This One Time on a Pen Test: I Know...Everything

Each year, Rapid7 penetration testers complete hundreds of internally and externally based penetration testing service engagements. This post is part of an ongoing series featuring testimonials of what goes on beneath the hoodie. For more insights, check out our 2020 Under the Hoodie report. It...

Red Team — Automation or Simulation?

What is the difference between a penetration test and a red team exercise? The common understanding is that a red team exercise is a pen-test on steroids, but what does that mean? While both programs are performed by ethical hackers, whether they are in-house residents or contracted externally, t...

This One Time on a Pen Test: Ain’t No Fence High Enough

Each year, Rapid7 penetration testers complete hundreds of internally and externally based penetration testing service engagements. This post is part of an ongoing series featuring testimonials of what goes on beneath the hoodie. For more insights, check out our 2020 Under the Hoodie report. Read...

Exploiting Oracle WebLogic by Remote Code Execution with a /console endpoint restricted

This article explains how to exploit Oracle WebLogic for remote code execution by using valid credentials. Its useful during black-box security audits, pentests, and infrastructure audits, including automated vulnerability scanning. To set up an example playground, we will use the following docke...

Zenscrape: A Simple Web Scraping Solution for Penetration Testers

Did you ever try extracting any information from any website? Well, if you have then you have surely enacted web scraping functions without even knowing it! To put in simpler terms, Web scraping, or also known as web data extraction, is the process of recouping or sweeping data from web-pages. It...

Zenscrape: A Simple Web Scraping Solution for Penetration Testers

Did you ever try extracting any information from any website? Well, if you have then you have surely enacted web scraping functions without even knowing it! To put in simpler terms, Web scraping, or also known as web data extraction, is the process of recouping or sweeping data from web-pages. It...

This One Time on a Pen Test: Outwitting the Vexing VPN

Each year, Rapid7 penetration testers complete hundreds of internally and externally based penetration testing service engagements. This post is part of an ongoing series featuring testimonials of what goes on beneath the hoodie. For more insights, check out our 2020 Under the Hoodie report. Just...

SQLMap v1.4.9 - Automatic SQL Injection And Database Takeover Tool

SQLMap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lastin...

Faraday v3.12 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

There are better ways than managing vulnerabilities with spreadsheets, especially when you are working with several tools. We know it’s easy to lose trail of your efforts. In faraday you can keep track of your scanners and your team in one place, This update is focused on improving your everyday...

metasploit-framework

This is an open-source project repository for the Metasploit Framework, a popular penetration testing tool. The repository contains various files and directories related to the project, including configuration files, test files, and documentation. The Metasploit Framework is a software platform f...

CrossC2 - Generate CobaltStrike's Cross-Platform Payload

A security framework for enterprises and Red Team personnel, supports CobaltStrike's penetration testing of other platforms Linux / MacOS / ..., supports custom modules, and includes some commonly used penetration modules. Only for internal use by enterprises and organizations, this framework has...

PowerSploit

This is a PowerShell module repository called PowerSploit, which is a collection of tools for penetration testing and red teaming. The repository contains several modules, including AntivirusBypass and CodeExecution. The AntivirusBypass module is designed to help evade antivirus detection, and it...

Can Vulnerability Scanning Replace Penetration Testing?

By Waqas The major misconception that leads to lots of security breaches in businesses is - treating both Vulnerability scanning and Penetration Testing alternative to one another. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Can Vulnerability Scanning Replace Penetration Testing?...

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SecGen - Create Randomly Insecure VMs

SecGen creates vulnerable virtual machines, lab environments, and hacking challenges, so students can learn security penetration testing techniques. Boxes like Metasploitable2 are always the same, this project uses Vagrant, Puppet, and Ruby to create randomly vulnerable virtual machines that can ...

metasploit-framework

This is a Metasploit Framework repository, a widely used penetration testing tool. The framework is used for identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in computer systems and applications. The primary target of this framework is the Metasploit Framework itself, which is a Ruby-based framework fo...

Gopherus

This is a Python script that generates payloads for exploiting Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerabilities in various services, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, FastCGI, Memcached, Redis, Zabbix, and SMTP. The script uses a variety of techniques to generate payloads, including Python, Ruby, and...

Intelspy - Perform Automated Network Reconnaissance Scans

Perform automated network reconnaissance scans to gather network intelligence. IntelSpy is a multi-threaded network intelligence spy tool which performs automated enumeration of network services. It performs live hosts detection scans, port scans, services enumeration scans, web content scans,...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Ivanti Connect_Secure

pulsexploit Automated script for Pulse Secure SSL VPN exploit...

reNgine - An Automated Reconnaissance Framework Meant For Gathering Information During Penetration Testing Of Web Applications

reNgine is an automated reconnaissance framework meant for gathering information during penetration testing of web applications. reNgine has customizable scan engines, which can be used to scan the websites, endpoints, and gather information. The beauty of reNgine is that it gathers everything in...