmstat 2 20 -t -w
2- number of times with a defined time interval (delay)20- each execution of the command (count)-t- show timestamp-w- wide output-S M- output of the fields in megabytes instead of kilobytes
Show current system utilization will get refreshed every 5 seconds
vmstat 5 -w
Display report a summary of disk operations
vmstat -D
Display report of event counters and memory stats
vmstat -s
Display report about kernel objects stored in slab layer cache
vmstat -m
Tool: iostat
Show information about the CPU usage, and I/O statistics about all the partitions
iostat 2 10 -t -m
2- number of times with a defined time interval (delay)10- each execution of the command (count)-t- show timestamp-m- fields in megabytes (-k- in kilobytes, default)
Show information only about the CPU utilization
iostat 2 10 -t -m -c
Show information only about the disk utilization
iostat 2 10 -t -m -d
Show information only about the LVM utilization
iostat -N
Tool: strace
Track with child processes
# 1)
strace -f -p $(pidof glusterfsd)
# 2)
strace -f $(pidof php-fpm | sed 's/\([0-9]*\)/\-p \1/g')
Track process with 30 seconds limit
timeout 30 strace $(< /var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid)
Track processes and redirect output to a file
ps auxw | grep '[a]pache' | awk '{print " -p " $2}' | \
xargs strace -o /tmp/strace-apache-proc.out
Track with print time spent in each syscall and limit length of print strings
ps auxw | grep '[i]init_policy' | awk '{print " -p " $2}' | \
xargs strace -f -e trace=network -T -s 10000
Track the open request of a network port
strace -f -e trace=bind nc -l 80
Track the open request of a network port (show TCP/UDP)
strace -f -e trace=network nc -lu 80
Tool: kill
Kill a process running on port
kill -9 $(lsof -i :<port> | awk '{l=$2} END {print l}')
Tool: diff
Compare two directory trees
diff <(cd directory1 && find | sort) <(cd directory2 && find | sort)
Compare output of two commands
diff <(cat /etc/passwd) <(cut -f2 /etc/passwd)
Tool: vimdiff
Highlight the exact differences, based on characters and words
vimdiff file1 file2
Compare two JSON files
vimdiff <(jq -S . A.json) <(jq -S . B.json)
Compare Hex dump
d(){ vimdiff <(f $1) <(f $2);};f(){ hexdump -C $1|cut -d' ' -f3-|tr -s ' ';}; d ~/bin1 ~/bin2
diffchar
Save diffchar @ ~/.vim/plugins
Click F7 to switch between diff modes
Usefull vimdiff commands:
qato exit all windows:vertical resize 70to resize window- set window width
Ctrl+W [N columns]+(Shift+)<\>
Tool: tail
Annotate tail -f with timestamps
tail -f file | while read ; do echo "$(date +%T.%N) $REPLY" ; done
Analyse an Apache access log for the most common IP addresses
tail -10000 access_log | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
Analyse web server log and show only 5xx http codes
tail -n 100 -f /path/to/logfile | grep "HTTP/[1-2].[0-1]\" [5]"
Tool: tar
System backup with exclude specific directories
cd /
tar -czvpf /mnt/system$(date +%d%m%Y%s).tgz --directory=/ \
--exclude=proc/* --exclude=sys/* --exclude=dev/* --exclude=mnt/* .
System backup with exclude specific directories (pigz)
cd /
tar cvpf /backup/snapshot-$(date +%d%m%Y%s).tgz --directory=/ \
--exclude=proc/* --exclude=sys/* --exclude=dev/* \
--exclude=mnt/* --exclude=tmp/* --use-compress-program=pigz .
Tool: dump
System backup to file
dump -y -u -f /backup/system$(date +%d%m%Y%s).lzo /
Restore system from lzo file
cd /
restore -rf /backup/system$(date +%d%m%Y%s).lzo
Tool: cpulimit
Limit the cpu usage of a process
cpulimit -p pid -l 50
Tool: pwdx
Show current working directory of a process
pwdx <pid>
Tool: taskset
Start a command on only one CPU core
taskset -c 0 <command>
Tool: tr
Show directories in the PATH, one per line
tr : '\n' <<<$PATH
Tool: chmod
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory
chmod -R -x+X *
Restore permission for /bin/chmod
# 1:
cp /bin/ls chmod.01
cp /bin/chmod chmod.01
./chmod.01 700 file
# 2:
/bin/busybox chmod 0700 /bin/chmod
# 3:
setfacl --set u::rwx,g::---,o::--- /bin/chmod
Tool: who
Find last reboot time
who -b
Detect a user sudo-su’d into the current shell
[[ $(who -m | awk '{ print $1 }') == $(whoami) ]] || echo "You are su-ed to $(whoami)"
Tool: last
Was the last reboot a panic?
