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A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners and tools for Awesome Ninja Admins.
Who is Ninja Admins?
- race of pure evil who rule the network through a monarchistic feudelic system
- they never opened the door for strangers (or anyone at all)
- they know very nasty piece of code like a fork bombs
- they can make dd is not a disk destroyer
- they know that
#!/usr/bin/env bashsuperior to#!/bin/bash - they know that
su -logs in completely as root - they love the old admin nix-world
Ninja Admins Collection
CLI Tools
▪️ Shells
🔸 Oh My ZSH! - the best framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
🔸 bash-it - a community Bash framework.
▪️ Managers
🔸 Midnight Commander - visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License.
🔸 screen - full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
🔸 tmux - terminal multiplexer, lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal.
▪️ Network
🔸 Curl - command line tool and library
for transferring data with URLs.
🔸 HTTPie - a user-friendly HTTP client.
🔸 gnutls-cli - client program to set up a TLS connection to some other computer.
🔸 netcat - networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
🔸 tcpdump - powerful command-line packet analyzer.
▪️ Databases
🔸 pgcli - postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
Web Tools
▪️ SSL
🔸 SSL Server Test - free online service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server.
🔸 SSL Server Test (DEV) - free online service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server.
🔸 ImmuniWeb® SSLScan - test SSL/TLS (PCI DSS, HIPAA and NIST).
🔸 Report URI - monitoring security policies like CSP and HPKP.
🔸 CSP Evaluator - allows developers and security experts to check if a Content Security Policy.
🔸 Common CA Database - repository of information about CAs, and their root and intermediate certificates.
🔸 CERTSTREAM - real-time certificate transparency log update stream.
▪️ HTTP Headers
🔸 Security Headers - analyse the HTTP response headers (with rating system to the results).
🔸 Observatory by Mozilla - set of tools to analyze your website.
▪️ DNS
🔸 ViewDNS - one source for free DNS related tools and information.
🔸 DNS Spy - monitor, validate and verify your DNS configurations.
🔸 DNSlytics - online investigation tool.
▪️ Mail
🔸 MX Toolbox - all of your MX record, DNS, blacklist and SMTP diagnostics in one integrated tool.
▪️ Mass scanners (search engines)
🔸 Censys - platform that helps information security practitioners discover, monitor, and analyze devices.
🔸 Shodan - the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices.
🔸 GreyNoise - mass scanner (such as Shodan and Censys).
🔸 Hardenize - deploy the security standards.
▪️ Net-tools
🔸 Netcraft - detailed report about the site, helping you to make informed choices about their integrity.
🔸 Security Trails - APIs for Security Companies, Researchers and Teams.
🔸 Online Curl - curl test, analyze HTTP Response Headers.
🔸 Ping.eu - online Ping, Traceroute, DNS lookup, WHOIS and others.
🔸 Network-Tools - network tools for webmasters, IT technicians & geeks.
🔸 URL Encode/Decode - tool from above to either encode or decode a string of text.
▪️ Performance
🔸 GTmetrix - analyze your site’s speed and make it faster.
🔸 Sucuri loadtimetester - test here the
performance of any of your sites from across the globe.
▪️ Passwords
🔸 Random.org - generate random passwords.
🔸 Gotcha? - list of 1.4 billion accounts circulates around the Internet.
🔸 have i been pwned? - check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach.
Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials
▪️ Bash
🔸 pure-bash-bible - a collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.
🔸 The Bash Hackers Wiki - hold documentation of any kind about GNU Bash.
▪️ Unix tutorials
🔸 nixCraft - linux and unix tutorials for new and seasoned sysadmin.
🔸 TecMint - the ideal Linux blog for Sysadmins & Geeks.
▪️ Hacking
🔸 Hacking Articles - LRaj Chandel's Security & Hacking Blog.
Blogs
🔸 Brendan Gregg's Blog - Brendan Gregg is an industry expert in computing performance and cloud computing.
🔸 Gynvael "GynDream" Coldwind - Gynvael is a IT security engineer at Google.
🔸 Michał "lcamtuf" Zalewski - "white hat" hacker, computer security expert.
🔸 Mattias Geniar - developer, Sysadmin, Blogger, Podcaster and Public Speaker.
🔸 Nick Craver - Software Developer and Systems Administrator for Stack Exchange.
🔸 Robert Penz - IT security Expert.
🔸 Scott Helme - Security Researcher, international speaker and founder of securityheaders.com and report-uri.com.
🔸 Kacper Szurek - Detection Engineer at ESET.
🔸 Troy Hunt - Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Developer Security.
Systems/Services
▪️ Systems
🔸 OpenBSD - multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system.
🔸 HardenedBSD - HardenedBSD aims to implement innovative exploit mitigation and security solutions.
▪️ HTTP(s) Services
🔸 Varnish HTTP Cache - HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites.
▪️ Security/hardening
🔸 Emerald Onion - Seattle-based encrypted-transit internet service provider.
Lists
🔸 Awesome Sysadmin - amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
🔸 Awesome Shell - awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos.
🔸 Awesome-Hacking - awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers.
