the-book-of-secret-knowledge

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trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

"Knowledge is powerful, be careful how you use it!"

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools, and more.

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: What is it?

This repository is a collection of various materials and tools that I use every day in my work. It contains a lot of useful information gathered in one piece. It is an invaluable source of knowledge for me that I often look back on.

:restroom: For whom?

For everyone, really. Here everyone can find their favourite tastes. But to be perfectly honest, it is aimed towards System and Network administrators, DevOps, Pentesters, and Security Researchers.

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:ballot_box_with_check: ToDo

Add new stuff…
Add useful shell functions
Add one-liners for collection tools (eg. CLI Tools)
Sort order in lists

New items are also added on a regular basis.

:anger: Table of Contents

Only main chapters:

:trident: The Book of Secret Knowledge (Chapters)

CLI Tools ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: Shells

   GNU Bash - is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell and C shell.
   Zsh - is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
   tclsh - is a very powerful cross-platform shell, suitable for a huge range of uses.
   bash-it - is a framework for using, developing and maintaining shell scripts and custom commands.
   Oh My ZSH! - is the best framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
   Oh My Fish - the Fishshell framework.
   Starship - the cross-shell prompt written in Rust.
   powerlevel10k - is a fast reimplementation of Powerlevel9k ZSH theme.

:black_small_square: Shell plugins

   z - tracks the folder you use the most and allow you to jump, without having to type the whole path.
   fzf - is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
   zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for Zsh.
   zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
   Awesome ZSH Plugins - A list of frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials for ZSH.

:black_small_square: Managers

   Midnight Commander - is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License.
   ranger - is a VIM-inspired filemanager for the console.
   nnn - is a tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
   screen - is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
   tmux - is a terminal multiplexer, lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal.
   tmux-cssh - is a tool to set comfortable and easy to use functionality tmux-sessions.

:black_small_square: Text editors

   vi - is one of the most common text editors on Unix.
   vim - is a highly configurable text editor.
   emacs - is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor, and more.
   micro - is a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
   neovim - is a free open source, powerful, extensible and usable code editor.
   spacemacs - a community-driven Emacs distribution.
   spacevim - a community-driven vim distribution.

:black_small_square: Files and directories

fd - is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
ncdu - is an easy to use, fast disk usage analyzer.

:black_small_square: Network

   PuTTY - is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham.
   Mosh - is a SSH wrapper designed to keep a SSH session alive over a volatile connection.
   Eternal Terminal - enables mouse-scrolling and tmux commands inside the SSH session.
   nmap - is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing.
   zmap - is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys.
   Rust Scan - to find all open ports faster than Nmap.
   masscan - is the fastest Internet port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously.
   pbscan - is a faster and more efficient stateless SYN scanner and banner grabber.
   hping - is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
   mtr - is a tool that combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single tool.
   mylg - utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one diagnostic tool.
   netcat - utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
   socat - utility which transfers data between two objects.
   tcpdump - is a powerful command-line packet analyzer.
   tshark - is a tool that allows us to dump and analyze network traffic (wireshark cli).
   Termshark - is a simple terminal user-interface for tshark.
   ngrep - is like GNU grep applied to the network layer.
   netsniff-ng - is a Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing if you will.
   sockdump - dump unix domain socket traffic.
   stenographer - is a packet capture solution which aims to quickly spool all packets to disk.
   tcpterm - visualize packets in TUI.
   bmon - is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually.
   iptraf-ng - is a console-based network monitoring program for Linux that displays information about IP traffic.
   vnstat - is a network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD.
   iPerf3 - is a tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks.
   ethr - is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.
   Etherate - is a Linux CLI based Ethernet and MPLS traffic testing tool.
   echoip - is a IP address lookup service.
   Nemesis - packet manipulation CLI tool; craft and inject packets of several protocols.
   packetfu - a mid-level packet manipulation library for Ruby.
   Scapy - packet manipulation library; forge, send, decode, capture packets of a wide number of protocols.
   impacket - is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.
   ssh-audit - is a tool for SSH server auditing.
   aria2 - is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
   iptables-tracer - observe the path of packets through the iptables chains.
   inception - a highly configurable tool to check for whatever you like against any number of hosts.
   mRemoteNG - a fork of mRemote, multi-tabbed PuTTy on steroids!

:black_small_square: Network (DNS)

   dnsdiag - is a DNS diagnostics and performance measurement tools.
   fierce - is a DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space.
   subfinder - is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers valid subdomains for websites.
   sublist3r - is a fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers.
   amass - is tool that obtains subdomain names by scraping data sources, crawling web archives, and more.
   namebench - provides personalized DNS server recommendations based on your browsing history.
   massdns - is a high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance.
   knock - is a tool to enumerate subdomains on a target domain through a wordlist.
   dnsperf - DNS performance testing tools.
   dnscrypt-proxy 2 - a flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
   dnsdbq - API client providing access to passive DNS database systems.
   grimd - fast dns proxy, built to black-hole internet advertisements and malware servers.
   dnstwist - detect typosquatters, phishing attacks, fraud, and brand impersonation.

:black_small_square: Network (HTTP)

   curl - is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs.
   kurly - is an alternative to the widely popular curl program, written in Golang.
   HTTPie - is an user-friendly HTTP client.
   wuzz - is an interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection.
   h2spec - is a conformance testing tool for HTTP/2 implementation.
   h2t - is a simple tool to help sysadmins to hardening their websites.
   htrace.sh - is a simple Swiss Army knife for http/https troubleshooting and profiling.
   httpstat - is a tool that visualizes curl statistics in a way of beauty and clarity.
   httplab - is an interactive web server.
   Lynx - is a text browser for the World Wide Web.
   Browsh - is a fully interactive, real-time, and modern text-based browser.
   HeadlessBrowsers - a list of (almost) all headless web browsers in existence.
   ab - is a single-threaded command line tool for measuring the performance of HTTP web servers.
   siege - is an http load testing and benchmarking utility.
   wrk - is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load.
   wrk2 - is a constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk.
   vegeta - is a constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk.
   bombardier - is a fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go.
   gobench - http/https load testing and benchmarking tool.
   hey - HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement, formerly known as rakyll/boom.
   boom - is a script you can use to quickly smoke-test your web app deployment.
   SlowHTTPTest - is a tool that simulates some Application Layer Denial of Service attacks by prolonging HTTP.
   gobuster - is a free and open source directory/file & DNS busting tool written in Go.
   ssllabs-scan - command-line reference-implementation client for SSL Labs APIs.
   http-observatory - Mozilla HTTP Observatory cli version.
   Hurl - is a command line tool to run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

:black_small_square: SSL

   openssl - is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the TLS and SSL protocols.
   gnutls-cli - client program to set up a TLS connection to some other computer.
   sslyze - fast and powerful SSL/TLS server scanning library.
   sslscan - tests SSL/TLS enabled services to discover supported cipher suites.
   testssl.sh - testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port.
   cipherscan - a very simple way to find out which SSL ciphersuites are supported by a target.
   spiped - is a utility for creating symmetrically encrypted and authenticated pipes between socket addresses.
   Certbot - is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server.
   mkcert - simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
   certstrap - tools to bootstrap CAs, certificate requests, and signed certificates.
   Sublert - is a security and reconnaissance tool to automatically monitor new subdomains.
   mkchain - open source tool to help you build a valid SSL certificate chain.
   ssl-cert-check - SSL Certification Expiration Checker.

:black_small_square: Security

   SELinux - provides a flexible Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system built into the Linux kernel.
   AppArmor - proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats.
   grapheneX - Automated System Hardening Framework.
   DevSec Hardening Framework - Security + DevOps: Automatic Server Hardening.

:black_small_square: Auditing Tools

   ossec - actively monitoring all aspects of system activity with file integrity monitoring.
   auditd - provides a way to track security-relevant information on your system.
   Tiger - is a security tool that can be use both as a security audit and intrusion detection system.
   Lynis - battle-tested security tool for systems running Linux, macOS, or Unix-based operating system.
   LinEnum - scripted Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation Checks.
   Rkhunter - scanner tool for Linux systems that scans backdoors, rootkits and local exploits on your systems.
   PE-sieve - is a light-weight tool that helps to detect malware running on the system.
   PEASS - privilege escalation tools for Windows and Linux/Unix and MacOS.

:black_small_square: System Diagnostics/Debuggers

   strace - diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux.
   DTrace - is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool.
   ltrace - is a library call tracer, used to trace calls made by programs to library functions.
   ptrace-burrito - is a friendly wrapper around ptrace.
   perf-tools - performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace.
   bpftrace - high-level tracing language for Linux eBPF.
   sysdig - system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers.
   Valgrind - is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools.
   gperftools - high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation, plus some performance analysis tools.
   glances - cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.
   htop - interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.
   bashtop - Linux resource monitor written in pure Bash.
   nmon - a single executable for performance monitoring and data analysis.
   atop - ASCII performance monitor. Includes statistics for CPU, memory, disk, swap, network, and processes.
   lsof - displays in its output information about files that are opened by processes.
   FlameGraph - stack trace visualizer.
   lsofgraph - convert Unix lsof output to a graph showing FIFO and UNIX interprocess communication.
   rr - is a lightweight tool for recording, replaying and debugging execution of applications.
   Performance Co-Pilot - a system performance analysis toolkit.
   hexyl - a command-line hex viewer.
   Austin - Python frame stack sampler for CPython.

:black_small_square: Log Analyzers

   angle-grinder - slice and dice log files on the command line.
   lnav - log file navigator with search and automatic refresh.
   GoAccess - real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.
   ngxtop - real-time metrics for nginx server.

:black_small_square: Databases

   usql - universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
   pgcli - postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
   mycli - terminal client for MySQL with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
   litecli - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
   mssql-cli - SQL Server CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
   OSQuery - is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework.
   pgsync - sync data from one Postgres database to another.
   iredis - a terminal client for redis with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
   SchemaCrawler - generates an E-R diagram of your database.

:black_small_square: TOR

Nipe - script to make Tor Network your default gateway.
multitor - a tool that lets you create multiple TOR instances with a load-balancing.

:black_small_square: Messengers/IRC Clients

Irssi - is a free open source terminal based IRC client.
WeeChat - is an extremely extensible and lightweight IRC client.

:black_small_square: Productivity

taskwarrior - task management system, todo list

:black_small_square: Other

   sysadmin-util - tools for Linux/Unix sysadmins.
   incron - is an inode-based filesystem notification technology.
   lsyncd - synchronizes local directories with remote targets (Live Syncing Daemon).
   GRV - is a terminal based interface for viewing Git repositories.
   Tig - text-mode interface for Git.
   tldr - simplified and community-driven man pages.
   archiver - easily create and extract .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .tar.lz4, .tar.sz, and .rar.
   commander.js - minimal CLI creator in JavaScript.
   gron - make JSON greppable!
   bed - binary editor written in Go.

GUI Tools ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: Terminal emulators

   Guake - is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment.
   Terminator - is based on GNOME Terminal, useful features for sysadmins and other users.
   Kitty - is a GPU based terminal emulator that supports smooth scrolling and images.
   Alacritty - is a fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

:black_small_square: Network

   Wireshark - is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
   Ettercap - is a comprehensive network monitor tool.
   EtherApe - is a graphical network monitoring solution.
   Packet Sender - is a networking utility for packet generation and built-in UDP/TCP/SSL client and servers.
   Ostinato - is a packet crafter and traffic generator.
   JMeter™ - open source software to load test functional behavior and measure performance.
   locust - scalable user load testing tool written in Python.

:black_small_square: Browsers

TOR Browser - protect your privacy and defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis.

:black_small_square: Password Managers

   KeePassXC - store your passwords safely and auto-type them into your everyday websites and apps.
   Bitwarden - open source password manager with built-in sync.
   Vaultwarden - unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust.

:black_small_square: Messengers/IRC Clients

HexChat - is an IRC client based on XChat.
Pidgin - is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions.

:black_small_square: Messengers (end-to-end encryption)

   Signal - is an encrypted communications app.
   Wire - secure messaging, file sharing, voice calls and video conferences.
   TorChat - decentralized anonymous instant messenger on top of Tor Hidden Services.
   Matrix - an open network for secure, decentralized, real-time communication.

:black_small_square: Text editors

   Sublime Text - is a lightweight, cross-platform code editor known for its speed, ease of use.
   Visual Studio Code - an open-source and free source code editor developed by Microsoft.
   Atom - a hackable text editor for the 21st Century.

Web Tools ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: Browsers

   SSL/TLS Capabilities of Your Browser - test your browser's SSL implementation.
   Can I use - provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies.
   Panopticlick 3.0 - is your browser safe against tracking?
   Privacy Analyzer - see what data is exposed from your browser.
   Web Browser Security - it's all about Web Browser fingerprinting.
   How's My SSL? - help a web server developer learn what real world TLS clients were capable of.
   sslClientInfo - client test (incl TLSv1.3 information).

:black_small_square: SSL/Security

   SSLLabs Server Test - performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server.
   SSLLabs Server Test (DEV) - performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server.
   ImmuniWeb® SSLScan - test SSL/TLS (PCI DSS, HIPAA and NIST).
   SSL Check - scan your website for non-secure content.
   SSL Scanner - analyze website security.
   CryptCheck - test your TLS server configuration (e.g. ciphers).
   urlscan.io - service to scan and analyse websites.
   Report URI - monitoring security policies like CSP and HPKP.
   CSP Evaluator - allows developers and security experts to check if a Content Security Policy.
   Useless CSP - public list about CSP in some big players (might make them care a bit more).
   Why No HTTPS? - top 100 websites by Alexa rank not automatically redirecting insecure requests.
   TLS Cipher Suite Search- cipher suite search engine.
   cipherli.st - strong ciphers for Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, and more.*
   dhtool - public Diffie-Hellman parameter service/tool.
   badssl.com - memorable site for testing clients against bad SSL configs.
   tlsfun.de - registered for various tests regarding the TLS/SSL protocol.
   CAA Record Helper - generate a CAA policy.
   Common CA Database - repository of information about CAs, and their root and intermediate certificates.
   CERTSTREAM - real-time certificate transparency log update stream.
   crt.sh - discovers certificates by continually monitoring all of the publicly known CT.
   Hardenize - deploy the security standards.
   Cipher suite compatibility - test TLS cipher suite compatibility.
   urlvoid - this service helps you detect potentially malicious websites.
   security.txt - a proposed standard (generator) which allows websites to define security policies.
   ssl-config-generator - help you follow the Mozilla Server Side TLS configuration guidelines.
   TLScan - pure python, SSL/TLS protocol and cipher scanner/enumerator.

:black_small_square: HTTP Headers & Web Linters

   Security Headers - analyse the HTTP response headers (with rating system to the results).
   Observatory by Mozilla - set of tools to analyze your website.
   webhint - is a linting tool that will help you with your site's accessibility, speed, security, and more.

