Thursday, October 2, 2014

Useful tools for CTF

I've selected useful and must-have tools for CTF games and computer security competitions. Most of this tools are often indispensable during the games (especially task-based/jeopardy CTF games).
I've combined tools by categories just like in CTF games: Reverse, Steganography, Networking, Forensics, Cryptography, Scripting.
Most of tools are cross-platform, but some of them are only for Windows or Linux.
Here the light and dark editions of cheat sheets/posters with tools:
Утилиты, программы и тулзы для CTF игр
This is the first version of useful CTF tools cheat sheets. I'm planning to update them with new useful tools.
Thanks to shr for a good advice to add the links for tools. Here are the links to the tools from cheat sheets:

Reverse Engineering:
GDB - http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/
IDA Pro - https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download.shtml
Immunity Debugger - http://debugger.immunityinc.com/
OllyDbg - http://www.ollydbg.de/
radare2 - http://www.radare.org/y/?p=download
Hopper - http://www.hopperapp.com/download.html
nm - unix/linux tool
objdump - linux tool
strace - linux tool
ILSpy - http://ilspy.net/
JD-GUI - http://jd.benow.ca/#jd-gui-overview
FFDec - http://www.free-decompiler.com/flash/download.html
dex2jar - http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/
uncompyle2 - https://github.com/wibiti/uncompyle2
Hex editors:
Windows:
HxD - http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
Neo - http://www.new-hex-editor.com/hex-editor-downloads.html
Linux:
Bless - http://home.gna.org/bless/downloads.html
wxHexEditor - http://www.wxhexeditor.org/download.php
Exe unpackers - Unpacking Kit 2012 - http://forum.exetools.com/showthread.php?t=13610

Networking:
Wireshark, tshark - https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
OpenVPN - https://openvpn.net/
OpenSSL - https://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html
tcpdump - http://www.tcpdump.org/
netcat - http://netcat.sourceforge.net/
nmap - http://nmap.org/download.html

Steganography:
OpenStego - http://www.openstego.info/
OutGuess - http://www.outguess.org/download.php
SilentEye - http://www.silenteye.org/download.html
Steghide - http://steghide.sourceforge.net/download.php
StegFS - http://sourceforge.net/projects/stegfs/
pngcheck - http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/pngcheck.html
GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
MP3Stego - http://www.petitcolas.net/steganography/mp3stego/
ffmpeg (for video analysis) - https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Forensics:
dd - unix/linux tool
strings - unix/linux tool
scalpel - https://github.com/sleuthkit/scalpel
TrID - http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html
binwalk - http://binwalk.org/
foremost - http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
ExifTool - http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
Digital Forensics Framework (DFF) - http://www.digital-forensic.org/download/
Computer Aided INvestigative Environment (CAINE) Linux forensics live distribution - http://www.caine-live.net/
The Sleuth Kit (TSK) - http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/download.php
Volatility - http://code.google.com/p/volatility/

Scripting / PPC (Professional Programming and Coding):
Text editors:
Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
vim - http://www.vim.org/
emacs - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Crypto:
Cryptool - https://www.cryptool.org/
hashpump - https://github.com/bwall/HashPump
Sage - http://www.sagemath.org/
John the Ripper - http://www.openwall.com/john/
xortool - https://github.com/hellman/xortool
Online tools:
http://www.crypo.com/
http://www.cryptool-online.org/
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/
Modules for python - pycrypto - https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/

13 comments:

  1. Hope you don't mind me copying and pasting this on my site also. Really good useful tools that you provided. I have only really used a small portion of it but I do see the value in all that was posted. The only one I will probably add for forensics is maybe PDFParonoia...have used it to analyzed pdf's although I know volatility will probably provide more value.

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  2. Oh, thank you, I've used it once.

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  3. I think some plugin for Firefox to useful

    - Live HTTP: https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/
    - Tamper Data: https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/tamper-data/

    Or Tool analyse HTTP traffic:
    - CapTipper: https://github.com/omriher/CapTipper

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  4. CryptoFox Addon For firefox its also a Good Tool For Decoding and encoding ^^

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