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Better Pagers

Tool

There are various pagers which are more suitable or user-friendly than the basic pagers like more or less.

bat – A cat(1) clone with wings

bat is an advanced pager, supporting usability features. It comes with syntax highlighting out of the box. It also integrates with git and shows the lines added and removed for a file.

pspg – Postgres Pager

pspg is an advanced pager for usage with psql. It shows the data in table form, allows scrolling through the columns and rows. You can pin header or initial columns, such that they do not move while scrolling around. It supports many different color schemes.





C2Rust

https://c2rust.com/

C | Rust | Tool

C2Rust is a project for converting (legacy) C code into equivalent Rust code. The resulting Rust code is very low level and uses pointers and unsafe. The website offers an online demo to show the capabilities of the tool.


CPP Insights

https://cppinsights.io/

C++ | Tool

Desugar C++ code and show how modern C++ features are implemented. This helps in understanding the details of C++ and how modern compilers implement the language standard.






CyberChef

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

CTF | Tool

The CyberChef is a website which provides many recipes and makes it easy to combine them. The recipes are small input/output steps, similar to UNIX tools, and cover a large area of topics, like data formats, encoding, encryption, networking, hashing, compression, etc. The main use case is making it easier in CTFs to chain simple operations together, like processing encoded text.



DNS Quality/Overview Tools

DNS | DNSSEC | Dataset | Network | Tool

Check My DNS

Browser-based DNS resolver quality measurement tool. Uses the browser to generate many resolver queries and tests for features they should have, such as EDNS support, IPv6, QNAME Minimization, etc.

This test is also available as a CLI tool: https://github.com/DNS-OARC/cmdns-cli

DNSSEC Debugger

Analyze DNSSEC deployment for a zone and show errors in the configuration.

DNSViz

Gives an overview of DNSSEC delegations, response sizes, and name servers.

GitHub: https://github.com/dnsviz/dnsviz

DNS X-Ray

The website has an online test, which performs DNS lookups. These DNS lookups test if certain resource records are overwritten in the cache. The tool can then determine what DNS software is used, where the server is located, how many caches there are, etc.

EDNS Compliance Tester

Test name server of zones for correct EDNS support.

The Transitive Trust and DNS Dependency Graph Portal

Shows the trust dependencies in DNS. Given a domain name, it can show how zones delegate to each other and why. The delegation is done between IP addresses and zones.

Root Canary Project

The project used to monitor the first root KSK key rollover. Now it contains the paper "Roll, Roll, Roll your Root: A Comprehensive Analysis of the First Ever DNSSEC Root KSK Rollover" describing the experiences of the first root KSK rollover

Additionally, it includes a tester for DNSSEC algorithm support, which shows the algorithms supported by the currently used recursive resolver. It provides statistics about support for DNSSEC algorithms. It has a web-based test to test your own resolver and provides a live monitoring using the RIPE Atlas.

DNSSEC algorithms resolver test



DNS Toys

https://www.dns.toys/

DNS | Tool

DNS Toys is an authoritative DNS server offering different unit conversion and lookup tools.

Some examples from the website include:

# Lookup time by city name
dig newyork.time @dns.toys

# or weather
dig newyork.weather @dns.toys

# Return the client IP address
dig ip @dns.toys

# Number conversion from decimal to hex
dig 100dec-hex.base @dns.toys



Dangerzone: Create safe PDFs

https://dangerzone.rocks/about.html

Tool

Dangerzone is a tool for converting documents into safe PDFs. This allows converting potentially dangerous office documents, PDFs, or images into a new PDF without copying any metadata or macros. It works by converting the original documents into bitmaps and afterward turning the bitmaps into new PDFs, optionally also with OCR for searchable PDFs.







DirectPoll: Large Polls with Audience Participation

https://directpoll.com/

Tool

The website lets you create polls, which are intended to be used live in front of a large audience. The presenter can configure the poll, select display options, and mark correct answers.

During the presentation, the presenter has a view, which shows the live results of the poll. The audience can join the polls and vote on them live. The results are completely anonymous.

