Security Lab

Fedora Security Spin

Goals

• To provide a fully functional livecd based on Fedora for use in security auditing, forensics, and penetration testing.
• Tentatively becoming an official Fedora Spin by Fedora 12 Release

Features

• All of the security features and tools Fedora has to offer
• Ability to install directly to hard disk or usb drives
• Read-write rootfs so it's possible to install software while the livecd is running
• Minimal openbox desktop, with a customized menu (Screenshot)

Spinning your own

wget http://maxamillion.fedorapeople.org/fedora-livecd-security.ks

Contributing

You can help with this project by writing RPMS for packages in the Wishlist, reviewing existing new package reports, tweaking the livecd configuration, among many other things.

Send patches, suggestions, etc to User:Lmacken.

Contributors:

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User:Maxamillion
JoergSimon

Software

Available

The following packages currently exist in Fedora and are on the Security LiveCD.

Software	Description
Reconnaissance
ettercap	Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis.
dsniff	dsniff is a collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing.
hping3	TCP/IP stack auditing and much more
iptraf	IPTraf is a console-based network monitoring utility.
nc6	Netcat with IPv6 Support
nc	Reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP
nessus	Remote vulnerability scanner
ngrep	Network layer grep tool
nmap	Network exploration tool and security scanner
p0f	Versatile passive OS fingerprinting tool
scanssh	Fast SSH server and open proxy scanner
socat	Bidirectional data relay between two data channels ('netcat++')
tcpdump	A network traffic monitoring tool
tiger	Security auditing on UNIX systems
wireshark	Network traffic analyzer
xprobe2	An active operating system fingerprinting tool
nbtscan	Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks
tcpxtract	Tool for extracting files from network traffic based on file signatures
firewalk	Firewalk is an active reconnaissance network security tool that attempts to determine what layer 4 protocols a given IP forwarding device will pass.
examiner	The Examiner is an application that utilizes the objdump command to disassemble and comment foreign executable binaries
hunt	Tool for demonstrating well known weaknesses in the TCP/IP protocol suite
Lynis	Security and system auditing tool
halberd	Tool to discover HTTP load balancers
argus	Argus is a fixed-model Real Time Flow Monitor designed to track and report on the status and performance of all network transactions seen in a data network traffic stream.
pcapdiff	Compares packet captures, detects forged, dropped or mangled packets
picviz	Picviz is a parallel coordinates plotter which enables easy scripting from various input (tcpdump, syslog, iptables logs, apache logs, etc..) to visualize your data and discover interesting results quickly. Its primary goal is to graph data in order to be able to quickly analyze problems and find correlations among variables. With security analysis in mind, the program has been designed to be very flexible, able to graph millions of events. The language is designed to be close to the graphviz graph description language.
etherape	EtherApe is a graphical network monitor modeled after etherman.
Forensics
chkrootkit	Tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit
Unhide	tool for searching hidden processes
clamav	Clam Antivirus
dc3dd	Patched version of GNU dd for use in computer forensics
dd_rescue	Fault tolerant "dd" utility for rescuing data from bad media
sleuthkit	The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a collection of UNIX-based command line tools that allow you to investigate a computer. The current focus of the tools is the file and volume systems and TSK supports FAT, Ext2/3, NTFS, UFS, and ISO 9660 file systems
gpart	A program for recovering corrupt partition tables
hexedit	A hexadecimal file viewer and editor
prelude	Log analyzer
testdisk	Tool to check and undelete partition
foremost	Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk
sectool	A security audit system and intrusion detection system
rkhunter	A host-based tool to scan for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits
scanmem	scanmem is a simple interactive debugging utility, used to locate the address of a variable in an executing process. This can be used for the analysis or modification of a hostile process on a compromised machine, reverse engineering, or as a "pokefinder" to cheat at video games.
Wireless
aircrack-ng	aircrack is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured.
airsnort	Wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys
kismet	WLAN detector, sniffer and IDS
Code Analysis
pscan	Limited problem scanner for C source files
splint	A tool for statically checking C programs for coding errors and security vulnerabilities
rats	RATS scans through code, finding potentially dangerous function calls. The goal of this tool is not to definitively find bugs (yet). The current goal is to provide a reasonable starting point for performing manual security audits. The initial vulnerability database is taken directly from things that could be easily found when starting with the forthcoming book, "Building Secure Software" by Viega and McGraw.
flawfinder	Examines C/C++ source code for security flaws
Intrusion Detection
aide	Intrusion detection environment
prewikka	Graphical front-end analysis console for the Prelude Hybrid IDS Framework
prelude-manager	Prelude Manager is the main program of the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite. It is a multithreaded server which handles connections from the Prelude sensors. It is able to register local or remote sensors, let the operator configure them remotely, receive alerts, and store alerts in a database or any format supported by reporting plugins, thus providing centralized logging and analysis. It also provides relaying capabilities for failover and replication. The IDMEF standard is used for alert representation. Support for filtering plugins allows you to hook in different places in the Manager to define custom criteria for alert relaying and logging.
prelude-notify	Prelude-notify is a desktop oriented application that works as a monitoring tool that capture events from prelude manager using the prelude connection pool event checker. Its purpose is to help security managers and/or administrators to see in real time what's going on in their network.
snort	Intrusion detection system
tripwire	IDS (Intrusion Detection System)
labrea	Intrusion detection "sticky" honey pot technology using virtual servers to detect and trap worms, hackers, and other malware.
pads	PADS is a libpcap based detection engine used to passively detect network assets. It is designed to complement IDS technology by providing context to IDS alerts. When new assets are found, it can send IDMEF alerts via prelude.
honeyd	Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their TCP personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain versions of operating systems. Honeyd enables a single host to claim multiple addresses on a LAN for network simulation.
Nebula	Intrusion signature generator
Password Tools
john	John the Ripper password cracker
ophcrack	Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables.
Anonymity
tor	Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router)

