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rocky/python-uncompyle6

A cross-version Python bytecode decompiler

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#bytecode #decompiler #python

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-05
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 42 open

4,312

stars

Forks: 461
Commits: 3,537 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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codingo/NoSQLMap

Automated NoSQL database enumeration and web application exploitation tool.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #couchdb #databases #enumeration #hacking #hacking-tool

Updated: 2026-02-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-24
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

3,334

stars

Forks: 624
Commits: 304 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sleuthkit/sleuthkit

The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.

AI dev

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#forensics #incident-response #ntfs #sleuthkit #tct

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-28
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 472 open

3,115

stars

Forks: 702
Commits: 10,730 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

plasma-disassembler/plasma

Plasma is an interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS. It can generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#arm #capstone #disassembler #mips #reverse-engineering #x86

Updated: 2021-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-09
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

3,069

stars

Forks: 273
Commits: 922 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nil0x42/phpsploit

Full-featured C2 framework which silently persists on webserver with a single-line PHP backdoor

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#advanced-persistent-threat #backdoor #blackhat #c2 #command-and-control #hacking

Updated: 2024-05-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-08
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 27 open

2,485

stars

Forks: 470
Commits: 1,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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htrgouvea/nipe

An engine to make Tor network your default gateway

Stack

Perl

GitHub topics

#anonymity #anonymize #engine #iptables #network #nipe

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-09-07
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

2,365

stars

Forks: 338
Commits: 502 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

byt3bl33d3r/SILENTTRINITY

An asynchronous, collaborative post-exploitation agent powered by Python and .NET's DLR

Stack

Boo pytest pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#boolang #c-sharp #dotnet #dotnet-dlr #dotnet-script #ironpython

Updated: 2023-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-06
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 48 open

2,343

stars

Forks: 428
Commits: 293 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yegord/snowman

Snowman decompiler

Archived

Updated: 2023-03-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-08
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

2,248

stars

Forks: 299
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Storyyeller/Krakatau

Java decompiler, assembler, and disassembler

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-04-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-16
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 25 open

2,241

stars

Forks: 236
Commits: 18 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OWASP/NodeGoat

The OWASP NodeGoat project provides an environment to learn how OWASP Top 10 security risks apply to web applications developed using Node.js and how to effectively address them.

Stack

HTML Express npm

GitHub topics

#docker #heroku #javascript #nodegoat #nodejs #owasp-top-ten

Updated: 2024-06-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-21
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 103 open

2,056

stars

Forks: 2,719
Commits: 461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jtesta/ssh-mitm

SSH man-in-the-middle tool

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#hacking #man-in-the-middle #man-in-the-middle-attack #mitm #penetration-testing #ssh

Updated: 2021-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-16
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

1,743

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hellman/xortool

A tool to analyze multi-byte xor cipher

Stack

Python Poetry

GitHub topics

#cryptanalysis #cryptography #xor-cipher #xortool

Updated: 2025-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-18
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

1,487

stars

Forks: 180
Commits: 127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rosehgal/BinExp

Linux Binary Exploitation

Stack

GitHub topics

#binaries #buffer-overflow-attack #bufferoverflow #consolidation #exploitation #format-string-attack

Updated: 2021-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-10
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,357

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 68 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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codingo/VHostScan

A virtual host scanner that performs reverse lookups, can be used with pivot tools, detect catch-all scenarios, work around wildcards, aliases and dynamic default pages.

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #ctf-tools #discovery-service #hacking #hacking-tool #hackthebox

Updated: 2025-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-03
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1 open

1,310

stars

Forks: 239
Commits: 347 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kpcyrd/sniffglue

Secure multithreaded packet sniffer

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#network #pcap #rust #sandboxed #sniffer

Updated: 2026-04-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-09-12
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 18 open

1,264

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 378 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

codilime/veles

Binary data analysis and visualization tool

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cpp #hexeditor #python #qt #reverse-engineering #shaders

Updated: 2019-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-16
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 56 open

1,239

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 637 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mildsunrise/protobuf-inspector

🕵️ Tool to reverse-engineer Protocol Buffers with unknown definition

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#protocol-buffers #reverse-engineering #serialization

Updated: 2020-12-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-24
History: 3 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 5 open

1,123

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 24 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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desowin/usbpcap

USB packet capture for Windows

Stack

Updated: 2025-02-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-10
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 65 open

1,113

stars

Forks: 199
Commits: 185 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fportantier/habu

Hacking Toolkit

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#hacking #linux #network-analysis #networking #penetration-testing #pentest

Updated: 2025-12-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-18
History: 3 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 3 open

983

stars

Forks: 164
Commits: 371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Genetic-Malware/Ebowla

Framework for Making Environmental Keyed Payloads (NO LONGER SUPPORTED)

Stack

Python CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#clueless-agents #golang #memorymodule #powershell #python

Updated: 2019-01-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-07
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

762

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 79 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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orlikoski/CyLR

CyLR - Live Response Collection Tool

Stack

C# .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-06-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-06
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 21 open

732

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 423 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

EUA/wxHexEditor

wxHexEditor official GIT repo

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#disk #editor #hex #hex-editor #linux #mac

Updated: 2024-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-06-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 83 open

617

stars

Forks: 134
Commits: 733 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jesusprubio/strong-node

:heavy_check_mark: More than 100 security checks for your Node.js API

Archived

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

Updated: 2024-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-27
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

508

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 38 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rafael-santiago/pig

A Linux packet crafting tool.

Stack

GitHub topics

#arp-spoofing #denial-of-service #forensics #hacking #hacking-tool #intrusion-prevention

Updated: 2020-11-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-04-27
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 0 open

479

stars

Forks: 41
Commits: 215 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kpcyrd/authoscope

Scriptable network authentication cracker

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#concurrency #cracking #credential-stuffing #dictionary-attack #lua #password

Updated: 2023-12-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 24 open

419

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mxmssh/drltrace

Drltrace is a library calls tracer for Windows and Linux applications.

Stack

HTML CMake pip

GitHub topics

#api-trace #dbi #malware-analysis #malware-detection #reverse-engineering

Updated: 2020-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-10
History: 3 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 14 open

419

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 129 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

pfalcon/ScratchABit

Easily retargetable and hackable interactive disassembler with IDAPython-compatible plugin API

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#disassembler #ida #ida-plugin #idapython #reverse-engineering

Updated: 2020-11-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-04-08
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 29 open

413

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 571 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

SpectralOps/keyscope

Keyscope is a key and secret workflow (validation, invalidation, etc.) tool built in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo Yarn

GitHub topics

#developer-tools #devops #pentest #rust #security #testing

Updated: 2025-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-10-01
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1 open

411

stars

Forks: 113
Commits: 90 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

SpectralOps/netz

Discover internet-wide misconfigurations while drinking coffee

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cybersecurity #go #golang #osint #scanner

Updated: 2021-05-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-03
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

399

stars

Forks: 44
Commits: 16 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

HightechSec/git-scanner

A tool for bug hunting or pentesting for targeting websites that have open .git repositories available in public

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bash #bughunting #git-dumper #hacking-tools #pentest-tool #pentesting

Updated: 2020-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-17
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

383

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 20 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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