Agents, Please submit your favourites for inclusion on the list. These tool references are supplied to agents for agency use only. Use them at your own discretion. Use of these tools for non-agency use may have legal repercussions, agents misusing tools for non-agency use will be disavowed. Search Engines: Google: https://www.google.com (most folks goto) Yahoo!: http://www.yahoo.com Microsoft Bing: http://www.bing.com Ask: http://www.ask.com DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com (doesn't track your searches) iSeek: http://www.iseek.com/iseek/home.page categorizes results for targeted searches Public Domain Books: http://www.publicdomainreprints.org/search.shtml Quotations & sayings: https://www.englishclub.com/ref/Sayings/ Wolfram - much more than searches: http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Image and Reverse Image Search Engines: Google: https://images.google.com TinEye: http://www.tineye.com Bing: http://www.bing.com/images Wikis & Encyclopedias: Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org Encyclopedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com Special Topics: Secret Societies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Secret_societies Organizing an Investigation & Open Source Intelligence Tools Maltego: https://www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php article listing nine must-have OSINT tools: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.in...security-researcher-must-have#contentCompress an extensive list of OSINT tools: http://www.subliminalhacking.net/2012/12/27/osint-tools-recommendations-list/ OSINTinsight, an extensive index of resources for web-based research (subscription service): http://www.osintinsight.com/ Filesharing Sites (where we often find evidence), with typical tag http://archive.blackwatchmen.com/search/ XJ99M7 https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=m1Asbi4APb0 http://imgur.com/ BTnu4Wu http://pastebin.com/ JgW2r9Ae Sound Recording & Manipulation Audacity: http://audacityteam.org/ Video Recording & Manipulation Windows Movie Maker: distributed with Windows OS iMovie on Mac OS X (newer Mac devices get it for free via App Store) MMSSTV: http://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmsstv.php for Slow Scan TV Image Manipulation Paint: mostly inadequate but comes with Windows OS Photoshop: http://www.photoshop.com/products has 30day free trial LunaPic: online simple image formatting (crop, rotate, etc) http://www192.lunapic.com/editor/ GIMP: Gnu License Image Processing freeware http://www.gimp.org/ Translators & Code Solvers/helpers Google Translate: http://translate.google.com BabelFish Translation: http://www.babelfish.com Text, Binary, Hex, ASCII, Base64 Conversion: https://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ http://asciitohex.com Substitution Cipher Solver: http://www.counton.org/explorer/code...sar-cipher.php http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/substitutioncrackingtool.html http://quipqiup.com/index.php Cipher ID Tests: https://sites.google.com/site/bionspot/cipher-id-tests Cipher Tools & Info: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/ http://home.comcast.net/~acabion/ CrypTool-Online CryptoCrack: https://sites.google.com/site/cryptocrackprogram/ Crypo: http://crypo.in.ua/tools/ a wide variety of modern coders/decoders/translators Andy's Anagram Solver: http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html ROT-N Conversion: http://www.mobilefish.com/services/rot13/rot13.php http://www.rot-n.com/ Morse Code Translators: http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html http://www.dxsoft.com/en/products/cwget/ Geolocation: Google Maps: https://maps.google.com Bing Maps: http://www.bing.com/maps Stenography Tools: (note: you generally need the program used to hide the stuff to find the stuff) jphs: http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~grizzlie/Comp607/programs.htm (used in previous ARGs) silenteye: http://www.silenteye.org/ OpenPuff: http://embeddedsw.net/OpenPuff_Steganography_Home.html Hex Editors: http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm Many thanks to contributors, especially Agent BLJKR for authoring a post we could exhume.
What tools have you found useful for Code Breaking, Steganography, Image/Sound/Video Processing, etc? In my opinion the main criteria are capability and ease of use. FREE is also a good thing. I'm reviewing the tools I've collected in the past few months, I don't have many and some are barely adequate. With all the new agents joining up, I think it would he helpful if we had a list of recommendations from the senior agents. Myself, I use Audacity for sound capture & editing like slowing down a morse intercept. It doesn't do spectrum analysis over time. Cryptocrack for codes but for me it is very hit & miss about getting results. Movie Maker that comes with Windows (i have Win7) for video editing & manipulation. It has done what I needed so far.
* http://crypo.in.ua/tools * Cryptool 1.4.31 beta https://www.cryptool.org/en/ct1-download-en * Photoshop * Haven't used it here yet, however I did for other ARG's and the ARG's we created for my Steamgroup. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if we get a mmsstv message along the road. http://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmsstv.php Some SSTV I couldn't decode with HAM so I went with RX-SSTV instead * Nmap - I doubt this will be useful as sqli, xss and the likes were not allowed (yet) so other attacks are a no go too I reckon https://nmap.org * Morse Code Translator http://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html * Ended up reading here and second later other agents already sorted it. http://silveiraneto.net/2013/09/18/one-time-pad-using-gimp
http://forums.blackwatchmen.com/index.php?threads/useful-resources-and-tools.32/ Big list of stuff there to borrow from, if we want to get a more updated list together here. As I'm sure our tools have changed since.
For agents more interested in research than cryptanalysis and such, there is program called Maltego by Paterva (https://www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php) that is supposedly used by professional social engineers to investigate people, companies, etc. It also has some network profiling features. There is a free limited functionality version. I play with it from time to time, but I often find it frustrating to corral it around to my way of investigation. Also, the few times I have tried it in TBW related research I didn't find anything I didn't already find using other tools. IMHO it is mainly a tool for a professional investigator (of which I am definitely not!) who already knows how to do the work manually but just needs something to help work faster. Still, it can also be a useful tool for a new agent who doesn't have much experience in this kind of research and just needs help starting out. Full disclosure: I have a general bias against tools that try to do my thinking for me. I always like to know exactly what I am doing and understand why I am doing it. If that does not describe you too, then you may just think this program is the bee's knees.
I'm surprised no one here has mentioned asciitohex. If you're trying to break a code, it's VERY useful. Especially if you're like me and you have no idea how to break codes.
Simply didn't state it as it is pretty much given to you in several missions, so everybody uses it. If we start naming the obvious we might as well put Google up cause you know...
You need to replace http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ with https://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ as the first link no longer works!
Links to some useful (and free) OSINT tools. Useful for social engineering and pentests. iSeek List of free tools Osintsight Another list
A moderator note! Use tools only for this game. If you use tools in real life, you are on your own if faced by criminal charges.
Good tool to get Morse code to text form from a .wav file: http://www.dxsoft.com/en/products/cwget/ (Used this on client missions + on Dataset 3) Video editing: iMovie on Mac OS X (newer Mac devices get it for free via App Store)
Quick link for Wikipedias secret society list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Secret_societies Towards the top of the page is societies by countries, which I found interesting. A search of well known sayings: https://www.englishclub.com/ref/Sayings/ Search public domain books: http://www.publicdomainreprints.org/search.shtml
Free media converter. Not everyone uses the same tools and some may not recognize certain media types. http://www.online-convert.com/
