Top ten hacking tools by Blackhat Pakistan 2023
Today in this article we will learn about Top ten hacking tools in 2023.
Ethical hacking tools[Top ten hacking tools]
Hacking, which was once considered the exclusive domain of “experts”, has become a very common phenomenon with the advent of technology and advancements in technology. Hacking can be used for malicious purposes as well as to find flaws/vulnerabilities in a system and alert the authorities to help them secure their system better.
With the help of several tools and basic knowledge of its real capabilities, a hacker performs security testing which helps them a lot in their task. Today we have discussed some of them below.
Nmap
Nmap (Network Mapper) is used for port scanning and network mapping and its a very well known free open source hacking tool. Namp is used by many security professionals around the world to take network inventory, check open ports, manage service upgrade plans, and monitor host or service uptime.
Nmap is mainly used for network discovery and performing security audits. Creatively uses raw IP packets to determine which hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts provide information about, what operating systems (fingerprints) and what type and version of packet filters / firewalls are in use target.
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Nmap is a console tool available in various Linux variants that also comes with a GUI version of Zenmap for ease of use.
Metasploit
Metasploit is a vulnerability exploit tool that can be considered a “collection of hacking tools and frameworks” that can be used to perform various tasks. Widely used by cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers, it is a must-have for anyone in the cybersecurity field.
Its best-known open source framework, a tool for developing and running exploit code against a remote target computer. Metasploit is essentially a security framework that provides the user with critical information regarding known security vulnerabilities and helps formulate plans, strategies, and methodologies for penetration testing and IDS testing.
John the Ripper
John the Ripper is a popular password cracking tool most commonly used to perform dictionary attacks. John the Ripper takes samples of text strings (from a text file, referred to as a “word list”, which contains popular and complex words found in a dictionary or actual previously cracked passwords), encrypting them in the same way as a cracked password (including both the encryption algorithm and key) and comparing the output with the encrypted string. This tool can also be used to perform various changes to dictionary attacks.
Another tool similar to John the Ripper is the THC Hydra. The only difference between John the Ripper and THC Hydra is that John the Ripper is an “offline” password cracker, while THC Hydra is an “online” cracker.
THC Hydra
THC Hydra is a very popular password cracker and has a very active and experienced development team. THC Hydra is basically a fast and stable network login hacking tool that will use dictionary or brute force attacks to try different combinations of passwords and credentials on the login page. When you need to brute force a remote authentication service, Hydra is often the tool of choice. It can perform fast dictionary attacks against more than 50 protocols, including Telnet, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, smb, several databases, and many more.
THC Hydra is a fast network login password cracker. When compared to other similar tools, it shows why it is faster. New modules are easily installed into the tool. You can easily add modules and improve features. It is available for Windows, Linux, Free BSD, Solaris and OS X.
OWASP Zed
OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy-to-use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. Designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience, it is ideal for developers and functional testers new to penetration testing, as well as a useful addition to the toolkit of experienced pen testers.
ZAP is a popular tool because it has great support and the OWASP community is an excellent resource for those working in cybersecurity. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as various tools that allow you to manually discover security vulnerabilities like a cyber professional. Understanding and being able to master this tool would also be beneficial to your career as a penetration tester.
Wireshark
WireShark is a very popular networking tool. It is a network protocol analysis tool that allows you to check various things on your office or home network. You can capture packets live and analyze the packets to find various things related to the network by inspecting the data at a micro level. This tool is available for Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD and other platforms.
WireShark has been highly developed and includes filters, color coding and other features that allow the user to dig deep into network traffic and inspect individual packets. If you would like to become a penetration tester or work as a cyber security professional, then learning how to use Wireshark is a must.
Aircrack-ng
Aircrack is a wireless hacking tool that is known for its effectiveness in cracking passwords. It is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK hacking tool that can recover keys after capturing enough data packets (in monitor mode). It is useful to know that Aircrack-ng implements standard FMS attacks along with some optimizations such as KoreK attacks as well as PTW attacks to make their attacks stronger.
It is a highly recommended tool for those who are interested in wireless hacking. For wireless auditing and penetration testing, learning aircrack is essential.
Maltese
Maltego is a digital forensics tool used to provide an overall picture of cyber threats to the enterprise or local environment in which an organization operates. Maltego focuses on analyzing real-world relationships between information that is publicly available on the Internet. This includes a sophisticated internet infrastructure as well as gathering information about the people and organization that own it.
Maltego provides results in a wide variety of graphical layouts that allow information to be clustered, making relationships visible instantly and accurately. This makes it possible to see hidden connections, even if they are three or four degrees apart.
Cain and Abel
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It enables easy recovery of various kinds of passwords by scanning the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding encrypted passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, revealing cached passwords and analysis. routing protocols.
Cain & Abel was developed with the hope that it will be useful to network administrators, teachers, security consultants/professionals, forensics, security software vendors, professional penetration testers, and anyone else who plans to use it for ethical reasons.
Nobody web vulnerability scanner
Nikto is another classic “hacking tool” that a lot of pentesters like to use. It is an open source (GPL) web server scanner that performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including more than 6500 potentially dangerous files/CGI, checks for outdated versions of more than 1250 servers, and version-specific issues on more than 270 servers. It also checks server configuration items such as the presence of multiple index files, HTTP server options, and attempts to identify installed web servers and software. Scanned items and plugins are frequently updated and can be updated automatically.
Interestingly, Nobody can also check server configuration items such as the presence of multiple index files, HTTP server options, and the platform will also try to identify installed web servers and web applications. None will be caught by any half-decent IDS tool, so it’s useful for doing a white-hat/white-box pentest.
