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Best Tooling books
7 books in our catalog cover Tooling, ranked by rating. Each entry is an opinionated review with who the book is for and who should skip it.
01 · 2018
Practical Binary Analysis
Build Your Own Linux Tools for Binary Instrumentation, Analysis, and Disassembly
Dennis Andriesse on the binary toolchain you can actually script: ELF internals, dynamic taint analysis, symbolic execution and instrumentation with concrete code-along examples.
Advanced5/5Dennis Andriesse02 · 2025
Metasploit
The Penetration Tester's Guide
The second edition of the definitive No Starch guide to the Metasploit Framework, updated by the project's original maintainers and newer contributors for the modern Framework.
Intermediate4/5David Kennedy, Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns, Jim O'Gorman, Daniel G. Graham03 · 2024
Black Hat Bash
Creative Scripting for Hackers and Pentesters
Nick Aleks and Dolev Farhi on getting offensive work done with the shell: privilege escalation tooling, lateral movement, and pipelining bash with the rest of the toolkit.
Intermediate4/5Nick Aleks, Dolev Farhi04 · 2021
Black Hat Python
Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
Justin Seitz and Tim Arnold's hands-on tour of writing offensive tooling in Python: network sniffers, web scrapers, GitHub-based command-and-control, screen capture, keylogging, and Volatility extensions.
Intermediate4/5Justin Seitz, Tim Arnold05 · 2020
Black Hat Go
Go Programming For Hackers and Pentesters
Tom Steele, Chris Patten, and Dan Kottmann show how to use Go's networking primitives, concurrency model, and cross-compilation to write offensive tooling that runs almost anywhere.
Intermediate4/5Tom Steele, Chris Patten, Dan Kottmann06 · 2014
Penetration Testing
A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking
Georgia Weidman's lab-driven introduction to pentesting, walking the reader from setting up a target environment through scanning, exploitation, post-exploitation, and reporting.
Beginner4/5Georgia Weidman07 · 2011
The IDA Pro Book
The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler
Chris Eagle's deep manual on IDA Pro, the disassembler that defined a generation of reverse engineering. Useful even with Ghidra in the picture, since most malware-analysis literature still assumes IDA.
Intermediate4/5Chris Eagle