:black_small_square: DNS

   ViewDNS - one source for free DNS related tools and information.
   DNSLookup - is an advanced DNS lookup tool.
   DNSlytics - online DNS investigation tool.
   DNS Spy - monitor, validate and verify your DNS configurations.
   Zonemaster - helps you to control how your DNS works.
   Leaf DNS - comprehensive DNS tester.
   Find subdomains online - find subdomains for security assessment penetration test.
   DNSdumpster - dns recon & research, find & lookup dns records.
   DNS Table online - search for DNS records by domain, IP, CIDR, ISP.
   intoDNS - DNS and mail server health checker.
   DNS Bajaj - check the delegation of your domain.
   BuddyDNS Delegation LAB - check, trace and visualize delegation of your domain.
   dnssec-debugger - DS or DNSKEY records validator.
   PTRarchive.com - this site is responsible for the safekeeping of historical reverse DNS records.
   xip.io - wildcard DNS for everyone.
   nip.io - dead simple wildcard DNS for any IP Address.
   dnslookup (ceipam) - one of the best DNS propagation checker (and not only).
   What's My DNS - DNS propagation checking tool.
   DNSGrep - quickly searching large DNS datasets.

:black_small_square: Mail

   smtp-tls-checker - check an email domain for SMTP TLS support.
   MX Toolbox - all of your MX record, DNS, blacklist and SMTP diagnostics in one integrated tool.
   Secure Email - complete email test tools for email technicians.
   blacklistalert - checks to see if your domain is on a Real Time Spam Blacklist.
   MultiRBL - complete IP check for sending Mailservers.
   DKIM SPF & Spam Assassin Validator - checks mail authentication and scores messages with Spam Assassin.

:black_small_square: Encoders/Decoders and Regex testing

   URL Encode/Decode - tool from above to either encode or decode a string of text.
   Uncoder - the online translator for search queries on log data.
   Regex101 - online regex tester and debugger: PHP, PCRE, Python, Golang and JavaScript.
   RegExr - online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions (RegEx / RegExp).
   RegEx Testing - online regex testing tool.
   RegEx Pal - online regex testing tool + other tools.
   The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis.

:black_small_square: Net-tools

   Netcraft - detailed report about the site, helping you to make informed choices about their integrity.*
   RIPE NCC Atlas - a global, open, distributed Internet measurement platform.
   Robtex - uses various sources to gather public information about IP numbers, domain names, host names, etc.
   Security Trails - APIs for Security Companies, Researchers and Teams.
   Online Curl - curl test, analyze HTTP Response Headers.
   Online Tools for Developers - HTTP API tools, testers, encoders, converters, formatters, and other tools.
   Ping.eu - online Ping, Traceroute, DNS lookup, WHOIS and others.
   Network-Tools - network tools for webmasters, IT technicians & geeks.
   BGPview - search for any ASN, IP, Prefix or Resource name.
   Is BGP safe yet? - check BGP (RPKI) security of ISPs and other major Internet players.
   Riseup - provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.
   VirusTotal - analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware.

:black_small_square: Privacy

privacyguides.org - provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
DNS Privacy Test Servers - DNS privacy recursive servers list (with a 'no logging' policy).

:black_small_square: Code parsers/playgrounds

   ShellCheck - finds bugs in your shell scripts.
   explainshell - get interactive help texts for shell commands.
   jsbin - live pastebin for HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and more.
   CodeSandbox - online code editor for web application development.
   PHP Sandbox - test your PHP code with this code tester.
   Repl.it - an instant IDE to learn, build, collaborate, and host all in one place.
   vclFiddle - is an online tool for experimenting with the Varnish Cache VCL.
   Haskell Dockerfile Linter - a smarter Dockerfile linter that helps you build best practice Docker images.

:black_small_square: Performance

   GTmetrix - analyze your site’s speed and make it faster.
   Sucuri loadtimetester - test here the performance of any of your sites from across the globe.
   Pingdom Tools - analyze your site’s speed around the world.
   PingMe.io - run website latency tests across multiple geographic regions.
   PageSpeed Insights - analyze your site’s speed and make it faster.
   web.dev - helps developers like you learn and apply the web's modern capabilities to your own sites and apps.
   Lighthouse - automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.

:black_small_square: Mass scanners (search engines)

   Censys - platform that helps information security practitioners discover, monitor, and analyze devices.
   Shodan - the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices.
   Shodan 2000 - this tool looks for randomly generated data from Shodan.
   GreyNoise - mass scanner such as Shodan and Censys.
   ZoomEye - search engine for cyberspace that lets the user find specific network components.
   netograph - tools to monitor and understand deep structure of the web.
   FOFA - is a cyberspace search engine.
   onyphe - is a search engine for open-source and cyber threat intelligence data collected.
   IntelligenceX - is a search engine and data archive.
   binaryedge - it scan the entire internet space and create real-time threat intelligence streams and reports.
   Spyse - Internet assets registry: networks, threats, web objects, etc.
   wigle - is a submission-based catalog of wireless networks. All the networks. Found by Everyone.
   PublicWWW - find any alphanumeric snippet, signature or keyword in the web pages HTML, JS and CSS code.
   IntelTechniques - this repository contains hundreds of online search utilities.
   hunter - lets you find email addresses in seconds and connect with the people that matter for your business.
   GhostProject? - search by full email address or username.
   databreaches - was my email affected by data breach?
   We Leak Info - world's fastest and largest data breach search engine.
   Pulsedive - scans of malicious URLs, IPs, and domains, including port scans and web requests.
   Buckets by Grayhatwarfar - database with public search for Open Amazon S3 Buckets and their contents.
   Vigilante.pw - the breached database directory.
   builtwith - find out what websites are built with.
   NerdyData - search the web's source code for technologies, across millions of sites.
   zorexeye - search for sites, images, apps, softwares & more.
   Mamont's open FTP Index - if a target has an open FTP site with accessible content it will be listed here.
   OSINT Framework - focused on gathering information from free tools or resources.
   maltiverse - is a service oriented to cybersecurity analysts.
   Leaked Source - is a collaboration of data found online in the form of a lookup.
   We Leak Info - to help everyday individuals secure their online life, avoiding getting hacked.
   pipl - is the place to find the person behind the email address, social username or phone number.
   abuse.ch - is operated by a random swiss guy fighting malware for non-profit.
   malc0de - malware search engine.
   Cybercrime Tracker - monitors and tracks various malware families that are used to perpetrate cyber crimes.
   shhgit - find GitHub secrets in real time.
   searchcode - helping you find real world examples of functions, API's and libraries.
   Insecam - the world biggest directory of online surveillance security cameras.
   index-of - contains great stuff like: security, hacking, reverse engineering, cryptography, programming etc.
   Rapid7 Labs Open Data - is a great resources of datasets from Project Sonar.
   Common Response Headers - the largest database of HTTP response headers.
   InQuest Labs - InQuest Labs is an open, interactive, and API driven data portal for security researchers.

:black_small_square: Generators

   thispersondoesnotexist - generate fake faces in one click - endless possibilities.
   AI Generated Photos - 100.000 AI generated faces.
   fakenamegenerator - your randomly generated identity.
   Intigriti Redirector - open redirect/SSRF payload generator.

:black_small_square: Passwords

   have i been pwned? - check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach.
   dehashed - is a hacked database search engine.
   Leaked Source - is a collaboration of data found online in the form of a lookup.

:black_small_square: CVE/Exploits databases

   CVE Mitre - list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
   CVE Details - CVE security vulnerability advanced database.
   Exploit DB - CVE compliant archive of public exploits and corresponding vulnerable software.
   0day.today - exploits market provides you the possibility to buy/sell zero-day exploits.
   sploitus - the exploit and tools database.
   cxsecurity - free vulnerability database.
   Vulncode-DB - is a database for vulnerabilities and their corresponding source code if available.
   cveapi - free API for CVE data.

:black_small_square: Mobile apps scanners

   ImmuniWeb® Mobile App Scanner - test security and privacy of mobile apps (iOS & Android).
   Quixxi - free Mobile App Vulnerability Scanner for Android & iOS.
   Ostorlab - analyzes mobile application to identify vulnerabilities and potential weaknesses.

:black_small_square: Private Search Engines

   Startpage - the world's most private search engine.
   searX - a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.
   darksearch - the 1st real Dark Web search engine.
   Qwant - the search engine that respects your privacy.
   DuckDuckGo - the search engine that doesn't track you.
   Swisscows - privacy safe web search
   Disconnect - the search engine that anonymizes your searches.
   MetaGer - the search engine that uses anonymous proxy and hidden Tor branches.

:black_small_square: Secure Webmail Providers

   CounterMail - online email service, designed to provide maximum security and privacy.
   Mail2Tor - is a Tor Hidden Service that allows anyone to send and receive emails anonymously.
   Tutanota - is the world's most secure email service and amazingly easy to use.
   Protonmail - is the world's largest secure email service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists.
   Startmail - private & encrypted email made easy.

:black_small_square: Crypto

Keybase - it's open source and powered by public-key cryptography.

:black_small_square: PGP Keyservers

SKS OpenPGP Key server - services for the SKS keyservers used by OpenPGP.

Systems/Services ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: Operating Systems

   Slackware - the most "Unix-like" Linux distribution.
   OpenBSD - multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system.
   HardenedBSD - HardenedBSD aims to implement innovative exploit mitigation and security solutions.
   Kali Linux - Linux distribution used for Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and network security assessments.
   Parrot Security OS - cyber security GNU/Linux environment.
   Backbox Linux - penetration test and security assessment oriented Ubuntu-based Linux distribution.
   BlackArch - is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers.
   Pentoo - is a security-focused livecd based on Gentoo.
   Security Onion - Linux distro for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.
   Tails - is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity.
   vedetta - OpenBSD router boilerplate.
   Qubes OS - is a security-oriented OS that uses Xen-based virtualization.

:black_small_square: HTTP(s) Services

   Varnish Cache - HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites.
   Nginx - open source web and reverse proxy server that is similar to Apache, but very light weight.
   OpenResty - is a dynamic web platform based on NGINX and LuaJIT.
   Tengine - a distribution of Nginx with some advanced features.
   Caddy Server - is an open source, HTTP/2-enabled web server with HTTPS by default.
   HAProxy - the reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer.

:black_small_square: DNS Services

   Unbound - validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver (with TLS).
   Knot Resolver - caching full resolver implementation, including both a resolver library and a daemon.
   PowerDNS - is an open source authoritative DNS server, written in C++ and licensed under the GPL.

:black_small_square: Other Services

3proxy - tiny free proxy server.

:black_small_square: Security/hardening

   Emerald Onion - is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and transit internet service provider (ISP).
   pi-hole - the Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content.
   maltrail - malicious traffic detection system.
   security_monkey - monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.
   firecracker - secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
   streisand - sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, and more.

Networks ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: Tools

CapAnalysis - web visual tool to analyze large amounts of captured network traffic (PCAP analyzer).
netbox - IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.

:black_small_square: Labs

NRE Labs - learn automation by doing it. Right now, right here, in your browser.

:black_small_square: Other

LBNL's Network Research Group - home page of the Network Research Group (NRG).

Containers/Orchestration ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: CLI Tools

gvisor - container runtime sandbox.
ctop - top-like interface for container metrics.

:black_small_square: Web Tools

   Moby - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based system.
   Traefik - open source reverse proxy/load balancer provides easier integration with Docker and Let's encrypt.
   kong - The Cloud-Native API Gateway.
   rancher - complete container management platform.
   portainer - making Docker management easy.
   nginx-proxy - automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen.
   bunkerized-nginx - nginx docker image "secure by default".

:black_small_square: Security

   docker-bench-security - checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker.
   trivy - vulnerability scanner for containers, suitable for CI.
   Harbor - cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
   Houdini - hundreds of offensive and useful docker images for network intrusion.

:black_small_square: Manuals/Tutorials/Best Practices

   docker-cheat-sheet - a quick reference cheat sheet on Docker.
   awesome-docker - a curated list of Docker resources and projects.
   docker_practice - learn and understand Docker technologies, with real DevOps practice!
   labs - is a collection of tutorials for learning how to use Docker with various tools.
   dockerfiles - various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.
   kubernetes-the-hard-way - bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts.
   kubernetes-the-easy-way - bootstrap Kubernetes the easy way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts.
   cheatsheet-kubernetes-A4 - Kubernetes CheatSheets in A4.
   k8s-security - kubernetes security notes and best practices.
   kubernetes-production-best-practices - checklists with best-practices for production-ready Kubernetes.
   kubernetes-production-best-practices - kubernetes security - best practice guide.
   kubernetes-failure-stories - is a compilation of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes.

Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: Shell/Command line

   pure-bash-bible - is a collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.
   pure-sh-bible - is a collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes.
   bash-guide - is a guide to learn bash.
   bash-handbook - for those who wanna learn Bash.
   The Bash Hackers Wiki - hold documentation of any kind about GNU Bash.
   Shell & Utilities - describes the commands offered to application programs by POSIX-conformant systems.
   the-art-of-command-line - master the command line, in one page.
   Shell Style Guide - a shell style guide for Google-originated open-source projects.

:black_small_square: Text Editors

Vim Cheat Sheet - great multi language vim guide.

:black_small_square: Python

   Awesome Python - a curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
   python-cheatsheet - comprehensive Python cheatsheet.
   pythoncheatsheet.org - basic reference for beginner and advanced developers.

:black_small_square: Sed & Awk & Other

F’Awk Yeah! - advanced sed and awk usage (Parsing for Pentesters 3).

:black_small_square: *nix & Network

   nixCraft - linux and unix tutorials for new and seasoned sysadmin.
   TecMint - the ideal Linux blog for Sysadmins & Geeks.
   Omnisecu - free Networking, System Administration and Security tutorials.
   linux-cheat - Linux tutorials and cheatsheets. Minimal examples. Mostly user-land CLI utilities.
   linuxupskillchallenge - learn the skills required to sysadmin.
   Unix Toolbox - Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users.
   Linux Kernel Teaching - is a collection of lectures and labs Linux kernel topics.
   htop explained - explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux.
   Linux Guide and Hints - tutorials on system administration in Fedora and CentOS.
   strace-little-book - a little book which introduces strace.
   linux-tracing-workshop - examples and hands-on labs for Linux tracing tools workshops.
   http2-explained - a detailed document explaining and documenting HTTP/2.
   http3-explained - a document describing the HTTP/3 and QUIC protocols.
   HTTP/2 in Action - an excellent introduction to the new HTTP/2 standard.
   Let's code a TCP/IP stack - great stuff to learn network and system programming at a deeper level.
   Nginx Admin's Handbook - how to improve NGINX performance, security and other important things.
   nginxconfig.io - NGINX config generator on steroids.
   openssh guideline - is to help operational teams with the configuration of OpenSSH server and client.
   SSH Handshake Explained - is a relatively brief description of the SSH handshake.
   ISC's Knowledgebase - you'll find some general information about BIND 9, ISC DHCP, and Kea DHCP.
   PacketLife.net - a place to record notes while studying for Cisco's CCNP certification.

:black_small_square: Microsoft

AD-Attack-Defense - attack and defend active directory using modern post exploitation activity.

:black_small_square: Large-scale systems

   The System Design Primer - learn how to design large-scale systems.
   Awesome Scalability - best practices in building High Scalability, High Availability, High Stability, and more.
   Web Architecture 101 - the basic architecture concepts.

