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Fedora Security Spin
Goals
- To provide a fully functional livecd based on Fedora for use in security auditing, forensics, and penetration testing.
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
$ git clone git://fedorapeople.org/~lmacken/security-spin
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 LukeMacken.
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. |
| hunt | Tool for demonstrating well known weaknesses in the TCP/IP protocol suite |
| 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 |
| clamav | Clam Antivirus |
| 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. |
| Password Tools | |
| john | John the Ripper password cracker |
| 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. | huzaifas will do it | |
| cryptcat | Cryptcat is the standard netcat enhanced with twofish encryption. | ||
| 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) | |
| examiner | The Examiner is an application that utilizes the objdump command to disassemble and comment foreign executable binaries | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 |
References
- http://lwn.net/Articles/225215/. Maybe provide this extension by default?
- http://knoppix-std.org/tools.html