It can be a great tool for interactive PowerPoint presentations, for lectures, or generally for trivia events.


Distributed Randomness Beacon

https://drand.love/

Dataset | Tool

The distributed randomness beacon is a verifiable, unpredictable and unbiased random numbers as a service. A network of multiple entities computes the random numbers. They are a good source of true entropy. Another use is in verifiable lotteries, by using these random numbers to pick a winner at random.


Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer

https://dogbolt.org/

CTF | Tool | x86

Dogbolt is an online interactive decompiler explorer. A binary can be uploaded and the decompiled C-like output of multiple decompilers compared. The website collects all uploaded binaries, so be wary of which files to upload. The big advantage of the website is having so many available decompilers (angr, Binary Ninja, Boomerang, Ghidra, IDA Pro, REC Studio, Reko, RetDec, Snowman). A downside is that no alterations to the decompilation are possible, for example, to provide function signatures.




Easy File Sharing without Accounts

Tool

  • https://transfer.sh/ allows uploading from the command line and the browser. Files can be up to 10 GB and be stored up to 14 days. It allows limiting the number of downloads.

    # Upload using cURL
    $ curl --upload-file ./hello.txt https://transfer.sh/hello.txt
    https://transfer.sh/66nb8/hello.txt
    
    $ curl -H "Max-Downloads: 1" -H "Max-Days: 5" --upload-file ./hello.txt https://transfer.sh/hello.txt
    https://transfer.sh/66nb8/hello.txt
    
  • https://instant.io/ share and receive files using WebTorrent.

  • https://send.tresorit.com/ allows anonymous file shares. Files can be up to 5 GB and be stored for up to 7 days.


Entropy/IP

https://github.com/akamai/entropy-ip

IP | IPv6 | Tool

The Entropy/IP algorithm allows for inspecting and generating IPv6 addresses. Entropy/IP can determine the entropy of different nibbles and the relationship between different components. Based on this analysis, it can also create valid-looking IPv6 addresses.



FD.io: The World's Secure Networking Data Plane

https://fd.io/

Network | Tool

FD.io is a very fast userspace networking library, which allows creating programs for packet processing. While DPDK allows fast read and write access to the NICs, FD.io is focussed on processing the packets. Possible use cases are a packet forwarder, implementing a NAT or a VPN.

More details also in this APNIC blog post: https://blog.apnic.net/2020/04/17/kernel-bypass-networking-with-fd-io-and-vpp/



Float Exposed

https://float.exposed/

Tool

The Float Exposed website allows exploring IEEE floating-point numbers interactively. It shows 16, 32, and 64 variants. It allows flipping individual bit and visualizes the result. The meaning of the bits is also shown and color-coded.


Float Toy

https://evanw.github.io/float-toy/

Tool

The Float Toy website allows exploring IEEE floating-point numbers interactively. It shows 16, 32, and 64 variants. It allows flipping individual bit and visualizes the result. The meaning of the bits is also shown and color-coded.




Godbolt Compiler Explorer

https://godbolt.org/

CTF | Tool | x86

The Godbolt compiler explorer allows the user to compile a function and see the corresponding assembly code. It can highlight matching parts in the language and assembly, making it easy to understand how individual expressions are compiled. It supports common languages like C, C++, Go, Rust. Furthermore, it can also work with assembler and LLVM IR.

Another nice feature is, that it can show statistics about assembler code, like needed cycles, instructions, and which resources the instructions need. This uses the LLVM Machine Code Analyzer.



IPmap RIPE

https://ipmap.ripe.net/

BGP | Dataset | Map | Network | Tool

IP geolocation services feeding itself from geolocation databases, user provided locations, and most importantly, active RTT measurements based on the RIPE Atlas system. It also provides a nice API to query the location. It provides a breakdown on where the results stem from and how much they contribute to the overall result.


IPv4 Heatmap

https://github.com/measurement-factory/ipv4-heatmap

IP | Tool

The IPv4 heatmap tool draws an image of active IPv4 addresses. The IP addresses are mapped to pixels using a Hilbert curve or a Z-curve. The image can be extended with annotations about the address space, for example, to show which regional internet registry is assigned to the address.