:black_small_square: System hardening

   CIS Benchmarks - secure configuration settings for over 100 technologies, available as a free PDF.
   Security Harden CentOS 7 - this walks you through the steps required to security harden CentOS.
   CentOS 7 Server Hardening Guide - great guide for hardening CentOS; familiar with OpenSCAP.
   awesome-security-hardening - is a collection of security hardening guides, tools and other resources.
   The Practical Linux Hardening Guide - provides a high-level overview of hardening GNU/Linux systems.
   Linux Hardening Guide - how to harden Linux as much as possible for security and privacy.

:black_small_square: Security & Privacy

   Hacking Articles - LRaj Chandel's Security & Hacking Blog.
   AWS security tools - make your AWS cloud environment more secure.
   Rawsec's CyberSecurity Inventory - an inventory of tools and resources about CyberSecurity.
   The Illustrated TLS Connection - every byte of a TLS connection explained and reproduced.
   SSL Research - SSL and TLS Deployment Best Practices by SSL Labs.
   SELinux Game - learn SELinux by doing. Solve Puzzles, show skillz.
   Certificates and PKI - everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask.
   The Art of Subdomain Enumeration - a reference for subdomain enumeration techniques.
   Quitting Google - the comprehensive guide to quitting Google.

:black_small_square: Web Apps

   OWASP - worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of software.
   OWASP ASVS 3.0.1 - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard Project.
   OWASP ASVS 3.0.1 Web App - simple web app that helps developers understand the ASVS requirements.
   OWASP ASVS 4.0 - is a list of application security requirements or tests.
   OWASP Testing Guide v4 - includes a "best practice" penetration testing framework.
   OWASP Dev Guide - this is the development version of the OWASP Developer Guide.
   OWASP WSTG - is a comprehensive open source guide to testing the security of web apps.
   OWASP API Security Project - focuses specifically on the top ten vulnerabilities in API security.
   Mozilla Web Security - help operational teams with creating secure web applications.
   security-bulletins - security bulletins that relate to Netflix Open Source.
   API-Security-Checklist - security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API.
   Enable CORS - enable cross-origin resource sharing.
   Application Security Wiki - is an initiative to provide all application security related resources at one place.
   Weird Proxies - reverse proxy related attacks; it is a result of analysis of various proxies.
   Webshells - great series about malicious payloads.
   Practical Web Cache Poisoning - show you how to compromise websites by using esoteric web features.
   Hidden directories and files - as a source of sensitive information about web application.
   Explosive blog - great blog about cybersec and pentests.
   Security Cookies - this paper will take a close look at cookie security.
   APISecurityBestPractices - help you keep secrets (API keys, db credentials, certificates) out of source code.

:black_small_square: All-in-one

   LZone Cheat Sheets - all cheat sheets.
   Dan’s Cheat Sheets’s - massive cheat sheets documentation.
   Rico's cheatsheets - this is a modest collection of cheatsheets.
   DevDocs API - combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.
   cheat.sh - the only cheat sheet you need.
   gnulinux.guru - collection of cheat sheets about bash, vim and networking.
   Web Skills - visual overview of useful skills to learn as a web developer.

:black_small_square: Ebooks

free-programming-books - list of free learning resources in many languages.

:black_small_square: Other

   CTF Series : Vulnerable Machines - the steps below could be followed to find vulnerabilities and exploits.
   50M_CTF_Writeup - $50 million CTF from Hackerone - writeup.
   ctf-tasks - an archive of low-level CTF challenges developed over the years.
   How to start RE/malware analysis? - collection of some hints and useful links for the beginners.
   The C10K problem - it's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously, don't you think?
   How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet - great story about the Maximum Transmission Unit.
   poor man's profiler - like dtrace's don't really provide methods to see what programs are blocking on.
   HTTPS on Stack Overflow - this is the story of a long journey regarding the implementation of SSL.
   Julia's Drawings - some drawings about programming and unix world, zines about systems & debugging tools.
   Hash collisions - this great repository is focused on hash collisions exploitation.
   sha256-animation - animation of the SHA-256 hash function in your terminal.
   sha256algorithm - sha256 algorithm explained online step by step visually.
   BGP Meets Cat - after 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, Job Snijders has succeeded in drawing a Nyancat.
   bgp-battleships - playing battleships over BGP.
   What happens when... - you type google.com into your browser and press enter?
   how-web-works - based on the 'What happens when...' repository.
   HTTPS in the real world - great tutorial explain how HTTPS works in the real world.
   Gitlab and NFS bug - how we spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel.
   Gitlab melts down - postmortem on the database outage of January 31 2017 with the lessons we learned.
   How To Become A Hacker - if you want to be a hacker, keep reading.
   Operation Costs in CPU - should help to estimate costs of certain operations in CPU clocks.
   Let's Build a Simple Database - writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C.
   simple-computer - great resource to understand how computers work under the hood.
   The story of "Have I been pwned?" - working with 154 million records on Azure Table Storage.
   TOP500 Supercomputers - shows the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems.
   How to build a 8 GPU password cracker - hours of frustration like desktop components do.
   CERN Data Centre - 3D visualizations of the CERN computing environments (and more).
   How fucked is my database - evaluate how fucked your database is with this handy website.
   Linux Troubleshooting 101 , 2016 Edition - everything is a DNS Problem...
   Five Whys - you know what the problem is, but you cannot solve it?
   Maersk, me & notPetya - how did ransomware successfully hijack hundreds of domain controllers?
   howhttps.works - how HTTPS works ...in a comic!
   howdns.works - a fun and colorful explanation of how DNS works.
   POSTGRESQLCO.NF - your postgresql.conf documentation and recommendations.

Inspiring Lists ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: SysOps/DevOps

   Awesome Sysadmin - amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
   Awesome Shell - awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos.
   Command-line-text-processing - finding text to search and replace, sorting to beautifying, and more.
   Awesome Pcaptools - collection of tools developed by other researchers to process network traces.
   awesome-ebpf - a curated list of awesome projects related to eBPF.
   Linux Network Performance - where some of the network sysctl variables fit into the Linux/Kernel network flow.
   Awesome Postgres - list of awesome PostgreSQL software, libraries, tools and resources.
   quick-SQL-cheatsheet - a quick reminder of all SQL queries and examples on how to use them.
   Awesome-Selfhosted - list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally.
   List of applications - huge list of apps sorted by category, as a reference for those looking for packages.
   CS-Interview-Knowledge-Map - build the best interview map.
   DevOps-Guide - DevOps Guide from basic to advanced with Interview Questions and Notes.
   FreeBSD Journal - it is a great list of periodical magazines about FreeBSD and other important things.
   devops-interview-questions - contains interview questions on various DevOps and SRE related topics.

:black_small_square: Developers

   Web Developer Roadmap - roadmaps, articles and resources to help you choose your path, learn and improve.
   Front-End-Checklist - the perfect Front-End Checklist for modern websites and meticulous developers.
   Front-End-Performance-Checklist - Front-End Performance Checklist that runs faster than the others.
   Python's Magic Methods - what are magic methods? They're everything in object-oriented Python.
   wtfpython - a collection of surprising Python snippets and lesser-known features.
   js-dev-reads - a list of books and articles for the discerning web developer to read.
   Commit messages guide - a guide to understand the importance of commit messages.

:black_small_square: Security/Pentesting

   Awesome Web Security - a curated list of Web Security materials and resources.
   awesome-cyber-skills - a curated list of hacking environments where you can train your cyber skills.
   awesome-devsecops - an authoritative list of awesome devsecops tools.
   awesome-osint - is a curated list of amazingly awesome OSINT.
   HolyTips - tips and tutorials on Bug Bounty Hunting and Web App Security.
   awesome-threat-intelligence - a curated list of Awesome Threat Intelligence resources.
   Red-Teaming-Toolkit - a collection of open source and commercial tools that aid in red team operations.
   awesome-burp-extensions - a curated list of amazingly awesome Burp Extensions.
   Free Security eBooks - list of a Free Security and Hacking eBooks.
   Hacking-Security-Ebooks - top 100 Hacking & Security E-Books.
   privacy-respecting - curated list of privacy respecting services and software.
   reverse-engineering - list of awesome reverse engineering resources.
   linux-re-101 - a collection of resources for linux reverse engineering.
   reverseengineering-reading-list - a list of Reverse Engineering articles, books, and papers.
   Awesome-WAF - a curated list of awesome web-app firewall (WAF) stuff.
   awesome-shodan-queries - interesting, funny, and depressing search queries to plug into shodan.io.
   RobotsDisallowed - a curated list of the most common and most interesting robots.txt disallowed directories.
   HackingNeuralNetworks - is a small course on exploiting and defending neural networks.
   wildcard-certificates - why you probably shouldn't use a wildcard certificate.
   Don't use VPN services - which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.
   awesome-yara - a curated list of awesome YARA rules, tools, and people.
   macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide - guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS.
   macos_security - macOS Security Compliance Project.
   awesome-sec-talks - is a collected list of awesome security talks.
   Movies for Hackers - list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch.
   Cryptography_1 - materials used whilst taking Prof. Dan Boneh Stanford Crypto course.
   Crypton - library to learn and practice Offensive and Defensive Cryptography.

:black_small_square: Other

   Cheatography - over 3,000 free cheat sheets, revision aids and quick references.
   awesome-static-analysis - static analysis tools for all programming languages.
   computer-science - path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science.
   post-mortems - is a collection of postmortems (config errors, hardware failures, and more).
   build-your-own-x - build your own (insert technology here).
   Project-Based-Tutorials-in-C - is a curated list of project-based tutorials in C.
   The-Documentation-Compendium - various README templates & tips on writing high-quality documentation.
   awesome-python-applications - free software that works great, and also happens to be open-source Python.
   awesome-public-datasets - a topic-centric list of HQ open datasets.
   machine-learning-algorithms - a curated list of all machine learning algorithms and concepts.

Blogs/Podcasts/Videos ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: SysOps/DevOps

Varnish for PHP developers - very interesting presentation of Varnish by Mattias Geniar.
A Netflix Guide to Microservices - talks about the chaotic and vibrant world of microservices at Netflix.

:black_small_square: Developers

Comparing C to machine lang - compare a simple C app with the compiled machine code of that program.

:black_small_square: Geeky Persons

   Brendan Gregg's Blog - is an industry expert in computing performance and cloud computing.
   Gynvael "GynDream" Coldwind - is a IT security engineer at Google.
   Michał "lcamtuf" Zalewski - white hat hacker, computer security expert.
   Mattias Geniar - developer, sysadmin, blogger, podcaster and public speaker.
   Nick Craver - software developer and systems administrator for Stack Exchange.
   Scott Helme - security researcher, speaker and founder of securityheaders.com and report-uri.com.
   Brian Krebs - The Washington Post and now an Independent investigative journalist.
   Bruce Schneier - is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru".
   Chrissy Morgan - advocate of practical learning, Chrissy also takes part in bug bounty programs.
   Andy Gill - is a hacker at heart who works as a senior penetration tester.
   Daniel Miessler - cybersecurity expert and writer.
   Samy Kamkar - is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker.
   Javvad Malik - is a security advocate at AlienVault, a blogger event speaker and industry commentator.
   Graham Cluley - public speaker and independent computer security analyst.
   Kacper Szurek - detection engineer at ESET.
   Troy Hunt - web security expert known for public education and outreach on security topics.
   raymii.org - sysadmin specializing in building high availability cloud environments.
   Robert Penz - IT security expert.

:black_small_square: Geeky Blogs

   Linux Audit - the Linux security blog about auditing, hardening and compliance by Michael Boelen.
   Linux Security Expert - trainings, howtos, checklists, security tools, and more.
   The Grymoire - collection of useful incantations for wizards, be you computer wizards, magicians, or whatever.
   Secjuice - is the only non-profit, independent and volunteer led publication in the information security space.
   Decipher - security news that informs and inspires.

:black_small_square: Geeky Vendor Blogs

   Tenable Podcast - conversations and interviews related to Cyber Exposure, and more.
   Sophos - threat news room, giving you news, opinion, advice and research on computer security issues.
   Tripwire State of Security - blog featuring the latest news, trends and insights on current security issues.
   Malwarebytes Labs Blog - security blog aims to provide insider news about cybersecurity.
   TrustedSec - latest news, and trends about cybersecurity.
   PortSwigger Web Security Blog - about web app security vulns and top tips from our team of web security.
   AT&T Cybersecurity blog - news on emerging threats and practical advice to simplify threat detection.
   Thycotic - where CISOs and IT Admins come to learn about industry trends, IT security, and more.

:black_small_square: Geeky Cybersecurity Podcasts

   Risky Business - is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews.
   Cyber, by Motherboard - stories, and focus on the ideas about cybersecurity.
   Tenable Podcast - conversations and interviews related to Cyber Exposure, and more.
   Cybercrime Investigations - podcast by Geoff White about cybercrimes.
   The many hats club - featuring stories from a wide range of Infosec people (Whitehat, Greyhat and Blackhat).
   Darknet Diaries - true stories from the dark side of the Internet.
   OSINTCurious Webcasts - is the investigative curiosity that helps people be successful in OSINT.
   Security Weekly - the latest information security and hacking news.

:black_small_square: Geeky Cybersecurity Video Blogs

   rev3rse security - offensive, binary exploitation, web app security, hardening, red team, blue team.
   LiveOverflow - a lot more advanced topics than what is typically offered in paid online courses - but for free.
   J4vv4D - the important information regarding our internet security.
   CyberTalks - talks, interviews, and article about cybersecurity.

:black_small_square: Best Personal Twitter Accounts

   @blackroomsec - a white-hat hacker/pentester. Intergalactic Minesweeper Champion 1990.
   @MarcoCiappelli - Co-Founder @ITSPmagazine, at the intersection of IT security and society.
   @binitamshah - Linux Evangelist. Malwares. Kernel Dev. Security Enthusiast.
   @joe_carson - an InfoSec Professional and Tech Geek.
   @mikko - CRO at F-Secure, Reverse Engineer, TED Speaker, Supervillain.
   @esrtweet - often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, and open-source software advocate.
   @gynvael - security researcher/programmer, @DragonSectorCTF founder/player, technical streamer.
   @x0rz - Security Researcher & Cyber Observer.
   @hasherezade - programmer, malware analyst. Author of PEbear, PEsieve, libPeConv.
   @TinkerSec - tinkerer, cypherpunk, hacker.
   @alisaesage - independent hacker and researcher.
   @SwiftOnSecurity - systems security, industrial safety, sysadmin, author of decentsecurity.com.
   @dakami - is one of just seven people with the authority to restore the DNS root keys.
   @samykamkar - is a famous "grey hat" hacker, security researcher, creator of the MySpace "Samy" worm.
   @securityweekly - founder & CTO of Security Weekly podcast network.
   @jack_daniel - @SecurityBSides co-founder.
   @thegrugq - Security Researcher.
   @matthew_d_green - a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University.

