Network Security Tools list

Penetration Testing Tools


1. Nmap Port scanner - Windows & Linux

2. Nessus Vulnerability Scanner - Windows & Linux
3. Xprobe Operating System detection - Linux
4. Ethereal Packet Sniffer - Windows & Linux
5. J2SDK and JRE Java framework needed for many tools to run - Windows & Linux
6. Citrix client Client used to connect to Citrix instance if running - Windows
7. MySQL client Client used to connect to running MySQL database - Windows & Linux
8. VNC Client Client used to connect to a running VNC server - Windows
9. OAT Oracle enumeration toolkit - Windows & Linux
10. Tnscmd.pl Oracle enumeration tool - Windows & Linux
11. Wget Website downloader - Windows & Linux
12. Tsgrinder Terminal Services brute force password cracker - Windows
13. SqlPing3 MS-SQL enumeration - Windows
14. Orabf Oracle brute force password crackers - Windows & Linux
15. Checkpwd Oracle brute force password crackers - Windows & Linux
16. Explore2fs Copying files on local Linux partition to - Windows 
17. Getif SNMP enumeration - Windows
18. Enum Check for null session establishment - Windows
19. Site-Digger Google hacking - Windows
20. httprint Web server fingerprinting - Windows
21. Cerebrus FTP server Simple FTP server used when you need to upload tools on to the server - Windows
22. Netcat Create a listener on remote host once you’re in - Windows & Linux
23. Screenshooter Used to take quick screenshots using predefined hotkeys- Windows
24. Resource Kit tools Numerous windows tools to enumerate various service offered by the Windows - Windows
25. Lsnrcheck Enumerate Oracle listener - Windows
26. Putty Establish connections to open ports - Windows
27. Cain and Abel ARP poisoning and brute forcing various types of passwords among many others - Windows
28. Adfind and LdapMiner Enumerate Active Directory objects - Windows
29. Nikto Web vulnerability scanner - Windows & Linux
30. P0f Passive OS fingerprinting - Windows & Linux
31. Metasploit Canned exploit tool - Windows & Linux


Application Security Assessment Tools

1. Paros Web proxy interceptor and editor - Windows
2. WinHex RAM content viewer  - Windows
3. WpePro Real time Packet editor (Thick client ) - Windows
4. EchoMirage Function call interceptor (Thick client ) - Windows
5. ITR Application traffic interceptor (Thick client ) - Windows
6. FileMon Identifies files that the application accesses while running - Windows
7. RegMon Identify registry keys that the application accesses while running  - Windows
8. DllHell Identify DLL files that the application uses to run - Windows
9. TcpView Identifies connections to and from local running processes - Windows
10. JsView Firefox extension which picks out all the running Javascripts on that web page - Windows & Linux
11. View_source_chart Firefox extension which displays HTML source cleanly - Windows & Linux
12. Smbrelay Intercepts SMB traffic - Windows