Hacking/Penetration testing
▪️ Bounty programs
🔸 Openbugbounty - allows any security researcher reporting a vulnerability on any website.
🔸 hackerone - global hacker community to surface the most relevant security issues.
🔸 bugcrowd - crowdsourced cybersecurity for the enterprise.
🔸 Crowdshield - crowdsourced Security & Bug Bounty Management.
▪️ Web Training Apps
🔸 DVWA - PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable.
🔸 OWASP Mutillidae II - free, open source, deliberately vulnerable web-application.
🔸 OWASP Juice Shop Project - the most bug-free vulnerable application in existence.
🔸 OWASP WebGoat Project - insecure web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web app security.
🔸 Security Ninjas - open source application security training program.
One-liners
Table of Contents
Tool: terminal
Close shell keeping all subprocess running
disown -a && exit
Exit without saving shell history
kill -9 $$
Pipe stdout and stderr to separate commands
some_command > >(/bin/cmd_for_stdout) 2> >(/bin/cmd_for_stderr)
List of commands you use most often
history | awk '{ a[$2]++ } END { for(i in a) { print a[i] " " i } }' | sort -rn | head
Quickly backup a file
cp filename{,.orig}
Delete all files in a folder that don't match a certain file extension
rm !(*.foo|*.bar|*.baz)
Edit a file on a remote host using vim
vim scp://user@host//etc/fstab
Create a directory and change into it at the same time
mkd () { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$@"; }
Tool: mount
Mount a temporary ram partition
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt -o size=64M
-t- filesystem type-o- mount options
Tool: fuser
Kills a process that is locking a file
fuser -k filename
Tool: ps
Show a 4-way scrollable process tree with full details
ps awwfux | less -S
Tool: find
Find files that have been modified on your system in the past 60 minutes
find / -mmin 60 -type f
Find all files larger than 20M
find / -type f -size +20M
Tool: diff
Compare two directory trees
diff <(cd directory1 && find | sort) <(cd directory2 && find | sort)
Tool: curl
curl -Iks https://www.google.com
-I- show response headers only-k- insecure connection when using ssl-s- silent mode (not display body)
curl -Iks --location -X GET -A "x-agent" https://www.google.com
--location- follow redirects-X- set method-A- set user-agent
curl -Iks --location -X GET -A "x-agent" --proxy http://127.0.0.1:16379 https://www.google.com
--proxy [socks5://|http://]- set proxy server
Tool: httpie
http -p Hh https://www.google.com
-p- print request and response headersH- request headersB- request bodyh- response headersb- response body
http -p Hh --follow --max-redirects 5 --verify no https://www.google.com
-F, --follow- follow redirects--max-redirects N- maximum for--follow--verify no- skip SSL verification
http -p Hh --follow --max-redirects 5 --verify no --proxy http:http://127.0.0.1:16379 https://www.google.com
--proxy [http:]- set proxy server
Tool: openssh
Compare a remote file with a local file
ssh user@host cat /path/to/remotefile | diff /path/to/localfile -
SSH connection through host in the middle
ssh -t reachable_host ssh unreachable_host
Run command over ssh on remote host
cat > cmd.txt << __EOF__
cat /etc/hosts
__EOF__
ssh host -l user $(<cmd.txt)
Tool: linux-dev
Testing remote connection to port
timeout 1 bash -c "</dev/tcp/<host>/<port>" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?
<host>- set remote host<port>- set destination port
Tool: tcpdump
tcpdump -ne -i eth0 -Q in host 192.168.252.1 and port 443
-n- don't convert addresses-e- print the link-level headers-i [iface]- set interface-Q|-D [in|out|inout]- choose send/receive direction (-D- for old tcpdump versions)host [ip|hostname]- set host, also[host not][and|or]- set logicport [1-65535]- set port number, also[port not]
tcpdump -ne -i eth0 -Q in host 192.168.252.1 and port 443 -c 5 -w tcpdump.pcap
-c [num]- capture only num number of packets-w [filename]- write packets to file,-r [filename]- reading from file
Tool: ngrep
ngrep -d eth0 "www.google.com" port 443
-d [iface|any]- set interface[domain]- set hostnameport [1-65535]- set port number
ngrep -d eth0 "www.google.com" (host 10.240.20.2) and (port 443)
(host [ip|hostname])- filter by ip or hostname(port [1-65535])- filter by port number
ngrep -d eth0 -qt -O ngrep.pcap "www.google.com" port 443
-q- quiet mode (only payloads)-t- added timestamps-O [filename]- save output to file,-I [filename]- reading from file
ngrep -d eth0 -qt 'HTTP' 'tcp'
HTTP- show http headerstcp|udp- set protocol[src|dst] host [ip|hostname]- set direction for specific node
Tool: hping3
hping3 -V -p 80 -s 5050 <scan_type> www.google.com
-V|--verbose- verbose mode-p|--destport- set destination port-s|--baseport- set source port<scan_type>- set scan type-F|--fin- set FIN flag, port open if no reply-S|--syn- set SYN flag-P|--push- set PUSH flag-A|--ack- set ACK flag (use when ping is blocked, RST response back if the port is open)-U|--urg- set URG flag-Y|--ymas- set Y unused flag (0x80 - nullscan), port open if no reply-M 0 -UPF- set TCP sequence number and scan type (URG+PUSH+FIN), port open if no reply
hping3 -V -c 1 -1 -C 8 www.google.com
-c [num]- packet count-1- set ICMP mode-C|--icmptype [icmp-num]- set icmp type (default icmp-echo = 8)
hping3 -V -c 1000000 -d 120 -S -w 64 -p 80 --flood --rand-source <remote_host>
--flood- sent packets as fast as possible (don't show replies)--rand-source- random source address mode-d --data- data size-w|--win- winsize (default 64)
Tool: netcat
nc -kl 5000
-l- listen for an incoming connection-k- listening after client has disconnected>filename.out- save receive data to file (optional)
nc 192.168.0.1 5051 < filename.in
< filename.in- send data to remote host
nc -vz 10.240.30.3 5000
-v- verbose output-z- scan for listening daemons
nc -vzu 10.240.30.3 1-65535
-u- scan only udp ports
Transfer data file (archive)
server> nc -l 5000 | tar xzvfp -
client> tar czvfp - /path/to/dir | nc 10.240.30.3 5000
Launch remote shell
server> nc -l 5000 -e /bin/bash
client> nc 10.240.30.3 5000
Simple HTTP Server
Restarts web server after each request - remove
whilecondition for only single connection.