:black_small_square: Best Commercial Twitter Accounts

   @haveibeenpwned - check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach.
   @bugcrowd - trusted by more of the Fortune 500 than any other crowdsourced security platform.
   @Malwarebytes - most trusted security company. Unmatched threat visibility.
   @sansforensics - the world's leading Digital Forensics and Incident Response provider.
   @attcyber - AT&T Cybersecurity’s Edge-to-Edge technologies provide threat intelligence, and more.
   @TheManyHatsClub - an information security focused podcast and group of individuals from all walks of life.
   @hedgehogsec - Hedgehog Cyber. Gibraltar and Manchester's top boutique information security firm.
   @NCSC - the National Cyber Security Centre. Helping to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.
   @Synacktiv - IT security experts.

:black_small_square: A piece of history

How to Do Things at ARL - how to configure modems, scan images, record CD-ROMs, and other.*

:black_small_square: Other

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (short version) - how Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange worked.

Hacking/Penetration Testing ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: Pentesters arsenal tools

   Sandcat Browser - a penetration-oriented browser with plenty of advanced functionality already built in.
   Metasploit - tool and framework for pentesting system, web and many more.
   Burp Suite - tool for testing web app security, intercepting proxy to replay, inject, scan and fuzz.
   OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - intercepting proxy to replay, inject, scan and fuzz HTTP requests.
   w3af - is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework.
   mitmproxy - an interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers.
   Nikto2 - web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items.
   sqlmap - tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws.
   Recon-ng - is a full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python.
   AutoRecon - is a network reconnaissance tool which performs automated enumeration of services.
   Faraday - an Integrated Multiuser Pentest Environment.
   Photon - incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.
   XSStrike - most advanced XSS detection suite.
   Sn1per - automated pentest framework for offensive security experts.
   vuls - is an agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, and other.
   tsunami - is a general purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system.
   aquatone - a tool for domain flyovers.
   BillCipher - information gathering tool for a website or IP address.
   WhatWaf - detect and bypass web application firewalls and protection systems.
   Corsy - CORS misconfiguration scanner.
   Raccoon - is a high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning.
   dirhunt - find web directories without bruteforce.
   John The Ripper - is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, and other.
   hashcat - world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility.
   p0f - is a tool to identify the players behind any incidental TCP/IP communications.
   ssh_scan - a prototype SSH configuration and policy scanner.
   LeakLooker - find open databases - powered by Binaryedge.io
   exploitdb - searchable archive from The Exploit Database.
   getsploit - is a command line utility for searching and downloading exploits.
   ctf-tools - some setup scripts for security research tools.
   pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library.
   security-tools - collection of small security tools created mostly in Python. CTFs, pentests and so on.
   pentestpackage - is a package of Pentest scripts.
   python-pentest-tools - python tools for penetration testers.
   fuzzdb - dictionary of attack patterns and primitives for black-box application fault injection.
   AFL - is a free software fuzzer maintained by Google.
   AFL++ - is AFL with community patches.
   syzkaller - is an unsupervised, coverage-guided kernel fuzzer.
   pwndbg - exploit development and reverse engineering with GDB made easy.
   GDB PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB.
   IDA - multi-processor disassembler and debugger useful for reverse engineering malware.
   radare2 - framework for reverse-engineering and analyzing binaries.
   routersploit - exploitation framework for embedded devices.
   Ghidra - is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework.
   Cutter - is an SRE platform integrating Ghidra's decompiler.
   Vulnreport - open-source pentesting management and automation platform by Salesforce Product Security.
   Mentalist - is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation.
   archerysec - vulnerability assessment and management helps to perform scans and manage vulnerabilities.
   Osmedeus - fully automated offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning.
   beef - the browser exploitation framework project.
   AutoSploit - automated mass exploiter.
   SUDO_KILLER - is a tool to identify and exploit sudo rules' misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.
   yara - the pattern matching swiss knife.
   mimikatz - a little tool to play with Windows security.
   sherlock - hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks.
   OWASP Threat Dragon - is a tool used to create threat model diagrams and to record possible threats.

:black_small_square: Pentests bookmarks collection

   PTES - the penetration testing execution standard.
   Pentests MindMap - amazing mind map with vulnerable apps and systems.
   WebApps Security Tests MindMap - incredible mind map for WebApps security tests.
   Brute XSS - master the art of Cross Site Scripting.
   XSS cheat sheet - contains many vectors that can help you bypass WAFs and filters.
   Offensive Security Bookmarks - security bookmarks collection, all things that author need to pass OSCP.
   Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets - collection of the cheat sheets useful for pentesting.
   Awesome Hacking by HackWithGithub - awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers.
   Awesome Hacking by carpedm20 - a curated list of awesome hacking tutorials, tools and resources.
   Awesome Hacking Resources - collection of hacking/penetration testing resources to make you better.
   Awesome Pentest - collection of awesome penetration testing resources, tools and other shiny things.
   Awesome-Hacking-Tools - is a curated list of awesome Hacking Tools.
   Hacking Cheat Sheet - author hacking and pentesting notes.
   blackhat-arsenal-tools - official Black Hat arsenal security tools repository.
   Penetration Testing and WebApp Cheat Sheets - the complete list of Infosec related cheat sheets.
   Cyber Security Resources - includes thousands of cybersecurity-related references and resources.
   Pentest Bookmarks - there are a LOT of pentesting blogs.
   Cheatsheet-God - Penetration Testing Reference Bank - OSCP/PTP & PTX Cheatsheet.
   ThreatHunter-Playbook - to aid the development of techniques and hypothesis for hunting campaigns.
   Beginner-Network-Pentesting - notes for beginner network pentesting course.
   OSCPRepo - is a list of resources that author have been gathering in preparation for the OSCP.
   PayloadsAllTheThings - a list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF.
   payloads - git all the Payloads! A collection of web attack payloads.
   command-injection-payload-list - command injection payload list.
   Awesome Shodan Search Queries - great search queries to plug into Shodan.
   AwesomeXSS - is a collection of Awesome XSS resources.
   php-webshells - common php webshells.
   Pentesting Tools Cheat Sheet - a quick reference high level overview for typical penetration testing.
   OWASP Cheat Sheet Series - is a collection of high value information on specific application security topics.
   OWASP dependency-check - is an open source solution the OWASP Top 10 2013 entry.
   OWASP ProActive Controls - OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls 2018.
   PENTESTING-BIBLE - hacking & penetration testing & red team & cyber security resources.
   pentest-wiki - is a free online security knowledge library for pentesters/researchers.
   DEF CON Media Server - great stuff from DEFCON.
   Awesome Malware Analysis - a curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources.
   SQL Injection Cheat Sheet - detailed technical stuff about the many different variants of the SQL Injection.
   Entersoft Knowledge Base - great and detailed reference about vulnerabilities.
   HTML5 Security Cheatsheet - a collection of HTML5 related XSS attack vectors.
   XSS String Encoder - for generating XSS code to check your input validation filters against XSS.
   GTFOBins - list of Unix binaries that can be exploited by an attacker to bypass local security restrictions.
   Guifre Ruiz Notes - collection of security, system, network and pentest cheatsheets.
   SSRF Tips - a collection of SSRF Tips.
   shell-storm repo CTF - great archive of CTFs.
   ctf - CTF (Capture The Flag) writeups, code snippets, notes, scripts.
   My-CTF-Web-Challenges - collection of CTF Web challenges.
   MSTG - The Mobile Security Testing Guide (MSTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing.
   Internal-Pentest-Playbook - notes on the most common things for an Internal Network Penetration Test.
   KeyHacks - shows quick ways in which API keys leaked by a bug bounty program can be checked.
   securitum/research - various Proof of Concepts of security research performed by Securitum.
   public-pentesting-reports - is a list of public pentest reports released by several consulting security groups.
   awesome-bug-bounty - is a comprehensive curated list of available Bug Bounty.
   bug-bounty-reference - is a list of bug bounty write-ups.
   Awesome-Bugbounty-Writeups - is a curated list of bugbounty writeups.
   Bug bounty writeups - list of bug bounty writeups (2012-2020).
   hackso.me - a great journey into security.

:black_small_square: Backdoors/exploits

PHP-backdoors - a collection of PHP backdoors. For educational or testing purposes only.

:black_small_square: Wordlists and Weak passwords

   Weakpass - for any kind of bruteforce find wordlists or unleash the power of them all at once!
   Hashes.org - is a free online hash resolving service incorporating many unparalleled techniques.
   SecLists - collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place.
   Probable-Wordlists - sorted by probability originally created for password generation and testing.
   skullsecurity passwords - password dictionaries and leaked passwords repository.
   Polish PREMIUM Dictionary - official dictionary created by the team on the forum bezpieka.org.* ¹
   statistically-likely-usernames - wordlists for creating statistically likely username lists.

:black_small_square: Bounty platforms

   YesWeHack - bug bounty platform with infosec jobs.
   Openbugbounty - allows any security researcher reporting a vulnerability on any website.
   hackerone - global hacker community to surface the most relevant security issues.
   bugcrowd - crowdsourced cybersecurity for the enterprise.
   Crowdshield - crowdsourced security & bug bounty management.
   Synack - crowdsourced security & bug bounty programs, crowd security intelligence platform, and more.
   Hacktrophy - bug bounty platform.

:black_small_square: Web Training Apps (local installation)

   OWASP-VWAD - comprehensive and well maintained registry of all known vulnerable web applications.
   DVWA - PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable.
   metasploitable2 - vulnerable web application amongst security researchers.
   metasploitable3 - is a VM that is built from the ground up with a large amount of security vulnerabilities.
   DSVW - is a deliberately vulnerable web application written in under 100 lines of code.
   OWASP Mutillidae II - free, open source, deliberately vulnerable web-application.
   OWASP Juice Shop Project - the most bug-free vulnerable application in existence.
   OWASP Node js Goat Project - OWASP Top 10 security risks apply to web apps developed using Node.js.
   juicy-ctf - run Capture the Flags and Security Trainings with OWASP Juice Shop.
   SecurityShepherd - web and mobile application security training platform.
   Security Ninjas - open source application security training program.
   hackazon - a modern vulnerable web app.
   dvna - damn vulnerable NodeJS application.
   django-DefectDojo - is an open-source application vulnerability correlation and security orchestration tool.
   Google Gruyere - web application exploits and defenses.
   Bodhi - is a playground focused on learning the exploitation of client-side web vulnerabilities.
   Websploit - single vm lab with the purpose of combining several vulnerable appliations in one environment.
   vulhub - pre-built Vulnerable Environments based on docker-compose.
   CloudGoat 2 - the new & improved "Vulnerable by Design" AWS deployment tool.
   secDevLabs - is a laboratory for learning secure web development in a practical manner.
   CORS-vulnerable-Lab - sample vulnerable code and its exploit code.
   RootTheBox - a Game of Hackers (CTF Scoreboard & Game Manager).
   KONTRA - application security training (OWASP Top Web & Api).

:black_small_square: Labs (ethical hacking platforms/trainings/CTFs)

   Offensive Security - true performance-based penetration testing training for over a decade.
   Hack The Box - online platform allowing you to test your penetration testing skills.
   Hacking-Lab - online ethical hacking, computer network and security challenge platform.
   pwnable.kr - non-commercial wargame site which provides various pwn challenges.
   Pwnable.tw - is a wargame site for hackers to test and expand their binary exploiting skills.
   picoCTF - is a free computer security game targeted at middle and high school students.
   CTFlearn - is an online platform built to help ethical hackers learn and practice their cybersecurity knowledge.
   ctftime - CTF archive and a place, where you can get some another CTF-related info.
   Silesia Security Lab - high quality security testing services.
   Practical Pentest Labs - pentest lab, take your Hacking skills to the next level.
   Root Me - the fast, easy, and affordable way to train your hacking skills.
   rozwal.to - a great platform to train your pentesting skills.
   TryHackMe - learning Cyber Security made easy.
   hackxor - is a realistic web application hacking game, designed to help players of all abilities develop their skills.
   Hack Yourself First - it's full of nasty app sec holes.
   OverTheWire - can help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games.
   Wizard Labs - is an online Penetration Testing Lab.
   PentesterLab - provides vulnerable systems that can be used to test and understand vulnerabilities.
   RingZer0 - tons of challenges designed to test and improve your hacking skills.
   try2hack - several security-oriented challenges for your entertainment.
   Ubeeri - preconfigured lab environments.
   Pentestit - emulate IT infrastructures of real companies for legal pen testing and improving pentest skills.
   Microcorruption - reversal challenges done in the web interface.
   Crackmes - download crackmes to help improve your reverse engineering skills.
   DomGoat - DOM XSS security learning and practicing platform.
   Stereotyped Challenges - upgrade your web hacking techniques today!
   Vulnhub - allows anyone to gain practical 'hands-on' experience in digital security.
   W3Challs - is a penetration testing training platform, which offers various computer challenges.
   RingZer0 CTF - offers you tons of challenges designed to test and improve your hacking skills.
   Hack.me - a platform where you can build, host and share vulnerable web apps for educational purposes.
   HackThis! - discover how hacks, dumps and defacements are performed and secure your website.
   Enigma Group WebApp Training - these challenges cover the exploits listed in the OWASP Top 10 Project.
   Reverse Engineering Challenges - challenges, exercises, problems and tasks - by level, by type, and more.
   0x00sec - the home of the Hacker - Malware, Reverse Engineering, and Computer Science.
   We Chall - there are exist a lots of different challenge types.
   Hacker Gateway - is the go-to place for hackers who want to test their skills.
   Hacker101 - is a free class for web security.
   contained.af - a stupid game for learning about containers, capabilities, and syscalls.
   flAWS challenge! - a series of levels you'll learn about common mistakes and gotchas when using AWS.
   CyberSec WTF - provides web hacking challenges derived from bounty write-ups.
   CTF Challenge - CTF Web App challenges.
   gCTF - most of the challenges used in the Google CTF 2017.
   Hack This Site - is a free, safe and legal training ground for hackers.
   Attack & Defense - is a browser-based cloud labs.
   Cryptohack - a fun platform for learning modern cryptography.
   Cryptopals - the cryptopals crypto challenges.

:black_small_square: CTF platforms

fbctf - platform to host Capture the Flag competitions.
ctfscoreboard - scoreboard for Capture The Flag competitions.

:black_small_square: Other resources

   Bugcrowd University - open source education content for the researcher community.
   OSCPRepo - a list of resources and scripts that I have been gathering in preparation for the OSCP.
   OWASP Top 10: Real-World Examples - test your web apps with real-world examples (two-part series).
   phrack.org - an awesome collection of articles from several respected hackers and other thinkers.
   Practical-Ethical-Hacking-Resources - compilation of resources from TCM's Udemy Course.

Your daily knowledge and news ^[TOC]

:black_small_square: RSS Readers

Feedly - organize, read and share what matters to you.
Inoreader - similar to feedly with a support for filtering what you fetch from rss.

:black_small_square: IRC Channels

#hackerspaces - hackerspace IRC channels.