Internet Society Pulse

https://pulse.internetsociety.org/

Autonomous System | BGP | Dataset | Network | Tool

The Internet Society gathers data to show the general health and availability of the internet. They measure four categories: internet shutdowns, technology use, resilience, and concentration. Under internet shutdowns, they show which countries are performing what kind of disruption, e.g., regional or national. The technology sections lists basic statistics about HTTPS, IPv6, TLS, DNSSEC.



List of JSON to Struct Converters

JSON | Rust | Tool

These websites provide tools, which convert JSON data to structs in different programming languages.



Lists of DNS Blocklists

DNS | Dataset | IP | Network | Spam | Tool

These projects either operate DNS based Real-time Blackhole Lists (RBL) or allow checking if an IP is contained. The Multi-RBL websites are helpful in finding a large quantity of RBLs.


Metis: Atlas probe selection

https://ihr.iijlab.net/ihr/en-us/metis/selection

Network | Tool

The website provides a tool to select a list of autonomous systems with a fairer probe distribution. Probes are not distributed equally, but rather cluster based on population. This leads to large biases towards western locations and certain autonomous systems. The website offers different distance metrics. The output is a list of autonomous system numbers for use in the RIPE Atlas API.



Mini Internet Project

https://github.com/nsg-ethz/mini_internet_project

BGP | IP | Network | Tool

The mini internet project is part of the curriculum by the Networked Systems Group of ETH Zurich. It teaches the students the basic steps of how to create a mini internet. It starts with the basics of intra-network routing, by setting up multiple L2 switches. Then the students have to configure L3 routers to connect multiple L2 sites together. Lastly, in a big hackathon style, the students need to connect their local network with the network of the other students, by properly configuring BGP routers and setting up routing policies.

The code and the tasks are all available in the GitHub repository.

The APNIC Blog has a nice introduction to the project too.







NextDNS

https://nextdns.io/

DNS | Tool

A free and configurable DNS resolver. It provides customizable blocking, such as for ads, trackers, or malicious websites. Additionally, statistics can be shown, such as for most blocked websites.

A similar self-hosted variant is Pi-hole.


OWASP Amass

https://github.com/owasp-amass/amass

CTF | DNS | Tool

The OWASP Amass tool suite obtains subdomain names by scraping data sources, recursive brute forcing, crawling web archives, permuting/altering names and reverse DNS sweeping. Additionally, Amass uses the IP addresses obtained during resolution to discover associated net blocks and ASNs. All the information is then used to build maps of the target networks.







OpenWPM: A web privacy measurement framework

https://github.com/openwpm/OpenWPM

Tool

OpenWPM is a web privacy measurement framework which makes it easy to collect data for privacy studies on a scale of thousands to millions of websites. OpenWPM is built on top of Firefox, with automation provided by Selenium. It includes several hooks for data collection. Check out the instrumentation section below for more details.



PEERING: The BGP Testbed

https://peering.ee.columbia.edu/

BGP | Network | Tool

PEERING is an environment where researchers and educators can play with BGP announcements in a real but sandboxed environment.

Description from the website:

The long-term goal of the PEERING system is to enable on-demand, safe, and controlled access to the Internet routing ecosystem for researchers and educators:

  • PEERING for researchers. Today, it is hard for researchers to conduct Internet routing experiments. To perform a routing experiment, a research institution has to obtain Internet resources (IP addresses and ASNs) and establish relations with upstream networks. PEERING eliminates these obstacles and provides researchers controlled on-demand access to the routing ecosystem.
  • PEERING for educators. Educators can use the PEERING infrastructure in teaching students the Internet routing architecture. The students access to live BGP sessions to multiple ISPs.




Pi-hole: Network-wide Ad Blocking

https://pi-hole.net/

DNS | Tool

A free and configurable DNS stub-resolver. It provides customizable blocking, such as for ads, trackers, or malicious websites. Additionally, statistics can be shown, such as for the most blocked website.

