Python tools for penetration testers

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[h=1]Python tools for penetration testers[/h] 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.

[h=3]Network[/h]

• 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
  

[h=3]Debugging and reverse engineering[/h]

• 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
  

[h=3]Fuzzing[/h]

• 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
  

[h=3]Web[/h]

• 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
  

[h=3]Forensics[/h]

• 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
  

[h=3]Malware analysis[/h]

• 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
  

[h=3]PDF[/h]

• 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
  

[h=3]Misc[/h]

• 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
  

[h=3]Other useful libraries and tools[/h]

• 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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