(last -x -f $(ls -1t /var/log/wtmp* | head -2 | tail -1); last -x -f /var/log/wtmp) | \
grep -A1 reboot | head -2 | grep -q shutdown && echo "Expected reboot" || echo "Panic reboot"
Tool: screen
Start screen in detached mode
screen -d -m <command>
Attach to an existing screen session
screen -r -d <pid>
Tool: script
Record and replay terminal session
### Record session
# 1)
script -t 2>~/session.time -a ~/session.log
# 2)
script --timing=session.time session.log
### Replay session
scriptreplay --timing=session.time session.log
Tool: du
Show 20 biggest directories with ‘K M G’
du | \
sort -r -n | \
awk '{split("K M G",v); s=1; while($1>1024){$1/=1024; s++} print int($1)" "v[s]"\t"$2}' | \
head -n 20
Tool: inotifywait
Init tool everytime a file in a directory is modified
while true ; do inotifywait -r -e MODIFY dir/ && ls dir/ ; done;
Tool: openssl
Testing connection to the remote host
echo | openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 -showcerts
Testing connection to the remote host (with SNI support)
echo | openssl s_client -showcerts -servername google.com -connect google.com:443
Testing connection to the remote host with specific ssl version
openssl s_client -tls1_2 -connect google.com:443
Testing connection to the remote host with specific ssl cipher
openssl s_client -cipher 'AES128-SHA' -connect google.com:443
Generate private key without passphrase
# _len: 2048, 4096
( _fd="private.key" ; _len="4096" ; \
openssl genrsa -out ${_fd} ${_len} )
Generate private key with passphrase
# _ciph: des3, aes128, aes256
# _len: 2048, 4096
( _ciph="aes128" ; _fd="private.key" ; _len="4096" ; \
openssl genrsa -${_ciph} -out ${_fd} ${_len} )
Remove passphrase from private key
( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_unp="private_unp.key" ; \
openssl rsa -in ${_fd} -out ${_fd_unp} )
Encrypt existing private key with a passphrase
# _ciph: des3, aes128, aes256
( _ciph="aes128" ; _fd="private.key" ; _fd_pass="private_pass.key" ; \
openssl rsa -${_ciph} -in ${_fd} -out ${_fd_pass}
Check private key
( _fd="private.key" ; \
openssl rsa -check -in ${_fd} )
Get public key from private key
( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_pub="public.key" ; \
openssl rsa -pubout -in ${_fd} -out ${_fd_pub} )
Generate private key and CSR
( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; _len="4096" ; \
openssl req -out ${_fd_csr} -new -newkey rsa:${_len} -nodes -keyout ${_fd} )
Generate CSR
( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; \
openssl req -out ${_fd_csr} -new -key ${_fd} )
Generate CSR (metadata from existing certificate)
( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; _fd_crt="cert.crt" ; \
openssl x509 -x509toreq -in ${_fd_crt} -out ${_fd_csr} -signkey ${_fd} )
Generate CSR with -config param
( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; \
openssl req -new -sha256 -key ${_fd} -out ${_fd_csr} \
-config <(
cat <<-EOF
[req]
default_bits = 2048
prompt = no
default_md = sha256
req_extensions = req_ext
distinguished_name = dn
[ dn ]
C=<two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country>
ST=<state or province where your organization is legally located>
L=<city where your organization is legally located>
O=<legal name of your organization>
OU=<section of the organization>
CN=<fully qualified domain name>
[ req_ext ]
subjectAltName = @alt_names
[ alt_names ]
DNS.1 = <fully qualified domain name>
DNS.2 = <next domain>
DNS.3 = <next domain>
EOF
))
List available EC curves
openssl ecparam -list_curves
Generate ECDSA private key
# _curve: prime256v1, secp521r1, secp384r1
( _fd="private.key" ; _curve="prime256v1" ; \
openssl ecparam -out ${_fd} -name ${_curve} -genkey )
# _curve: X25519
( _fd="private.key" ; _curve="x25519" ; \
openssl genpkey -algorithm ${_curve} -out ${_fd} )
Print ECDSA private and public keys
( _fd="private.key" ; \
openssl ec -in ${_fd} -noout -text )
# For x25519 only extracting public key
( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_pub="public.key" ; \
openssl pkey -in ${_fd} -pubout -out ${_fd_pub} )
Generate private key with CSR (ECC)
# _curve: prime256v1, secp521r1, secp384r1
( _fd="domain.com.key" ; _fd_csr="domain.com.csr" ; _curve="prime256v1" ; \
