Learn to hack

This page aims to compile high quality resources for hackers for both the experienced and inexperienced. All books listed on this page can be found on Library Genesis.

Make sure that you follow good OPSEC when carrying out your operations! See OPSEC

General Resources

Resources that assume little to no background knowledge:

• https://www.hoppersroppers.org/training.html
• https://tryhackme.com/

Resources that assume minimal tech background:

• (book) Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking
• Bassterlord Networking Manual (translated)
• Bassterlord Networking Manual v2.0 (translated)
• Translated: Conti playbook
• LockBit 3.0 CobaltStrike: LockBit 3.0 Guide

Resources that assume a tech or hacking background:

• (book) The Hacker Playbook 3
• Hack Back! A DIY Guide
• https://github.com/ForbiddenProgrammer/conti-pentester-guide-leak
• Tips, Tricks & Hacks Cheat Sheet: https://github.com/hackerschoice/thc-tips-tricks-hacks-cheat-sheet
• Flexispy HackBack
• Liberty Counsel HackBack
• https://book.hacktricks.xyz

Practice labs:

• https://www.hackthebox.com
• https://academy.hackthebox.com
• https://www.pentesteracademy.com
• https://lab.pentestit.ru
• https://overthewire.org/wargames

Appsec:

• https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec

Malware, a collection of malware source code and binaries:

• https://github.com/vxunderground/MalwareSourceCode
• https://github.com/ytisf/theZoo/tree/master/malware

General references

General resources you may find useful for learning. see General

OWASP Top 10 is a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. See TryHackMe's room for practical OWASP Top 10 learning and their Juice Shop.

Recommended Reading - The Library

See recommended reading books that will aid you in your learning. See recommended reading in the library

Operational security

Operational security (OPSEC) is crucial for protecting oneself from surveillance and maintaining anonymity while conducting hacktivist operations.

Recommended Measures

Any illegal hacktivity should be done from an encrypted and separate computer or virtual machine, with all traffic router over Tor.

For more information on recommended operational security measures, see Opsec Measures

Secure Messaging

Best practice for secure messaging includes proxying connections over Tor and using end-to-end encryption for messages.

Recommended Applications

For Jabber/XMPP, make sure to enable OTR or OMEMO encryption. For email use PGP for encryption. For file sharing use onionshare.

For more information on recommended applications, see Secure Messaging Applications

Initial Access

There are many ways to get a foothold into a targets network, from phishing, buying credential access, buying infected machines in corporate networks, password spraying, performing a targeted penetration test and spray and pray scanning for vulnerabilities and hacking in. Here we list some resources in these regards.

For more information on gaining a foothold, see Initial Access Tactics, techniques and procedures

Scanning and Recon

For scanning and recon tools, see Scanning and Recon. Make sure to make use of your tool's documentation and read the help menu (-hh/-h/--help).

Search Engines

Search engines are a useful tool for gathering information and intelligence from publicly available sources. Some are paid and some are free. Make sure to operate good OPSEC whenever placing a purchase for any service that will be used in your recon on a target.

For more information on recommended search engines, see Search Engines Resources

OSINT

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) refers to the collection and analysis of information from publicly available sources.

For more information on recommended tools and resources, see OSINT Tools and Resources

Post exploitation

C2 Frameworks

C2 Matrix

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b4mUxa6cDQuTV2BPC6aA-GR4zGZi0ooPYtBe4IgPsSc

Windows

Find common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in a windows environment to escalate your privileges: winPEAS

• https://lolbas-project.github.io

Living off the land. Evading detection with Sysinternals

• https://live.sysinternals.com (\\live.sysinternals.com\tools)
• mimikatz: https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz/releases
• https://github.com/fortra/impacket
• Disable Defender
• Windows - Using credentials

Active Directory

Active Directory General Tools & resources you may find useful for learning.

See Active Directory for learning resources and tools.