It can also function as a DHCP server for clients on the same network.

A similar service is NextDNS.


Play with Docker

https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

Docker | Tool

Play with Docker is a Docker playground which allows users to run Docker commands in a matter of seconds. It gives the experience of having a free Alpine Linux Virtual Machine in the browser, where you can build and run Docker containers and even create clusters in Docker Swarm Mode. Under the hood, Docker-in-Docker (DinD) is used to give the effect of multiple VMs/PCs. In addition to the playground, PWD also includes a training site composed of a large set of Docker labs and quizzes from beginner to advanced level available at training.play-with-docker.com.






RIPE Atlas: Probe Filters

https://github.com/nicholaskernan/probe-filters

Network | Tool

The repository contains code for a better probe selection for the RIPE Atlas measurement system. Probes are not distributed equally, but rather cluster based on population. This leads to large biases towards western locations and certain autonomous systems. The goal of the repository is to find a more equal, thus fairer probe selection.


RIPEstat: Providing open data and insights for Internet resources

https://stat.ripe.net/

Autonomous System | BGP | DNS | Dataset | Network | Tool

RIPEstat is a network statistics platform by RIPE. The platform shows data for IP addresses, networks, ASNs, and DNS names. This includes information such as the registration information, abuse contacts, blocklist status, BGP information, geolocation lookups, or reverse DNS names. Additionally, the website links to many other useful tools, such as an address space hierarchy viewer, historical whois information, and routing consistency checks.




Rappel: Linux Assembly REPL

https://github.com/yrp604/rappel

ARM | Tool | x86

Rappel is a pretty janky assembly REPL. It works by creating a shell ELF, starting it under ptrace, then continuously rewriting/running the .text section, while showing the register states. It's maybe half done right now, and supports Linux x86, amd64, armv7 (no thumb), and armv8 at the moment.


RegexGenerator++

http://regex.inginf.units.it/

Regex | Tool

The website provides an automatic generator for regex patterns by learning from sample sentences. The website requires entering as many sample sentences with as many matching positions as possible. These datasets can also be imported and exported, such that they can be refined over time.


Resolver Testbed

https://github.com/icann/resolver-testbed

DNS | Tool

This repo describes a testbed to test various DNS resolvers. The purpose of the testbed is to allow researchers to set up many resolvers and run tests on each. For example, a test might see what the resolver emits when it is priming, or when it is responding to a particular query while using DNSSEC validation.


RetDec - Retargetable Decompiler

https://retdec.com/

Reverse Engineering | Tool

A standalone decompiler, built and managed by Avast. Works as a standalone program, has a trial version on the website, and there is an IDA Plugin.

Supported file formats: ELF, PE, Mach-O, COFF, AR (archive), Intel HEX, and raw machine code. Supported architectures (32b only): Intel x86, ARM, MIPS, PIC32, and PowerPC.


Reverse Shell Generator

https://www.revshells.com/

CTF | Tool

The website provides a generator for quickly configuring a reverse shell. After entering an IP address and port number, the website shows code snippets for many languages. It also provides the option to create bind shells or use the metasploit framework.


Root Servers

https://root-servers.org

DNS | Dataset | Tool

Overview page for the DNS root servers. It contains links to general news and all the supporting organizations.

The website features a map with all geographic locations. It contains information about locations, IPv4/IPv6 reachability and IP addresses.

Each root server has its own subdomain in the form of https://a.root-servers.org. It contains access to historical performance data like:

  • Size and time of zone updates
  • RCODE volume
  • query and response sizes for UDP and TCP
  • traffic volume (packets per time)
  • Unique sources




















Timevault: Timelock Encryption

https://timevault.drand.love/

Tool

Timevault is an implementation of timelock encryption. Timelock encryption encrypts a message based on a timestamp. After that time has passed, anyone can decrypt the message. This is useful for embargoed messages, which should be distributed before the reveal time, for example, vulnerability notifications.

The blog post by the drand project introduces the concept and contains further tools.