openssl ecparam -out ${_fd} -name ${_curve} -genkey ; \
openssl req -new -key ${_fd} -out ${_fd_csr} -sha256 )
Generate self-signed certificate
# _len: 2048, 4096
( _fd="domain.key" ; _fd_out="domain.crt" ; _len="4096" ; _days="365" ; \
openssl req -newkey rsa:${_len} -nodes \
-keyout ${_fd} -x509 -days ${_days} -out ${_fd_out} )
Generate self-signed certificate from existing private key
# _len: 2048, 4096
( _fd="domain.key" ; _fd_out="domain.crt" ; _days="365" ; \
openssl req -key ${_fd} -nodes \
-x509 -days ${_days} -out ${_fd_out} )
Generate self-signed certificate from existing private key and csr
# _len: 2048, 4096
( _fd="domain.key" ; _fd_csr="domain.csr" ; _fd_out="domain.crt" ; _days="365" ; \
openssl x509 -signkey ${_fd} -nodes \
-in ${_fd_csr} -req -days ${_days} -out ${_fd_out} )
Generate DH Param key
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam_4096.pem 4096
Convert DER to PEM
( _fd_der="cert.crt" ; _fd_pem="cert.pem" ; \
openssl x509 -in ${_fd_der} -inform der -outform pem -out ${_fd_pem} )
Convert PEM to DER
( _fd_der="cert.crt" ; _fd_pem="cert.pem" ; \
openssl x509 -in ${_fd_pem} -outform der -out ${_fd_der} )
Verification of the private key
( _fd="private.key" ; \
openssl rsa -noout -text -in ${_fd} )
Verification of the public key
# 1)
( _fd="public.key" ; \
openssl pkey -noout -text -pubin -in ${_fd} )
# 2)
( _fd="private.key" ; \
openssl rsa -inform PEM -noout -in ${_fd} &> /dev/null ; \
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then echo -en "OK\n" ; fi )
Verification of the certificate
( _fd="certificate.crt" ; # format: pem, cer, crt \
openssl x509 -noout -text -in ${_fd} )
Verification of the CSR
( _fd_csr="request.csr" ; \
openssl req -text -noout -in ${_fd_csr} )
Check whether the private key and the certificate match
(openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in private.key | openssl md5 ; \
openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in certificate.crt | openssl md5) | uniq
Tool: secure-delete
Secure delete with shred
shred -vfuz -n 10 file
shred --verbose --random-source=/dev/urandom -n 1 /dev/sda
Secure delete with scrub
scrub -p dod /dev/sda
scrub -p dod -r file
Secure delete with badblocks
badblocks -s -w -t random -v /dev/sda
badblocks -c 10240 -s -w -t random -v /dev/sda
Secure delete with secure-delete
srm -vz /tmp/file
sfill -vz /local
sdmem -v
swapoff /dev/sda5 && sswap -vz /dev/sda5
Tool: dd
Show dd status every so often
dd <dd_params> status=progress
watch --interval 5 killall -USR1 dd
Redirect output to a file with dd
echo "string" | dd of=filename
Tool: gpg
Export public key
gpg --export --armor "<username>" > username.pkey
--export- export all keys from all keyrings or specific key-a|--armor- create ASCII armored output
Encrypt file
gpg -e -r "<username>" dump.sql
-e|--encrypt- encrypt data-r|--recipient- encrypt for specific
Decrypt file
gpg -o dump.sql -d dump.sql.gpg
-o|--output- use as output file-d|--decrypt- decrypt data (default)
Search recipient
gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --search-keys "<username>"
--keyserver- set specific key server--search-keys- search for keys on a key server
Tool: system-other
Reboot system from init
exec /sbin/init 6
Init system from single user mode
exec /sbin/init
Show current working directory of a process
readlink -f /proc/<PID>/cwd
Show actual pathname of the executed command
readlink -f /proc/<PID>/exe
Tool: curl
curl -Iks https://www.google.com
-I- show response headers only-k- insecure connection when using ssl-s- silent mode (not display body)
curl -Iks --location -X GET -A "x-agent" https://www.google.com
--location- follow redirects-X- set method-A- set user-agent
curl -Iks --location -X GET -A "x-agent" --proxy http://127.0.0.1:16379 https://www.google.com
--proxy [socks5://|http://]- set proxy server
curl -o file.pdf -C - https://example.com/Aiju2goo0Ja2.pdf
-o- write output to file-C- resume the transfer
Find your external IP address (external services)
curl ipinfo.io
curl ipinfo.io/ip
curl icanhazip.com
curl ifconfig.me/ip ; echo
Repeat URL request
# URL sequence substitution with a dummy query string:
curl -ks https://example.com/?[1-20]
