Awesome CTF

A curated list of Capture The Flag (CTF) frameworks, libraries, resources, softwares and tutorials. This list aims to help starters as well as seasoned CTF players to find everything related to CTFs at one place.

Contributing

Please take a quick look at the contribution guidelines first.

If you know a tool that isn't present here, feel free to open a pull request.

Why?

It takes time to build up collection of tools used in CTF and remember them all. This repo helps to keep all these scattered tools at one place.

Contents

• Awesome CTF
• Create
  • Forensics
  • Platforms
  • Steganography
  • Web

• Solve

  • Attacks
  • Bruteforcers
  • Cryptography
  • Exploits
  • Forensics
  • Networking
  • Reversing
  • Services
  • Steganography
  • Web

• Resources

• Operating Systems
• Starter Packs
• Tutorials
• Wargames
• Websites
• Wikis
• Writeups Collections

Create

Tools used for creating CTF challenges

• Kali Linux CTF Blueprints - Online book on building, testing, and customizing your own Capture the Flag challenges.

Forensics

Tools used for creating Forensics challenges

• Dnscat2 - Hosts communication through DNS.
• Kroll Artifact Parser and Extractor (KAPE) - Triage program.
• Magnet AXIOM - Artifact-centric DFIR tool.
• Registry Dumper - Dump your registry.

Platforms

Projects that can be used to host a CTF

• CTFd - Platform to host jeopardy style CTFs from ISISLab, NYU Tandon.
• echoCTF.RED - Develop, deploy and maintain your own CTF infrastructure.
• FBCTF - Platform to host Capture the Flag competitions from Facebook.
• Haaukins- A Highly Accessible and Automated Virtualization Platform for Security Education.
• HackTheArch - CTF scoring platform.
• Mellivora - A CTF engine written in PHP.
• MotherFucking-CTF - Badass lightweight plaform to host CTFs. No JS involved.
• NightShade - A simple security CTF framework.
• OpenCTF - CTF in a box. Minimal setup required.
• PicoCTF - The platform used to run picoCTF. A great framework to host any CTF.
• PyChallFactory - Small framework to create/manage/package jeopardy CTF challenges.
• RootTheBox - A Game of Hackers (CTF Scoreboard & Game Manager).
• Scorebot - Platform for CTFs by Legitbs (Defcon).
• SecGen - Security Scenario Generator. Creates randomly vulnerable virtual machines.

Steganography

Tools used to create stego challenges

Check solve section for steganography.

Web

Tools used for creating Web challenges

JavaScript Obfustcators

• Metasploit JavaScript Obfuscator
• Uglify

Solve

Tools used for solving CTF challenges

Attacks

Tools used for performing various kinds of attacks

• Bettercap - Framework to perform MITM (Man in the Middle) attacks.
• Yersinia - Attack various protocols on layer 2.

Crypto

Tools used for solving Crypto challenges

• CyberChef - Web app for analysing and decoding data.
• FeatherDuster - An automated, modular cryptanalysis tool.
• Hash Extender - A utility tool for performing hash length extension attacks.
• padding-oracle-attacker - A CLI tool to execute padding oracle attacks.