Wishlist

Note: the software listed below has not yet been verified to make sure the licenses meet our Guidelines . Please see the NewPackageProcess to help get these packages into Fedora.

Software	Description	Notes
airsnarf	A rogue AP setup utility
apf	PF is a policy based iptables firewall system designed for ease of use and configuration	Packager unfriendly. Upstream contacted with no response
autopsy	The Autopsy Forensic Browser is a graphical interface to the command line digital investigation tools in The Sleuth Kit.	Under review (Bug #487067)
cryptcat	Cryptcat is the standard netcat enhanced with twofish encryption.	kashyapc is looking this
hydra	A very fast network logon cracker which support many different services	Under review (#Bug 461385)
iisemulator	The goal of this project is to create a functioning web server which is indistinguishable from Microsoft's IIS product at a topical level.
metasploit	The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code.
tct	Tools for analyzing a system after a break-in	Deprecated (See TSK above)
cowpatty	Audit Wpa pre-shared keys	Under review (#Bug 231011)
sdd	'sdd' is a replacement for a program called 'dd'. sdd is much faster than dd in cases where input block size (ibs) is not equal to the output block size (obs). Statistics are more easily understoon than those from 'dd'. Timing available, -time option will print transfer speed Timing & Statistics available at any time with SIGQUIT (^\) Can seek on input and output Fast null input Fast null output. Support for the RMT (Remote Tape Server) protocol makes remote I/O fast and easy.	rakesh (looking at it, needs smake for build)
TrueCrypt	Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux	Questionable license. See this thread for more details.
arpon	ArpON (Arp handler inspectiON) is a portable handler daemon with some nice tools to handle all ARP aspects.
OpenVAS	The Open Vulnerability Assessment System is a network security scanner with associated tools like a graphical user front-end. The core component is a server with a set of network vulnerability tests (NVTs) to detect security problems in remote systems and applications.	huzaifas will do it
SARA	Security Auditor's Research Assistant	rakesh doing
SiLK	Security analysis tool for network developed by CERT
ArpON	Detects and blocks all ARP poisoning/spoofing attacks.
Bh (Beholder)	IDS for wireless networks.	rakesh (dropped mail to author for license queries)
Distack	Framework for attack detection which allows for an integration of various detection methods as lightweight modules.
Ttyrpld	Multi-os kernel-level tty logger

References

• http://lwn.net/Articles/225215/. Maybe provide this extension by default?
• http://knoppix-std.org/tools.html