Sybex - Tools Flashcards
Be able to state the purpose and use case for all of the tools in this list
WHOIS
OSINT: gather info from public records about domain ownership
Nslookup
OSINT: Help identify IP address associated with an organization
theHarvester
OSINT: Scours search engines and other sources to find email addresses, employee names, and infrastructure details about an org
Recon-ng
OSINT: Modular web reconnaissance framework that organizes and manages OSINT work. (Need more info on this)
Censys
OSINT: web-based tool that probes IP addresses across the internet then provides pen testers with access to that info through a search engine
FOCA
OSINT: Fingerprinting Organizations with Collective Archives; Find Metadata in Office Documents, PDFs, and other common file formats
Shodan
OSINT: Specialized Search Engine for discovery of vulnerable IoT devices from public sources
Maltego
OSINT: commercial product that assists with visualization of data gathered via OSINT
NMAP
OSINT: Port Scanning and Network Mapping tool
Nessus
VulnScan: commercial tool used to scan wide variety of devices
OpenVAS
VulnScan: OSS network vuln scanner
SqlMap
VulnScan: automate Sql injection attacks against web apps with database back ends
Nikto, Wapiti, W3AF
VulnScan: OSS Web Application vuln scanners
WPScan
VulnScan: Web app testing tool designed to work with websites running WordPress
SCAP
VulnScan: (Security Content Automation Protocol) Set of tools designed to help orgs manage compliance and security standards
SET
SocialEngineer: (Social Engineering Toolkit) Framework for automating the social engineering process; sending spearphishing emails, hosting fake websites, collecting credentials
BeEF
SocialEngineer: (Browser Exploitation Framework) automated toolkit for using social engineering to take over a victim’s web browser
Hashcat
CredentialTest: password cracking and reverse-engineer hashed password tool
John the Ripper
CredentialTest: password cracking and reverse-engineer hashed password tool
Hydra
CredentialTest: password cracking and reverse-engineer hashed password tool
Medusa
CredentialTest: password cracking and reverse-engineer hashed password tool
Patator
CredentialTest: password cracking and reverse-engineer hashed password tool
Cain
CredentialTest: password cracking and reverse-engineer hashed password tool
CeWL
CredentialTest: custom wordlist generator that searched websites for keywords that may be used in password-guessing attacks
Mimikatz
CredentialTest: Retrieve creds from memory on Windows machines
DirBuster
CredentialTest: brute-forcing tool to enumerate files and directories on web server
Immunity Debugger
Debugger/SoftwareTest: supports pentesting and reverse engineering malware
GDB
Debugger/SoftwareTest: OSS debugger for Linux for use with many programming languages