Top 10 Best Hacking Tools Of 2017 For Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

Top Best Hacking Tools Of 2017 For Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

All these hacking tools 2017 provided here are effective and free of cost. We have published this article just for educational purposes, and we don’t promote the malicious practices.

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1) Nmap | Free :

Nmap

Nmap (Network Mapper) is a very popular hacking tool that was originally created to act as a method of being able to scan large networks, but it works absolutely fine for single hosts (targets). Nmap works on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Nmap was traditionally a command-line tool, but there is a GUI available is called ‘Zenmap’.The tool uses raw IP packets in many creative ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) they offer, which type of protocols are being used for providing the services, what operating system (and OS versions and possible patches) and what type and version of packet filters/ firewalls are being used by the target.

2) Metasploit | Free & Paid :

Metasploit

This tool is used for exploiting (utilising network weakness for making a “backdoor”) vulnerabilities (weak points) on Network. This tool comes in both free and paid versions and not open source. The free version is good for normal exploits but deep penetration requires the paid version which gives you a full set of features. The paid version of Metasploit offers such important features that it deserves the price it claims.

The Metasploit Project is a hugely popular pentesting or hacking framework. If you are new to Metasploit think of it as a 'collection of hacking tools and frameworks' that can be used to execute various tasks. Widely used by cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers this is a tool that you have to learn. Metasploit is backed by more than 200,000 users and contributors that help you to get insights and uncover the weaknesses in your system.

3) John The Ripper | Free & Paid :

John the Ripper

John the Ripper (often you'll see abbreviated as JTR ) wins the award for having the coolest name. John the Ripper, mostly just referred to as simply, 'John' is a popular password cracking pentesting tool that is most commonly used to perform dictionary attacks. John the Ripper takes text string samples (from a text file, referred to as a 'wordlist', containing popular and complex words found in a dictionary or real passwords cracked before), encrypting it in the same way as the password being cracked (including both the encryption algorithm and key), and comparing the output to the encrypted string. This tool can also be used to perform a variety of alterations to dictionary attacks. If you are somewhat confused between John the Ripper and THC Hydra then think of John the Ripper as an 'offline' password cracker whilst THC Hydra is an "online" cracker.

4) Cain & Abel | Free :

Cain & Abel

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords .This can be attributed to many competitor tools. Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool that is mostly used for Microsoft Operating Systems. This popular hacking tool allows the user to seek the recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network (capturing some of the data packets), cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary, brute-force (generation of hashes out of words and then comparison of encrypted hash with the generated one, this method takes less time than dictionary attack method) and cryptanalysis attacks. Cain, as it is often referred to, can also record VoIP (Voice over IP protocol used for making calls over Internet) conversations, decode hashed scrambled passwords, recover wireless network keys and more. It can crack various types of hashes including NTLM, MD2, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2 and many more. These functionalities make Cain and Abel one of the best password recovery tool.

5) THC Hydra | Free :

THC Hydra

THC Hydra is a fast and flexible Network Login Hacking Tool. It uses a dictionary attack to try various password/login combinations against an Internet service to determine a valid set of login credentials. This hacking tool supports a wide set of protocols including Mail (POP3, IMAP, etc.), Databases, LDAP(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), SMB, VNC, and SSH (Secure Shell, used by VPN Softwares).

6) Wireshark | Free :

WireShark

Some Kali Linux users may rate Wireshark as the top Wi-Fi pentesting tool though it surprisingly missed making it to last year’s list. Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.Wireshark is one of the best network [protocol]analyzer tools available, if not the best. With Wireshark, you can analyze a network to the greatest detail to see what’s happening. Wireshark can be used for live packet capturing, deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, browse and filter packets and is multi-platform.

7) Maltego | Free & Paid :

Maltego

Maltego is different in that it works within a digital forensics sphere. Maltego is a platform that was designed to deliver an overall cyber threat picture to the enterprise or local environment in which an organization operates. One of the awesome things about Maltego which likely makes it so popular (and included in the Kali Linux Top Ten) is its's unique perspective in offering both network and resource based entities is the aggregation of information sourced throughout the web - whether it's the current configuration of a vulnerable router within a network or the current whereabouts of your staff members on their international visits, Maltego can locate, aggregate and visualize this data! For those interested in learning how to use Maltego we'd also recommend learning about OSINT cybersecurity data procurement.

8) Burp Suite | Free :

Burp Suite

Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application’s attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.

9) OWASP Zed | Free :

OWASP Zed

OWASP Zed makes entry into this year’s top list because of its huge popularity and Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is now one of the most popular OWASP projects.  This hacking and pentesting tool with its easy UI finds vulnerabilities in web applications.

ZAP’s popularity is also because it has a large community support and good resources. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as various tools that allow you the cyber pro to discover security vulnerabilities manually. When used as a proxy server it allows the user to manipulate all of the traffic that passes through it, including traffic using https. It can also run in a ‘daemon’ mode which is then controlled via a REST Application programming interface. This cross-platform tool is written in Java and is available in all of the popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

10) Ettercap | Free :

Ettercap

Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis. Once successful Ettercap (and the hacker) can deploy various attacks on the victim. A popular feature about Ettercap is its’ ability to support various plugins.