En Techbeacon crearon una lista de 57 herramientas de código abierto dedicadas a análisis de aplicaciones web.
Algunos de estos proyectos son muy activos y se actualizan con frecuencia con nuevas capacidades, algunas “gratis” o “ediciones de la comunidad” y otras tienen versiones comerciales más completas.
- Andiparos
A fork of the famous Paros Proxy, an open source web application security assessment tool that gives penetration testers the ability to spider websites, analyze content, intercept, and modify requests
https://code.google.com/archive/p/andiparos
- Arachni
Penetration testing environment; Ruby framework focus
http://www.arachni-scanner.com
- BackTrack
Called a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal, this distribution is configured with hundreds of security testing tools and scripts
http://www.backtrack-linux.org
- BeEF
Penetration testing for Open Source
- Caja
Compiler for making third-party HTML, CSS and JavaScript safe to embed in a website. It uses an object-capability security model to allow for a wide range of flexible security policies
http://developers.google.com/caja
- ClamAV
Open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats
- DOM Snitch
Experimental Chrome extension that enables developers and testers to identify insecure practices commonly found in client-side code. Developers and testers can observe DOM modifications as they happen inside the browser without the need to step through JavaScript code with a debugger or pause the execution of their application
https://code.google.com/archive/p/domsnitch
- Ettercap
Called “a comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks… features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks.”
http://ettercap.github.io/ettercap
- GoLismero
Free software framework for security testing
- Google hacking database (GHDB)
Described by SecTools.org as “a gold mine for security researchers and penetration testers,” this site is part of The Exploit Database, “a non-profit project that is provided as a public service by Offensive Security.”
https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database
- Google application security tools
Google states that these tools “address a gap present in other open-source tools. These tools may require some minor tweaking or compilation to work on your systems.” Some are included separately in this list
https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/tools
- Grabber
Web application scanner which can detect many security vulnerabilities in web applications. An open source web application penetration testing tools
http://rgaucher.info/beta/grabber
- Grendel
Scan web application security tool for finding security vulnerabilities; features are also available for manual penetration testing
https://sourceforge.net/projects/grendel
- Gruyere
Called “a small, cheesy web application”; allows users to publish snippets of text and store assorted files. Caveat: Gruyere has multiple security bugs ranging from cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, to information disclosure, denial of service, and remote code execution
http://google-gruyere.appspot.com
- Kali
Linux penetration testing
- Keyczar
Open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications. It supports authentication and encryption with both symmetric and asymmetric keys; designed to be an open, extensible and cross-platform compatible
https://github.com/google/keyczar
- Kismet
Wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet works predominately with Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) networks, but can be expanded via plug-ins to handle other network types
- Malwarebytes
Endpoint security malware scanner for Windows
- Metasploit
Metasploit by Rapid7 Penetration Testing Open Source
- ModSecurity
WAF open source
- Nagios
Monitors the entire IT infrastructure to ensure systems, applications, services, and business processes are functioning properly
- Native Client (NaCl)
A technology for running native compiled code in the browser. NaCl aims at maintaining operating system portability and safety that people expect from web applications
http://developer.chrome.com/native-client
- Nikto2
Web server testing tool to find known vulnerable scripts, configuration mistakes and related security problems
- Nmap
Penetration testing utility for network discovery and security auditing with NSE scripts that can detect vulnerabilities, misconfiguration and security related information around network services
- NoScript
Firefox addon that provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers; allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice
- OpenSSH
Secures traffic between two points by tunnelling insecure protocols through an SSH tunnel
- OpenVAS
Open source vulnerability scanning suite
- OSSEC
Host based intrusion detection system or HIDS
- OWASP
A large class of open source sec testing tools is available at owasp.org
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Appendix_A:_Testing_Tools
- Packet Storm
Wide variety of scanner tools for vulnerability and penetration available
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/tags/scanner
- Paros Proxy
Testing tool for your security and vulnerability testing. Used to spider/crawl entire sites, then execute canned vulnerability scanner tests
http://www.testingsecurity.com/paros_proxy
- Powerfuzzer
HTTP protocol based application fuzzer based on many other Open Source fuzzers
- Ratproxy
Designed to overcome the problems users usually face while using other proxy tools for security audits; capable of distinguishing between CSS stylesheets and JavaScript codes
https://code.google.com/archive/p/ratproxy
- Secunia PSI
A free computer security solution that identifies vulnerabilities in applications on private PCs
http://learn.flexerasoftware.com/SVM-EVAL-Personal-Software-Inspector
- Security Onion
Linux distribution for intrusion detection, network security monitoring, and log management
- Skipfish
Active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for a site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary tools. Written in C with a custom HTTP stack, it is high performance, easy to use and reliable
https://code.google.com/archive/p/skipfish
- Snort
Open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) for UNIX derivatives and Windows
- SonarQube
SonarQube™ software (previously known as “Sonar”) is an open platform to manage code quality. As such, it covers the 7 axes of code quality
https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube
- SQLMap
Penetration testing tool, automates the process of finding and exploiting SQL injection vulnerability in a website’s database
- Tcpdump
Called “a powerful command-line packet analyzer” on its website, this tool is still used by many as an alternative to the more resource-intensive Wireshark
- Vega
Web vulnerability scanner and testing platform; SQL injection, cross-site scripting, etc.
- W3AF
SQL injection, cross-site scripting detection tool
- Wapiti
Web vulnerability scanner which lets you audit the security of your web applications. It performs black-box testing by scanning web pages and injecting data
- Watcher
A Fiddler addon to assist penetration testers in passively finding Web app vulnerabilities
http://websecuritytool.codeplex.com
- WATOBO
Perform efficient (semi-automated) web application security audits
http://watobo.sourceforge.net/index.html
- WebScarab
Java-based security framework for analyzing web applications using HTTP or HTTPS protocol. Written in Java, portable to many platforms; offers several modes of operation, implemented by a number of plugins. In its most common usage, WebScarab operates as an intercepting proxy
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Project
- Websecurify
GNUCITIZEN (see the Commercial vendor list)
- Wfuzz
A freely available open source tool for web application penetration testing. It can be used to brute force GET and POST parameters for testing against various kinds of injections like SQL, XSS, LDAP, and many others
http://code.google.com/p/wfuzz
- SensePost
Vulnerability tools for devices, networks, and apps. Tools include autoDANE, reGeorg, Jack, and the SensePost Maltego Toolset
- Wireshark
Wireshark Penetration Testing and Packet-level Monitoring Open Source; view traffic in as much detail as you want; follow network streams and find problems
- Zed Attack Proxy
Also known as Zap. Open source, intercepting proxy which is fork and update of the badly out of date Paros Proxy. Fairly powerful for manual testing, and contains some automated testing features.
¡A disfrutarlas!
SANS también ha publicado el SANS 2016 State of Application Security
