Top 13 ethical hacking tools that you can't miss !

Ethical hacking tools are the backbone of the ethical hacker. With the various tools available in the ethical hacking world, it transforms the hacking to the next level. Ethical hacking tools help for gathering information, create payload and backdoors, cracking the password and other activities. These tools save the time of hackers and make their hacking more efficient and it took less time to implement as it has inbuilt scripts of the task for which they are designed and another setting which helps a hacker.

In this article, we'll discuss the top 13 ethical hacking tools until 2019:

1.John The Ripper

John the Ripper is a free and open-source password cracking software tool. Initially developed for the Unix operating system, now it runs on Windows, Dos, OpenVMS, and other fifteen platforms. Its primary purpose is to detect weak passwords. It has fast passcode decrypting utility that was designed to test the strength of their passwords or recover lost password as per ethical hacking tools. This tool takes typically runs second to one day for "Single crack" mode (depending on the type and number of password hashes).

2.Wireshark

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer tool used to analyze the incoming and outgoing packets. It is used on many platform such as network troubleshooting, software analysis and communications protocol development, and education sector. Originally it was named Ethereal, later the project was renamed Wireshark in May 2006 due to trademark issues. This packet analyzer capture network packets and display that packet data as detailed as possible. We can install it on many platforms such as Windows, Linux, Mac, and many others.

3.Nmap

Nmap is also a free and open-source network scanner, Security scanner, port scanner and network exploration tool created by Gordon Lyon. The Nmap tool helps to discover hosts and services on a computer network. It scans the network by sending packets and analyzing the responses. Nmap provides many features such as probing computer networks, including host discovery and service and operating system detection. Nmap installs on my platform such as  Linux, Windows, UNIX, FreeBSD, etc.

4.Metasploit

The Metasploit is a penetration and security tool that provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing & IDS signature development. It is own by Rapid7 compony. It uncovers the weaknesses across your network before an attacker does. Before it aquire by Rapid 7 it remains free now it's Express version starts at $2,000 and $5,000 and full-featured pro edition starting at $15,000 per year. It is used for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine.

5.OpenVAS

OpenVAS tool is used for scanning vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities management for computer networks. OpenVAS tool is a free and open-source tool. OpenVAS tools are written in the Nessus Attack Scripting Language, NASL. It is a penetration tool for vulnerability scanning. It checks the patch level and locally installed software or the Java suite on UNIX and LINUX system.

6.SQLNinja

It is a server injection and takeover tool targeted to exploit vulnerabilities on a web application that uses Microsoft SQL server as backed. It is mainly designed for remote access on the vulnerable Database server. SQL injection tool used to execute SQL injection attacks and it attempt to issue SQL commands to a database and gain stored information.

7.Canvas 

Canvas tool is a powerful alternative to the Metasploit penetration tool. Canvas tool provides security vulnerability. It helps you use its platform to write new exploits and use its famous shellcode generator. It also integrates an alternative to map tool which is useful for port scanning and host discovery over mid to large networks. Supported platforms include: Linux, MacOSX, Windows

8.IronWasp

IronWASP (Iron Web Application Advanced Security testing Platform) is free and an open-source tool used for web application vulnerability testing and analyzing. It supports Dynamic JavaScript Vulnerability Analysis. It finds the issues by just browsing through your website. Ironwasp tool's features are simple enough to be used by absolute beginners.

9.SQLMap

SQLmap is a free and open-source penetration testing tool. This tool automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It supports to enumerate users, password hashes, privileges, roles, databases, etc. and protect the system for penetration attack and scan for vulnerabilities.

10.Nikto

 Nikto is a web vulnerability scanner tool that tests the security vulnerabilities and misconfigured web servers of websites. It is also a free and open-source tool that performs comprehensive and integrated tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6400 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1200 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers. It becomes slower because of the number of security checks that this tool performs a scan can take 45 mins or even longer, depending on the speed of your web server.

11.Maltego

Maltego is an open-source data mining tool used in forensics and intelligence sector that renders directed graphs for link analysis.  Maltego is developed by Pateva that uses the idea of transforms and automates the process of querying on different data sources. This information is displayed on a node-based graph suited for performing link analysis. Maltego is also used in online investigations as it is suitable for link analysis and data mining

12.Wapiti

Wapiti is a Black box vulnerability scanning software tool and it is open-source software. Wapiti is a scanning tool that scans web applications for multiple vulnerabilities including data base injections, SQL injection, CRLF injection, file snatching, file disclosures, cross-site scripting, command execution attacks. The generated results are gathered and automatically stored in an HTML file.

13.AirCrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is an open source a network software tool that consisting of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs. It works on any type of wireless network interface controller whose driver supports raw monitoring mode and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic. It need to develop our own DLLs to link aircrack-ng to wireless card of system or it will not work without.