Network
- Scapy, Scapy3k: Send, sniff and dissect and forge network packets. Usable interactively or as a library
- pypcap, Pcapy and pylibpcap: Several different Python bindings for libpcap
- libdnet: Low-level networking routines, including interface lookup and Ethernet frame transmission
- dpkt: Fast, simple packet creation/parsing, with definitions for the basic TCP/IP protocols
- Impacket: Craft and decode network packets. Includes support for higher-level protocols such as NMB and SMB
- pynids: Libnids wrapper offering sniffing, IP defragmentation, TCP stream reassembly and port scan detection
- Dirtbags py-pcap: Read pcap files without libpcap
- flowgrep: Grep through packet payloads using regular expressions
- Knock Subdomain Scan, Enumerate subdomains on a target domain through a wordlist
- SubBrute, Fast subdomain enumeration tool
- Mallory, Extensible TCP/UDP man-in-the-middle proxy, supports modifying non-standard protocols on the fly
- Pytbull: Flexible IDS/IPS testing framework (shipped with more than 300 tests)
- Paimei: Reverse engineering framework, includes PyDBG, PIDA, pGRAPH
- Immunity Debugger: Scriptable GUI and command line debugger
- mona.py: PyCommand for Immunity Debugger that replaces and improves on pvefindaddr
- IDAPython: IDA Pro plugin that integrates the Python programming language, allowing scripts to run in IDA Pro
- PyEMU: Fully scriptable IA-32 emulator, useful for malware analysis
- pefile: Read and work with Portable Executable (aka PE) files
- pydasm: Python interface to the libdasm x86 disassembling library
- PyDbgEng: Python wrapper for the Microsoft Windows Debugging Engine
- uhooker: Intercept calls to API calls inside DLLs, and also arbitrary addresses within the executable file in memory
- diStorm: Disassembler library for AMD64, licensed under the BSD license
- python-ptrace: Debugger using ptrace (Linux, BSD and Darwin system call to trace processes) written in Python
- vdb / vtrace: Vtrace is a cross-platform process debugging API implemented in python, and vdb is a debugger which uses it
- Androguard: Reverse engineering and analysis of Android applications
- Capstone: Lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework with Python bindings
- PyBFD: Python interface to the GNU Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library
- Fuzzing
- Sulley: Fuzzer development and fuzz testing framework consisting of multiple extensible components
- Peach Fuzzing Platform: Extensible fuzzing framework for generation and mutation based fuzzing (v2 was written in Python)
- antiparser: Fuzz testing and fault injection API
- TAOF: The Art of Fuzzing) including ProxyFuzz, a man-in-the-middle non-deterministic network fuzzer
- untidy: General purpose XML fuzzer
- Powerfuzzer: Highly automated and fully customizable web fuzzer (HTTP protocol based application fuzzer)
- SMUDGE : Pure Python network protocol fuzzer
- Mistress: Probe file formats on the fly and protocols with malformed data, based on pre-defined patterns
- Fuzzbox: Multi-codec media fuzzer
- Forensic Fuzzing Tools: Generate fuzzed files, fuzzed file systems, and file systems containing fuzzed files in order to test the robustness of forensics tools and examination systems
- Windows IPC Fuzzing Tools: Tools used to fuzz applications that use Windows Interprocess Communication mechanisms
- WSBang: Perform automated security testing of SOAP based web services
- Construct: Library for parsing and building of data structures (binary or textual). Define your data structures in a declarative manner
- fuzzer.py (feliam): Simple fuzzer by Felipe Andres Manzano
- Fusil: Python library used to write fuzzing programs
- Requests: Elegant and simple HTTP library, built for human beings
- HTTPie: Human-friendly cURL-like command line HTTP client
- ProxMon: Processes proxy logs and reports discovered issues
- WSMap: Find web service endpoints and discovery files
- Twill: Browse the Web from a command-line interface. Supports automated Web testing
- Ghost.py: Webkit web client written in Python
- Windmill: Web testing tool designed to let you painlessly automate and debug your web application
- FunkLoad: Functional and load web tester
- spynner: Programmatic web browsing module for Python with Javascript/AJAX support
- python-spidermonkey: Bridge to the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine; allows for the evaluation and calling of Javascript scripts and functions
