# A-poc/RedTeam-Tools: a curated index of 150+ red team tools and tips > RedTeam-Tools is a single README that groups offensive security tooling into MITRE-style categories and adds 19 short technique notes. It is a catalogue, not a framework, and that distinction decides who gets value from it. **A-poc/RedTeam-Tools** — Tools and Techniques for Red Team / Penetration Testing - Repository: https://github.com/A-poc/RedTeam-Tools - Stars: 9,790 · Forks: 1,310 - Language: Unknown - License: not declared - Published: 2026-09-21 · Updated: 2026-09-21 · Language: en - Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/a-poc-redteam-tools ## What RedTeam-Tools actually is, and who it is for The repository describes itself as a collection of 150+ tools and resources useful for red teaming activities, and the README makes a point of saying that some entries were built specifically for red team work while others are general-purpose and adapted to it. That sentence is the honest framing of the project. RedTeam-Tools is an index. It does not install anything, does not wrap any tool in a common interface, and does not ship a binary. The audience is narrow and specific. It suits a penetration tester who already knows the phases of an engagement and wants a shortlist for one of them, a student building a lab who needs names to search for, or a detection engineer who wants to know which public tools exist for a technique so they can write rules against it. It does not suit someone looking for a guided course, and it does not suit anyone who wants a single command that produces results. The README's own warning is explicit: the materials are for informational and educational purposes only and are not intended for use in illegal activities. ## How the catalogue is organised: MITRE-style buckets, not a pipeline The tool list is split into collapsible sections, each with a count in the summary line. From the README these include Reconnaissance with 24 tools, Resource Development with 12 tools, and a separate Red Team Tips section with 19 entries attributed to named contributors such as @Alh4zr3d, @malmoeb, @pr0xylife and PenTestPartners. The category names map onto the MITRE ATT&CK tactic vocabulary, which is why the repository carries mitre-attack as a topic. Each entry follows the same shape: a bold link to an anchor, the tool name, and an italic one-line description. Reconnaissance rows read like "spiderfoot, Automated OSINT and attack surface mapping" or "feroxbuster, Fast content discovery tool written in Rust". There is no version, no licence, no language field, no install command and no last-updated marker. The README also tells the reader that tool list headings can be hidden with the arrow and that the back arrow returns to the list, which confirms the intended reading mode: browsing a long page, not running a tool. The tips section is a different kind of content. Those 19 entries are short technique notes with named authors, covering things like improved HTML smuggling with a mouse move event listener, hiding the local admin account, enumerating AppLocker rules, and checking SMB firewall rules with Responder. They are written as prose inside the README rather than as links out. That mix is the most useful part of the repository and also the part most likely to age badly, because a technique note has no upstream project to update it. ## Reading the list locally and narrowing it to one phase There is no installer. The README gives no package, no release artefact and no build step, and the repository's top level contains only README.md and a backlog directory. The practical approach is to open the README in a browser or Markdown viewer, since the collapsible sections and internal anchor links are HTML details elements and do not render usefully in a plain terminal. The top-level entries are README.md and backlog. A first real use is to work one phase at a time instead of reading all 150+ rows. The entries are grouped under headings such as Reconnaissance with 24 tools and Resource Development with 12 tools, so start by picking the heading that matches the task in front of you. Inside Reconnaissance you will find rows such as spiderfoot for automated OSINT and attack surface mapping, subzy for subdomain takeover checking, and AORT for subdomain enumeration, each with a one-line description that tells you whether it is worth following. Everything after that happens outside this repository. Each row is a link to another project, and that project's own README is where the install command, the flags and the dependencies live. RedTeam-Tools does not restate them, and it does not pin a version, so the link target can change without anything in this repository changing. ## The licence and maintenance picture is thinner than it looks The repository metadata carries no licence, and no licence file appears among the top-level entries, which are only README.md and backlog. That matters more here than in a normal code project, because the README aggregates links to 150+ other projects, each with its own licence and its own terms. A permissive licence on one linked tool says nothing about the next one, and several of the categories, particularly Resource Development entries such as msfvenom and Shellter, sit in territories where the surrounding legal questions are not answered by a licence file at all. Nothing in the README addresses redistribution, attribution or commercial use of the linked tools. On maintenance, the last push to the repository was on 2026-04-18. The repository publishes no changelog, no release and no deprecation notes, so there is no