Awesome Pentest Cheat Sheets

Collection of cheat sheets useful for pentesting

Contribution

Your contributions and suggestions are heartily welcome. Please check the Contributing Guidelines for more details.

General

• OSX Command Line Cheat Sheet
• PowerShell Cheat Sheet - SANS PowerShell Cheat Sheet from SEC560 Course (PDF version)
• Regexp Security Cheat Sheet
• Security Cheat Sheets - A collection of security cheat sheets
• Unix / Linux Cheat Sheet

Discovery

• Google Dorks - Google Dorks Hacking Database (Exploit-DB)
• Shodan - Shodan is a search engine for finding specific devices, and device types, that exist online

Exploitation

• Exploit Development Cheat Sheet - @ovid's exploit development in one picture
• Java Deserialization Cheat Sheet - A cheat sheet for pentesters about Java Native Binary Deserialization vulnerabilities
• Local File Inclution (LFI) Cheat Sheet #1 - Arr0way's LFI Cheat Sheet
• Local File Inclution (LFI) Cheat Sheet #2 - Aptive's LFI Cheat Sheet
• Metasploit Unleashed - The ultimate guide to the Metasploit Framework
• Metasploit Cheat Sheet - A quick reference guide (PNG version)(PDF version)
• PHP htaccess Injection Cheat Sheet - htaccess Injection Cheat Sheet by PHP Secure Configuration Checker
• Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet #1 - Pentestmonkey Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet
• Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet #2 - Arr0way's Reverse Shell Cheat Sheet
• SQL Injection Cheat Sheet - Netsparker's SQL Injection Cheat Sheet
• SQLite3 Injection Cheat Sheet

Privilege Escalation

Linux Privilege Escalation

• Basic Linux Privilege Escalation - Linux Privilege Escalation by @g0tmi1k
• linux-exploit-suggester.sh - Linux privilege escalation auditing tool written in bash (updated)
• Linux_Exploit_Suggester.pl - Linux Exploit Suggester written in Perl (last update 3 years ago)

Windows Privilege Escalation

• PowerUp - Excellent powershell script for checking of common Windows privilege escalation vectors. Written by harmj0y
• Windows Exploit Suggester - Tool for detection of missing security patches on the windows operating system and mapping with the public available exploits
• Sherlock - PowerShell script to quickly find missing software patches for local privilege escalation vulnerabilities
• Precompiled Windows Exploits - Collection of precompiled Windows exploits
• Metasploit Modules
  • post/multi/recon/local_exploit_suggester - suggests local meterpreter exploits that can be used
  • post/windows/gather/enum_patches - helps to identify any missing patches

Tools

• Nmap Cheat Sheet
• SQLmap Cheat Sheet
• SQLmap Tamper Scripts - SQLmal Tamper Scripts General/MSSQL/MySQL
• VIM Cheatsheet
• Wireshark Display Filters - Filters for the best sniffing tool

Tools Online

• XSS'OR Encoder/Decoder - Online Decoder/Encoder for testing purposes (@evilcos)
• WebGun - WebGun, XSS Payload Creator (@brutelogic)
• Hackvertor - Tool to convert various encodings and generate attack vectors (@garethheyes)
• JSFiddle - Test and share XSS payloads, Example PoC

Payloads

Genaral

• Fuzzdb - Dictionary of attack patterns and primitives for black-box application testing Polyglot Challenge with submitted solutions
• SecList - A collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data grep strings, fuzzing payloads, and many more

XSS

• XSS Polyglot Payloads #1 - Unleashing an Ultimate XSS Polyglot list by 0xsobky
• XSS Polyglot Payloads #2 - @filedescriptor's XSS
• Browser's-XSS-Filter-Bypass-Cheat-Sheet- Excellent List of working XSS bapasses running on the latest version of Chrome / Safari, IE 11 / Edge created by Masato Kinugawa

Write-Ups

• Bug Bounty Reference - huge list of bug bounty write-up that is categorized by the bug type (SQLi, XSS, IDOR, etc.)
• Facebook Bug Bounties - Categorized Facebook Bug Bounties write-ups

Learning Platforms

Online

• OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project (Online) - List of online available vulnerable applications for learning purposes
• Pentestit labs - Hands-on Pentesting Labs (OSCP style)
• Root-me.org - Hundreds of challenges are available to train yourself in different and not simulated environments
• Vulnhub.com - Vulnerable By Design VMs for practical 'hands-on' experience in digital security

Off-Line

• Damn Vulnerable Xebia Training Environment - Docker Container including several vurnerable web applications (DVWA,DVWServices, DVWSockets, WebGoat, Juiceshop, Railsgoat, django.NV, Buggy Bank, Mutilidae II and more)
• OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project (Offline) - List of offline available vulnerable applications for learning purposes

Wireless Hacking

Tools

• wifite2 - Full authomated WiFi security testing script

Defence Topics

• Docker Security Cheat Sheet - The following tips should help you to secure a container based system (PDF version)
• Windows Domain Hardening - A curated list of awesome Security Hardening techniques for Windows

Programming

• JavaScript Cheat Sheet - Learn javascript in one picture (Online version) (PNG version)
• Python Cheat Sheet #1 - Learn python3 in one picture (PNG version)
• Python Cheat Sheet #2 - Learn python3 in one picture (Online version) (PNG version)
• Python Snippets Cheat Sheet - List of helpful re-usable code snippets in Python