1.Nmap:
It is abbrievated as Network Mapper .It is a security scanner used for scanning networks. It is available for most of windows variants,Linux distros and Macintosh.It comes out with both gui based and teminal based version.It is also called Zenmap in some variants .
Snapshot of the Tool in Windows 10
official site :www.nmap.org
online Tool:
nmap-online.com – Online tool to check your computer
2.Wireshark:
It is a tool used of traffic capturing and it is formally classified as a Network protocol analyzer .
Snapshot of the tool in windows 10
official site :www.wireshark.org
3.Nessus:
It is a widely used vulnerability scanner.It scans for Misconfiguration,denial-of-service,default passwords etc. It is devoloped by teenable network security and freely available for personal use.It has both web application and offline option.
Snapshot of the Tool (web application)
Official website: www.teenable.com
4.Metasploit:
It is a tool used for executing exploit code against target machine.These type of attacks are known as web server attacks.The versions of this are different types
Metasploit Framework
Metasploit Community edition
Metasploit Express
Metasploit Pro
Armitage
Snapshot of Metasploit Framework
Official website: www.metasploit.com
5.Ettercap:
It is tool used for sniffing.It is mostly used for Man-In-The-Middle attacks on lan. It has many features of network and host analysis.it runs on all most all popular environments.
Snapshot of the Tool in kali linux
6.Sqlmap:
IT is open source tool for detecting and exploiting sql injection flaws.It supports five sql injection techniques i.e time based blind
boolean based blind
error based
union query
stacked query
Snapshot of the Tool in Kalilinux(terminal based)
Official website: www.sqlmap.org
7.W3af:
It is web application security scanner.it identifies sql injection,cross site scripting and harmful file uploads etc,
Snapshot of the Tool
Official website: http://www.w3af.org/
8.Aircrack-ng:
Aircrack is a network security package tool which consists of packet sniffer,WEP and WPA-2 cracker,detector etc.It runs on all popular operating systems.
Aircrack-ng is a child of aircrack project(It cracks WEP and WPA keys using Dictionary attacks)
Snapshot of the Tool in kalilinux(terminal based)
Official website: www.aircrack-ng.org
9.Maltego:
It is a software used for forensics and open source intelligence .It will very useful for information gathering by ethical hackers.it discovers data from open sources and visualises it in graphs.It is also suitale for data mining
Snapshot of the Tool in kali linux
Official website: www.paterva.org
10.John The Ripper:
It is the free password cracking tool.It is one of the most popular password cracking tools.It runs on 15 operating system environments which includes windows,mac and all open sorce operating systems like Linux variants,Freebsd etc.
It is open source software you may browse the documentation online http://www.openwall.com/john/doc/
Snapshot of the tool in kalilinux(terminal based)
Official website: www.openwall.com/john