Top Best Hacking Tools Of 2018 For Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

Top Best Hacking Tools Of 2018 For Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

Here are the Top Best Ethical Hacking Tools 2018:

#1 Metasploit

Metasploit: Best Hacking Tools 2018

Metasploit is available for all major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X. Rather than calling Metasploit a collection of exploit tools, I’ll call it an infrastructure that you can utilize to build your custom tools. This free tool is one of the most popular cyber security tools around that allows you to locate vulnerabilities at different platforms. Metasploit is backed by more than 200,000 users and contributors that help you to get insights and uncover the weaknesses in your system.

This top hacking tool package of 2018 lets you simulate real-world attacks to tell you about the weak points and finds them. As a penetration tester, it pinpoints the vulnerabilities with Nexpose closed-loop integration using Top Remediation reports. Using the open-source Metasploit framework, users can build their tools and take the best out of this multi-purpose hacking tool.

#2 Nmap

Nmap: Best Hacking Tool 2018

Nmap is available for all major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X. I think everyone has heard of this one, Nmap (Network Mapper) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to Nmap rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It may be used to discover computers and services on a computer network, thus creating a “map” of the network. Nmap runs on most types of computers, and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is a fee and open source tool that can be used by beginners (-sT) or by pros alike (packet_trace). A very versatile tool, once you fully understand the results.

#3 Acunetix WVS

acunetix: Best Hacking Tool 2018

Acunetix is available for Windows XP and higher. Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner (WVS) that scans and finds out the flaws in a website that could prove fatal. This multi-threaded tool crawls a website and finds out malicious Cross-site Scripting, SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities. This fast and easy to use tool scans WordPress websites from more than 1200 vulnerabilities in WordPress.

Acunetix comes with a Login Sequence Recorder that allows one to access the password protected areas of web sites. The new AcuSensor technology used in this tool allows you to reduce the false positive rate. Such features have made Acunetix WVS a preferred hacking tools that you need to check out in 2018.

#4 Wireshark

Wireshark: Best Hacking Tools 2018

This free and open source tool was originally named Ethereal. Wireshark also comes in a command-line version called TShark. This GTK+-based network protocol analyzer runs with ease on Linux, Windows, and OS X. Wireshark is a GTK+-based Wireshark network protocol analyzer or sniffer, that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. Works great on both Linux and Windows (with a GUI), easy to use and can reconstruct TCP/IP Streams.

#5 oclHashcat

oclHashcat Best Hacking Tools 2018

This useful hacking tool can be downloaded in different versions for Linux, OSX, and Windows. If password cracking is something you do on a daily basis, you might be aware of the free password cracking tool Hashcat. While Hashcat is a CPU-based password cracking tool, oclHashcat is its advanced version that uses the power of your GPU.

oclHashcat calls itself world’s fastest password cracking tool with world’s first and only GPGPU based engine. For using the tool, NVIDIA users require ForceWare 346.59 or later, and AMD users require Catalyst 15.7 or later.

This tool employs following attack modes for cracking:

• Straight
• Combination
• Brute-force
• Hybrid Dictionary + mask
• Hybrid mask + dictionary

Mentioning another major feature, oclHashcat is an open source tool under MIT license that allows an easy integration or packaging of the common Linux distros.

#6 Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner Best Hacking Tools 2018

Nessus is supported by a variety of platforms including Windows 7 and 8, Mac OS X, and popular Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Kali Linux etc. This top free hacking tool of 2018 works with the help of a client-server framework. Developed by Tenable Network Security, the tool is one of the most popular vulnerability scanners we have. Nessus serves different purposes to different types of users – Nessus Home, Nessus Professional, Nessus Manager and Nessus Cloud.

Using Nessus, one can scan multiple types of vulnerabilities that include remote access flaw detection, misconfiguration alert, denial of services against TCP/IP stack, preparation of PCI DSS audits, malware detection, sensitive data searches etc. To launch a dictionary attack, Nessus can also call a popular tool Hydra externally.

Apart from the above mentioned basic functionalities, Nessus could be used to scan multiple networks on IPv4, IPv6, and hybrid networks. You can set the scheduled scan to run at your chosen time and re-scan all or a subsection of previously scanned hosts using selective host re-scanning.

#7 Maltego

Maltego Best Hacking Tools 2018

Maltego hacking tool is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Maltego is an open source forensics platform that offers rigorous mining and information gathering to paint a picture of cyber threats around you. Maltego excels in showing the complexity and severity of points of failure in your infrastructure and the surrounding environment.