:black_small_square: Security

   The Hacker News - leading news source dedicated to promoting awareness for security experts and hackers.
   Latest Hacking News - provides the latest hacking news, exploits and vulnerabilities for ethical hackers.
   Security Newsletter - security news as a weekly digest (email notifications).
   Google Online Security Blog - the latest news and insights from Google on security and safety on the Internet.
   Qualys Blog - expert network security guidance and news.
   DARKReading - connecting the Information Security Community.
   Darknet - latest hacking tools, hacker news, cybersecurity best practices, ethical hacking & pen-testing.
   publiclyDisclosed - public disclosure watcher who keeps you up to date about the recently disclosed bugs.
   Reddit - Hacking - a subreddit dedicated to hacking and hackers.
   Packet Storm - information security services, news, files, tools, exploits, advisories and whitepapers.
   Sekurak - about security, penetration tests, vulnerabilities and many others (PL/EN).
   nf.sec - basic aspects and mechanisms of Linux operating system security (PL).

:black_small_square: Other/All-in-one

Changelog - is a community of hackers; news & podcasts for developers and hackers.

Other Cheat Sheets ^[TOC]

Build your own DNS Servers

   Unbound DNS Tutorial - a validating, recursive, and caching DNS server.
   Knot Resolver on Fedora - how to get faster and more secure DNS resolution with Knot Resolver on Fedora.
   DNS-over-HTTPS - tutorial to setup your own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) server.
   dns-over-https - a cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS.
   DNS-over-TLS - following to your DoH server, setup your DNS-over-TLS (DoT) server.
   DNS Servers - how (and why) i run my own DNS Servers.

Build your own Certificate Authority

OpenSSL Certificate Authority - build your own certificate authority (CA) using the OpenSSL tools.
step-ca Certificate Authority - build your own certificate authority (CA) using open source step-ca.

Build your own System/Virtual Machine

   os-tutorial - how to create an OS from scratch.
   Write your Own Virtual Machine - how to write your own virtual machine (VM).
   x86 Bare Metal Examples - dozens of minimal operating systems to learn x86 system programming.
   simple-computer - the scott CPU from "But How Do It Know?" by J. Clark Scott.
   littleosbook - the little book about OS development.

DNS Servers list (privacy)

IP	URL
`84.200.69.80`	dns.watch
`94.247.43.254`	opennic.org
`64.6.64.6`	verisign.com
`89.233.43.71`	censurfridns.dk
`1.1.1.1`	cloudflare.com
`94.130.110.185`	dnsprivacy.at

TOP Browser extensions

Extension name	Description
`IPvFoo`	Display the server IP address and HTTPS information across all page elements.
`FoxyProxy`	Simplifies configuring browsers to access proxy-servers.
`HTTPS Everywhere`	Automatically use HTTPS security on many sites.
`uMatrix`	Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser.
`uBlock Origin`	An efficient blocker: easy on memory and CPU footprint.
`Session Buddy`	Manage browser tabs and bookmarks with ease.
`SuperSorter`	Sort bookmarks recursively, delete duplicates, merge folders, and more.
`Clear Cache`	Clear your cache and browsing data.
`d3coder`	Encoding/Decoding plugin for various types of encoding.
`Web Developer`	Adds a toolbar button with various web developer tools.
`ThreatPinch Lookup`	Add threat intelligence hover tool tips.

TOP Burp extensions

Extension name	Description
`Active Scan++`	Extends Burp’s active and passive scanning capabilities.
`Autorize`	Automatically detects authorization enforcement.
`AuthMatrix`	A simple matrix grid to define the desired levels of access privilege.
`Logger++`	Logs requests and responses for all Burp tools in a sortable table.
`Bypass WAF`	Adds headers useful for bypassing some WAF devices.
`JSON Beautifier`	Beautifies JSON content in the HTTP message viewer.
`JSON Web Tokens`	Enables Burp to decode and manipulate JSON web tokens.
`CSP Auditor`	Displays CSP headers for responses, and passively reports CSP weaknesses.
`CSP-Bypass`	Passively scans for CSP headers that contain known bypasses.
`Hackvertor`	Converts data using a tag-based configuration to apply various encoding.
`HTML5 Auditor`	Scans for usage of risky HTML5 features.
`Software Vulnerability Scanner`	Vulnerability scanner based on vulners.com audit API.
`Turbo Intruder`	Is a powerful bruteforcing tool.
`Upload Scanner`	Upload a number of different file types, laced with different forms of payload.

Hack Mozilla Firefox address bar

In Firefox’s address bar, you can limit results by typing special characters before or after your term:

^ - for matches in your browsing history
* - for matches in your bookmarks.
% - for matches in your currently open tabs.
# - for matches in page titles.
@ - for matches in web addresses.

Chrome hidden commands

chrome://chrome-urls - list of all commands
chrome://flags - enable experiments and development features
chrome://interstitials - errors and warnings
chrome://net-internals - network internals (events, dns, cache)
chrome://network-errors - network errors
chrome://net-export - start logging future network activity to a file
chrome://safe-browsing - safe browsing options
chrome://user-actions - record all user actions
chrome://restart - restart chrome
chrome://dino - ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED…
cache:<website-address> - view the cached version of the web page

Bypass WAFs by Shortening IP Address (by 0xInfection)

IP addresses can be shortened by dropping the zeroes:

http://1.0.0.1 → http://1.1
http://127.0.0.1 → http://127.1
http://192.168.0.1 → http://192.168.1

http://0xC0A80001 or http://3232235521 → 192.168.0.1
http://192.168.257 → 192.168.1.1
http://192.168.516 → 192.168.2.4

This bypasses WAF filters for SSRF, open-redirect, etc where any IP as input gets blacklisted.

For more information please see How to Obscure Any URL and Magic IP Address Shortcuts.

Hashing, encryption and encoding (by Michal Špaček)

Hashing

plaintext :arrow_right: hash
hash :no_entry: plaintext

Symmetric encryption

plaintext :arrow_right: :key: :arrow_right: ciphertext
plaintext :arrow_left: :key: :arrow_left: ciphertext
(:key: shared key)

Asymmetric encryption

plaintext :arrow_right: :key: :arrow_right: ciphertext
plaintext :arrow_left: :part_alternation_mark: :arrow_left: ciphertext
(:key: public key, :part_alternation_mark: private key)

Encoding

text :arrow_right: encoded
text :arrow_left: encoded

Shell One-liners ^[TOC]

Tool: terminal

Reload shell without exit

`1`	`exec $SHELL -l`

Close shell keeping all subprocess running

`1`	`disown -a && exit`

Exit without saving shell history

1
2

kill -9 $$
unset HISTFILE && exit

Perform a branching conditional

1
2

true && echo success
false || echo failed

Pipe stdout and stderr to separate commands

`1`	`some_command > >(/bin/cmd_for_stdout) 2> >(/bin/cmd_for_stderr)`

Redirect stdout and stderr each to separate files and print both to the screen

`1`	`(some_command 2>&1 1>&3 \| tee errorlog ) 3>&1 1>&2 \| tee stdoutlog`

List of commands you use most often

history | \
awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | \
grep -v "./" | \
column -c3 -s " " -t | \
sort -nr | nl |  head -n 20

Sterilize bash history

function sterile() {

  history | awk '$2 != "history" { $1=""; print $0 }' | egrep -vi "\
curl\b+.*(-E|--cert)\b+.*\b*|\
curl\b+.*--pass\b+.*\b*|\
curl\b+.*(-U|--proxy-user).*:.*\b*|\
curl\b+.*(-u|--user).*:.*\b*
.*(-H|--header).*(token|auth.*)\b+.*|\
wget\b+.*--.*password\b+.*\b*|\
http.?://.+:.+@.*\
" > $HOME/histbuff; history -r $HOME/histbuff;

}

export PROMPT_COMMAND="sterile"

Look also: A naive utility to censor credentials in command history.

Quickly backup a file

`1`	`cp filename{,.orig}`

Empty a file (truncate to 0 size)

`1`	`>filename`

Delete all files in a folder that don’t match a certain file extension

`1`	`rm !(.foo\|.bar\|*.baz)`

Pass multi-line string to a file

# cat  >filename ... - overwrite the file
# cat >>filename ... - append to a file
cat > filename << __EOF__
data data data
__EOF__

Edit a file on a remote host using vim

`1`	`vim scp://user@host//etc/fstab`

Create a directory and change into it at the same time

`1`	`mkd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$@"; }`

Convert uppercase files to lowercase files

`1`	`rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *`

Print a row of characters across the terminal

`1`	printf "%`tput cols`s" \| tr ' ' '#'

Show shell history without line numbers

1
2

history | cut -c 8-
fc -l -n 1 | sed 's/^\s*//'

Run command(s) after exit session

cat > /etc/profile << __EOF__
_after_logout() {

  username=$(whoami)

  for _pid in $(ps afx | grep sshd | grep "$username" | awk '{print $1}') ; do

    kill -9 $_pid

  done

}
trap _after_logout EXIT
__EOF__

Generate a sequence of numbers

for ((i=1; i<=10; i+=2)) ; do echo $i ; done
# alternative: seq 1 2 10

for ((i=5; i<=10; ++i)) ; do printf '%02d\n' $i ; done
# alternative: seq -w 5 10

for i in {1..10} ; do echo $i ; done

Simple Bash filewatching

`1`	`unset MAIL; export MAILCHECK=1; export MAILPATH='$FILE_TO_WATCH?$MESSAGE'`

Tool: busybox

Static HTTP web server

`1`	`busybox httpd -p $PORT -h $HOME [-c httpd.conf]`

Tool: mount

Mount a temporary ram partition

`1`	`mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt -o size=64M`

-t - filesystem type
-o - mount options

Remount a filesystem as read/write

`1`	`mount -o remount,rw /`

Tool: fuser

Show which processes use the files/directories

1
2

fuser /var/log/daemon.log
fuser -v /home/supervisor

Kills a process that is locking a file

`1`	`fuser -ki filename`

-i - interactive option

Kills a process that is locking a file with specific signal

`1`	`fuser -k -HUP filename`

--list-signals - list available signal names

Show what PID is listening on specific port

`1`	`fuser -v 53/udp`

Show all processes using the named filesystems or block device

`1`	`fuser -mv /var/www`

Tool: lsof

Show process that use internet connection at the moment

`1`	`lsof -P -i -n`

Show process that use specific port number

`1`	`lsof -i tcp:443`

Lists all listening ports together with the PID of the associated process

`1`	`lsof -Pan -i tcp -i udp`

List all open ports and their owning executables

`1`	`lsof -i -P \| grep -i "listen"`

Show all open ports

`1`	`lsof -Pnl -i`

Show open ports (LISTEN)

`1`	`lsof -Pni4 \| grep LISTEN \| column -t`

List all files opened by a particular command

`1`	`lsof -c "process"`

View user activity per directory

`1`	`lsof -u username -a +D /etc`

Show 10 largest open files

1
2
3

lsof / | \
awk '{ if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB" " " $9 " " $1 }' | \
sort -n -u | tail | column -t

Show current working directory of a process

`1`	`lsof -p <PID> \| grep cwd`

Tool: ps

Show a 4-way scrollable process tree with full details

`1`	`ps awwfux \| less -S`

Processes per user counter

`1`	`ps hax -o user \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -r`

Show all processes by name with main header

`1`	`ps -lfC nginx`

Tool: find

Find files that have been modified on your system in the past 60 minutes

`1`	`find / -mmin 60 -type f`

Find all files larger than 20M

`1`	`find / -type f -size +20M`

Find duplicate files (based on MD5 hash)

`1`	`find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' \| sort \| uniq --all-repeated=separate -w 33`

Change permission only for files

1
2

cd /var/www/site && find . -type f -exec chmod 766 {} \;
cd /var/www/site && find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} +

Change permission only for directories

1
2

cd /var/www/site && find . -type d -exec chmod g+x {} \;
cd /var/www/site && find . -type d -exec chmod g+rwx {} +

Find files and directories for specific user/group

# User:
find . -user <username> -print
find /etc -type f -user <username> -name "*.conf"

# Group:
find /opt -group <group>
find /etc -type f -group <group> -iname "*.conf"

Find files and directories for all without specific user/group

# User:
find . \! -user <username> -print

# Group:
find . \! -group <group>

Looking for files/directories that only have certain permission

# User
find . -user <username> -perm -u+rw # -rw-r--r--
find /home -user $(whoami) -perm 777 # -rwxrwxrwx

# Group:
find /home -type d -group <group> -perm 755 # -rwxr-xr-x

Delete older files than 60 days

`1`	`find . -type f -mtime +60 -delete`

Recursively remove all empty sub-directories from a directory

`1`	`find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;`

How to find all hard links to a file

`1`	`find </path/to/dir> -xdev -samefile filename`

Recursively find the latest modified files

`1`	`find . -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' "{}" \; \| sort -nr \| cut -d: -f2- \| head`

Recursively find/replace of a string with sed

`1`	`find . -not -path '/\.git' -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'`

Recursively find/replace of a string in directories and file names

`1`	`find . -depth -name 'test' -execdir bash -c 'mv -v "$1" "${1//foo/bar}"' _ {} \;`

Recursively find suid executables

`1`	`find / $ -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 $ -type f -exec ls -la {} \;`

Tool: top

Use top to monitor only all processes with the specific string

`1`	`top -p $(pgrep -d , <str>)`

<str> - process containing string (eg. nginx, worker)

Tool: vmstat

Show current system utilization (fields in kilobytes)

`1`	`vmstat 2 20 -t -w`

2 - number of times with a defined time interval (delay)
20 - each execution of the command (count)
-t - show timestamp
-w - wide output
-S M - output of the fields in megabytes instead of kilobytes

Show current system utilization will get refreshed every 5 seconds

`1`	`vmstat 5 -w`

Display report a summary of disk operations

`1`	`vmstat -D`

Display report of event counters and memory stats

`1`	`vmstat -s`

Display report about kernel objects stored in slab layer cache

`1`	`vmstat -m`

Tool: iostat

Show information about the CPU usage, and I/O statistics about all the partitions

`1`	`iostat 2 10 -t -m`

2 - number of times with a defined time interval (delay)
10 - each execution of the command (count)
-t - show timestamp
-m - fields in megabytes (-k - in kilobytes, default)

Show information only about the CPU utilization

`1`	`iostat 2 10 -t -m -c`

Show information only about the disk utilization

`1`	`iostat 2 10 -t -m -d`

Show information only about the LVM utilization

`1`	`iostat -N`

Tool: strace

Track with child processes

# 1)
strace -f -p $(pidof glusterfsd)

# 2)
strace -f $(pidof php-fpm | sed 's/\([0-9]*\)/\-p \1/g')

Track process with 30 seconds limit

`1`	`timeout 30 strace $(< /var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid)`

Track processes and redirect output to a file

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ps auxw | grep '[a]pache' | awk '{print " -p " $2}' | \
xargs strace -o /tmp/strace-apache-proc.out

Track with print time spent in each syscall and limit length of print strings

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ps auxw | grep '[i]init_policy' | awk '{print " -p " $2}' | \
xargs strace -f -e trace=network -T -s 10000

Track the open request of a network port

`1`	`strace -f -e trace=bind nc -l 80`

Track the open request of a network port (show TCP/UDP)

`1`	`strace -f -e trace=network nc -lu 80`

Tool: kill

Kill a process running on port

`1`	`kill -9 $(lsof -i :<port> \| awk '{l=$2} END {print l}')`

Tool: diff

Compare two directory trees

`1`	`diff <(cd directory1 && find \| sort) <(cd directory2 && find \| sort)`

Compare output of two commands

`1`	`diff <(cat /etc/passwd) <(cut -f2 /etc/passwd)`

Tool: vimdiff

Highlight the exact differences, based on characters and words

`1`	`vimdiff file1 file2`

Compare two JSON files

`1`	`vimdiff <(jq -S . A.json) <(jq -S . B.json)`

Compare Hex dump

`1`	`d(){ vimdiff <(f $1) <(f $2);};f(){ hexdump -C $1 \| cut -d' ' -f3- \| tr -s ' ';}; d ~/bin1 ~/bin2`

diffchar

Save diffchar @ ~/.vim/plugins

Click F7 to switch between diff modes

Usefull vimdiff commands:

qa to exit all windows
:vertical resize 70 to resize window
set window width Ctrl+W [N columns]+(Shift+)<\>

Tool: tail

Annotate tail -f with timestamps

`1`	`tail -f file \| while read ; do echo "$(date +%T.%N) $REPLY" ; done`

Analyse an Apache access log for the most common IP addresses

`1`	`tail -10000 access_log \| awk '{print $1}' \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -n \| tail`

Analyse web server log and show only 5xx http codes

`1`	`tail -n 100 -f /path/to/logfile \| grep "HTTP/[1-2].[0-1]\" [5]"`

Tool: tar

System backup with exclude specific directories

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cd /
tar -czvpf /mnt/system$(date +%d%m%Y%s).tgz --directory=/ \
--exclude=proc/* --exclude=sys/* --exclude=dev/* --exclude=mnt/* .

