1.hashcat / hashcat
World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility
+1,513 stars
from 25,737 · score 7.32
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2.redcanaryco / atomic-red-team
Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE's ATT&CK.
- mitre
- mitre-attack
+930 stars
from 11,834 · score 6.84
3.openwall / john
John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs
- john
- c
- ripper
- password
- jtr
- opencl
- +10 more
+884 stars
from 12,978 · score 6.79
4.vanhauser-thc / thc-hydra
hydra
- penetration-testing
- password-cracker
- network-security
- hydra
- thc
- pentesting
- +10 more
+808 stars
from 11,651 · score 6.70
+541 stars
from 21,409 · score 6.30
6.SpacehuhnTech / esp8266_deauther
Affordable WiFi hacking platform for testing and learning
+415 stars
from 14,665 · score 6.03
7.m0nad / Diamorphine
LKM rootkit for Linux Kernels 2.6.x-7.x (x86/x86_64 and ARM/ARM64)
- rootkit
- lkm-rootkit
- c
- kernel
- kernel-module
- security-tools
- +14 more
+194 stars
from 2,294 · score 5.27
8.ZerBea / hcxtools
A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper.
- wlan
- wpa
- wpa2
- raspberry-pi
- hashcat
- handshake
- +8 more
+115 stars
from 2,354 · score 4.75
+110 stars
from 2,700 · score 4.71
10.hashcat / hashcat-utils
Small utilities that are useful in advanced password cracking
+63 stars
from 1,568 · score 4.16
+62 stars
from 2,082 · score 4.14
12.h3xduck / TripleCross
A Linux eBPF rootkit with a backdoor, C2, library injection, execution hijacking, persistence and stealth capabilities.
+47 stars
from 1,945 · score 3.87
13.jtesta / ssh-mitmArchived
SSH man-in-the-middle tool
- penetration-testing
- ssh
- mitm
- man-in-the-middle
- man-in-the-middle-attack
- hacking
+13 stars
from 1,728 · score 2.64
14.taviso / ctftool
Interactive CTF Exploration Tool
- security
- reverse-engineering
- windows
- windows-internals
+9 stars
from 1,660 · score 2.30