Parrot Security OS
Cloud oriented pentesting distribution
ADVANCED PORTABLE SECURITY LAB
Parrot Security OS 2.1 Murdock Released
Based on Debian and developed by Frozenbox network
System Specs
- Debian jessie core
- Custom hardened linux 4.2 kernel
- Rolling release upgrade line
- MATE desktop environment
- Lightdm Dislpay Manager
- Custom themes, icons and wallpapers
System Requirements
- CPU: at least 1Ghz dual core cpu
- ARCH: 32bit, 64bit, ARM (coming soon)
- RAM: 256Mb – 512Mb suggested
- GPU: No graphic acceleration required
- HDD Standard: 4Gb used – 8Gb suggested
- HDD Full: 8Gb used – 16Gb suggested
- BOOT: Legacy bios or UEFI (testing)
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Cloud
- Parrot Server Edition
- Parrot Cloud Controller
- Penmode 3 cloud pentesting tool
- Custom installation script for Debian VPS
Programming
- FALCON Programming Language (1.0)
- System editor tuned for programming
- Many compilers and debuggers available
- Reverse Engineering Tools
- Programming Template Files
- Pre-installed most-used libs
Digital Forensics
- “Forensic” boot option to avoid boot automounts
- Most famous Digital Forensic tools and frameworks out of the box
- Reliable acquisition and imaging tools
- Top class analysis softwares
- Evidence management and reporting tools
- Disabled automount
- Software blockdev write protection system
Cryptography
- Custom Anti Forensic tools
- Custom interfaces for GPG
- Custom interfaces for cryptsetup
- Support for LUKS, Truecrypt and VeraCrypt
- NUKE patch for cryptsetup LUKS disks
- Encrypted system installation
Anonymity
- AnonSurf
- Entire system anonymization
- TOR and I2P out of the box
- DNS requests anonymization
- “Change Identity” function for AnonSurf
- BleachBit system cleaner
- NoScript plugin
- UserAgentOverrider plugin
- Browser profile manager
- RAM-only browser profile
- Pandora’s Box – RAM cleaner
- Hardened system behaviour
Parrot Security OS is a security oriented operating system designed for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, privacy/anonimity and cryptography
The pre-installed tools in this distro are only a small part of all the tools available in our main repository, so if you need a non-listed tool, feel free to install it through our software center (Synaptic Package Manager) included in the system.
Parrot includes a set of metapackages to easily install further tools
- parrot-tools-full (installs all the tools provided by our repository)
- parrot-tools-arm (provides the tools useful in an embedded environment)
- parrot-tools-cloud (provides the tools included in the Cloud edition)
- parrot-meta-forensic (installs further forensic tools)
- parrot-meta-gpu (installs further tools for gpu hashing)
- parrot-meta-pwtools (installs further tools for password cracking)
- parrot-meta-rfid (installs further radio frequency analysis tools)
- parrot-meta-sdr (installs further software defined radio tools)
- parrot-meta-voip (installs further voip tools)
- parrot-meta-web (installs further web pentesting tools)
- parrot-meta-wireless (installs further tools for wifi cracking)
Parrot Security OS is a distro designed for people who love programming. It comes with interpreters and compilers for the most famous programming languages. Moreover, right click on your desktop or on a file manager window and you can access a handy drop down menu which allows instant creation of files with custom extension divided by category. You can create html, css, javascript, php, ruby , perl, python, falcon files and many others on the fly.
Frozenbox network has forged good relations with the “pirate crew” – a gang of time wasting pirates drinking rum on the bridge of their ship. The name Parrot, is inspired by a parrot a captain’s shoulder – inevitable element in all the cartoons about pirates.
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We hope that you will appreciate this distro as much as we did – and still are. Our tests proved it to be stable and ‘perfectly’-working – as well as elegant, lightweight and powerful
Download Standard Edition
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Download Cloud Edition
Rather than downloading the whole ISO, there’s also a BASH script which turn a regular Debian Stable install into Parrot Security OS. You can find the script here:
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