A curated list of penetration testing and ethical hacking tools, organized by category. This compilation includes tools from Kali Linux and other notable sources.
Source
GitHub
Last activity
Oct 15, 2026
Stars2,106Measured · Oct 16, 2026
Momentum217 days · Measured · +0.29% relative change
Fast, multi-protocol credential brute-forcer. Parses Nmap, Nessus, and Nexpose output to automatically test default and custom credentials across 30+ protocols.
Source
GitHub
Language
Go
Last activity
Oct 19, 2026
Stars2,548Measured · Oct 20, 2026
Momentum20.67 days · Measured · +0.24% relative change
Custom Bash and Python scripts used to automate various penetration testing tasks including recon, scanning, enumeration, and malicious payload creation using Metasploit. For use with Ubuntu. Limited support for Kali Linux.
Source
GitHub
Language
Shell
Last activity
Oct 20, 2026
Stars3,944Measured · Oct 20, 2026
Momentum207 days · Measured · +0.15% relative change
AI red-team platform. Autonomous LLM agents run a penetration test end to end inside a Kali container and write the report. LangGraph plan/act engine, provider-agnostic models via LiteLLM, PDF/JSON/SARIF output. FastAPI + React.
Source
GitHub
Language
Python
Last activity
Oct 6, 2026
Stars343Measured · Oct 20, 2026
Momentum18.97 days · Measured · +0.88% relative change
💀 Generate malicious PDF test files for testing phone-home callbacks, SSRF, XSS, NTLM credential theft, and data exfiltration in PDF viewers, converters, and web applications. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh
Source
GitHub
Language
Python
Last activity
Oct 17, 2026
Stars4,488Measured · Oct 20, 2026
Momentum16.37 days · Measured · +0.09% relative change