Top 5 all time popular and best hacking tools

In this article I am going to share all time favorite hacking / pen-testing tools used by hacker, security engineers. hacking scripts and tools used by hackers for malicious purposes, Some black hat hackers used to gain access control over other’s computer and some ethical hacker used to protect organisation from black hat hackers. following tools come bundled in pen-testing Linux distro’s such as Kali Linux or BackBox, so I would recommend that you install an appropriate Linux hacking OS to make your task easier.
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Top 5 all time popular and best hacking tools

1. Metasploit

Penetration testing software to help you act like the attacker
Attackers are always developing new exploits and attack methods—Metasploit penetration testing software helps you use their own weapons against them. Utilizing an ever-growing database of exploits, you can safely simulate real-world attacks on your network to train your security team to spot and stop the real thing.


2. NMAP

Used to Scan Ports and Map Networks – and a whole bunch more!
Nmap Security Scanner, a free and open source utility used by millions of people for network discovery, administration, and security auditing. From explaining port scanning basics for novices to detailing low-level packet crafting methods used by advanced hackers, Literally, thousands of system admins all around the world will use nmap for network inventory, check for open ports, manage service upgrade schedules, and monitor host or service uptime. Nmap, as a tool uses raw IP packets in creative ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are providing information about, what operating systems (fingerprinting) and what type and version of packet filters/ firewalls are being used by the target.

3. THC Hydra

A very fast network logon cracker which support many different services.
When you need to brute force crack a remote authentication service, Hydra is often the tool of choice. It can perform rapid dictionary attacks against more than 50 protocols, including telnet, ftp, http, https, smb, several databases, and much more. Like THC Amap this release is from the fine folks at THC. Other online crackers are Medusa and Ncrack. The Nmap Security Scanner also contains many online brute force password cracking modules.



4. Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
It focuses on different areas of WiFi security:
Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools.
Attacking: Replay attacks, deauthentication, fake access points and others via packet injection.
Testing: Checking WiFi cards and driver capabilities (capture and injection).
Cracking: WEP and WPA PSK (WPA 1 and 2).
All tools are command line which allows for heavy scripting. A lot of GUIs have taken advantage of this feature. It works primarily Linux but also Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, as well as Solaris and even eComStation 2.

5. John the Ripper password cracker

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, and OpenVMS.John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form, Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.