way to tell from the repository alone which of the 150+ links still resolve or which tools have since been discontinued. The backlog directory exists, which suggests work is tracked there rather than in issues, but the README does not describe its contents. The upgrade cost is therefore near zero in the mechanical sense, since pulling the repository refreshes the whole catalogue, and non-trivial in the editorial sense, because a pull does not tell you whether a linked project changed its command-line flags. Every command you copy from a linked tool's documentation is a separate maintenance obligation that this repository does not track. ## Where RedTeam-Tools stops being the right tool The failure mode is treating the one-line descriptions as specifications. "nuclei, Vulnerability scanner" tells you the category, not the template model, the rate limits or the false-positive behaviour. "CloudBrute, Cloud infrastructure brute force" tells you nothing about which providers it covers or what wordlists it needs. A tester who picks a tool from this list and runs it against a client scope without reading the upstream documentation is the exact scenario the README's warning is aimed at. A second limitation is coverage bias. The list is a snapshot of what one maintainer found useful, weighted toward reconnaissance and resource development, and it carries no date on individual rows. Tools that were standard two years ago may be detected by default now, and the README gives no signal about which entries are current. The tips section has the same problem in a sharper form, since technique notes about defender behaviour decay faster than tool links do. A third case is scope. If your engagement is web application testing, cloud posture review or detection engineering, a general red team catalogue is the wrong starting point. You want a list scoped to that domain, and RedTeam-Tools will send you toward host-based and network tooling that does not apply. ## What a real alternative looks like, and how it differs The closest alternative named inside the README itself is BlueTeam-Tools, by the same author, which the README links for defenders. The difference in approach is not the format, since both are curated link lists, but the objective: a blue team list is organised around detection, monitoring and response, so its entries tend to be things you deploy continuously, while RedTeam-Tools entries are mostly things you run once during an engagement and then remove. Reading the two side by side is a reasonable way to pick a technique and its corresponding detection. Outside that pairing, the meaningful alternative is not another list but a framework that executes: the README's own entries include msfvenom for payload creation and nuclei for scanning, and those are tools, not catalogues. The trade-off is direct. A framework gives you a supported command surface, versioning and documentation for the thing you are actually running, and it narrows your choices to what that framework supports. RedTeam-Tools gives you breadth across 150+ unrelated projects and takes on none of the maintenance, licensing or accuracy burden for any of them. If you need reproducibility across a team, the catalogue is the weaker choice. If you need to know what exists before you commit to a stack, it is the faster one. ## Frequently asked questions The questions below come from search data for this repository's name. Answers stay inside what the README states. ## Conclusion Use RedTeam-Tools if you already have a lab and want a starting shortlist for a specific phase, such as subdomain enumeration or payload creation. Do not use it as a curriculum, as an installation guide or as a substitute for reading each tool's own documentation, because the repository states that its contents are for informational and educational purposes only and every entry is a link plus a one-line description. Before relying on any entry, open the linked project and check whether it is still maintained, what its licence permits, and whether it needs an API key or account, since the README itself records none of that. ## FAQ ### What tools do red teamers use, according to RedTeam-Tools? The repository groups 150+ entries into categories that follow the MITRE ATT&CK tactic names, including Reconnaissance with 24 tools and Resource Development with 12, plus a Red Team Tips section with 19 technique notes. Reconnaissance entries include spiderfoot, nuclei, gobuster, feroxbuster, dnsrecon and enum4linux, while Resource Development includes msfvenom, Shellter, Chimera and Freeze. ### Is RedTeam-Tools legit? The repository describes itself as a collection of tools and resources for red teaming activities and carries an explicit warning that the materials are for informational and educational purposes only and are not intended for use in any illegal activities. It publishes no licence file and no release artefacts, so it is best read as a curated index rather than a vetted product. ### What is RedTeam-Tools? It is a GitHub repository containing a collection of 150+ tools and resources useful for red teaming activities, presented as a single README with collapsible category sections. The README notes that some tools were designed specifically for red teaming while others are general-purpose and can be adapted to that context. ## Sources - [A-poc/RedTeam-Tools on GitHub](https://github.com/A-poc/RedTeam-Tools) - [Issues](https://github.com/A-poc/RedTeam-Tools/issues) - [README](https://github.com/A-poc/RedTeam-Tools/blob/main/README.md) --- Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/a-poc-redteam-tools