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Ronin – Ruby toolkit for security research and development

Ronin is a Ruby toolkit for security research and development. It provides command-line tools and libraries for performing a wide range of security-related tasks.

The software is aimed at security researchers, penetration testers, bug bounty hunters, CTF players and developers. It includes a Ruby REPL and lightweight web interface, and supports third-party repositories containing exploits, payloads and other code.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Provides an extensive collection of security-focused command-line tools.
  • Includes a fully loaded Ruby REPL.
  • Encodes, decodes, escapes, encrypts, decrypts and hashes data.
  • Extracts strings, URLs, email addresses, hashes and other patterns from data.
  • Queries ASNs, DNS records, hosts, IP addresses and HTTP services.
  • Provides certificate generation, inspection and retrieval tools.
  • Supports banner grabbing, proxies and netcat-style network connections.
  • Performs reconnaissance and web vulnerability scanning.
  • Spiders websites and provides an interactive HTTP shell.
  • Fuzzes data and generates typos, homoglyphs and typosquatted domains.
  • Imports and queries information stored in local databases.
  • Develops and runs exploits and payloads.
  • Installs third-party Git repositories containing exploits, payloads and other code.
  • Provides a lightweight local web interface.

Website: github.com/ronin-rb/ronin
Support:
Developer: Hal Brodigan
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Ronin is written in Ruby. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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