# With shell 'for' loop:
for i in {1..20} ; do curl -ks https://example.com/ ; done
Check DNS and HTTP trace with headers for specific domains
### Set domains and external dns servers.
_domain_list=(google.com) ; _dns_list=("8.8.8.8" "1.1.1.1")
for _domain in "${_domain_list[@]}" ; do
printf '=%.0s' {1..48}
echo
printf "[\\e[1;32m+\\e[m] resolve: %s\\n" "$_domain"
for _dns in "${_dns_list[@]}" ; do
# Resolve domain.
host "${_domain}" "${_dns}"
echo
done
for _proto in http https ; do
printf "[\\e[1;32m+\\e[m] trace + headers: %s://%s\\n" "$_proto" "$_domain"
# Get trace and http headers.
curl -Iks -A "x-agent" --location "${_proto}://${_domain}"
echo
done
done
unset _domain_list _dns_list
Tool: httpie
http -p Hh https://www.google.com
-p- print request and response headersH- request headersB- request bodyh- response headersb- response body
http -p Hh https://www.google.com --follow --verify no
-F, --follow- follow redirects--verify no- skip SSL verification
http -p Hh https://www.google.com --follow --verify no \
--proxy http:http://127.0.0.1:16379
--proxy [http:]- set proxy server
Tool: ssh
Escape Sequence
# Supported escape sequences:
~. - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions)
~B - send a BREAK to the remote system
~C - open a command line
~R - Request rekey (SSH protocol 2 only)
~^Z - suspend ssh
~# - list forwarded connections
~& - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate)
~? - this message
~~ - send the escape character by typing it twice
Compare a remote file with a local file
ssh user@host cat /path/to/remotefile | diff /path/to/localfile -
SSH connection through host in the middle
ssh -t reachable_host ssh unreachable_host
Run command over SSH on remote host
cat > cmd.txt << __EOF__
cat /etc/hosts
__EOF__
ssh host -l user $(<cmd.txt)
Get public key from private key
ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Get all fingerprints
ssh-keygen -l -f .ssh/known_hosts
SSH authentication with user password
ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no user@remote_host
SSH authentication with publickey
ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -o PubkeyAuthentication=yes -i id_rsa user@remote_host
Simple recording SSH session
function _ssh_sesslog() {
_sesdir="<path/to/session/logs>"
mkdir -p "${_sesdir}" && \
ssh $@ 2>&1 | tee -a "${_sesdir}/$(date +%Y%m%d).log"
}
# Alias:
alias ssh='_ssh_sesslog'
Using Keychain for SSH logins
### Delete all of ssh-agent's keys.
function _scl() {
/usr/bin/keychain --clear
}
### Add key to keychain.
function _scg() {
/usr/bin/keychain /path/to/private-key
source "$HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh"
}
SSH login without processing any login scripts
ssh -tt user@host bash
SSH local port forwarding
Example 1:
# Forwarding our local 2250 port to nmap.org:443 from localhost through localhost
host1> ssh -L 2250:nmap.org:443 localhost
# Connect to the service:
host1> curl -Iks --location -X GET https://localhost:2250
Example 2:
# Forwarding our local 9051 port to db.d.x:5432 from localhost through node.d.y
host1> ssh -nNT -L 9051:db.d.x:5432 node.d.y
# Connect to the service:
host1> psql -U db_user -d db_dev -p 9051 -h localhost
-n- redirects stdin from/dev/null-N- do not execute a remote command-T- disable pseudo-terminal allocation
SSH remote port forwarding
# Forwarding our local 9051 port to db.d.x:5432 from host2 through node.d.y
host1> ssh -nNT -R 9051:db.d.x:5432 node.d.y
# Connect to the service:
host2> psql -U postgres -d postgres -p 8000 -h localhost
Tool: linux-dev
Testing remote connection to port
timeout 1 bash -c "</dev/<proto>/<host>/<port>" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?