- mitmproxy: SSL-Capable, intercepting HTTP proxy. Console interface allows traffic flows to be inspected and edited on the fly
- pathod / pathoc: Pathological daemon/client for tormenting HTTP clients and servers
- Forensics
- Volatility: Extract digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples
- Rekall: Memory analysis framework developed by Google
- LibForensics: Library for developing digital forensics applications
- TrIDLib, Identify file types from their binary signatures. Now includes Python binding
- aft: Android forensic toolkit
- pyew: Command line hexadecimal editor and disassembler, mainly to analyze malware
- Exefilter: Filter file formats in e-mails, web pages or files. Detects many common file formats and can remove active content
- pyClamAV: Add virus detection capabilities to your Python software
- jsunpack-n, Generic JavaScript unpacker: emulates browser functionality to detect exploits that target browser and browser plug-in vulnerabilities
- yara-python: Identify and classify malware samples
- phoneyc: Pure Python honeyclient implementation
- CapTipper: Aanalyse, explore and revive HTTP malicious traffic from PCAP file
- peepdf: Python tool to analyse and explore PDF files to find out if they can be harmful
- Didier Stevens' PDF tools: Analyse, identify and create PDF files (includes PDFiD, pdf-parser and make-pdf and mPDF)
- Opaf: Open PDF Analysis Framework. Converts PDF to an XML tree that can be analyzed and modified.
- Origapy: Python wrapper for the Origami Ruby module which sanitizes PDF files
- pyPDF2: Pure Python PDF toolkit: extract info, spilt, merge, crop, encrypt, decrypt...
- PDFMiner: Extract text from PDF files
- python-poppler-qt4: Python binding for the Poppler PDF library, including Qt4 support
- Misc
- InlineEgg: Toolbox of classes for writing small assembly programs in Python
- Exomind: Framework for building decorated graphs and developing open-source intelligence modules and ideas, centered on social network services, search engines and instant messaging
- RevHosts: Enumerate virtual hosts for a given IP address
- simplejson: JSON encoder/decoder, e.g. to use Google's AJAX API
- PyMangle: Command line tool and a python library used to create word lists for use with other penetration testing tools
- Hachoir: View and edit a binary stream field by field
- py-mangle: Command line tool and a python library used to create word lists for use with other penetration testing tools
- IPython: Enhanced interactive Python shell with many features for object introspection, system shell access, and its own special command system
- Beautiful Soup: HTML parser optimized for screen-scraping
- matplotlib: Make 2D plots of arrays
- Mayavi: 3D Scientific data visualization and plotting
- RTGraph3D: Create dynamic graphs in 3D
- Twisted: Event-driven networking engine
- Suds: Lightweight SOAP client for consuming Web Services
- M2Crypto: Most complete OpenSSL wrapper
- NetworkX: Graph library (edges, nodes)
- Pandas: Library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools
- pyparsing: General parsing module
- lxml: Most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for working with XML and HTML in the Python language
- Whoosh: Fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python
- Pexpect: Control and automate other programs, similar to Don Libes `Expect` system
- Sikuli, Visual technology to search and automate GUIs using screenshots. Scriptable in Jython
- PyQt and PySide: Python bindings for the Qt application framework and GUI library
- Books
- Violent Python by TJ O'Connor. A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers and Security Engineers
- Grey Hat Python by Justin Seitz: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers.
- Black Hat Python by Justin Seitz: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
- Python Penetration Testing Essentials by Mohit: Employ the power of Python to get the best out of pentesting
- Python for Secret Agents by Steven F. Lott. Analyze, encrypt, and uncover intelligence data using Python
- More Stuff
- SecurityTube Python Scripting Expert (SPSE) is an online course and certification offered by Vivek Ramachandran.
- SANS offers the course SEC573: Python for Penetration Testers.
- The Python Arsenal for Reverse Engineering is a large collection of tools related to reverse engineering.
- There is a SANS paper about Python libraries helpful for forensic analysis (PDF).
- For more Python libaries, please have a look at PyPI, the Python Package Index.
Source: GitHub