System backup with exclude specific directories (pigz)

cd /
tar cvpf /backup/snapshot-$(date +%d%m%Y%s).tgz --directory=/ \
--exclude=proc/* --exclude=sys/* --exclude=dev/* \
--exclude=mnt/* --exclude=tmp/* --use-compress-program=pigz .

Tool: dump

System backup to file

`1`	`dump -y -u -f /backup/system$(date +%d%m%Y%s).lzo /`

Restore system from lzo file

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cd /
restore -rf /backup/system$(date +%d%m%Y%s).lzo

Tool: cpulimit

Limit the cpu usage of a process

`1`	`cpulimit -p pid -l 50`

Tool: pwdx

Show current working directory of a process

`1`	`pwdx <pid>`

Tool: taskset

Start a command on only one CPU core

`1`	`taskset -c 0 <command>`

Tool: tr

Show directories in the PATH, one per line

`1`	`tr : '\n' <<<$PATH`

Tool: chmod

Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory

`1`	`chmod -R -x+X *`

Restore permission for /bin/chmod

# 1:
cp /bin/ls chmod.01
cp /bin/chmod chmod.01
./chmod.01 700 file

# 2:
/bin/busybox chmod 0700 /bin/chmod

# 3:
setfacl --set u::rwx,g::---,o::--- /bin/chmod

Tool: who

Find last reboot time

who -b

Detect a user sudo-su’d into the current shell

`1`	`[[ $(who -m \| awk '{ print $1 }') == $(whoami) ]] \|\| echo "You are su-ed to $(whoami)"`

Tool: last

Was the last reboot a panic?

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(last -x -f $(ls -1t /var/log/wtmp* | head -2 | tail -1); last -x -f /var/log/wtmp) | \
grep -A1 reboot | head -2 | grep -q shutdown && echo "Expected reboot" || echo "Panic reboot"

Tool: screen

Start screen in detached mode

`1`	`screen -d -m <command>`

Attach to an existing screen session

`1`	`screen -r -d <pid>`

Tool: script

Record and replay terminal session

### Record session
# 1)
script -t 2>~/session.time -a ~/session.log

# 2)
script --timing=session.time session.log

### Replay session
scriptreplay --timing=session.time session.log

Tool: du

Show 20 biggest directories with ‘K M G’

du | \
sort -r -n | \
awk '{split("K M G",v); s=1; while($1>1024){$1/=1024; s++} print int($1)" "v[s]"\t"$2}' | \
head -n 20

Tool: inotifywait

Init tool everytime a file in a directory is modified

`1`	`while true ; do inotifywait -r -e MODIFY dir/ && ls dir/ ; done;`

Tool: openssl

Testing connection to the remote host

`1`	`echo \| openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 -showcerts`

Testing connection to the remote host (debug mode)

`1`	`echo \| openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 -showcerts -tlsextdebug -status`

Testing connection to the remote host (with SNI support)

`1`	`echo \| openssl s_client -showcerts -servername google.com -connect google.com:443`

Testing connection to the remote host with specific ssl version

`1`	`openssl s_client -tls1_2 -connect google.com:443`

Testing connection to the remote host with specific ssl cipher

`1`	`openssl s_client -cipher 'AES128-SHA' -connect google.com:443`

Verify 0-RTT

_host="example.com"

cat > req.in << __EOF__
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: $_host
Connection: close
__EOF__

openssl s_client -connect ${_host}:443 -tls1_3 -sess_out session.pem -ign_eof < req.in
openssl s_client -connect ${_host}:443 -tls1_3 -sess_in session.pem -early_data req.in

Generate private key without passphrase

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# _len: 2048, 4096
( _fd="private.key" ; _len="2048" ; \
openssl genrsa -out ${_fd} ${_len} )

Generate private key with passphrase

# _ciph: aes128, aes256
# _len: 2048, 4096
( _ciph="aes128" ; _fd="private.key" ; _len="2048" ; \
openssl genrsa -${_ciph} -out ${_fd} ${_len} )

Remove passphrase from private key

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( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_unp="private_unp.key" ; \
openssl rsa -in ${_fd} -out ${_fd_unp} )

Encrypt existing private key with a passphrase

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# _ciph: aes128, aes256
( _ciph="aes128" ; _fd="private.key" ; _fd_pass="private_pass.key" ; \
openssl rsa -${_ciph} -in ${_fd} -out ${_fd_pass}

Check private key

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( _fd="private.key" ; \
openssl rsa -check -in ${_fd} )

Get public key from private key

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( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_pub="public.key" ; \
openssl rsa -pubout -in ${_fd} -out ${_fd_pub} )

Generate private key and CSR

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( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; _len="2048" ; \
openssl req -out ${_fd_csr} -new -newkey rsa:${_len} -nodes -keyout ${_fd} )

Generate CSR

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( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; \
openssl req -out ${_fd_csr} -new -key ${_fd} )

Generate CSR (metadata from existing certificate)

Where private.key is the existing private key. As you can see you do not generate this CSR from your certificate (public key). Also you do not generate the “same” CSR, just a new one to request a new certificate.

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( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; _fd_crt="cert.crt" ; \
openssl x509 -x509toreq -in ${_fd_crt} -out ${_fd_csr} -signkey ${_fd} )

Generate CSR with -config param

( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; \
openssl req -new -sha256 -key ${_fd} -out ${_fd_csr} \
-config <(
cat << __EOF__
[req]
default_bits        = 2048
default_md          = sha256
prompt              = no
distinguished_name  = dn
req_extensions      = req_ext

[ dn ]
C   = "<two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country>"
ST  = "<state or province where your organisation is legally located>"
L   = "<city where your organisation is legally located>"
O   = "<legal name of your organisation>"
OU  = "<section of the organisation>"
CN  = "<fully qualified domain name>"

[ req_ext ]
subjectAltName = @alt_names

[ alt_names ]
DNS.1 = <fully qualified domain name>
DNS.2 = <next domain>
DNS.3 = <next domain>
__EOF__
))

Other values in [ dn ]:

countryName            = "DE"                     # C=
stateOrProvinceName    = "Hessen"                 # ST=
localityName           = "Keller"                 # L=
postalCode             = "424242"                 # L/postalcode=
postalAddress          = "Keller"                 # L/postaladdress=
streetAddress          = "Crater 1621"            # L/street=
organizationName       = "apfelboymschule"        # O=
organizationalUnitName = "IT Department"          # OU=
commonName             = "example.com"            # CN=
emailAddress           = "webmaster@example.com"  # CN/emailAddress=

Example of oids (you’ll probably also have to make OpenSSL know about the new fields required for EV by adding the following under [new_oids]):

[req]
...
oid_section         = new_oids

[ new_oids ]
postalCode = 2.5.4.17
streetAddress = 2.5.4.9

Full example:

( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_csr="request.csr" ; \
openssl req -new -sha256 -key ${_fd} -out ${_fd_csr} \
-config <(
cat << __EOF__
[req]
default_bits        = 2048
default_md          = sha256
prompt              = no
distinguished_name  = dn
req_extensions      = req_ext
oid_section         = new_oids

[ new_oids ]
serialNumber = 2.5.4.5
streetAddress = 2.5.4.9
postalCode = 2.5.4.17
businessCategory = 2.5.4.15

[ dn ]
serialNumber=00001111
businessCategory=Private Organization
jurisdictionC=DE
C=DE
ST=Hessen
L=Keller
postalCode=424242
streetAddress=Crater 1621
O=AV Company
OU=IT
CN=example.com

[ req_ext ]
subjectAltName = @alt_names

[ alt_names ]
DNS.1 = example.com
__EOF__
))

For more information please look at these great explanations:

List available EC curves

`1`	`openssl ecparam -list_curves`

Print ECDSA private and public keys

( _fd="private.key" ; \
openssl ec -in ${_fd} -noout -text )

# For x25519 only extracting public key
( _fd="private.key" ; _fd_pub="public.key" ; \
openssl pkey -in ${_fd} -pubout -out ${_fd_pub} )

Generate ECDSA private key

# _curve: prime256v1, secp521r1, secp384r1
( _fd="private.key" ; _curve="prime256v1" ; \
openssl ecparam -out ${_fd} -name ${_curve} -genkey )

# _curve: X25519
( _fd="private.key" ; _curve="x25519" ; \
openssl genpkey -algorithm ${_curve} -out ${_fd} )

Generate private key and CSR (ECC)

# _curve: prime256v1, secp521r1, secp384r1
( _fd="domain.com.key" ; _fd_csr="domain.com.csr" ; _curve="prime256v1" ; \
openssl ecparam -out ${_fd} -name ${_curve} -genkey ; \
openssl req -new -key ${_fd} -out ${_fd_csr} -sha256 )

Generate self-signed certificate

# _len: 2048, 4096
( _fd="domain.key" ; _fd_out="domain.crt" ; _len="2048" ; _days="365" ; \
openssl req -newkey rsa:${_len} -nodes \
-keyout ${_fd} -x509 -days ${_days} -out ${_fd_out} )

Generate self-signed certificate from existing private key

# _len: 2048, 4096
( _fd="domain.key" ; _fd_out="domain.crt" ; _days="365" ; \
openssl req -key ${_fd} -nodes \
-x509 -days ${_days} -out ${_fd_out} )

Generate self-signed certificate from existing private key and csr

# _len: 2048, 4096
( _fd="domain.key" ; _fd_csr="domain.csr" ; _fd_out="domain.crt" ; _days="365" ; \
openssl x509 -signkey ${_fd} -nodes \
-in ${_fd_csr} -req -days ${_days} -out ${_fd_out} )

Generate DH public parameters

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( _dh_size="2048" ; \
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam_${_dh_size}.pem "$_dh_size" )

Display DH public parameters

`1`	`openssl pkeyparam -in dhparam.pem -text`

Extract private key from pfx

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( _fd_pfx="cert.pfx" ; _fd_key="key.pem" ; \
openssl pkcs12 -in ${_fd_pfx} -nocerts -nodes -out ${_fd_key} )

Extract private key and certs from pfx

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( _fd_pfx="cert.pfx" ; _fd_pem="key_certs.pem" ; \
openssl pkcs12 -in ${_fd_pfx} -nodes -out ${_fd_pem} )

Extract certs from p7b

# PKCS#7 file doesn't include private keys.
( _fd_p7b="cert.p7b" ; _fd_pem="cert.pem" ; \
openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -outform PEM -in ${_fd_p7b} -print_certs > ${_fd_pem})
# or:
openssl pkcs7 -print_certs -in -in ${_fd_p7b} -out ${_fd_pem})

Convert DER to PEM

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( _fd_der="cert.crt" ; _fd_pem="cert.pem" ; \
openssl x509 -in ${_fd_der} -inform der -outform pem -out ${_fd_pem} )

Convert PEM to DER

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( _fd_der="cert.crt" ; _fd_pem="cert.pem" ; \
openssl x509 -in ${_fd_pem} -outform der -out ${_fd_der} )

Verification of the private key

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( _fd="private.key" ; \
openssl rsa -noout -text -in ${_fd} )

Verification of the public key

# 1)
( _fd="public.key" ; \
openssl pkey -noout -text -pubin -in ${_fd} )

# 2)
( _fd="private.key" ; \
openssl rsa -inform PEM -noout -in ${_fd} &> /dev/null ; \
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then echo -en "OK\n" ; fi )

Verification of the certificate

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( _fd="certificate.crt" ; # format: pem, cer, crt \
openssl x509 -noout -text -in ${_fd} )

Verification of the CSR

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( _fd_csr="request.csr" ; \
openssl req -text -noout -in ${_fd_csr} )

Check the private key and the certificate are match

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(openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in private.key | openssl md5 ; \
openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in certificate.crt | openssl md5) | uniq

Check the private key and the CSR are match

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(openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in private.key | openssl md5 ; \
openssl req -noout -modulus -in request.csr | openssl md5) | uniq

Tool: secure-delete

Secure delete with shred

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shred -vfuz -n 10 file
shred --verbose --random-source=/dev/urandom -n 1 /dev/sda

Secure delete with scrub

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scrub -p dod /dev/sda
scrub -p dod -r file

Secure delete with badblocks

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badblocks -s -w -t random -v /dev/sda
badblocks -c 10240 -s -w -t random -v /dev/sda

Secure delete with secure-delete

srm -vz /tmp/file
sfill -vz /local
sdmem -v
swapoff /dev/sda5 && sswap -vz /dev/sda5

Tool: dd

Show dd status every so often

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dd <dd_params> status=progress
watch --interval 5 killall -USR1 dd

Redirect output to a file with dd

`1`	`echo "string" \| dd of=filename`

Tool: gpg

Export public key

`1`	`gpg --export --armor "<username>" > username.pkey`

--export - export all keys from all keyrings or specific key
-a|--armor - create ASCII armored output

Encrypt file

`1`	`gpg -e -r "<username>" dump.sql`

-e|--encrypt - encrypt data
-r|--recipient - encrypt for specific

Decrypt file

`1`	`gpg -o dump.sql -d dump.sql.gpg`

-o|--output - use as output file
-d|--decrypt - decrypt data (default)

Search recipient

`1`	`gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --search-keys "<username>"`

--keyserver - set specific key server
--search-keys - search for keys on a key server

List all of the packets in an encrypted file

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gpg --batch --list-packets archive.gpg
gpg2 --batch --list-packets archive.gpg

Tool: system-other

Reboot system from init

`1`	`exec /sbin/init 6`

Init system from single user mode

`1`	`exec /sbin/init`

Show current working directory of a process

`1`	`readlink -f /proc/<PID>/cwd`

Show actual pathname of the executed command

`1`	`readlink -f /proc/<PID>/exe`

Tool: curl

`1`	`curl -Iks https://www.google.com`

-I - show response headers only
-k - insecure connection when using ssl
-s - silent mode (not display body)

