Awesome Cybersecurity Handbooks

A huge chunk of my personal notes since I started playing CTFs and working as a red teamer. These are living documents and I updated or add to them relatively often.

Important

Please note that these documents are only provided for legal purposes. Please do not use the content for illigal actions.

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Note

As always, it is pretty hard to point out every source for different tools or payloads. If I used your payload anywhere in my notes and you wanted to be mentioned, feel free to reach out to me on X — or preferably Bluesky — and I will add you asap.

Thank you for reading.

Table of Contents

01 Information Gathering	AI	DFIR	Privacy
02 Vulnerability Analysis	Attack Surface Management	EDR & XDR	Secure Architecture
03 Web Application Analysis	Basics	Evasion	Security Operations Center
04 Database Assessment	Blockchain	Exploitation	SIEM
05 Password Attacks	Bug Bounty	Frameworks	Simulation & Emulation
06 Wireless Attacks	Cloud	Hardware	SOAR & SecOps
07 Reverse Engineering	Command and Control	IDS & IPS	Templates
08 Exploitation Tools	Container	IoT	Threat Hunting
09 Sniffing & Spoofing	Cryptography	Malware Development	Threat Modeling
10 Post Exploitation	CVE	Mobile	Wordlists
11 Forensics	Cyber Threat Intelligence	Operations Security
12 Reporting Tools	Decrypter	OSINT
13 Social Engineering Tools	Detection Engineering	Payloads