cat > index.html << __EOF__
<!doctype html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
</head>
<body>
<p>
Hello! It's a site.
</p>
</body>
</html>
__EOF__
server> while : ; do \
(echo -ne "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c <index.html)\r\n\r\n" ; cat index.html;) \
| nc -l -p 5000 \
; done
-p- port number
Simple HTTP Proxy (single connection)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [[ $# != 2 ]] ; then
printf "%s\\n" \
"usage: ./nc-proxy listen-port bk_host:bk_port"
fi
_listen_port="$1"
_bk_host=$(echo "$2" | cut -d ":" -f1)
_bk_port=$(echo "$2" | cut -d ":" -f2)
printf " lport: %s\\nbk_host: %s\\nbk_port: %s\\n\\n" \
"$_listen_port" "$_bk_host" "$_bk_port"
_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
_back="$_tmp/pipe.back"
_sent="$_tmp/pipe.sent"
_recv="$_tmp/pipe.recv"
trap 'rm -rf "$_tmp"' EXIT
mkfifo -m 0600 "$_back" "$_sent" "$_recv"
sed "s/^/=> /" <"$_sent" &
sed "s/^/<= /" <"$_recv" &
nc -l -p "$_listen_port" <"$_back" \
| tee "$_sent" \
| nc "$_bk_host" "$_bk_port" \
| tee "$_recv" >"$_back"
server> chmod +x nc-proxy && ./nc-proxy 8080 192.168.252.10:8000
lport: 8080
bk_host: 192.168.252.10
bk_port: 8000
client> http -p h 10.240.30.3:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
Content-Length: 2748
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 20:12:08 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:53:37 GMT
Tool: socat
Testing remote connection to port
socat - TCP4:10.240.30.3:22
-- standard input (STDIO)TCP4:<params>- set tcp4 connection with specific params[hostname|ip]- set hostname/ip[1-65535]- set port number
Redirecting TCP-traffic to a UNIX domain socket under Linux
socat TCP-LISTEN:1234,bind=127.0.0.1,reuseaddr,fork,su=nobody,range=127.0.0.0/8 UNIX-CLIENT:/tmp/foo
TCP-LISTEN:<params>- set tcp listen with specific params[1-65535]- set port numberbind=[hostname|ip]- set bind hostname/ipreuseaddr- allows other sockets to bind to an addressfork- keeps the parent process attempting to produce more connectionssu=nobody- set userrange=[ip-range]- ip range
UNIX-CLIENT:<params>- communicates with the specified peer socketfilename- define socket
Tool: lsof
Show process that use internet connection at the moment
lsof -P -i -n
Show process that use specific port number
lsof -i tcp:443
Lists all listening ports together with the PID of the associated process
lsof -Pan -i tcp -i udp
Tool: netstat
Graph # of connections for each hosts
netstat -an | grep ESTABLISHED | awk '{print $5}' | awk -F: '{print $1}' | grep -v -e '^[[:space:]]*$' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{ printf("%s\t%s\t",$2,$1) ; for (i = 0; i < $1; i++) {printf("*")}; print "" }'
Tool: awk
Remove duplicate entries in a file without sorting
awk '!x[$0]++' filename
Exclude multiple columns using AWK
awk '{$1=$3=""}1' filename
Tool: sed
To print a specific line from a file
sed -n 10p /path/to/file
Remove a specific line from a file
sed -i 10d /path/to/file
Tool: grep
Search for a "pattern" inside all files in the current directory
grep -RnisI "pattern" *
fgrep "pattern" * -R
Remove blank lines from a file and save output to new file
grep . filename > newfilename