Antivirus & EDR Evasion

• https://s3cur3th1ssh1t.github.io/Bypass_AMSI_by_manual_modification/
• https://s3cur3th1ssh1t.github.io/Customizing_C2_Frameworks/
• https://s3cur3th1ssh1t.github.io/Powershell-and-the-.NET-AMSI-Interface/
• https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/tag/sacred-cash-cow-tipping/
• https://blog.securityevaluators.com/creating-av-resistant-malware-part-1-7604b83ea0c0
• https://www.ired.team/offensive-security/defense-evasion
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3PjJIiBIE
• https://github.com/matterpreter/DefenderCheck
• https://github.com/RythmStick/AMSITrigger
• https://amsi.fail
• https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/Methodology and Resources/Windows - AMSI Bypass.md

Linux

• Rooting: Rooting linux
• Stabilizing reverse shells
• Linux - Evasion
• Linux - Persistence

Backdoors

• Gsocket: https://github.com/hackerschoice/gsocket
• PHP: https://github.com/epinna/weevely3
• Reverse Shell Generator: https://www.revshells.com
• Meterpreter: https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/Methodology%20and%20Resources/Reverse%20Shell%20Cheatsheet.md#meterpreter-shell
• Blog: https://dhilipsanjay.gitbook.io/ctfs/tryhackme/tryhackme/linuxbackdoors
• Database: https://www.adminer.org

Office 365 & Azure

• Extremely in-depth technical info on everything https://o365blog.com
• https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/azure-ad-introduction-for-red-teamers.html
• https://blog.xpnsec.com/azuread-connect-for-redteam
• AAD Connect Cloud Sync: as local admin impersonate or retrieve managed password of the provagentgMSA account to dcsync.
  • see: https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/Methodology%20and%20Resources/Active%20Directory%20Attack.md#reading-gmsa-password
• https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/webcast-getting-started-in-pentesting-the-cloud-azure
• https://github.com/dafthack/CloudPentestCheatsheets/blob/master/cheatsheets/Azure.md
• https://www.inversecos.com

Tools

• https://github.com/nyxgeek/o365recon
• https://github.com/dirkjanm/ROADtools
• https://github.com/fox-it/adconnectdump
• https://github.com/LMGsec/o365creeper
• https://bloodhound.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data-collection/azurehound.html
• https://github.com/rvrsh3ll/TokenTactics
• https://github.com/nyxgeek/onedrive_user_enum
• https://github.com/dafthack/MSOLSpray
• https://github.com/dafthack/MFASweep

Hacking Misc

API Hacking

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the plumbing of today’s financial services and FinTech infrastructure, enabling FinTechs to embed banking into their apps and banks to offer a more unified experience to their customers demanding more from their bank (Knight). APIs can be exploited and aid in data exfiltration and taking advantage of an existing service.

See Hacking APIs

IoT Hacking

• https://github.com/V33RU/IoTSecurity101

GSuite

https://www.slideshare.net/dafthack/ok-google-how-do-i-red-team-gsuite

VMware

• Exploiting vCenter to add vSphere user: https://github.com/HynekPetrak/HynekPetrak/blob/master/take_over_vcenter_670.md
• VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager RCE via SSTI. CVE-2022-22954: Unauthenticated server-side template injection. Mass Exploit

RocketChat

• Account hijacking and RCE as admin: https://edbrsk.dev/content/real-cases/how-I-compromised-300-stores-and-a-spanish-consultancy

Microsoft Exchange

ProxyLogon is dead. It's mitigated by Defender. ProxyShell is not. AMSI catches unmodified public exploits.

• ProxyShell: https://github.com/dmaasland/proxyshell-poc
• Improved proxyshell-poc: https://github.com/horizon3ai/proxyshell
• ProxyShell (webshell via New-MailboxExportRequest): https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/documentation/modules/exploit/windows/http/exchange_proxyshell_rce.md
• ProxyShell (webshell via New-ExchangeCertificate): https://gist.github.com/dmaasland/0720891aaf6dec8d3b42a5b92c8d6f94
• Polymorphic webshells: https://github.com/grCod/poly
• ProxyShell (no webshell, dump mailboxes via PowerShell): https://github.com/Jumbo-WJB/Exchange_SSRF
• Export all mailboxes: foreach ($mbx in (Get-Mailbox)){New-MailboxExportRequest -mailbox $mbx.alias -FilePath "\\127.0.0.1\C$\Folder\$($mbx.Alias).pst"}
• Proxylogon, proxyshell, proxyoracle and proxytoken full chain exploit tool: https://github.com/FDlucifer/Proxy-Attackchain
• Automatic ProxyShell Exploit: https://github.com/Udyz/proxyshell-auto