30 open-source projects similar to its-a-feature/apfell, ranked by shared indexed features. Tags may describe platforms or build tools rather than the same primary purpose. Check each project’s use case, license, and deployment requirements before treating it as a replacement.
This project is a collection of technical resources, blueprints, and guides for building resilient and stealthy red team infrastructure. It provides a comprehensive framework for designing offensive security environments that resist detection and remain operational throughout security engagements. The repository distinguishes itself through detailed playbooks for adversary simulation and hardening manuals. It covers advanced obfuscation techniques such as domain fronting, the use of platform-as-a-service redirectors, and the leveraging of third-party content sites to inherit domain reputation
Mythic is a red teaming framework and command and control server designed for managing post-exploitation activities. It provides a centralized system for issuing tasks and receiving telemetry from agents deployed across diverse target platforms and operating systems. The platform features a collaborative operator interface that allows multiple security researchers to coordinate operations and track target activity within a shared environment. It supports the deployment and updating of diverse agent payloads through a multi-platform payload manager. The framework utilizes a plugin-based archi
Covenant is a .NET-based command and control framework designed for red team operations and adversary simulation. It serves as a collaborative platform for coordinating security assessments, managing remote implants, and executing tasks on compromised systems through a centralized server. The project is distinguished by its dynamic payload generator, which compiles and obfuscates executable binaries and scripts on the fly to bypass detection. It further separates itself through a collaborative environment that allows multiple authenticated operators to share a synchronized state, track operat
Caldera is an adversary emulation platform and command and control framework designed to simulate cyber attack patterns. It functions as an automated red team tool and threat framework orchestrator, executing attack sequences based on standardized cybersecurity threat frameworks to validate security defenses and detection capabilities. The platform distinguishes itself through the dynamic compilation of customized executable payloads and the use of framework-mapped adversary modeling to structure attack techniques. It manages asynchronous agents on targeted endpoints via a central server acce
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
Stitch is a command and control framework and post-exploitation toolkit designed for managing multiple remote systems from a central server. It functions as a remote administration tool and payload builder, enabling the execution of commands and the deployment of agents across different operating systems. The project features a cross-platform builder for generating custom executable agents with configurable network bindings and boot behaviors. It utilizes encrypted communication channels to secure traffic between the controller and remote clients, and it supports the execution of dynamic scri
Villain is a command and control framework and distributed orchestrator designed for managing reverse TCP and HoaxShell connections. It serves as a reverse shell manager and payload generation tool, allowing for the coordination of remote access across multiple target systems. The project distinguishes itself through a distributed architecture that synchronizes active remote sessions and broadcasts messages across connected server instances for collaborative operations. It includes a fileless execution engine that runs scripts directly in remote memory over HTTP to avoid writing files to the
Merlin is a cross-platform command and control framework and remote access tool. It provides a server and agent system for post-exploitation coordination, utilizing an HTTP/2 framework for secure communication and the execution of commands across multiple operating systems. The project features an in-memory code execution engine that runs assemblies and shellcode directly within a process to avoid writing files to disk. It implements a decentralized communication architecture through a peer-to-peer network, allowing agents to exchange data via direct bind or reverse connections. To evade det
Empire is a post-exploitation command-and-control (C2) framework designed for red team operations. It deploys and manages agents written in PowerShell, Python, C#, Go, and C across Windows, Linux, and macOS, using encrypted communication channels over HTTP, HTTPS, and SMB. The framework executes over 400 built-in modules for reconnaissance, privilege escalation, credential theft, and lateral movement, and provides a modular engine for authoring custom attack modules. What sets Empire apart is its multi-language agent deployment system, which allows operators to choose implants that suit each
Mosquitto is a message broker that implements the MQTT protocol to route messages between connected devices and applications. It functions as a central hub for event-driven communication, supporting message exchange over both raw TCP and WebSockets. The software provides a persistent messaging infrastructure by writing message queues and client subscription states to disk, ensuring data recovery following service interruptions. The broker distinguishes itself through its support for distributed system synchronization, allowing for the federation of multiple remote brokers to share data across
Havoc is a post-exploitation framework used for red team operations. It provides a centralized command and control system for managing remote agents through persistent network connections and customizable communication profiles. The framework focuses on security evasion and stealth, utilizing indirect syscall execution, return address spoofing, and hardware-breakpoint patching to bypass endpoint detection and response tools. It includes a payload generation workflow to create executable shellcode or DLLs for initial remote access. The system covers a broad range of operational capabilities,
ysoserial.net is a payload generator for .NET deserialization, designed to create malicious serialized objects and structured gadget chains. It serves as a tool for generating command execution strings and security testing suites used to assess vulnerabilities in .NET formatters. The tool enables the creation of sequences of object calls that trigger remote code execution during the reconstruction of serialized data. It produces specialized payloads for executing system commands, loading remote libraries, and accessing local file systems. The project includes capabilities for optimizing payl
PhoneSploit-Pro is an Android exploitation and remote administration toolkit. It provides a system for remotely controlling Android devices and extracting data using the Android Debug Bridge protocol. The project integrates with Metasploit to automate the creation and installation of payloads, establishing persistent command-and-control sessions. It also includes a network device scanner to identify active Android hosts on local networks by probing TCP ports. The toolkit covers a broad range of administrative and forensic capabilities, including remote shell execution, application management
