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Penetration Testing Tools

Frameworks and utilities for conducting security assessments, exploiting vulnerabilities, and performing penetration tests on target systems.

The Linux Foundation

by The Linux Foundation

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32 projects ・ Updated 14 Mar 2025

Project
Contributors
Organizations
Software value
Metasploit Framework
7,388
643
$88M
mitmproxy
4,770
1,038
$3.9M
Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)
2,637
427
$15M
hashcat
2,298
286
$25M
Nuclei
2,062
253
$3M
Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF)
1,819
125
$5.6M
sqlmap
1,803
212
$3.8M
Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
1,791
124
$571K
Impacket
1,682
168
$5M
Mobile Security Framework (MobSF)
1,638
154
$27M
BlackArch Linux
1,414
222
$2.4M
bettercap
1,331
203
$14M
John the Ripper
1,169
164
$21M
pwntools
1,162
241
$7.2M
MITRE Caldera
1,105
55
$2.1M
reNgine
969
90
$2.5M
thc-hydra
880
91
$1.6M
theHarvester
730
85
$5.8M
Aircrack-ng
664
84
$8.6M
katoolin
642
69
$52K
Pwnagotchi
560
37
$1.6M
Faraday Vulnerability Manager
522
66
$2.5M
Gobuster
515
85
$318K
Nikto
459
86
$200K
The PenTesters Framework
445
46
$124K
Greenbone Vulnerability Manager
324
35
$6.7M
Recon-ng
279
19
$171K
AutoSploit
260
23
$233K
Monkey Server
209
75
$5M
Evil-WinRM
48
12
$69K
PayloadsAllTheThings
0
0
$0
SecLists
0
0
$0
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