`1`	`curl -Iks --location -X GET -A "x-agent" https://www.google.com`

--location - follow redirects
-X - set method
-A - set user-agent

`1`	`curl -Iks --location -X GET -A "x-agent" --proxy http://127.0.0.1:16379 https://www.google.com`

--proxy [socks5://|http://] - set proxy server

`1`	`curl -o file.pdf -C - https://example.com/Aiju2goo0Ja2.pdf`

-o - write output to file
-C - resume the transfer

Find your external IP address (external services)

curl ipinfo.io
curl ipinfo.io/ip
curl icanhazip.com
curl ifconfig.me/ip ; echo

Repeat URL request

# URL sequence substitution with a dummy query string:
curl -ks https://example.com/?[1-20]

# With shell 'for' loop:
for i in {1..20} ; do curl -ks https://example.com/ ; done

Check DNS and HTTP trace with headers for specific domains

### Set domains and external dns servers.
_domain_list=(google.com) ; _dns_list=("8.8.8.8" "1.1.1.1")

for _domain in "${_domain_list[@]}" ; do

  printf '=%.0s' {1..48}

  echo

  printf "[\\e[1;32m+\\e[m] resolve: %s\\n" "$_domain"

  for _dns in "${_dns_list[@]}" ; do

    # Resolve domain.
    host "${_domain}" "${_dns}"

    echo

  done

  for _proto in http https ; do

    printf "[\\e[1;32m+\\e[m] trace + headers: %s://%s\\n" "$_proto" "$_domain"

    # Get trace and http headers.
    curl -Iks -A "x-agent" --location "${_proto}://${_domain}"

    echo

  done

done

unset _domain_list _dns_list

Tool: httpie

`1`	`http -p Hh https://www.google.com`

-p - print request and response headers
- H - request headers
- B - request body
- h - response headers
- b - response body

`1`	`http -p Hh https://www.google.com --follow --verify no`

-F, --follow - follow redirects
--verify no - skip SSL verification

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--proxy http:http://127.0.0.1:16379

--proxy [http:] - set proxy server

Tool: ssh

Escape Sequence

# Supported escape sequences:
~.  - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions)
~B  - send a BREAK to the remote system
~C  - open a command line
~R  - Request rekey (SSH protocol 2 only)
~^Z - suspend ssh
~#  - list forwarded connections
~&  - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate)
~?  - this message
~~  - send the escape character by typing it twice

Compare a remote file with a local file

`1`	`ssh user@host cat /path/to/remotefile \| diff /path/to/localfile -`

SSH connection through host in the middle

`1`	`ssh -t reachable_host ssh unreachable_host`

Run command over SSH on remote host

cat > cmd.txt << __EOF__
cat /etc/hosts
__EOF__

ssh host -l user $(<cmd.txt)

Get public key from private key

`1`	`ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa`

Get all fingerprints

`1`	`ssh-keygen -l -f .ssh/known_hosts`

SSH authentication with user password

`1`	`ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no user@remote_host`

SSH authentication with publickey

`1`	`ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -o PubkeyAuthentication=yes -i id_rsa user@remote_host`

Simple recording SSH session

function _ssh_sesslog() {

  _sesdir="<path/to/session/logs>"

  mkdir -p "${_sesdir}" && \
  ssh $@ 2>&1 | tee -a "${_sesdir}/$(date +%Y%m%d).log"

}

# Alias:
alias ssh='_ssh_sesslog'

Using Keychain for SSH logins

### Delete all of ssh-agent's keys.
function _scl() {

  /usr/bin/keychain --clear

}

### Add key to keychain.
function _scg() {

  /usr/bin/keychain /path/to/private-key
  source "$HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh"

}

`1`	`ssh -tt user@host bash`

SSH local port forwarding

Example 1:

# Forwarding our local 2250 port to nmap.org:443 from localhost through localhost
host1> ssh -L 2250:nmap.org:443 localhost

# Connect to the service:
host1> curl -Iks --location -X GET https://localhost:2250

Example 2:

# Forwarding our local 9051 port to db.d.x:5432 from localhost through node.d.y
host1> ssh -nNT -L 9051:db.d.x:5432 node.d.y

# Connect to the service:
host1> psql -U db_user -d db_dev -p 9051 -h localhost

-n - redirects stdin from /dev/null
-N - do not execute a remote command
-T - disable pseudo-terminal allocation

SSH remote port forwarding

# Forwarding our local 9051 port to db.d.x:5432 from host2 through node.d.y
host1> ssh -nNT -R 9051:db.d.x:5432 node.d.y

# Connect to the service:
host2> psql -U postgres -d postgres -p 8000 -h localhost

Tool: linux-dev

Testing remote connection to port

`1`	`timeout 1 bash -c "</dev/<proto>/<host>/<port>" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?`

<proto - set protocol (tcp/udp)
<host> - set remote host
<port> - set destination port

Read and write to TCP or UDP sockets with common bash tools

`1`	`exec 5<>/dev/tcp/<host>/<port>; cat <&5 & cat >&5; exec 5>&-`

Tool: tcpdump

Filter incoming (on interface) traffic (specific ip:port)

`1`	`tcpdump -ne -i eth0 -Q in host 192.168.252.1 and port 443`

-n - don’t convert addresses (-nn will not resolve hostnames or ports)
-e - print the link-level headers
-i [iface|any] - set interface
-Q|-D [in|out|inout] - choose send/receive direction (-D - for old tcpdump versions)
host [ip|hostname] - set host, also [host not]
[and|or] - set logic
port [1-65535] - set port number, also [port not]

Filter incoming (on interface) traffic (specific ip:port) and write to a file

`1`	`tcpdump -ne -i eth0 -Q in host 192.168.252.1 and port 443 -c 5 -w tcpdump.pcap`

-c [num] - capture only num number of packets
-w [filename] - write packets to file, -r [filename] - reading from file

Capture all ICMP packets

`1`	`tcpdump -nei eth0 icmp`

Check protocol used (TCP or UDP) for service

`1`	`tcpdump -nei eth0 tcp port 22 -vv -X \| egrep "TCP\|UDP"`

Display ASCII text (to parse the output using grep or other)

`1`	`tcpdump -i eth0 -A -s0 port 443`

Grab everything between two keywords

`1`	`tcpdump -i eth0 port 80 -X \| sed -n -e '/username/,/=ldap/ p'`

Grab user and pass ever plain http

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tcpdump -i eth0  port http -l -A | egrep -i \
'pass=|pwd=|log=|login=|user=|username=|pw=|passw=|passwd=|password=|pass:|user:|username:|password:|login:|pass |user ' \
--color=auto --line-buffered -B20

Extract HTTP User Agent from HTTP request header

`1`	`tcpdump -ei eth0 -nn -A -s1500 -l \| grep "User-Agent:"`

Capture only HTTP GET and POST packets

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tcpdump -ei eth0 -s 0 -A -vv \
'tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x47455420' or 'tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x504f5354'

or simply:

`1`	`tcpdump -ei eth0 -s 0 -v -n -l \| egrep -i "POST /\|GET /\|Host:"`

Rotate capture files

`1`	`tcpdump -ei eth0 -w /tmp/capture-%H.pcap -G 3600 -C 200`

-G <num> - pcap will be created every <num> seconds
-C <size> - close the current pcap and open a new one if is larger than <size>

Top hosts by packets

`1`	`tcpdump -ei enp0s25 -nnn -t -c 200 \| cut -f 1,2,3,4 -d '.' \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -nr \| head -n 20`

Excludes any RFC 1918 private address

`1`	`tcpdump -nei eth0 'not (src net (10 or 172.16/12 or 192.168/16) and dst net (10 or 172.16/12 or 192.168/16))'`

Tool: tcpick

Analyse packets in real-time

`1`	`while true ; do tcpick -a -C -r dump.pcap ; sleep 2 ; clear ; done`

Tool: ngrep

`1`	`ngrep -d eth0 "www.domain.com" port 443`

-d [iface|any] - set interface
[domain] - set hostname
port [1-65535] - set port number

`1`	`ngrep -d eth0 "www.domain.com" src host 10.240.20.2 and port 443`

(host [ip|hostname]) - filter by ip or hostname
(port [1-65535]) - filter by port number

`1`	`ngrep -d eth0 -qt -O ngrep.pcap "www.domain.com" port 443`

-q - quiet mode (only payloads)
-t - added timestamps
-O [filename] - save output to file, -I [filename] - reading from file

`1`	`ngrep -d eth0 -qt 'HTTP' 'tcp'`

HTTP - show http headers
tcp|udp - set protocol
[src|dst] host [ip|hostname] - set direction for specific node

`1`	`ngrep -l -q -d eth0 -i "User-Agent: curl*"`

-l - stdout line buffered
-i - case-insensitive search

Tool: hping3

`1`	`hping3 -V -p 80 -s 5050 <scan_type> www.google.com`

-V|--verbose - verbose mode
-p|--destport - set destination port
-s|--baseport - set source port
<scan_type> - set scan type
- -F|--fin - set FIN flag, port open if no reply
- -S|--syn - set SYN flag
- -P|--push - set PUSH flag
- -A|--ack - set ACK flag (use when ping is blocked, RST response back if the port is open)
- -U|--urg - set URG flag
- -Y|--ymas - set Y unused flag (0x80 - nullscan), port open if no reply
- -M 0 -UPF - set TCP sequence number and scan type (URG+PUSH+FIN), port open if no reply

`1`	`hping3 -V -c 1 -1 -C 8 www.google.com`

-c [num] - packet count
-1 - set ICMP mode
-C|--icmptype [icmp-num] - set icmp type (default icmp-echo = 8)

`1`	`hping3 -V -c 1000000 -d 120 -S -w 64 -p 80 --flood --rand-source <remote_host>`

--flood - sent packets as fast as possible (don’t show replies)
--rand-source - random source address mode
-d --data - data size
-w|--win - winsize (default 64)

Tool: nmap

Ping scans the network

`1`	`nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24`

Show only open ports

`1`	`nmap -F --open 192.168.0.0/24`

Full TCP port scan using with service version detection

`1`	`nmap -p 1-65535 -sV -sS -T4 192.168.0.0/24`

Nmap scan and pass output to Nikto

`1`	`nmap -p80,443 192.168.0.0/24 -oG - \| nikto.pl -h -`

Recon specific ip:service with Nmap NSE scripts stack

# Set variables:
_hosts="192.168.250.10"
_ports="80,443"

# Set Nmap NSE scripts stack:
_nmap_nse_scripts="+dns-brute,\
                   +http-auth-finder,\
                   +http-chrono,\
                   +http-cookie-flags,\
                   +http-cors,\
                   +http-cross-domain-policy,\
                   +http-csrf,\
                   +http-dombased-xss,\
                   +http-enum,\
                   +http-errors,\
                   +http-git,\
                   +http-grep,\
                   +http-internal-ip-disclosure,\
                   +http-jsonp-detection,\
                   +http-malware-host,\
                   +http-methods,\
                   +http-passwd,\
                   +http-phpself-xss,\
                   +http-php-version,\
                   +http-robots.txt,\
                   +http-sitemap-generator,\
                   +http-shellshock,\
                   +http-stored-xss,\
                   +http-title,\
                   +http-unsafe-output-escaping,\
                   +http-useragent-tester,\
                   +http-vhosts,\
                   +http-waf-detect,\
                   +http-waf-fingerprint,\
                   +http-xssed,\
                   +traceroute-geolocation.nse,\
                   +ssl-enum-ciphers,\
                   +whois-domain,\
                   +whois-ip"

# Set Nmap NSE script params:
_nmap_nse_scripts_args="dns-brute.domain=${_hosts},http-cross-domain-policy.domain-lookup=true,"
_nmap_nse_scripts_args+="http-waf-detect.aggro,http-waf-detect.detectBodyChanges,"
_nmap_nse_scripts_args+="http-waf-fingerprint.intensive=1"

# Perform scan:
nmap --script="$_nmap_nse_scripts" --script-args="$_nmap_nse_scripts_args" -p "$_ports" "$_hosts"

Tool: netcat

`1`	`nc -kl 5000`

-l - listen for an incoming connection
-k - listening after client has disconnected
>filename.out - save receive data to file (optional)

`1`	`nc 192.168.0.1 5051 < filename.in`

< filename.in - send data to remote host

`1`	`nc -vz 10.240.30.3 5000`

-v - verbose output
-z - scan for listening daemons

`1`	`nc -vzu 10.240.30.3 1-65535`

-u - scan only udp ports

Transfer data file (archive)

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server> nc -l 5000 | tar xzvfp -
client> tar czvfp - /path/to/dir | nc 10.240.30.3 5000

Launch remote shell

# 1)
server> nc -l 5000 -e /bin/bash
client> nc 10.240.30.3 5000

# 2)
server> rm -f /tmp/f; mkfifo /tmp/f
server> cat /tmp/f | /bin/bash -i 2>&1 | nc -l 127.0.0.1 5000 > /tmp/f
client> nc 10.240.30.3 5000

Simple file server

`1`	`while true ; do nc -l 5000 \| tar -xvf - ; done`

Simple minimal HTTP Server

`1`	`while true ; do nc -l -p 1500 -c 'echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n $(date)"' ; done`

Simple HTTP Server

Restarts web server after each request - remove while condition for only single connection.

cat > index.html << __EOF__
<!doctype html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
        <title></title>
        <meta name="description" content="">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    </head>
    <body>

    <p>

      Hello! It's a site.