Maltego is a great hacker tool that analyzes the real world links between people, companies, websites, domains, DNS names, IP addresses, documents and whatnot. Based on Java, this tool runs in an easy-to-use graphical interface with lost customization options while scanning.

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#8 Social-Engineer Toolkit

Social-Engineer Toolkit: Best Hacking Tools 2018

Apart from Linux, Social-Engineer Toolkit is partially supported on Mac OS X and Windows. Also featured on Mr. Robot, TrustedSec’s Social-Engineer Toolkit is an advanced framework for simulating multiple types of social engineering attacks like credential harvestings, phishing attacks, and more. On the show, Elliot is seen using the SMS spoofing tool from the Social-Engineer Toolkit.

This Python-driven tool is the standard tool for social engineering penetration tests with more than two million downloads. It automates the attacks and generates disguising emails, malicious web pages and more.

To download SET on Linux, type the following command:

git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit/ set/

#9 Nessus Remote Security Scanner

Nessus Remote Security Scanner Best Hacking Tools 2018

Recently went closed source, but is still essentially free. Works with a client-server framework. Nessus is the Remote Security Scanner most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations worldwide. Many of the world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

#10 Kismet

Kismet Best Hacking Tools 2018

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any kismet wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic. A good wireless tool as long as your card supports rfmon.

#11 John The Ripper

John The Ripper

John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. It is the password cracking software tool. It is one of the most popular password testings and breaking programs as it combines a number of password crackers into one package, autodetects password hash types, and includes a customizable cracker.

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#12 Unicornscan

Unicornscan

Unicornscan is an attempt at a User-land Distributed TCP/IP stack for information gathering and correlation. It is intended to provide a researcher a superior interface for introducing a stimulus into and measuring a response from a TCP/IP enabled device or network. Some of its features include asynchronous stateless TCP scanning with all variations of TCP flags, asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing, and active/passive remote OS, application, and component identification by analyzing responses.

#13 Netsparker

Netsparker

Netsparker is an easy-to-use web application security scanner that uses the advanced Proof-Based vulnerability scanning technology and has built-in penetration testing and reporting tools. Netsparker automatically exploits the identified vulnerabilities in a read-only and safe way and also produces a proof of exploitation.

#14 Burp Suite

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.

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#15 Superscan 4

Superscan 4

Well, this is another popular hacking tool which is used to scan ports in Windows. This is a free connect-based port scanning tool which is designed to detect open TCP and UDP ports on a target computer. In simple words, you can take SuperScan as a powerful TCP port scanner, pinger, and resolver.

#16 Aircrack

Aircrack

Aircrack-ng is a network software suite which consists a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker, and analysis tool. In AirCrack you will find lots of tools which can be used for tasks like monitoring, attacking, pen testing and cracking. Without any doubt, this is one of the best network tools you can use.

#17 w3af

w3af

If you are looking for a free and open source web application security scanner, then w3af is the best one for you. The tool is widely used by hackers and security researchers. w3aF or web application attack and audit framework are used to get security vulnerability information that can be further used in penetration testing engagements.

Other Top Best Hacking Tools:

• SuperScan: Effective TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 is an upgrade of the extremely popular Windows port scanning tool
• Cain and Abel: The Swiss knife of hacking tools. Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems.
• Web Vulnerability Scanners: Firebug, AppScan, OWASP Zed, Paros Proxy
• Vulnerability Exploitation Tools: SQLmap, Core Impact, WebGoat, BeEF
• Forensic Tools: Helix3 Pro, EnCase, Autopsy
• Port Scanners: NetScanTools, Angry IP Scanner
• Traffic Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Ntop, Splunk, Ngrep, Argus
• Debuggers: IDA Pro, WinDbg, Immunity Debugger, GDB
• Rootkit Detectors: DumpSec, Tripwire, HijackThis
• Encryption Tools: OpenSSL, OpenSSH/PuTTY/SSH, Tor
• Password Crackers: Aircrack, Hydra, ophcrack
• NetStumbler: Yes a decent wireless tool for Windows!

So above are the top best ethical hacking tools 2018 for Windows, Linux, and MAC OS X and must have tools for every hacker and these tools are used on PC. If you like this post, don’t forget to share with your friends. If you face any problem feel free to discuss in the comment section below.