A command line version for timelock encryption is available.


Unicode Text Converter

https://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi

Tool | Unicode

The tool converts an input string into different and sometimes obscure Unicode characters. It is useful to generate funny-looking text or to generate a new username if the desired one is taken.

For example, the tool supports ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ, 𝖋𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗, 🆂🆀🆄🅰🆁🅴🅳, ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴩꜱ, ɐup 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 wɘiᴙb options.



Web Performance Testers

Tool

https://www.webpagetest.org/

Allows scanning a website for different performance characteristics. There are five test kinds: 1) Site Performance, 2) Core Web Vitals, 3) Lighthouse, 4) Visual Comparison, and 5) Traceroute. It reports many web performance problems, like download times, first paints or problems with mobile devices.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/

Reports basic web performance data for mobile and desktop browsers.


WebPlotDigitizer

https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/

Tool

The WebPlotDigitizer is a tool to extract data from plots and images. It guides the user through annotating the image and setting some parameters (such as axis values). This allows the tool to extract the values from the chart. The tool allows many customizations to allow better tuning of the extraction process. WebPlotDigitizer also comes in a desktop version.




Wildcard DNS for IP Addresses

DNS | IP | Network | Tool

These services allow you to create a domain name for any IP address. The IP address is encoded into the domain name. An overview of different services can be found here.

Online Services

  • https://nip.io/ provides IPv4 only

    • Supports both . and - separators.
    • 10.0.0.1.nip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
    • 192-168-1-250.nip.io resolves to 192.168.1.250
    • customer1.app.10.0.0.1.nip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
    • magic-127-0-0-1.nip.io resolves to 127.0.0.1
  • https://sslip.io/ provides IPv4 and IPv6

    • Supports both . and - separators.
    • Provides the ability to use the service with your own branding.
    • 192.168.0.1.sslip.io resolves to 192.168.0.1
    • 192-168-1-250.sslip.io resolves to 192.168.1.250
    • www.192-168-0-1.sslip.io resolves to 192.168.0.1
    • –1.sslip.io resolves to ::1
    • 2a01-4f8-c17-b8f--2.sslip.io resolves to 2a01:4f8:c17:b8f::2
  • https://ip.addr.tools/ provides IPv4 and IPv6

    • Supports both . and - separators.
    • 192.168.0.1.ip.addr.tools resolves to 192.168.0.1
    • 192-168-1-250.ip.addr.tools resolves to 192.168.1.250
    • www.192-168-0-1.ip.addr.tools resolves to 192.168.0.1
    • 2a01-4f8-c17-b8f--2.ip.addr.tools resolves to 2a01:4f8:c17:b8f::2

Self-hosted Options

  • hipio is a Haskell service for IPv4.




ZMap Project

https://zmap.io/

DNS | IP | Network | Tool

Different utilities for network scanning. Most importantly, the zmap component, which is a packet scanner for different protocols. It also contains other tools like ways to iterate over the IPv4 address space and denylist/allowlist management.



addr.tools

https://addr.tools/

DNS | IP | Network | Tool










deps.dev

https://deps.dev/

Security | Tool

deps.dev is a dependency analyzer for multiple language ecosystems (npm, Go modules, Maven, PyPI, Cargo). It shows basic information, such as the metadata (including license) about each package, dependencies, and reverse dependencies. It enhances this information by adding a diff viewer for the versions. Security advisories affecting a package or dependency are highlighted. The OpenSSF scorecard is also integrated, showing more insights about the project health.

The second feature of the website is an advisory viewer. It shows details about each advisory, including affected versions. It also calculates how much of the ecosystem is affected and patched.



dnskv: DNS-based Key-Value Storage

https://dnskv.com/

DNS | Tool

This is a custom DNS server which allows setting and retrieving text-based data. New values can be written as subdomains and retrieved via a normal TXT lookup.

