- Tool repositories
- General
- Cryptography
- De-Obfuscation
- Reverse Engineering
- Forensics
- OSINT
- Steganography
- PWN
- Learning
This includes other CTF tool repositories that might contain more tools than what you might find here. Check them out!
A list of general tools that can be used to assist with CTF challenges
- Hex Editor - Online hex editor tool that can help with hex-related challenges
- Multi-converter - Converts all kinds of basic crypto and text methods on the fly Collaboration tools
- Codimd - An open source web application allowing for collaborative markdown editing.
- PwnHub - Open source collaboration platform allowing the collaboration of a single team. Ironically made with shell files.
- Cyberchef - Tool to perform anything you ever wish
- d.code - The godlike cryptography tool
- Boxentriq Cipher Identifier - Cryptography tool great at identifying what a cipher is
- Xor Calculator - A great calculator for XOR
- RSA ctf tool - an RSA attack tool to retrieve a private key from a wek public key
- Prettier Playground - Messy looking long code? Use this to help!
- Javascript Beutifier - A similar tool to pretty longer code
- Javascript UnPacker - Packed Java script? Utilize this to help unpack it. Example of packed java script:
eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r){e=String;if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--)r[c]=k[c]||c;k=[function(e){return r[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--)if(k[c])p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c]);return p}('(0(){4 1="5 6 7 8";0 2(3){9(3)}2(1)})();',10,10,'function|b|something|a|var|some|sample|packed|code|alert'.split('|'),0,{}))- Binary Ninja - My tool of choice when it comes to reverse engineering. An easy to understand (and has a free cloud system!) you can use to look at binaries
- Detect it Easy - Tool to detect file types and other information about a file
- evtxview - GUI for microsoft eventx files, python in nature so can run anywhere
- Zip File Cracker
- eric zimmerman's Tools - Lots of tools related to forensic examination of files in windows
Online Code Runner
- JavaScript - Runs javascript
- online-python - Runs
Gathering open source information
- WhatsMyName Web - Great tool to search usernames accross the internet
- Internet Archive - A look back in time on websites
- DNS Dumpster - Dumps all of the DNS of a website
- URLScan.io - An amazing tool to scan websites for additional information.
- Bellingcat OpenStreetMap search - An amazing tool to use for geolocation tasks
- Open Corporates - Gather open corporate information
- Epieos - A big osint website.
- Who Is Domain Search - Great for gathering whois information of websites
- The Harvester - Tool designed to gather emails, ips, subdomains, and urls from public resources.
Other
- PGP Keyserver - If any challenges wants you to look for specific PGP keys.
- Search By Image Extension - Assists in searching images accross many search engines.
Resources
- Aperi'Solve - One of the best solvers for stegonography images
- StegOnline - A really good CTF Stegonography tool, mostly helps with colors and file extraction
- x-ray unredact tool
Recomended Videos:
- Competing in the ALLES. CTF - Team Recording in Real Time - A great video about the Alles! ctf team playing in a Google CTF Finals. Talking all aobut methodologies and how they go through competitions
- Real world CTF Finals 2018 - A great video from LiveOverflow about an in person capture the flag competition that was held in china.
- Advanced tips and tricks for capture the flag an AMAZING talk from John Hammond about capture the flags.
Youtube Channels:
- Live Overflow - A great world class CTF player who has amazing videos on different topics related to CTF's and cybersecurity.
- John Hammond - A great channel to help begginers learn advanced security.
- Matt Brown - Red Team related channel, talks a lot about red-tema related content
Reading content
- Hack Tricks Book - A book all about red team and other cybersecurity related topics. A great read for those interested in capture the flags.
- Humble Bundle - Occasionally has really good deals related to cybersecurity
- Under the Wire Wargames- Games to exercise additional learning in capture the flags.
- Pico CTF - Small capture the flag challenges to exercies the brain
- Pwnable
