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Package Managers

Equivalent package-management commands across the major Linux distributions. The operator runs these to install tools on a target or their attack platform.

Package Managers

Password Cracking Methodology

A repeatable cracking pipeline for the operator. Install the tooling, understand the core concepts, then move through the cracking playbook step by step.

Password Cracking Methodology

Password Managers

Reference of password manager and credential vault products, with the encryption model, storage architecture, and sharing features. Useful for both choosing a personal vault and auditing the corporate one. For…

Password Managers

Payment Systems

Reference of card networks, real-time payment rails, ACH / wire / settlement schemes, payment processors, and the identifier schemes that link them. Useful for fraud investigations, money-flow tracing, FinCrime / AML…

Payment Systems

Physical Entry Keys

Common master keys for physical security locks, elevators, and cabinets. The operator carries these on physical engagements to recover from locked vendor enclosures and bypass elevator key switches.

Physical Entry Keys

Ports ICS / SCADA

Service ports for common ICS and SCADA hardware. The operator uses this list to identify industrial control endpoints during recon and to scope segmentation reviews against operational networks.

Ports ICS / SCADA

Ports Malware C2

Ports historically observed in malware and C2 traffic. The operator uses this list when triaging suspicious flows, tuning sensors, or selecting non-attributable callback ports for offensive infrastructure.

Ports Malware C2

Ports Top 1000

The most commonly observed TCP and UDP service ports. The operator references this list to identify services during scanning and triage, and to plan firewall, redirector, and listener configurations.

Ports Top 1000

Ports

Well-known application ports an operator is most likely to encounter, ordered roughly from most-common (in everyday work) to least-common.

Ports

PowerShell

PowerShell’s interactive editor is provided by PSReadLine, a module that ships with PowerShell 5.1+ and pwsh (PowerShell 7+). PSReadLine defaults to an emacs-style keymap on Linux / macOS and to a Windows-style…

PowerShell

Network Protocols

Reference of network protocols an operator works with daily, organized by OSI / TCP-IP layer with notes on default ports, encryption posture, and quirks. Pairs with Ports for port-by-number lookup.

Network Protocols

Puppet

Puppet is an open-source configuration management and deployment tool. The operator uses it on engagements to manage agents on a fleet, sign certs from the master, and push or audit modules across nodes.

Puppet

Python

Shortcut keys for the Python interactive interpreter. CPython on Linux / macOS uses GNU readline at the REPL, so the readline emacs keymap is in play. CPython 3.13+ ships a new PyREPL by default (the same…

Python