<proto- set protocol (tcp/udp)<host>- set remote host<port>- set destination port
Read and write to TCP or UDP sockets with common bash tools
exec 5<>/dev/tcp/<host>/<port>; cat <&5 & cat >&5; exec 5>&-
Tool: tcpdump
Filter incoming (on interface) traffic (specific ip:port)
tcpdump -ne -i eth0 -Q in host 192.168.252.1 and port 443
-n- don’t convert addresses (-nnwill not resolve hostnames or ports)-e- print the link-level headers-i [iface|any]- set interface-Q|-D [in|out|inout]- choose send/receive direction (-D- for old tcpdump versions)host [ip|hostname]- set host, also[host not][and|or]- set logicport [1-65535]- set port number, also[port not]
Filter incoming (on interface) traffic (specific ip:port) and write to a file
tcpdump -ne -i eth0 -Q in host 192.168.252.1 and port 443 -c 5 -w tcpdump.pcap
-c [num]- capture only num number of packets-w [filename]- write packets to file,-r [filename]- reading from file
Capture all ICMP packets
tcpdump -nei eth0 icmp
Check protocol used (TCP or UDP) for service
tcpdump -nei eth0 tcp port 22 -vv -X | egrep "TCP|UDP"
Display ASCII text (to parse the output using grep or other)
tcpdump -i eth0 -A -s0 port 443
Grab everything between two keywords
tcpdump -i eth0 port 80 -X | sed -n -e '/username/,/=ldap/ p'
Grab user and pass ever plain http
tcpdump -i eth0 port http -l -A | egrep -i \
'pass=|pwd=|log=|login=|user=|username=|pw=|passw=|passwd=|password=|pass:|user:|username:|password:|login:|pass |user ' \
--color=auto --line-buffered -B20
Extract HTTP User Agent from HTTP request header
tcpdump -ei eth0 -nn -A -s1500 -l | grep "User-Agent:"
Capture only HTTP GET and POST packets
tcpdump -ei eth0 -s 0 -A -vv \
'tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x47455420' or 'tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x504f5354'
or simply:
tcpdump -ei eth0 -s 0 -v -n -l | egrep -i "POST /|GET /|Host:"
Rotate capture files
tcpdump -ei eth0 -w /tmp/capture-%H.pcap -G 3600 -C 200
-G <num>- pcap will be created every<num>seconds-C <size>- close the current pcap and open a new one if is larger than<size>
Top hosts by packets
tcpdump -ei enp0s25 -nnn -t -c 200 | cut -f 1,2,3,4 -d '.' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 20
Excludes any RFC 1918 private address
tcpdump -nei eth0 'not (src net (10 or 172.16/12 or 192.168/16) and dst net (10 or 172.16/12 or 192.168/16))'
Tool: tcpick
Analyse packets in real-time
while true ; do tcpick -a -C -r dump.pcap ; sleep 2 ; clear ; done
Tool: ngrep
ngrep -d eth0 "www.domain.com" port 443
-d [iface|any]- set interface[domain]- set hostnameport [1-65535]- set port number
ngrep -d eth0 "www.domain.com" src host 10.240.20.2 and port 443
(host [ip|hostname])- filter by ip or hostname(port [1-65535])- filter by port number
ngrep -d eth0 -qt -O ngrep.pcap "www.domain.com" port 443
-q- quiet mode (only payloads)-t- added timestamps-O [filename]- save output to file,-I [filename]- reading from file
ngrep -d eth0 -qt 'HTTP' 'tcp'
HTTP- show http headerstcp|udp- set protocol[src|dst] host [ip|hostname]- set direction for specific node
ngrep -l -q -d eth0 -i "User-Agent: curl*"
-l- stdout line buffered-i- case-insensitive search
Tool: hping3
hping3 -V -p 80 -s 5050 <scan_type> www.google.com
