Open-source alternatives to CrackMapExec

Nishang is a PowerShell-based offensive security framework designed for red teaming and penetration testing on Windows targets. It functions as a post-exploitation toolkit and payload generator to automate attacks and manage remote targets. The project provides specialized capabilities for bypassing security controls, such as disabling the Antimalware Scan Interface and employing in-memory execution to avoid disk-based detection. It includes a variety of stealthy command and control mechanisms, utilizing non-standard channels like DNS TXT records, ICMP traffic, and webmail for communication a

Mimikatz is a security research suite designed for auditing Windows authentication and managing system security configurations. It provides a comprehensive framework for extracting sensitive credentials, manipulating process privileges, and managing digital identity assets directly from system memory or offline memory dumps. The project distinguishes itself through advanced system-level exploitation techniques, including runtime process injection, API hooking, and the ability to bypass cryptographic export restrictions. It features a specialized toolkit for Kerberos protocol operations, allow

Pacu is an exploitation framework designed for auditing and testing the security of Amazon Web Services environments. It serves as a cloud penetration testing tool and resource enumerator used to identify misconfigurations, map attack surfaces, and execute privilege escalation paths. The framework provides specialized capabilities for post-exploitation and red team operations, including establishing persistence through identity and access management backdooring. It distinguishes itself with a plugin-based module system that allows for the development of custom tasks and the orchestration of A

This project is a comprehensive, community-curated directory of cybersecurity resources, tools, and educational materials. It functions as a centralized index for researchers and students to discover frameworks and utilities across the entire security lifecycle, ranging from initial vulnerability assessment to post-exploitation analysis. The repository distinguishes itself through a hierarchical taxonomy that organizes diverse security disciplines into a searchable, version-controlled knowledge base. Rather than hosting software directly, it utilizes a decentralized aggregation model that lin

This project is a red teaming knowledge base and offensive security playbook designed to simulate adversary behavior. It serves as a comprehensive collection of technical guides and tactics for executing red team operations. The repository provides detailed instructions for Active Directory exploitation, including Kerberos abuse and domain privilege escalation. It covers defense evasion through API unhooking and payload obfuscation, as well as Windows internals research involving the manipulation of kernel objects and system memory. The capability surface extends to network penetration testi

Ladon is an internal network penetration scanner and vulnerability assessment tool designed to identify high-risk security flaws and assets across network segments. It operates as a fileless security scanner, executing its engine and modules directly in memory to avoid leaving a disk footprint on target systems. The project is distinguished by its integration as a plugin for command beacons, specifically within the Cobalt Strike framework. This allows for memory-resident network discovery and vulnerability detection. It further supports stealth operations through payload and script obfuscatio

Empire is a command and control framework and post-exploitation toolkit used for network penetration testing. It serves as a centralized platform for coordinating remote agent communication and automating the delivery of security testing payloads to target systems. The project provides a suite of modules for host reconnaissance, lateral movement, and credential harvesting across corporate environments. It functions as a remote administration tool to maintain persistence and execute commands on compromised hosts. The framework incorporates capabilities for agent orchestration and the executio

BloodHound is a graph-based security analysis tool designed to map trust relationships and attack vectors within Active Directory environments. It functions as an attack path mapper and risk assessment system that uses graph theory to identify hidden relationships and paths leading to high-privilege accounts. The tool specializes in network attack surface mapping and privilege escalation pathfinding. It quantifies security risks by measuring the reliability of attack paths to critical targets, allowing for the prioritization of vulnerability elimination. The system provides capabilities for

Impacket is a Python network protocol library and packet crafting framework used for constructing, modifying, and sending raw network packets. It functions as a network protocol manipulation toolkit that allows for the implementation of communication protocols through structured object models. The project provides a Windows network security toolkit specifically designed for interacting with Active Directory and SMB services. It enables network security testing and auditing of Windows environments by executing authentication sequences using passwords, hashes, tickets, or security keys. The li

Impacket is a collection of Python classes designed for the construction, manipulation, and analysis of low-level network packets and services. It functions as a framework for building custom network tools, providing a programmatic interface to interact with communication protocols and service architectures. The library provides primitives for managing authentication, session state, and remote procedure calls within network environments. By offering a modular class hierarchy, it allows for the assembly of network packets and the implementation of specialized communication stacks. The project

Rubeus is a comprehensive Kerberos attack toolkit for Active Directory environments, written in C#. It provides a full suite of operations for manipulating Kerberos tickets, exploiting delegation configurations, and performing credential attacks against Windows domains. The toolkit enables ticket extraction from logon sessions and memory, with real-time monitoring via Event Tracing for Windows. It supports forging golden and silver tickets with arbitrary privileges, as well as the creation of forged delegation contexts. Delegation attacks include abuse of constrained and unconstrained delegat

w3af is a web penetration testing suite and security audit framework designed to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in web applications. It functions as a vulnerability scanner that crawls targets to find injection points and a fuzzer used to discover hidden endpoints and test input validation. The project distinguishes itself by providing an intercepting HTTP proxy for capturing and modifying traffic, combined with a knowledge-base driven exploitation system. It enables the execution of security exploits to gain remote shell access and supports post-exploitation activities, such as routing

AllHackingTools is a security tool orchestrator and suite designed to install, update, and manage a wide array of third-party hacking and security utilities from a single command interface. It functions as a centralized hub for network analysis, open source intelligence, penetration testing, and social engineering tools. The project provides specialized frameworks for gathering open source intelligence and searching for user profiles across social platforms. It includes toolkits for network reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, and the execution of security exploits, as well as a social eng

