Awesome Resources For Learning Ethical Hacking & Pentesting ⚡️

What I’m sharing here is a collection of some best resources about Hacking & Penetration Testing to make you learn faster! Let's make it the best resource repository for our community.

Books

1. The Hacker Playbook 2: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing 2. The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing, Second Edition: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy 3. Breaking into Information Security: Learning the Ropes 101 4. Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking 5. Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking 6. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition 7. Web Hacking 101 8. OWASP Testing Guide (A must-read for web application developers and penetration testers) 9. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

The Basics of Web Hacking: Tools and Techniques to Attack the Web

Learning Platforms to Sharpen Your Skills

Online

Name | Description ---- | ---- CTF Hacker101 | The Hacker101 CTF is a game designed to let you learn to hack in a safe, rewarding environment. Hacker101 is a free educational site for hackers. Hack The Box :: Penetration Testing Labs | An online platform to test and advance your skills in penetration testing and cyber security. Join today and start training in our online labs. TryHackMe | TryHackMe is an online platform that teaches cyber security through short, gamified real-world labs. CTF365 | An account-based ctf site, awarded by Kaspersky, MIT, and T-Mobile. Backdoor | Pen testing labs that have a space for beginners, a practice arena, and various competitions, account required. Hack.me | Lets you build/host/attack vulnerable web apps. CTFLearn | An account-based ctf site, where users can go in and solve a range of challenges. OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project (Online) | List of online available vulnerable applications for learning purposes. Pentestit labs | Hands-on Pentesting Labs (OSCP style) Root-me.org | Hundreds of challenges are available to train yourself in different and not simulated environments Vulnhub.com | Vulnerable By Design VMs for practical 'hands-on' experience in digital security Windows / Linux Local Privilege Escalation Workshop | Practice your Linux and Windows privilege escalation. Hacking Articles | CTF Brief Write-up collection with a lot of screenshots good for beginners. Rafay Hacking Articles, a great blog | Write up collections by Rafay Baloch. PentesterLab | 20$ signature, complete content basic to write exploits, web, android. CyberSec WTF| Emulated web pentesting challenges from bounty write-ups Pentest-Ground | Pentest Ground is a free playground with deliberately vulnerable web applications and network services. pwn.guide | A cybersecurity education website, offering about 100 tutorials, ranging from web, wireless... hacking to defense tutorials & forensics. Offers free plan. HTB Writeups | The most comprehensive collection of Hack The Box writeups on GitHub - 500+ machines, 400+ challenges, ProLabs, Sherlocks (DFIR), endgames, and CTF events with full walkthroughs.

Off-Line

Name | Description ---- | ---- Damn Vulnerable Xebia Training Environment | Docker Container including several vulnerable web applications (DVWA, DVWServices, DVWSockets, WebGoat, Juiceshop, Railsgoat, django.NV, Buggy Bank, Mutilidae II and more) OopsSec Store | An intentionally vulnerable e-commerce app built with Next.js for web security training (OWASP Top 10, API security, CTF challenges). Quick start with npx create-oss-store. OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project (Offline) | List of offline available vulnerable applications for learning purposes

Vulnerable Machines/Websites

1. FiringRange

Vulnerability Databases And Resources

Vulnerability Databases are the first place to start your day as a security professional. Any new vulnerability detection is generally available through the public vulnerability databases. These databases are a big source of information for hackers to be able to understand and exploit/avoid/fix the vulnerability.

http://www.exploit-db.com/
http://1337day.com/
http://securityvulns.com/
http://www.securityfocus.com/
http://www.osvdb.org/
http://www.securiteam.com/
http://secunia.com/advisories/
http://insecure.org/sploits_all.html
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/published/
http://nmrc.org/pub/index.html
http://web.nvd.nist.gov
http://www.vupen.com/english/security-advisories/
http://www.vupen.com/blog/
http://cvedetails.com/
http://www.rapid7.com/vulndb/index.jsp
http://oval.mitre.org/
http://sploitus.com/
http://cxsecurity.com/

Malware Analysis

Name | Description ---- | ---- Malware traffic analysis | list of traffic analysis exercises Malware Analysis - CSCI 4976 | another class from the folks at RPISEC, quality content Bad Binaries | walkthrough documents of malware traffic analysis exercises and some occasional malware analysis.

Linux Penetration Testing OS

Name | Description ---- | ----- Kali | the infamous pen-testing distro from the folks at Offensive Security Parrot | Debian includes a full portable lab for security, DFIR, and development Android Tamer | Android Tamer is a Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security professionals. BlackArch | Arch Linux-based pentesting distro, compatible with Arch installs LionSec Linux | pentesting OS based on Ubuntu NullSec Linux | Security-focused distro with automotive hacking, forensics, and advanced pentesting tools

Courses

1. Computer Systems Security, MIT

cisco's cources

3.cybrary 4.hackers academy

For those who want to do CEH, the following links are for you.

Workshops/Playlists

1. Web Hacking 2. Ethical Hacking, A Comprehensive Playlist covering almost everything

Security Talks and Conferences

6. Kevin Mitnick: Live Hack at CeBIT 7. Ghost in the Cloud, Kevin Mitnick 8. Kevin Mitnick | Talks at Google 9. Complete Free Hacking Course: Go from Beginner to Expert Hacker Today

YouTube Channels

Now let’s get Towards YouTube Channel Links... These Channels are Shared By Hackers where They Upload their Video POCs.. Watching them u can actually understand how to demonstrate these types of attacks...

Any Channel Link Missing? Kindly add it in the Comments

Forums

Name | Description ---- | ---- 0x00sec | hacker, malware, computer engineering, Reverse engineering Antichat | russian based forum CODEBY.NET | hacker, WAPT, malware, computer engineering, Reverse engineering, forensics - russian based forum EAST Exploit database | exploit DB for commercial exploits written for EAST Pentest Framework Greysec | hacking and security forum Hackforums | posting webstite for hacks/exploits/various discussion

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