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Kali-linux projects on GitHub

Debian based distribution for penetration testing.

As of October 18, 2026, the most-starred Kali-linux projects on GitHub are metasploit-framework (39.2K stars), RustScan (20.6K stars) and Awesome-Hacking-Resources (17.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Kali-linux repositories with 112K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was Decepticon, with +114 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+114

Decepticon

BitterSecurity/Decepticon · ★ 6.3K

Decepticon is a professional autonomous Red Team agent that runs full attack chains — reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and C2 — the way a real adversary would, instead of just scanning and printing a report.

+29

hexstrike-ai

0x4m4/hexstrike-ai · ★ 12.9K

HexStrike AI MCP Agents is an MCP server that lets AI agents like Claude, GPT, or Copilot autonomously run 150+ real cybersecurity tools for automated pentesting, bug bounty hunting, CTF challenges, and vulnerability discovery.

+15

metasploit-framework

rapid7/metasploit-framework · ★ 39.2K

Metasploit Framework is an open-source penetration testing framework written in Ruby — one of the best-known security toolkits on GitHub, with about 39,000 stars.

+10

redamon

samugit83/redamon · ★ 3.1K

RedAmon is an open-source, self-hosted AI framework that chains reconnaissance, exploitation and post-exploitation into one pipeline, maps the attack surface into a Neo4j graph, and then triages findings and opens GitHub pull requests that fix what it discovers.

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9 projects · by stars

#1 · rapid7/metasploit-framework
metasploit-framework
Metasploit Framework is an open-source penetration testing framework written in Ruby — one of the best-known security toolkits on GitHub, with about 39,000 stars.
39.2K
#2 · bee-san/RustScan
RustScan
RustScan is an open-source port scanner written in Rust: it finds open ports fast — all 65k ports in as little as 3 seconds — and has a scripting engine for Python, Lua and Shell.
20.6K
#3 · vitalysim/Awesome-Hacking-Resources
Awesome-Hacking-Resources
A curated collection of hacking, penetration testing and AI red-teaming resources — courses, YouTube channels, CTF platforms and guides, picked to make you better at offensive security.
17.5K

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hexstrike-ai
12.9K0x4m4/hexstrike-ai · Python
HexStrike AI MCP Agents is an MCP server that lets AI agents like Claude, GPT, or Copilot autonomously run 150+ real cybersecurity tools for automated pentesting, bug bounty hunting, CTF challenges, and vulnerability discovery.
5
TheFatRat
11.5Kscreetsec/TheFatRat · C
TheFatRat is an exploiting tool that compiles malware from famous payloads — an easy way to generate backdoors built to slip past most anti-virus software.
6
Decepticon
6.3KBitterSecurity/Decepticon · Python
Decepticon is a professional autonomous Red Team agent that runs full attack chains — reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and C2 — the way a real adversary would, instead of just scanning and printing a report.
7
redamon
3.1Ksamugit83/redamon · Python
RedAmon is an open-source, self-hosted AI framework that chains reconnaissance, exploitation and post-exploitation into one pipeline, maps the attack surface into a Neo4j graph, and then triages findings and opens GitHub pull requests that fix what it discovers.
8
StrikeAgent_AtkBrain-Flash
658Yean-Sec/StrikeAgent_AtkBrain-Flash · Python
It is an AI-agent penetration-testing platform built by the Yean-Sec team (夜安团队SEC) that automates red-team foothold-establishing, SRC bug bounty, and CTF work through self-supervised, self-looping, self-evolving agent cycles.
9
ServerBox
264madeye/ServerBox · Kotlin
ServerBox is an Android app that turns an old phone into a Linux server without rooting it, running Alpine, Arch, Debian, Kali or Ubuntu with an always-on SSH server.