Open Source Windows Penetration Testing Tools
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View 21 business solutionsBrowse free open source Penetration Testing tools and projects for Windows below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Penetration Testing tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Metasploitable
Metasploitable is an intentionally vulnerable Linux virtual machine
This is Metasploitable2 (Linux) Metasploitable is an intentionally vulnerable Linux virtual machine. This VM can be used to conduct security training, test security tools, and practice common penetration testing techniques. The default login and password is msfadmin:msfadmin. Never expose this VM to an untrusted network (use NAT or Host-only mode if you have any questions what that means). To contact the developers, please send email to msfdev@metasploit.com -
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ophcrack
A Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. -
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waircut
WPS wireless protocol audit software for Windows
Wireless Air Cut is a WPS wireless, portable and free network audit software for Ms Windows. It is used to check the security of our wps wireless networks and to detect possible security breaches. You can check if the router has a generic and known wps pin set, if it is vulnerable to a brute-force attack or is vulnerable to a Pixie-Dust attack. You can see the Installation instructions on Wiki. ------- Wireless Air Cut es un software de auditoria del protocolo WPS en redes wireless, portable, libre y gratuito para Ms Windows. Sirve para comprobar la seguridad WPS de nuestras redes wireless y detectar posibles brechas de seguridad. Puede comprobar si el router tiene establecido un pin wps genérico y conocido, si es vulnerable a un ataque por fuerza bruta o si es vulnerable a un ataque Pixie-Dust. Ver Instrucciones de instalación en la wiki. -
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VeraCrypt
Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (https://www.idrix.fr) and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data. All released files are PGP signed with key ID=0x680D16DE, available on key servers and downloadable at https://www.idrix.fr/VeraCrypt/VeraCrypt_PGP_public_key.asc VeraCrypt can mount TrueCrypt volumes. It also can convert them to VeraCrypt format. Documentation: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Documentation.html FAQ : https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/FAQ.html -
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PentestGPT
Automated Penetration Testing Agentic Framework Powered by LLMs
PentestGPT is an AI-powered autonomous penetration testing agent designed to perform intelligent, end-to-end security assessments using large language models. Published at USENIX Security 2024, it combines advanced reasoning with an agentic workflow to automate tasks traditionally handled by human pentesters. The platform supports multiple penetration testing categories, including web security, cryptography, reversing, forensics, privilege escalation, and binary exploitation. PentestGPT runs in a Docker-first environment, providing a secure, reproducible setup with built-in tooling and session persistence. It offers real-time feedback and live walkthroughs, allowing users to observe each step of the testing process as it unfolds. Built with a modular and extensible architecture, PentestGPT supports cloud and local LLMs, making it suitable for research, education, and authorized security testing. -
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Xenos
Windows dll injector
Xenos is a lightweight Windows DLL injector built on top of the Blackbone library that specializes in injecting custom dynamic libraries into target processes for purposes such as modding, testing, or security research. As an application rather than a library, it provides a concrete example of how to leverage Blackbone’s robust process and memory manipulation APIs to perform manual and automated DLL injection into both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications. Xenos supports a variety of mapping techniques including manual mapping, and it is configured to work across supported Windows versions from Windows 7 to Windows 10 x64, making it useful for developers and modding communities working with older or newer games and applications. By basing its core functionality on Blackbone, Xenos benefits from the underlying library’s advanced memory manipulation capabilities such as process attachment, memory allocation, and loader-agnostic injection methods. -
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Zphisher
An automated phishing tool with 30+ templates
Zphisher is an advanced open-source phishing tool for educational and penetration testing purposes. It provides a simple interface for launching phishing attacks by cloning login pages of popular websites. Built in Bash, Zphisher automates server deployment using tunneling services like Ngrok, Localhost.run, and others. It is intended for ethical hacking and security research to demonstrate how phishing attacks work and how to defend against them. -
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hashcat
World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility
hashcat is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 300 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking. Download the latest release and unpack it in the desired location. Please remember to use 7z x when unpacking the archive from the command line to ensure full file paths remain intact. Multi-Device-Types (Utilizing mixed device types in same system). Supports password candidate brain functionality. Supports distributed cracking networks (using overlay). Supports interactive pause / resume. Supports sessions. Supports restore. Supports reading password candidates from file and stdin. Supports hex-salt and hex-charset. Supports automatic performance tuning. Supports automatic keyspace ordering markov-chains. -
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ZAP
The OWASP ZAP core project
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by a dedicated international team of volunteers. It can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are developing and testing your applications. It's also a great tool for experienced pentesters to use for manual security testing. ZAP is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually. It stands between the tester’s browser and the web application so that it can intercept and inspect messages sent between browser and web application. -