OffensiveNim is a red teaming framework and post-exploitation toolkit developed in Nim. It provides a collection of low-level primitives and a Windows API wrapper designed for offensive security operations, including malware development and shellcode loading. The project focuses on evasion and obfuscation through techniques such as API unhooking, direct system calls, and anti-debugging mechanisms. It features diverse payload delivery methods, including reflective binary loading, the execution of .NET assemblies via CLR hosting, and various shellcode injection techniques using fibers, COM obje
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
OffensiveRust is a red team toolkit and malware development kit written in Rust. It serves as an evasion framework and post-exploitation library, providing a collection of offensive security primitives and a Windows API wrapper for interacting with low-level system functions and undocumented APIs. The project focuses on bypassing security software through direct system calls, memory obfuscation, and stealthy payload execution. It implements techniques to defeat static binary analysis via compile-time string encryption and payload obfuscation, while avoiding detection using parent process ID s
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
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
Empire is a post-exploitation framework and command and control server designed to manage remote access agents. It provides a centralized system for coordinating these agents and executing specialized scripts across target systems. The project functions as a security evasion tool by adapting network communication patterns to bypass firewalls and monitoring tools. It utilizes a multi-language agent runtime and a modular plugin architecture to execute payloads across different operating systems. The framework covers a broad range of operational capabilities, including remote agent orchestratio
Commando-VM is a Windows penetration testing distribution and offensive security toolkit. It provides a specialized virtual machine environment loaded with a curated suite of security auditing and exploitation tools designed for red teaming operations. The project facilitates the creation of red team infrastructure and security audit environments. It focuses on windows security auditing and penetration testing to help simulate adversary behavior and identify exploitable security flaws. The environment is established through script-based provisioning and modular toolset deployment. This proce
This project is an offensive security toolkit and development framework for creating memory-safe malware, network scanners, and payload generators. It provides a structured approach to developing exploits, shellcode, and remote access tools. The framework distinguishes itself through the use of no-standard-library environments to generate minimal standalone machine code and shellcode. It also supports the compilation of high-performance logic into WebAssembly for the creation of deceptive web interfaces used in social engineering. Capability areas cover automated vulnerability discovery via
EQGRP is a remote access trojan framework and post-exploitation toolkit. It provides a centralized command and control infrastructure for deploying persistent implants and managing remote agents across diverse operating systems. The project includes tools for digital forensic evasion, such as modifying system logs and filesystem timestamps to remove execution traces. It features a network interception system for capturing and reconstructing data streams by hooking into the system root, as well as exploits designed for kernel privilege escalation to elevate process permissions to administrativ
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
Buildbot is a Python-based continuous integration framework and distributed build orchestrator. It functions as a build automation engine that coordinates the retrieval of source code, the execution of build steps, and the reporting of results through a central controller and a network of remote worker agents. The system is distinguished by a plugin-based extensibility architecture and a master-worker distribution model. It allows for dynamic build modification at runtime and supports a pluggable database backend for persisting system state and historical build data. The project covers a bro
Commando VM is a Windows-based penetration testing distribution and offensive security virtual machine. It serves as a toolset manager for deploying and maintaining a curated collection of security tools, scripts, and configurations designed for security auditing, red teaming, and adversary simulation. The project automates the provisioning of a specialized workstation by using PowerShell scripts and a modular repository to orchestrate the installation of offensive security software. It utilizes a community-driven package manager to handle dependency resolution and binary installations, ensur
This project is a collection of learning resources and instructional guides for implementing asynchronous messaging patterns using RabbitMQ. It provides a series of tutorials and runnable code examples focused on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol to help users decouple services via a message broker. The resources cover practical implementation patterns including request-reply, pub-sub, and stream processing. These guides demonstrate how to use official client libraries to balance worker loads, route messages across multiple consumers in a distributed system, and deploy high availability b
RabbitMQ is a multi-protocol messaging broker that functions as an AMQP message broker, a clustered message queue, and a distributed message stream. It provides a server for translating and bridging communication between diverse messaging standards to connect heterogeneous systems. The system distinguishes itself through distributed broker clustering and federation, using shoveling mechanisms to synchronize data across geographically separate sites. It supports high-throughput, append-only logs for persisting and reading large sequences of messages for real-time processing. The broker covers
This project is a high-performance MQTT broker and IoT data platform designed to manage millions of concurrent device connections. It provides a scalable infrastructure for ingesting, processing, and routing telemetry data across distributed systems, utilizing an actor-based concurrency model to maintain high availability and state synchronization across cluster nodes. The platform distinguishes itself through integrated stream processing and edge computing capabilities. It allows users to execute declarative SQL-based rules directly against incoming message streams for real-time filtering, t
Dramatiq is a distributed task queue and workload manager used to offload function execution to background workers. It functions as an asynchronous task orchestrator that enables the distribution of computational tasks across a cluster using a pluggable transport layer supporting RabbitMQ and Redis. The framework provides specialized tools for complex task orchestration, including the ability to link background jobs into sequences, pipelines, and barriers. It further manages distributed concurrency through the use of shared mutexes, rate limiters, and exponential backoff retries to prevent re
TscanPlus is an external attack surface management tool and security reconnaissance framework designed for discovering network assets, enumerating subdomains, and mapping internet-facing services. It functions as a vulnerability scanning framework and network asset discovery suite to identify security exposure and map active hosts. The platform distinguishes itself by integrating an intelligence layer that uses large language models to analyze raw scan results and identify security weaknesses within JavaScript code. It also includes a dedicated proxy management system that validates and rotat