Pentesting Tools I Use Everyday

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • ZAP

    The ZAP core project

  • Learn more about ZAP here: https://www.zaproxy.org/

  • ffuf

    Fast web fuzzer written in Go

  • Learn more about ffuf here: https://github.com/ffuf/ffuf

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • 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

  • Learn more about John the Ripper here: https://www.openwall.com/john/

  • dirsearch

    Web path scanner

  • Learn more about dirsearch here: https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch

  • Metasploit

    Metasploit Framework

  • Learn more about Metasploit here: https://www.metasploit.com/

  • gau

    Fetch known URLs from AlienVault's Open Threat Exchange, the Wayback Machine, and Common Crawl.

  • Learn more about gau here: https://github.com/lc/gau

  • SQLMap

    Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

  • Learn more about sqlmap here: https://sqlmap.org/

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • nuclei

    Fast and customizable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL.

  • Learn more about nuclei here: https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io/

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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