    </p>

    </body>
</html>
__EOF__

server> while : ; do \
(echo -ne "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c <index.html)\r\n\r\n" ; cat index.html;) | \
nc -l -p 5000 \
; done

-p - port number

Simple HTTP Proxy (single connection)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [[ $# != 2 ]] ; then
  printf "%s\\n" \
         "usage: ./nc-proxy listen-port bk_host:bk_port"
fi

_listen_port="$1"
_bk_host=$(echo "$2" | cut -d ":" -f1)
_bk_port=$(echo "$2" | cut -d ":" -f2)

printf "  lport: %s\\nbk_host: %s\\nbk_port: %s\\n\\n" \
       "$_listen_port" "$_bk_host" "$_bk_port"

_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
_back="$_tmp/pipe.back"
_sent="$_tmp/pipe.sent"
_recv="$_tmp/pipe.recv"

trap 'rm -rf "$_tmp"' EXIT

mkfifo -m 0600 "$_back" "$_sent" "$_recv"

sed "s/^/=> /" <"$_sent" &
sed "s/^/<=  /" <"$_recv" &

nc -l -p "$_listen_port" <"$_back" | \
tee "$_sent" | \
nc "$_bk_host" "$_bk_port" | \
tee "$_recv" >"$_back"

server> chmod +x nc-proxy && ./nc-proxy 8080 192.168.252.10:8000
  lport: 8080
bk_host: 192.168.252.10
bk_port: 8000

client> http -p h 10.240.30.3:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
Content-Length: 2748
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 20:12:08 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:53:37 GMT

Create a single-use TCP or UDP proxy

### TCP -> TCP
nc -l -p 2000 -c "nc [ip|hostname] 3000"

### TCP -> UDP
nc -l -p 2000 -c "nc -u [ip|hostname] 3000"

### UDP -> UDP
nc -l -u -p 2000 -c "nc -u [ip|hostname] 3000"

### UDP -> TCP
nc -l -u -p 2000 -c "nc [ip|hostname] 3000"

Tool: gnutls-cli

Testing connection to remote host (with SNI support)

`1`	`gnutls-cli -p 443 google.com`

Testing connection to remote host (without SNI support)

`1`	`gnutls-cli --disable-sni -p 443 google.com`

Tool: socat

Testing remote connection to port

`1`	`socat - TCP4:10.240.30.3:22`

- - standard input (STDIO)
TCP4:<params> - set tcp4 connection with specific params
- [hostname|ip] - set hostname/ip
- [1-65535] - set port number

Redirecting TCP-traffic to a UNIX domain socket under Linux

`1`	`socat TCP-LISTEN:1234,bind=127.0.0.1,reuseaddr,fork,su=nobody,range=127.0.0.0/8 UNIX-CLIENT:/tmp/foo`

TCP-LISTEN:<params> - set tcp listen with specific params
- [1-65535] - set port number
- bind=[hostname|ip] - set bind hostname/ip
- reuseaddr - allows other sockets to bind to an address
- fork - keeps the parent process attempting to produce more connections
- su=nobody - set user
- range=[ip-range] - ip range
UNIX-CLIENT:<params> - communicates with the specified peer socket
- filename - define socket

Tool: p0f

Set iface in promiscuous mode and dump traffic to the log file

`1`	`p0f -i enp0s25 -p -d -o /dump/enp0s25.log`

-i - listen on the specified interface
-p - set interface in promiscuous mode
-d - fork into background
-o - output file

Tool: netstat

Graph # of connections for each hosts

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netstat -an | awk '/ESTABLISHED/ { split($5,ip,":"); if (ip[1] !~ /^$/) print ip[1] }' | \
sort | uniq -c | awk '{ printf("%s\t%s\t",$2,$1) ; for (i = 0; i < $1; i++) {printf("*")}; print "" }'

Monitor open connections for specific port including listen, count and sort it per IP

`1`	`watch "netstat -plan \| grep :443 \| awk {'print \$5'} \| cut -d: -f 1 \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -nk 1"`

Grab banners from local IPv4 listening ports

`1`	`netstat -nlt \| grep 'tcp ' \| grep -Eo "[1-9][0-9]*" \| xargs -I {} sh -c "echo "" \| nc -v -n -w1 127.0.0.1 {}"`

Tool: rsync

Rsync remote data as root using sudo

`1`	`rsync --rsync-path 'sudo rsync' username@hostname:/path/to/dir/ /local/`

Tool: host

Resolves the domain name (using external dns server)

`1`	`host google.com 9.9.9.9`

Checks the domain administrator (SOA record)

`1`	`host -t soa google.com 9.9.9.9`

Tool: dig

Resolves the domain name (short output)

`1`	`dig google.com +short`

Lookup NS record for specific domain

`1`	`dig @9.9.9.9 google.com NS`

Query only answer section

`1`	`dig google.com +nocomments +noquestion +noauthority +noadditional +nostats`

Query ALL DNS Records

`1`	`dig google.com ANY +noall +answer`

DNS Reverse Look-up

`1`	`dig -x 172.217.16.14 +short`

Tool: certbot

Generate multidomain certificate

`1`	`certbot certonly -d example.com -d www.example.com`

Generate wildcard certificate

`1`	`certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges=dns -d example.com -d *.example.com`

Generate certificate with 4096 bit private key

`1`	`certbot certonly -d example.com -d www.example.com --rsa-key-size 4096`

Tool: network-other

Get all subnets for specific AS (Autonomous system)

AS="AS32934"
whois -h whois.radb.net -- "-i origin ${AS}" | \
grep "^route:" | \
cut -d ":" -f2 | \
sed -e 's/^[ \t]//' | \
sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 | \
cut -d ":" -f2 | \
sed -e 's/^[ \t]/allow /' | \
sed 's/$/;/' | \
sed 's/allow  */subnet -> /g'

Resolves domain name from dns.google.com with curl and jq

`1`	`_dname="google.com" ; curl -s "https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=${_dname}&type=A" \| jq .`

Tool: git

Log alias for a decent view of your repo

# 1)
git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all

# 2)
git log --graph \
--pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' \
--abbrev-commit

Tool: python

Static HTTP web server

# Python 3.x
python3 -m http.server 8000 --bind 127.0.0.1

# Python 2.x
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Static HTTP web server with SSL support

# Python 3.x
from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
import ssl

httpd = HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), BaseHTTPRequestHandler)

httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket,
        keyfile="path/to/key.pem",
        certfile='path/to/cert.pem', server_side=True)

httpd.serve_forever()

# Python 2.x
import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
import ssl

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443),
        SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)

httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket,
        keyfile="path/tp/key.pem",
        certfile='path/to/cert.pem', server_side=True)

httpd.serve_forever()

Encode base64

`1`	`python -m base64 -e <<< "sample string"`

Decode base64

`1`	`python -m base64 -d <<< "dGhpcyBpcyBlbmNvZGVkCg=="`

Tool: awk

Search for matching lines

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# egrep foo
awk '/foo/' filename

Search non matching lines

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# egrep -v foo
awk '!/foo/' filename

Print matching lines with numbers

1
2

# egrep -n foo
awk '/foo/{print FNR,$0}' filename

Print the last column

`1`	`awk '{print $NF}' filename`

Find all the lines longer than 80 characters

`1`	`awk 'length($0)>80{print FNR,$0}' filename`

Print only lines of less than 80 characters

`1`	`awk 'length < 80' filename`

Print double new lines a file

`1`	`awk '1; { print "" }' filename`

Print line numbers

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awk '{ print FNR "\t" $0 }' filename
awk '{ printf("%5d : %s\n", NR, $0) }' filename   # in a fancy manner

Print line numbers for only non-blank lines

`1`	`awk 'NF { $0=++a " :" $0 }; { print }' filename`

Print the line and the next two (i=5) lines after the line matching regexp

`1`	`awk '/foo/{i=5+1;}{if(i){i--; print;}}' filename`

Print the lines starting at the line matching ‘server {’ until the line matching ‘}’

`1`	`awk '/server {/,/}/' filename`

Print multiple columns with separators

`1`	`awk -F' ' '{print "ip:\t" $2 "\n port:\t" $3' filename`

Remove empty lines

awk 'NF > 0' filename

# alternative:
awk NF filename

Delete trailing white space (spaces, tabs)

`1`	`awk '{sub(/[ \t]*$/, "");print}' filename`

Delete leading white space

`1`	`awk '{sub(/^[ \t]+/, ""); print}' filename`

Remove duplicate consecutive lines

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# uniq
awk 'a !~ $0{print}; {a=$0}' filename

Remove duplicate entries in a file without sorting

`1`	`awk '!x[$0]++' filename`

Exclude multiple columns

`1`	`awk '{$1=$3=""}1' filename`

Substitute foo for bar on lines matching regexp

`1`	`awk '/regexp/{gsub(/foo/, "bar")};{print}' filename`

Add some characters at the beginning of matching lines

`1`	`awk '/regexp/{sub(/^/, "++++"); print;next;}{print}' filename`

Get the last hour of Apache logs

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awk '/'$(date -d "1 hours ago" "+%d\\/%b\\/%Y:%H:%M")'/,/'$(date "+%d\\/%b\\/%Y:%H:%M")'/ { print $0 }' \
/var/log/httpd/access_log

Tool: sed

Print a specific line from a file

`1`	`sed -n 10p /path/to/file`

Remove a specific line from a file

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sed -i 10d /path/to/file
# alternative (BSD): sed -i'' 10d /path/to/file

Remove a range of lines from a file

`1`	`sed -i <file> -re '<start>,<end>d'`

Replace newline(s) with a space

sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' /path/to/file

# cross-platform compatible syntax:
sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\n/ /g' /path/to/file

:a create a label a
N append the next line to the pattern space
$! if not the last line, ba branch (go to) label a
s substitute, /\n/ regex for new line, / / by a space, /g global match (as many times as it can)

Alternatives:

# perl version (sed-like speed):
perl -p -e 's/\n/ /' /path/to/file

# bash version (slow):
while read line ; do printf "%s" "$line " ; done < file

Delete string +N next lines

`1`	`sed '/start/,+4d' /path/to/file`

Tool: grep

Search for a “pattern” inside all files in the current directory

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grep -rn "pattern"
grep -RnisI "pattern" *
fgrep "pattern" * -R

Show only for multiple patterns

grep 'INFO*'\''WARN' filename
grep 'INFO\|WARN' filename
grep -e INFO -e WARN filename
grep -E '(INFO|WARN)' filename
egrep "INFO|WARN" filename

Except multiple patterns

`1`	`grep -vE '(error\|critical\|warning)' filename`

Show data from file without comments

`1`	`grep -v ^[[:space:]]*# filename`

Show data from file without comments and new lines

`1`	`egrep -v '#\|^$' filename`

Show strings with a dash/hyphen

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3

grep -e -- filename
grep -- -- filename
grep "\-\-" filename

Remove blank lines from a file and save output to new file

`1`	`grep . filename > newfilename`

Tool: perl

Search and replace (in place)

`1`	`perl -i -pe's/SEARCH/REPLACE/' filename`

Edit of `*.conf` files changing all foo to bar (and backup original)

`1`	`perl -p -i.orig -e 's/\bfoo\b/bar/g' *.conf`

Prints the first 20 lines from `*.conf` files

`1`	`perl -pe 'exit if $. > 20' *.conf`

Search lines 10 to 20

`1`	`perl -ne 'print if 10 .. 20' filename`

Delete first 10 lines (and backup original)

`1`	`perl -i.orig -ne 'print unless 1 .. 10' filename`

Delete all but lines between foo and bar (and backup original)

`1`	`perl -i.orig -ne 'print unless /^foo$/ .. /^bar$/' filename`

Reduce multiple blank lines to a single line

`1`	`perl -p -i -00pe0 filename`

Convert tabs to spaces (1t = 2sp)

`1`	`perl -p -i -e 's/\t/ /g' filename`

Read input from a file and report number of lines and characters

`1`	`perl -lne '$i++; $in += length($_); END { print "$i lines, $in characters"; }' filename`

Shell Tricks ^[TOC]

When you get a shell, it is generally not very clean, but after following these steps, you will have a fairly clean and comfortable shell to work with.

script /dev/null -c bash
Ctrl-Z (to send it to background)
stty raw -echo; fg (returns the shell to foreground)
reset (to reset terminal)
xterm (when asked for terminal type)
export TERM=xterm; export SHELL=bash

Shell functions ^[TOC]

Domain resolve

# Dependencies:
#   - curl
#   - jq

function DomainResolve() {

  local _host="$1"

  local _curl_base="curl --request GET"
  local _timeout="15"

  _host_ip=$($_curl_base -ks -m "$_timeout" "https://dns.google.com/resolve?name=${_host}&type=A" | \
  jq '.Answer[0].data' | tr -d "\"" 2>/dev/null)

  if [[ -z "$_host_ip" ]] || [[ "$_host_ip" == "null" ]] ; then

    echo -en "Unsuccessful domain name resolution.\\n"

  else

    echo -en "$_host > $_host_ip\\n"

  fi

}

Example:

shell> DomainResolve nmap.org
nmap.org > 45.33.49.119

shell> DomainResolve nmap.org
Unsuccessful domain name resolution.

Get ASN

# Dependencies:
#   - curl

function GetASN() {

  local _ip="$1"

  local _curl_base="curl --request GET"
  local _timeout="15"

  _asn=$($_curl_base -ks -m "$_timeout" "http://ip-api.com/line/${_ip}?fields=as")

  _state=$(echo $?)

  if [[ -z "$_ip" ]] || [[ "$_ip" == "null" ]] || [[ "$_state" -ne 0 ]]; then

    echo -en "Unsuccessful ASN gathering.\\n"

  else

    echo -en "$_ip > $_asn\\n"

  fi

}

Example:

shell> GetASN 1.1.1.1
1.1.1.1 > AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.

shell> GetASN 0.0.0.0
Unsuccessful ASN gathering.

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the-book-of-secret-knowledge

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools, and more.

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: What is it?

:restroom: For whom?

:information_source: Contributing

Code Contributors

Financial Contributors

:newspaper: RSS Feed & Updates

:ballot_box_with_check: ToDo

:anger: Table of Contents

:trident: The Book of Secret Knowledge (Chapters)

CLI Tools [TOC]

:black_small_square: Shells

:black_small_square: Shell plugins

:black_small_square: Managers

:black_small_square: Text editors

:black_small_square: Files and directories

:black_small_square: Network

:black_small_square: Network (DNS)

:black_small_square: Network (HTTP)

:black_small_square: SSL

:black_small_square: Security

:black_small_square: Auditing Tools

:black_small_square: System Diagnostics/Debuggers

:black_small_square: Log Analyzers

:black_small_square: Databases

:black_small_square: TOR

:black_small_square: Messengers/IRC Clients

:black_small_square: Productivity

:black_small_square: Other

GUI Tools [TOC]

:black_small_square: Terminal emulators

:black_small_square: Network

:black_small_square: Browsers

:black_small_square: Password Managers

:black_small_square: Messengers/IRC Clients

:black_small_square: Messengers (end-to-end encryption)

:black_small_square: Text editors

Web Tools [TOC]

:black_small_square: Browsers

:black_small_square: SSL/Security

:black_small_square: HTTP Headers & Web Linters

:black_small_square: DNS

:black_small_square: Mail

:black_small_square: Encoders/Decoders and Regex testing

:black_small_square: Net-tools

:black_small_square: Privacy

:black_small_square: Code parsers/playgrounds

:black_small_square: Performance

:black_small_square: Mass scanners (search engines)

:black_small_square: Generators

:black_small_square: Passwords

:black_small_square: CVE/Exploits databases

:black_small_square: Mobile apps scanners

:black_small_square: Private Search Engines

:black_small_square: Secure Webmail Providers

:black_small_square: Crypto

:black_small_square: PGP Keyservers

Systems/Services [TOC]

:black_small_square: Operating Systems

:black_small_square: HTTP(s) Services

:black_small_square: DNS Services

:black_small_square: Other Services

:black_small_square: Security/hardening

Networks [TOC]

:black_small_square: Tools

:black_small_square: Labs

:black_small_square: Other

Containers/Orchestration [TOC]

:black_small_square: CLI Tools

:black_small_square: Web Tools

:black_small_square: Security

:black_small_square: Manuals/Tutorials/Best Practices

Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials [TOC]

:black_small_square: Shell/Command line

:black_small_square: Text Editors

:black_small_square: Python

:black_small_square: Sed & Awk & Other

CLI Tools ^[TOC]

GUI Tools ^[TOC]

Web Tools ^[TOC]

Systems/Services ^[TOC]

Networks ^[TOC]

Containers/Orchestration ^[TOC]

Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials ^[TOC]

Inspiring Lists ^[TOC]

Blogs/Podcasts/Videos ^[TOC]

Hacking/Penetration Testing ^[TOC]

Your daily knowledge and news ^[TOC]

Other Cheat Sheets ^[TOC]

Shell One-liners ^[TOC]