4 Free and Open-source Hacking Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)

1- EvilOSX

An evil RAT (Remote Administration Tool) for macOS / OS X.

An evil RAT (Remote Administration Tool) for macOS / OS X.

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2- Hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. What gives Hammerspoon its power is a set of extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality, to the user.

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3- Flashlight

An unofficial Spotlight API that allows you to programmatically process queries and add additional results.

Flashlight gives you control over Spotlight. There are tons of options for customization so you can do things how you want to. Flashlight is designed to make enhancing Spotlight easy and enhance it's usefulness on macOS 10.9 though 10.15

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4- CalmAV

an open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats

ClamAV is an open source (GPLv2) anti-virus toolkit, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.

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