-V|--verbose- verbose mode-p|--destport- set destination port-s|--baseport- set source port<scan_type>- set scan type-F|--fin- set FIN flag, port open if no reply-S|--syn- set SYN flag-P|--push- set PUSH flag-A|--ack- set ACK flag (use when ping is blocked, RST response back if the port is open)-U|--urg- set URG flag-Y|--ymas- set Y unused flag (0x80 - nullscan), port open if no reply-M 0 -UPF- set TCP sequence number and scan type (URG+PUSH+FIN), port open if no reply
hping3 -V -c 1 -1 -C 8 www.google.com
-c [num]- packet count-1- set ICMP mode-C|--icmptype [icmp-num]- set icmp type (default icmp-echo = 8)
hping3 -V -c 1000000 -d 120 -S -w 64 -p 80 --flood --rand-source <remote_host>
--flood- sent packets as fast as possible (don’t show replies)--rand-source- random source address mode-d --data- data size-w|--win- winsize (default 64)
Tool: nmap
Ping scans the network
nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24
Show only open ports
nmap -F --open 192.168.0.0/24
Full TCP port scan using with service version detection
nmap -p 1-65535 -sV -sS -T4 192.168.0.0/24
Nmap scan and pass output to Nikto
nmap -p80,443 192.168.0.0/24 -oG - | nikto.pl -h -
Recon specific ip:service with Nmap NSE scripts stack
# Set variables:
_hosts="192.168.250.10"
_ports="80,443"
# Set Nmap NSE scripts stack:
_nmap_nse_scripts="+dns-brute,\
+http-auth-finder,\
+http-chrono,\
+http-cookie-flags,\
+http-cors,\
+http-cross-domain-policy,\
+http-csrf,\
+http-dombased-xss,\
+http-enum,\
+http-errors,\
+http-git,\
+http-grep,\
+http-internal-ip-disclosure,\
+http-jsonp-detection,\
+http-malware-host,\
+http-methods,\
+http-passwd,\
+http-phpself-xss,\
+http-php-version,\
+http-robots.txt,\
+http-sitemap-generator,\
+http-shellshock,\
+http-stored-xss,\
+http-title,\
+http-unsafe-output-escaping,\
+http-useragent-tester,\
+http-vhosts,\
+http-waf-detect,\
+http-waf-fingerprint,\
+http-xssed,\
+traceroute-geolocation.nse,\
+ssl-enum-ciphers,\
+whois-domain,\
+whois-ip"
# Set Nmap NSE script params:
_nmap_nse_scripts_args="dns-brute.domain=${_hosts},http-cross-domain-policy.domain-lookup=true,"
_nmap_nse_scripts_args+="http-waf-detect.aggro,http-waf-detect.detectBodyChanges,"
_nmap_nse_scripts_args+="http-waf-fingerprint.intensive=1"
# Perform scan:
nmap --script="$_nmap_nse_scripts" --script-args="$_nmap_nse_scripts_args" -p "$_ports" "$_hosts"
Tool: netcat
nc -kl 5000
-l- listen for an incoming connection-k- listening after client has disconnected>filename.out- save receive data to file (optional)
nc 192.168.0.1 5051 < filename.in
< filename.in- send data to remote host
nc -vz 10.240.30.3 5000
-v- verbose output-z- scan for listening daemons
nc -vzu 10.240.30.3 1-65535
-u- scan only udp ports
Transfer data file (archive)
server> nc -l 5000 | tar xzvfp -
client> tar czvfp - /path/to/dir | nc 10.240.30.3 5000
Launch remote shell
server> nc -l 5000 -e /bin/bash
client> nc 10.240.30.3 5000
Simple file server
while true ; do nc -l 5000 | tar -xvf - ; done
Simple minimal HTTP Server
while true ; do nc -l -p 1500 -c 'echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n $(date)"' ; done
Simple HTTP Server
Restarts web server after each request - remove
whilecondition for only single connection.
cat > index.html << __EOF__
<!doctype html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
</head>
<body>
<p>
Hello! It's a site.
