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Spooks4576/Ghost_ESP
Ghost ESP is a ESP32 Firmware that Revolutionizes the way we use ESP32 devices in a Pen Testing aspect
Ghost ESP is an ESP32 firmware for wireless security testing — WiFi deauth, beacon spam, packet sniffing, and similar attack primitives on a $5-$15 microcontroller. The project is now archived and abandoned by the author. If you're building hardware security tools or want to learn ESP32 RF internals, this is a snapshot of what was possible, not an active project.
The firmware covered a surprisingly wide surface for constrained hardware: WiFi, BLE scanning, and some Flipper Zero integration in under 1MB. The CI setup has three distinct workflows (stable, prerelease, custom build) which is better tooling discipline than most hobby ESP32 projects. The M5GFX and LVGL components are vendored at pinned versions, so builds don't silently break when upstream changes.
The repo is archived and explicitly dead — the README's first line is 'Ghost ESP Is Dead.' Any fork starts immediately in maintenance debt. The C codebase has no tests whatsoever; with the kind of bit-manipulation and radio code this does, that's a real problem for anyone trying to extend it. The 226 forks mean you'll find fragmented, incompatible variants with no coordination. Legal and ethical exposure is non-trivial since several of the built-in attack modes (deauth, beacon flood) are illegal to use on networks you don't own.