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thc-hydra
Shows how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access to a system
Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. This tool is a proof of concept code, to give researchers and security consultants the possibility to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system. There are already several login hacker tools available, however, none does either support more than one protocol to attack or support parallelized connects. It was tested to compile cleanly on Linux, Windows/Cygwin, Solaris, FreeBSD/OpenBSD, QNX (Blackberry 10) and MacOS. However the module engine for new services is very easy so it won't take a long time until even more services are supported. Via the command line options you specify which logins to try, which passwords, if SSL should be used, how many parallel tasks to use for attacking, etc. PROTOCOL is the protocol you want to use for attacking, e.g. ftp, smtp, http-get or many others are available. -
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PEASS-ng
Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE
These tools search for possible local privilege escalation paths that you could exploit and print them to you with nice colors so you can recognize the misconfigurations easily. All the scripts/binaries of the PEAS suite should be used for authorized penetration testing and/or educational purposes only. Any misuse of this software will not be the responsibility of the author or of any other collaborator. Use it at your own machines and/or with the owner's permission. Here you will find privilege escalation tools for Windows and Linux/Unix and MacOS. Find the latest versions of all the scripts and binaries in the releases page. Check the parsers directory to transform PEASS outputs to JSON, HTML and PDF. -
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Flipper Zero Unleashed Firmware
Flipper Zero Unleashed Firmware
Flipper Zero Unleashed Firmware. This software is for experimental purposes only and is not meant for any illegal activity/purposes. We do not condone illegal activity and strongly encourage keeping transmissions to legal/valid uses allowed by law. Also, this software is made without any support from Flipper Devices and is in no way related to the official devs. -
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bettercap
The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks
bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible and portable framework written in Go which aims to offer to security researchers, red teamers and reverse engineers an easy to use, all-in-one solution with all the features they might possibly need for performing reconnaissance and attacking WiFi networks, Bluetooth Low Energy devices, wireless HID devices and Ethernet networks. -
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airgeddon
This is a multi-use bash script for Linux systems
airgeddon is an alive project growing day by day. Interface mode switcher (Monitor-Managed) keeping selection even on interface name changing. DoS over wireless networks using different methods (mdk3, mdk4, aireplay-ng). "DoS Pursuit mode" is available to avoid AP channel hopping (available also on DoS performed on Evil Twin attacks). Full support for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands. Assisted WPA/WPA2 personal networks Handshake file and PMKID capturing. Cleaning and optimizing Handshake captured files. Offline password decrypting on WPA/WPA2 captured files for personal networks (Handshakes and PMKIDs) using a dictionary, brute-force, and rule-based attacks with aircrack, crunch and hashcat tools. Enterprise networks captured password decrypting based on john the ripper, crunch, asleap and hashcat tools. GPU support available for hashcat. Only Rogue/Fake AP mode to sniff using external sniffer (Hostapd + DHCP + DoS). -
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bWAPP
an extremely buggy web app !
bWAPP, or a buggy web application, is a free and open source deliberately insecure web application. bWAPP helps security enthusiasts, developers and students to discover and to prevent web vulnerabilities. bWAPP prepares one to conduct successful penetration testing and ethical hacking projects. What makes bWAPP so unique? Well, it has over 100 web bugs! It covers all major known web vulnerabilities, including all risks from the OWASP Top 10 project. The focus is not just on one specific issue... bWAPP is covering a wide range of vulnerabilities! bWAPP is a PHP application that uses a MySQL database. It can be hosted on Linux/Windows with Apache/IIS and MySQL. It is supported on WAMP or XAMPP. Another possibility is to download bee-box, a custom VM pre-installed with bWAPP. This project is part of the ITSEC GAMES project. You can find more about the ITSEC GAMES and bWAPP projects on our blog. For security-testing and educational purposes only! Cheers Malik Mesellem -
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Gobuster
Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go
Gobuster is a tool used to brute-force. This project is born out of the necessity to have something that didn't have a fat Java GUI (console FTW), something that did not do recursive brute force, something that allowed me to brute force folders and multiple extensions at once, something that compiled to native on multiple platforms, something that was faster than an interpreted script (such as Python), and something that didn't require a runtime. Provides several modes, like the classic directory brute-forcing mode, DNS subdomain brute-forcing mode, the mode that enumerates open S3 buckets and looks for existence and bucket listings, and the virtual host brute-forcing mode (not the same as DNS!). Since this tool is written in Go you need to install the Go language/compiler/etc. Full details of installation and set up can be found on the Go language website. Once installed you have two options. You need at least go 1.16.0 to compile gobuster. -
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DirBuster is a multi threaded java application designed to brute force directories and files names on web/application servers.