</p>
</body>
</html>
__EOF__
server> while : ; do \
(echo -ne "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c <index.html)\r\n\r\n" ; cat index.html;) | \
nc -l -p 5000 \
; done
-p- port number
Simple HTTP Proxy (single connection)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [[ $# != 2 ]] ; then
printf "%s\\n" \
"usage: ./nc-proxy listen-port bk_host:bk_port"
fi
_listen_port="$1"
_bk_host=$(echo "$2" | cut -d ":" -f1)
_bk_port=$(echo "$2" | cut -d ":" -f2)
printf " lport: %s\\nbk_host: %s\\nbk_port: %s\\n\\n" \
"$_listen_port" "$_bk_host" "$_bk_port"
_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
_back="$_tmp/pipe.back"
_sent="$_tmp/pipe.sent"
_recv="$_tmp/pipe.recv"
trap 'rm -rf "$_tmp"' EXIT
mkfifo -m 0600 "$_back" "$_sent" "$_recv"
sed "s/^/=> /" <"$_sent" &
sed "s/^/<= /" <"$_recv" &
nc -l -p "$_listen_port" <"$_back" | \
tee "$_sent" | \
nc "$_bk_host" "$_bk_port" | \
tee "$_recv" >"$_back"
server> chmod +x nc-proxy && ./nc-proxy 8080 192.168.252.10:8000
lport: 8080
bk_host: 192.168.252.10
bk_port: 8000
client> http -p h 10.240.30.3:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
Content-Length: 2748
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 20:12:08 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:53:37 GMT
Create a single-use TCP or UDP proxy
### TCP -> TCP
nc -l -p 2000 -c "nc [ip|hostname] 3000"
### TCP -> UDP
nc -l -p 2000 -c "nc -u [ip|hostname] 3000"
### UDP -> UDP
nc -l -u -p 2000 -c "nc -u [ip|hostname] 3000"
### UDP -> TCP
nc -l -u -p 2000 -c "nc [ip|hostname] 3000"
Tool: gnutls-cli
Testing connection to remote host (with SNI support)
gnutls-cli -p 443 google.com
Testing connection to remote host (without SNI support)
gnutls-cli --disable-sni -p 443 google.com
Tool: socat
Testing remote connection to port
socat - TCP4:10.240.30.3:22
-- standard input (STDIO)TCP4:<params>- set tcp4 connection with specific params[hostname|ip]- set hostname/ip[1-65535]- set port number
Redirecting TCP-traffic to a UNIX domain socket under Linux
socat TCP-LISTEN:1234,bind=127.0.0.1,reuseaddr,fork,su=nobody,range=127.0.0.0/8 UNIX-CLIENT:/tmp/foo
TCP-LISTEN:<params>- set tcp listen with specific params[1-65535]- set port numberbind=[hostname|ip]- set bind hostname/ipreuseaddr- allows other sockets to bind to an addressfork- keeps the parent process attempting to produce more connectionssu=nobody- set userrange=[ip-range]- ip range
UNIX-CLIENT:<params>- communicates with the specified peer socketfilename- define socket
Tool: p0f
Set iface in promiscuous mode and dump traffic to the log file
p0f -i enp0s25 -p -d -o /dump/enp0s25.log
-i- listen on the specified interface-p- set interface in promiscuous mode-d- fork into background-o- output file
Tool: netstat
Graph # of connections for each hosts
netstat -an | awk '/ESTABLISHED/ { split($5,ip,":"); if (ip[1] !~ /^$/) print ip[1] }' | \
sort | uniq -c | awk '{ printf("%s\t%s\t",$2,$1) ; for (i = 0; i < $1; i++) {printf("*")}; print "" }'
Monitor open connections for specific port including listen, count and sort it per IP
watch "netstat -plan | grep :443 | awk {'print \$5'} | cut -d: -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nk 1"
Grab banners from local IPv4 listening ports
netstat -nlt | grep 'tcp ' | grep -Eo "[1-9][0-9]*" | xargs -I {} sh -c "echo "" | nc -v -n -w1 127.0.0.1 {}"
Tool: rsync
Rsync remote data as root using sudo
rsync --rsync-path 'sudo rsync' username@hostname:/path/to/dir/ /local/
Tool: host
Resolves the domain name (using external dns server)
host google.com 9.9.9.9
Checks the domain administrator (SOA record)
host -t soa google.com 9.9.9.9
Tool: dig
Resolves the domain name (short output)
dig google.com +short
Lookup NS record for specific domain
dig @9.9.9.9 google.com NS
Query only answer section
dig google.com +nocomments +noquestion +noauthority +noadditional +nostats
Query ALL DNS Records
dig google.com ANY +noall +answer
DNS Reverse Look-up
dig -x 172.217.16.14 +short
Tool: certbot
Generate multidomain certificate
certbot certonly -d example.com -d www.example.com
Generate wildcard certificate
certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges=dns -d example.com -d *.example.com
Generate certificate with 4096 bit private key
certbot certonly -d example.com -d www.example.com --rsa-key-size 4096
Tool: network-other
Get all subnets for specific AS (Autonomous system)
AS="AS32934"
whois -h whois.radb.net -- "-i origin ${AS}" | \
grep "^route:" | \
cut -d ":" -f2 | \
sed -e 's/^[ \t]//' | \
sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 | \
cut -d ":" -f2 | \
sed -e 's/^[ \t]/allow /' | \
sed 's/$/;/' | \
sed 's/allow */subnet -> /g'
Resolves domain name from dns.google.com with curl and jq
_dname="google.com" ; curl -s "https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=${_dname}&type=A" | jq .
