OWASP Mantra Security Framework
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Mantra is a free and open source
Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...

 security toolkit with a collection of hacking tools, add-ons and scripts based on Firefox intended for penetration test
Penetration test
A penetration test, occasionally pentest, is a method of evaluating the security of a computer system or network by simulating an attack from malicious outsiders and malicious insiders...

ers, web application developers and security professionals etc.

Purpose

The intention behind developing Mantra was to provide security professionals a platform for manual web application penetration testing environment by utilizing the power of open source software specially the lesser known add-ons by using day to day updated large number of exploit that don't use to be easy to include in any automated vulnerability scanner.

Platform Supported

Mantra is cross platform and flexible allows freedom to be used on Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 or in Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

.

History

Seeing the significance for such a toolkit for penetration testing and vulnerability assessment, Abhi M Balakrishnan initialised the project in October 2010 with Gokul C Gopinath.It became listed as an OWASP
OWASP
The Open Web Application Security Project is an open-source application security project. The OWASP community includes corporations, educational organizations, and individuals from around the world. This community works to create freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and...

 project in March 2011 and included in BackTrack
BackTrack
BackTrack is an operating system based on the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use. It is named after backtracking, a search algorithm...

 5 Linux security distribution in May 2011 soon after its first public beta 0.52 ClubHack release in December 2010. On 15 June 2011 FireCat officially integrated with Mantra. Matriux
Matriux
Matriux is a GNU/Linux Ubuntu/Debian based Security Distribution designed for Penetration Testing and Cyber Forensic investigations,can be used as a Live DVD It allows the user to include customizable scripts, additional tools and configurable kernels in personalized distributions.The Matriux...

 Krypton released it as part of their Arsenal on 15 August 2011.

Team Mantra have released a pre-alpha version of MoC that is based on Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...

on the 2nd day of September 2011

Tools

+Information Gathering

- Whois

- Location Info

- Enumeration and Fingerprint

- Data Mining

+Editors

- Cert Viewer Plus

- Firebug

- JSView

+Network Utilities

- Protocols and applications

- Sniffers

- Password

+Miscellaneous

- Tweaks and Hacks

- Malware scanner

- Automation

- Others

+Application Auditing

- Hackbar

- JavaScript Deobfuscator

- RESTClient

- Tamper Data

- Live HTTP Headers

- RefControl

- User Agent Switcher

- Web Developer

- DOM Inspector

- Inspect This

- Formfox

- Exploit Me

- Cookies

+Proxy

- FoxyProxy Standard 2.22.6

- HttpFox

Team

Abhi M Balakrishnan - Project Leader

Gokul C Gopinath - Team Leader

Yashartha Chaturvedi - Project Manager

Gopu C Gopinath - Design Head

See also

BackTrack 5

Matriux OS

ClubHack 2010

ClubHack Magazine

External links

Download OWASP Mantra Security Framework

Mantra official page

Mantra at Sourceforge.net

Mantra at Google Code

External links

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