  • To set a key: dig my-value.my-key.dnskv.com txt +short
  • To get a key: dig my-key.dnskv.com txt +short

The service provides many extra options like setting an expiry time or the TTL.




explainshell

https://explainshell.com/

Cheatsheet | Shell | Tool

explainshell does what the name suggests: it explains shell commands. It allows writing a shell command, and it explains what the program is doing, the meaning of the command line flags, and how the piping between different programs works.



jc: JSON Convert

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

Tool

jc JSONifies the output of many CLI tools, file-types, and common strings for easier parsing in scripts, e.g., dig example.com | jc --dig. It can parse the output of many basic Unix tools and system management tools. This list shows the supported parsers. jc is available via pip and Linux repositories.


k-v.io: DNS-based Key-Value Store

https://k-v.io/

DNS | Tool

This is a custom DNS server which allows setting and retrieving text-based data. New values can be written as subdomains and retrieved via a normal TXT lookup.

  • To set a key: dig @ns.sslip.io put.my-value.my-key.k-v.io txt +short
  • To get a key: dig @ns.sslip.io my-key.k-v.io txt +short
  • To delete a key: dig @ns.sslip.io delete.my-key.k-v.io txt +short

mess with dns

https://messwithdns.net/

DNS | Tool

"mess with dns" is a tool which allows you to experiment with DNS. The website allows creation of resource records of many types. They are all within a custom 3rd level domain. The website also shows the DNS requests the authoritative DNS server received.



nPrint

https://nprint.github.io/

Network | Tool

The nPrint project is a collection of open-source software and benchmarks for network traffic analysis that aim to replace the built-to-task approach currently taken when examining traffic analysis tasks.


osquery

https://github.com/osquery/osquery

Tool

osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL-based queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes.


pdfpc: PDF Presenter Console

https://github.com/pdfpc/pdfpc

LaTeX | Tool

pdfpc is a tool enabling a presenter mode for presenting PDF files. The presenter mode contains the usual features known from PowerPoint/LibreOffice:

  • Slide previews
  • Notes
  • Timer

pdfpc is especially adapted to present LaTeX presentations, which otherwise do not have a presenter mode.


pdoc: API Documentation for Python Projects

https://pdoc.dev/

Python | Tool

pdoc is a Python API documentation generation, which turns doc-strings and type annotations into a simple and elegant documentation.

pdoc auto-generates API documentation that follows your project's Python module hierarchy. It requires no configuration, has first-class support for type annotations, cross-links between identifiers, comes with an integrated live-reloading web server, uses customizable HTML templates, understands numpydoc and Google-style docstrings, and is permissively licensed.


preeny

https://github.com/zardus/preeny

CTF | Tool

preeny helps pwning binaries by disabling many annoying functions, such as random or alarm. It does so by providing different LDPRELOAD-able libraries for those library functions.


pwntools

https://pwntools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

CTF | Tool

pwntools is one of THE Python tools needed during a CTF. It is useful for both jeopardy and attack-defense CTFs. It provides common abstractions, like connecting to a local or remote program, and simplifying I/O. Additionally, it provides helpers for many exploitation techniques, such as ROP, shellcode, and leaking memory.



regex101

https://regex101.com/

Cheatsheet | Regex | Tool

regex101 helps in understanding and writing regular expressions (regex). It takes a regex and explains the different parts of it. It also shows how the regex applies to a sample text.

Additionally, it contains a regex reference as well as a user supplied library of different regexes.


regexr

https://regexr.com/

Cheatsheet | Regex | Tool

regexr helps in understanding and writing regular expressions (regex). It takes a regex and explains the different parts of it. It also shows how the regex applies to a sample text.

Additionally, it contains a regex reference as well as a user supplied library of different regexes.







unfurl

https://dfir.blog/unfurl/

Tool

The website allows inspecting encoded information in URLs, by parsing the URL with generic or specialized extractors. For example, it can decode the query parameters of Google searches and display what the different parameters mean.


urlscan.io

https://urlscan.io/

Malware | Tool

urlscan.io is a sandbox for URLs. The website generates a report for a URL to get a basic understanding about the network connections involved. The report includes a screenshot, the list of IP addresses and domains the website uses, and detected scripts.