Tool: git
Log alias for a decent view of your repo
# 1)
git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all
# 2)
git log --graph \
--pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' \
--abbrev-commit
Tool: python
Static HTTP web server
# Python 3.x
python3 -m http.server 8000 --bind 127.0.0.1
# Python 2.x
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
Static HTTP web server with SSL support
# Python 3.x
from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
import ssl
httpd = HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), BaseHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket,
keyfile="path/to/key.pem",
certfile='path/to/cert.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()
# Python 2.x
import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
import ssl
httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443),
SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket,
keyfile="path/tp/key.pem",
certfile='path/to/cert.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()
Encode base64
python -m base64 -e <<< "sample string"
Decode base64
python -m base64 -d <<< "dGhpcyBpcyBlbmNvZGVkCg=="
Tool: awk
Remove duplicate entries in a file without sorting
awk '!x[$0]++' filename
Print the last column
awk '{print $NF}' filename
Remove empty lines
awk 'NF > 0' filename
# alternative:
awk NF filename
Print multiple columns with separators
awk -F' ' '{print "ip:\t" $2 "\n port:\t" $3' filename
Exclude multiple columns
awk '{$1=$3=""}1' filename
Get the last hour of Apache logs
awk '/'$(date -d "1 hours ago" "+%d\\/%b\\/%Y:%H:%M")'/,/'$(date "+%d\\/%b\\/%Y:%H:%M")'/ { print $0 }' \
/var/log/httpd/access_log
Tool: sed
To print a specific line from a file
sed -n 10p /path/to/file
Remove a specific line from a file
sed -i 10d /path/to/file
# alternative (BSD): sed -i'' 10d /path/to/file
Remove a range of lines from a file
sed -i <file> -re '<start>,<end>d'
Replace newline(s) with a space
sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' /path/to/file
# cross-platform compatible syntax:
sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\n/ /g' /path/to/file
:acreate a labelaNappend the next line to the pattern space$!if not the last line, ba branch (go to) labelassubstitute,/\n/regex for new line,/ /by a space,/gglobal match (as many times as it can)
Alternatives:
# perl version (sed-like speed):
perl -p -e 's/\n/ /' /path/to/file
# bash version (slow):
while read line ; do printf "%s" "$line " ; done < file
Delete string +N next lines
sed '/start/,+4d' /path/to/file
Tool: grep
Search for a “pattern” inside all files in the current directory
grep -rn "pattern"
grep -RnisI "pattern" *
fgrep "pattern" * -R
Remove blank lines from a file and save output to new file
grep . filename > newfilename
Show only for multiple patterns
grep 'INFO*'\''WARN' filename
grep 'INFO\|WARN' filename
grep -e INFO -e WARN filename
grep -E '(INFO|WARN)' filename
egrep "INFO|WARN" filename
Except multiple patterns
grep -vE '(error|critical|warning)' filename
Show data from file without comments
grep -v ^[[:space:]]*# filename
Show data from file without comments and new lines
egrep -v '#|^$' filename
Show strings with a dash/hyphen
grep -e -- filename
grep -- -- filename
grep "\-\-" filename
Shell functions [TOC]
Table of Contents
Domain resolve
# Dependencies:
# - curl
# - jq
function DomainResolve() {
local _host="$1"
local _curl_base="curl --request GET"
local _timeout="15"
_host_ip=$($_curl_base -ks -m "$_timeout" "https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=${_host}&type=A" | \
jq '.Answer[0].data' | tr -d "\"" 2>/dev/null)
if [[ -z "$_host_ip" ]] || [[ "$_host_ip" == "null" ]] ; then
echo -en "Unsuccessful domain name resolution.\\n"
else
echo -en "$_host > $_host_ip\\n"
fi
}
Example:
shell> DomainResolve nmap.org
nmap.org > 45.33.49.119
shell> DomainResolve nmap.org
Unsuccessful domain name resolution.
Get ASN
# Dependencies:
# - curl
# - python
function GetASN() {
local _ip="$1"
local _curl_base="curl --request GET"
local _timeout="15"
_asn=$($_curl_base -ks -m "$_timeout" "http://ip-api.com/json/${_ip}" | \
python -c 'import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)["as"]' 2>/dev/null)
_state=$(echo $?)
if [[ -z "$_ip" ]] || [[ "$_ip" == "null" ]] || [[ "$_state" -ne 0 ]]; then
echo -en "Unsuccessful ASN gathering.\\n"
else
echo -en "$_ip > $_asn\\n"
fi
}
Example:
shell> GetASN 1.1.1.1
1.1.1.1 > AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
shell> GetASN 0.0.0.0
Unsuccessful ASN gathering.