ESP32Marauder is a suite of specialized firmware images and tools designed for wireless network auditing, packet sniffing, and Bluetooth scanning on ESP32 hardware. It functions as a wireless penetration tool used to analyze network security and monitor signal traffic. The project includes capabilities for capturing wireless handshakes and simulating access points to test infrastructure resilience. It also features a Bluetooth low energy scanner used to identify hardware signatures and detect unauthorized signals or skimming devices. The firmware supports broader security operations includin

Routersploit is a penetration testing framework designed for the security assessment of embedded network devices and routers. It functions as a comprehensive tool for auditing hardware configurations and testing network protocols to identify and verify security vulnerabilities. The framework utilizes a modular plugin architecture that allows for the dynamic loading of exploit and scanner modules. It provides a centralized command interface that manages target state and executes controlled payloads, enabling the automation of security testing across diverse network hardware. The platform cove

fsociety is a penetration testing framework and security tool orchestrator designed to conduct full security audits. It functions as a wrapper that integrates external security binaries into a unified, menu-driven interface, providing a centralized system for command-line parameter mapping and execution. The project distinguishes itself by organizing specialized utilities into domain-specific collections for structured navigation. It automates the transition between different phases of an audit by chaining reconnaissance and exploitation tools through sequential workflow automation. The fram

Viper is a command and control infrastructure manager and post-exploitation framework designed for adversary attack simulation and security assessment. It functions as an orchestrator for penetration testing, combining a system for managing compromised hosts across multiple operating systems with tools for security workflow automation. The platform is distinguished by its use of large language model agents to coordinate red team tasks, automate data processing, and provide intelligent decision support. It includes a network pivot visualizer that uses directional graphs to map relationships an

Tsunami Security Scanner is a network vulnerability scanner and security auditor designed to identify high-severity flaws across network assets. It functions as an asynchronous security probe engine that utilizes automated probes and specialized detection logic to find critical weaknesses and prioritize remediation efforts. The project is distinguished by a plugin-based scanning engine, which uses a modular architecture of interchangeable detection plugins to identify vulnerabilities. This extensibility allows for the development and integration of custom security plugins to expand the variet

Hydra is a network login password cracker and authentication tester designed to identify valid usernames and passwords through automated brute-force and dictionary attacks. It serves as a multi-protocol authentication tester capable of verifying credentials across a wide range of remote network services, including SSH, SMB, FTP, and various database listeners. The project is distinguished by its ability to execute parallelized password attacks against multiple servers and protocols simultaneously. It features a modular system for implementing diverse network authentication schemes, allowing f

Sn1per is a vulnerability management platform and penetration testing orchestrator designed to automate reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, and exploit verification. It functions as a dockerized security toolkit that coordinates multiple tools into a unified automated pipeline to identify security flaws across network and web assets. The platform features an attack surface manager for discovering internet-facing assets through OSINT, DNS enumeration, and certificate transparency. It distinguishes itself with an AI-powered security analyzer that uses large language models to summarize scan

Certify is a C# tool to enumerate and abuse misconfigurations in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS).

Bjorn is a penetration testing framework that automates network scanning, credential brute-forcing, vulnerability assessment, and data exfiltration, all coordinated through an event-driven task pipeline and controlled via a web-based dashboard. Its modular plugin architecture allows independent security modules to be loaded and chained together, with an asynchronous network scanner discovering live hosts and open ports without blocking the main execution flow. The framework distinguishes itself by integrating a credential brute-force engine that systematically attempts login combinations agai

WinPwn is a Windows penetration testing framework and security toolkit designed for auditing Active Directory and exploiting Windows environments. It provides a collection of automated tools and scripts for domain enumeration, credential theft, and privilege escalation. The toolkit distinguishes itself through capabilities for neutralizing antimalware scanning interfaces to evade detection and providing offline binary packaging for execution on isolated systems without internet access. It also includes specialized utilities for intercepting and relaying SMB authentication traffic to gain unau

PTF is a penetration testing tool manager and modular software orchestrator designed to automate the installation, compilation, and updating of security tools across different operating system distributions. It functions as a security tooling automation utility that fetches the latest releases and creates global system launchers for a curated collection of security binaries. The framework allows for the packaging of security tool suites into portable container images to ensure consistent execution across different infrastructure environments. It enables the distribution of specific sets of co

BloodHound is an identity risk management platform and graph-based attack path analyzer used to map identity relationships and permissions in Active Directory. It functions as a security tool for auditing directory services, uncovering unintended privilege relationships, and visualizing sequences of permissions that can lead to domain compromise. The project differentiates itself as a comprehensive adversary emulation framework that coordinates remote agents and executes post-exploitation commands. It includes a reverse proxy for bypassing multi-factor authentication via real-time session hij

Maskphish is a comprehensive security toolkit that integrates capabilities for digital forensics, network vulnerability scanning, open-source intelligence, penetration testing, and social engineering. It functions as a multi-purpose framework for automating reconnaissance and executing security audits across diverse network environments. The project features a specialized phishing and social engineering toolkit used for cloning websites, masking URLs, and deploying deceptive pages to capture user credentials. It also includes a remote access Trojan builder for generating platform-specific exe

PentestGPT is an autonomous security testing framework that leverages large language models to plan, execute, and coordinate end-to-end penetration testing engagements. By functioning as an autonomous agent, the system automates the entire testing lifecycle, from initial reconnaissance and vulnerability analysis to the generation of custom exploits and the execution of post-exploitation tasks. The platform distinguishes itself through a multi-agent orchestration system that coordinates specialized AI agents to collaborate on complex, multi-stage attack chains. It integrates multimodal context