Interactive Cheatsheets

Searchable command references for pentesting, CTF, and security research. Click any command to copy.

All web-pentest (7) exploitation (7) active-directory (6) recon (3) network-pentest (2) mobile-pentest (2) privesc (1) forensics (1) cloud-pentest (1)
exploitation
Netcat & Socat — Network Swiss Army Knife
Netcat and Socat for reverse shells, port forwarding, file transfer, and network debugging.
34 Apr 2026
exploitation
John the Ripper — Password Cracking
John the Ripper — versatile password cracker with hash extraction helpers for common file formats.
43 Apr 2026
exploitation
MSFVenom — Payload Generation
MSFVenom combines msfpayload and msfencode for generating custom shellcode and payloads.
38 Apr 2026
exploitation
Metasploit Framework — Exploitation
Metasploit Framework — the world's most used penetration testing framework for exploit development a…
30 Apr 2026
exploitation
Hashcat — Offline Password Cracking
Hashcat is the world's fastest password recovery tool supporting 300+ hash types and GPU acceleratio…
26 Apr 2026
exploitation
SearchSploit & ExploitDB — Exploit Discovery
SearchSploit — local ExploitDB search tool for finding and using publicly known exploits.
34 Apr 2026
exploitation
Hydra — Online Password Brute Force
Hydra is a fast, parallelized online password cracker supporting 50+ protocols.
33 Apr 2026