Penetration Testing Tools

Greetings to evolving hackers !! Penetration testing which has some definition as Penetration testing known as ethical hacking, simulates real-world cyberattacks to uncover weaknesses in a system's defence. As this thing need good knowledge and skills and most importantly best tools. Tools are very important in your journey. So, In this blog we are going to discuss some tools which makes your little bit effective and faster. 

Network & Vulnerability Scanner Tools

These tools provide you the information about the active hosts, open ports, and service running on the open ports or on the network. They also provide you the essential information about the target. Some tools are : 

I. Nmap : Nmap is most used tools by professionals for crawl the information about the network. This is also an auditing tool which helps in searching for open ports and what service running on that port. Nmap having scripting capabilities by that target vulnerabilities finding process is more faster. 

II. Zenmap : Zenmap is Graphical User Interface(GUI) for Nmap, a powerful scanning tool which provide you the graphical interface to find vulnerabilities, active ports, service on networks, discovering hosts and vulnerability scanning.  

III. Nessus : Nessus is a tools which helps in finding vulnerabilities and misconfiguration on network and systems. This tools perform scan and give result about the vulnerabilities with their CVE(Common Vulnerability Exposure) Score. 

IV. Wireshark : Wireshark is Graphical User Interface(GUI) tool. This tool is used for analysing network packets in the real time and also anytime. It provides detail information about the network communication (How a network is communicating).

V. Netcat : Netcat is a command-line tool used for reading and writing on file on network. This tool is use for taking shell back of a machine.  

 Web Application Testing Tools

I. Burp Suite 

Burp Suite is  most famous and powerful tool among penetration testers. This tools is used for website testing. It consists of various tools by which one can find vulnerabilities and able to exploit them. Web scanning, proxy interception are the functionalities of burp suite.

II. FFuF (Fuzz Faster U Fool)

This tools helps to finding the directory no matter whether it's hidden or not for web applications. It uses the combination of brute-forcing and pattern matching techniques to find non-publicly accessible content. 

III. Dirbuster

This tool is a directory and file brute-forcing tool used for application testing and enumeration, which helps to find hidden directories, files, sensitive information by some technical scanning. 

IV. Gobuster

This tool is directory and DNS brute-forcing tool used for website and subdomain enumeration. This also helps in finding hidden directories, files, and sub-domains by some technical scanning.

V. Sqlmap 

This is very popular open source tool for automated SQL injection and database takeover. It gives you the information about the database of website and helps in exploiting. 

These are the tools which gives the information about the target by which a pen-tester can report a vulnerabilities to the owner of website so that this website can be safe. Hope fully you will get some value from this reading. 

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