// the take
A single README that bundles study notes, tool lists, and link dumps for the CEH Practical exam. It's aimed at people preparing for that specific EC-Council certification, not a general pentesting reference.
The tool list is mapped directly to exam categories (scanning, brute force, steganography, malware analysis) rather than being generic, so it reads like someone's actual prep checklist. It includes real example question phrasing from the exam, which is the most useful part for anyone who hasn't seen the format. Links out to legitimate practice platforms (HTB, TryHackMe, Vulnhub) for hands-on reps instead of just theory.
There's no code here at all - it's a markdown link dump, and a huge fraction of the ~150 links are to blog posts, YouTube videos, and Reddit threads that will rot over time; several are already likely dead given the last push was October 2023. It's narrowly scoped to one vendor's exam (EC-Council CEH Practical), so it has no value once that exam's format changes or for anyone not sitting it specifically. There's no original analysis or synthesis - it's just URLs grouped under headers, so the actual work of reading and distilling those 150 sources is left entirely to the reader.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →