Open-source alternatives to Lsassy

Tool for Active Directory Certificate Services enumeration and abuse

SharpChromium is a .NET 4.0+ CLR project to retrieve data from Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Edge Beta. Currently, it can extract:

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

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

PowerSploit is a collection of PowerShell modules designed for security assessment, penetration testing, and red team operations. It provides a framework for auditing Windows system configurations and evaluating the effectiveness of security defenses within an enterprise environment. The framework focuses on techniques that leverage native system administration tools and scripting environments to perform operations. It includes capabilities for executing arbitrary commands, escalating user privileges, and maintaining system persistence through event subscriptions. By utilizing in-memory execu

Dumping DPAPI credz remotely

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

Mindmap is a cybersecurity knowledge base and reference library that organizes security tools, frameworks, and methodologies into a visual knowledge map. It functions as a curated directory of cheat sheets and command guides for offensive and defensive security operations, presented as a hierarchical interface with collapsible nodes. The project converts structured markdown files into navigable visual trees to facilitate the study of penetration testing workflows and DevOps learning roadmaps. It also serves as a security compliance framework, providing structured mappings of NIST and ISO 2700

This is a hands-on lab environment for learning network penetration testing techniques, centered on setting up and attacking a vulnerable Active Directory network. The project provides a structured framework for practicing the full attack chain, from initial reconnaissance and scanning through exploitation, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and credential theft, all within isolated virtual machine labs. The lab environment is designed to simulate real-world attack scenarios, including the ability to compile and execute exploit code directly against targets without relying on Metasploit.

LaZagne is a cross-platform credential recovery tool designed to extract passwords and secrets from operating systems, browsers, and applications. It functions as a security utility for retrieving stored credentials from compromised systems during penetration testing. The tool provides capabilities for decrypting domain credentials and extracting sensitive data from system storage, including memory dumps, credential managers, keychains, and password hashes. It recovers stored passwords from common software by accessing plaintext files, APIs, and local databases. The project supports digital

DNSExfiltrator

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

The idea of the LOTP project is to inventory how development tools (typically CLIs), commonly used in CI/CD pipelines, have lesser-known RCE-By-Design features ("foot guns"), or more generally, can be used to achieve arbitrary code execution by running on untrusted code changes or following a…

Penelope Shell Handler

CrackMapExec is a network penetration testing framework and automated security scanner designed to assess security postures across large IP ranges. It functions as a multi-protocol security scanner and network protocol auditor used to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. The tool provides capabilities for Active Directory auditing to enumerate users and permissions, as well as post-exploitation enumeration to gather system metadata and discover lateral movement paths. It includes a framework for credential spraying and harvesting across various network services. The system utilize

Fancy reverse and bind shell handler

PEASS-ng is a Linux privilege escalation scanner and post-exploitation enumeration tool. It identifies security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on Linux systems that could lead to unauthorized elevated access. The tool functions as a security audit utility that discovers system weaknesses and sensitive information after initial access is gained. It scans operating systems to identify specific privilege escalation paths. Findings are converted into structured security audit reports. The tool supports exporting scan results into JSON, HTML, and PDF formats for formal analysis and documen