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SimpleX
The first messaging platform operating without user identifiers
Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy. The video shows how you connect to your friend via their 1-time QR-code, in person or via a video link. You can also connect by sharing an invitation link. Temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise addresses and credentials for each user contact or group member. It allows to deliver messages without user profile identifiers, providing better meta-data privacy than alternatives. Many communication platforms are vulnerable to MITM attacks by servers or network providers. To prevent it SimpleX apps pass one-time keys out-of-band when you share an address as a link or a QR code. Double-ratchet protocol. OTR messaging with perfect forward secrecy and break-in recovery. NaCL cryptobox in each queue to prevent traffic correlation between message queues if TLS is compromised. -
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Nokia NBU, NBF, NFB, NFC and ARC backup file parser, extractor and viewer. It can help you to check content of backup or extract files from it. Requires MS .Net Framework 2
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Tamper Dev
Extension that allows you to intercept and edit HTTP/HTTPS requests
If you are a developer, you can use Tamper Dev to debug your websites, or if you are a pentester, you can use it to search for security vulnerabilities by inspecting the HTTP traffic from your browser. Unlike most other extensions, Tamper Dev allows you to intercept, inspect and modify the requests before they are sent to the server. This extension provides functionality similar to Burp Proxy, MITM Proxy, OWASP ZAP, Tamper Data, and Postman Proxy, but without the need of additional software, with full support of HTTPS connections, and trivial to set-up (just install). -
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emp3r0r
Linux/Windows post-exploitation framework made by linux user
A post-exploitation framework for Linux/Windows. Initially, emp3r0r was developed as one of my weaponizing experiments. It was a learning process for me trying to implement common Linux adversary techniques and some of my original ideas. So, what makes emp3r0r different? First of all, it is the first C2 framework that targets Linux platform including the capability of using any other tools through it. Take a look at the features for more valid reasons to use it. -
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mitmproxy
A free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
mitmproxy is an open source, interactive SSL/TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy, with a console interface fit for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets. It's the ideal tool for penetration testers and software developers, able to debug, test, and make privacy measurements. It can intercept, inspect, modify and replay web traffic, and can even prettify and decode a variety of message types. Its web-based interface mitmweb gives you a similar experience as Chrome's DevTools, with the addition of features like request interception and replay. Its command-line version mitmdump allows you to write powerful addons and script mitmproxy so it can automatically modify messages, redirect traffic, and perform many other custom commands. -
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Ligolo-ng
An advanced, yet simple, tunneling/pivoting tool
Ligolo-ng is a simple, lightweight and fast tool that allows pentesters to establish tunnels from a reverse TCP/TLS connection using a tun interface (without the need of SOCKS). When running the relay/proxy server, a tun interface is used, packets sent to this interface are translated and then transmitted to the agent's remote network. You need to download the Wintun driver (used by WireGuard) and place the wintun.dll in the same folder as Ligolo. You can listen to ports on the agent and redirect connections to your control/proxy server. You can easily hit more than 100 Mbits/sec. Here is a test using iperf from a 200Mbits/s server to a 200Mbits/s connection. -
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PentestBox
A Portable Penetration Testing Distribution for Windows
PentestBox is not like other Penetration Testing Distributions which runs on virtual machines. It is created because more than 50% of penetration testing distributions users uses windows. Source:- https://pentestbox.com/download_stats.txt So it provides an efficient platform for Penetration Testing on windows. -
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Shannon
Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps
Shannon is an autonomous AI penetration testing system built to find and prove real, exploitable vulnerabilities in web applications rather than stopping at static warnings or best-guess alerts. It focuses on “proof by exploitation,” meaning it actively hunts for attack vectors in your code and then attempts to execute end-to-end exploits to demonstrate impact. The project blends source-aware analysis with automated web interaction so it can validate issues like injection flaws, authentication bypasses, and other exploitable paths in a way that resembles an actual attacker’s workflow. Instead of requiring you to manually reproduce findings, Shannon is designed to produce actionable evidence that a weakness can be weaponized, which helps teams prioritize what truly matters. It positions itself as a pre-attacker safety net, aiming to break your web app before someone else does and thereby reduce the gap between “potentially vulnerable” and “confirmed exploitable.”
