Python tools for penetration testers

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Python tools for penetration testers

If you are involved in vulnerability research, reverse engineering or penetration testing, I suggest to try out the Python programming language. It has a rich set of useful libraries and programs. This page lists some of them.

Most of the listed tools are written in Python, others are just Python bindings for existing C libraries, i.e. they make those libraries easily usable from Python programs.

Some of the more aggressive tools (pentest frameworks, bluetooth smashers, web application vulnerability scanners, war-dialers, etc.) are left out, because the legal situation of these tools is still a bit unclear in Germany -- even after the decision of the highest court. This list is clearly meant to help whitehats, and for now I prefer to err on the safe side.

Network

Scapy: send, sniff and dissect and forge network packets. Usable interactively or as a library

pypcap, Pcapy and pylibpcap: several different Python bindings for libpcap

libdnet: low-level networking routines, including interface lookup and Ethernet frame transmission

dpkt: fast, simple packet creation/parsing, with definitions for the basic TCP/IP protocols

Impacket: craft and decode network packets. Includes support for higher-level protocols such as NMB and SMB

pynids: libnids wrapper offering sniffing, IP defragmentation, TCP stream reassembly and port scan detection

Dirtbags py-pcap: read pcap files without libpcap

flowgrep: grep through packet payloads using regular expressions

httplib2: comprehensive HTTP client library that supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries

Knock Subdomain Scan, enumerate subdomains on a target domain through a wordlist

Mallory, man-in-the-middle proxy for testing

mitmproxy: SSL-capable, intercepting HTTP proxy. Console interface allows traffic flows to be inspected and edited on the fly

Debugging and reverse engineering

Paimei: reverse engineering framework, includes PyDBG, PIDA, pGRAPH

Immunity Debugger: scriptable GUI and command line debugger

IDAPython: IDA Pro plugin that integrates the Python programming language, allowing scripts to run in IDA Pro

PyEMU: fully scriptable IA-32 emulator, useful for malware analysis

pefile: read and work with Portable Executable (aka PE) files

pydasm: Python interface to the libdasm x86 disassembling library

PyDbgEng: Python wrapper for the Microsoft Windows Debugging Engine

uhooker: intercept calls to API calls inside DLLs, and also arbitrary addresses within the executable file in memory

diStorm64: disassembler library for AMD64, licensed under the BSD license

python-ptrace: debugger using ptrace (Linux, BSD and Darwin system call to trace processes) written in Python

Fuzzing

Sulley: fuzzer development and fuzz testing framework consisting of multiple extensible components

Peach Fuzzing Platform: extensible fuzzing framework for generation and mutation based fuzzing

antiparser: fuzz testing and fault injection API

TAOF, including ProxyFuzz, a man-in-the-middle non-deterministic network fuzzer

untidy: general purpose XML fuzzer

Powerfuzzer: highly automated and fully customizable web fuzzer (HTTP protocol based application fuzzer)

FileP: file fuzzer. Generates mutated files from a list of source files and feeds them to an external program in batches

SMUDGE

Mistress: probe file formats on the fly and protocols with malformed data, based on pre-defined patterns

Fuzzbox: multi-codec media fuzzer

Forensic Fuzzing Tools: generate fuzzed files, fuzzed file systems, and file systems containing fuzzed files in order to test the robustness of forensics tools and examination systems

Windows IPC Fuzzing Tools: tools used to fuzz applications that use Windows Interprocess Communication mechanisms

WSBang: perform automated security testing of SOAP based web services

Construct: library for parsing and building of data structures (binary or textual). Define your data structures in a declarative manner

fuzzer.py (feliam): simple fuzzer by Felipe Andres Manzano

Fusil: Python library used to write fuzzing programs

Web

ProxMon: processes proxy logs and reports discovered issues

WSMap: find web service endpoints and discovery files

Twill: browse the Web from a command-line interface. Supports automated Web testing

Windmill: web testing tool designed to let you painlessly automate and debug your web application

FunkLoad: functional and load web tester

Forensics

Volatility: extract digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples

SandMan: read the hibernation file, regardless of Windows version

LibForensics: library for developing digital forensics applications

TrIDLib, identify file types from their binary signatures. Now includes Python binding

Malware analysis

pyew: command line hexadecimal editor and disassembler, mainly to analyze malware

Exefilter: filter file formats in e-mails, web pages or files. Detects many common file formats and can remove active content

pyClamAV: add virus detection capabilities to your Python software

jsunpack-n, generic JavaScript unpacker: emulates browser functionality to detect exploits that target browser and browser plug-in vulnerabilities

yara-python: identify and classify malware samples

PDF

Didier Stevens' PDF tools: analyse, identify and create PDF files (includes PDFiD, pdf-parser and make-pdf and mPDF)

Opaf: Open PDF Analysis Framework. Converts PDF to an XML tree that can be analyzed and modified.

Origapy: Python wrapper for the Origami Ruby module which sanitizes PDF files

pyPDF: pure Python PDF toolkit: extract info, spilt, merge, crop, encrypt, decrypt...

PDFMiner: extract text from PDF files

python-poppler-qt4: Python binding for the Poppler PDF library, including Qt4 support

Misc

InlineEgg: toolbox of classes for writing small assembly programs in Python

Exomind: framework for building decorated graphs and developing open-source intelligence modules and ideas, centered on social network services, search engines and instant messaging

RevHosts: enumerate virtual hosts for a given IP address

simplejson: JSON encoder/decoder, e.g. to use Google's AJAX API

PyMangle: command line tool and a python library used to create word lists for use with other penetration testing tools

Hachoir: view and edit a binary stream field by field

Other useful libraries and tools

IPython: enhanced interactive Python shell with many features for object introspection, system shell access, and its own special command system

Beautiful Soup: HTML parser optimized for screen-scraping

matplotlib: make 2D plots of arrays

Mayavi: 3D scientific data visualization and plotting

RTGraph3D: create dynamic graphs in 3D

Twisted: event-driven networking engine

Suds: lightweight SOAP client for consuming Web Services

M2Crypto: most complete OpenSSL wrapper

NetworkX: graph library (edges, nodes)

pyparsing: general parsing module

lxml: most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for working with XML and HTML in the Python language

Pexpect: control and automate other programs, similar to Don Libes `Expect` system

Sikuli, visual technology to search and automate GUIs using screenshots. Scriptable in Jython

PyQt and PySide: Python bindings for the Qt application framework and GUI library

For more libaries, please have a look at PyPI, the Python Package Index.

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