Your Security Toolkit.
Curated & Battle-Tested.
Handpicked practice platforms, essential toolkits, and privilege escalation references vetted by IIT Patna HackShield mentors.
TryHackMe & Hack The Box
Gamified labs covering Linux privilege escalation, network scanning, and Active Directory penetration testing.
PortSwigger Web Academy
The definitive laboratory for modern web vulnerabilities, maintained by the creators of Burp Suite.
CryptoHack
A fun, interactive platform to master modern applied cryptography through Python puzzle scripts.
Ghidra & IDA Free
NSA-developed software reverse engineering suite with decompiler, disassembler, and graphing tools.
Burp Suite Community
The industry-standard proxy for intercepting, modifying, and replaying HTTP requests during web testing.
CyberChef
Browser-based data manipulation app for encryption, encoding, compression, and rapid payload decoding.
HackShield CTF Playbook
Internal cheatsheet maintained by IIT Patna club leads with reverse shell one-liners and pwn templates.
PayloadsAllTheThings & GTFOBins
Curated index of Unix and Windows binaries that can be leveraged to bypass restrictions and escalate.
HackShield Discord Community
Matchmake for CTF squads, share challenge writeups, and receive direct mentorship from coordinators.
Have a curated tool or writeup to share with the club?
HackShield maintains an open community knowledge base. Submit a pull request on GitHub or message our coordinators on Discord.