Penetration Testing and Forensic Examination

Penetration Testing with OS X:

When talking about penetration testing, the first operating system coming to mind is a *nix operating system, and mainly « Backtrack », but as I’m using OS X most of the time to write my reports and not always carrying my working laptop with me (which as a custom distribution with hacking tools), thus I installed a few tools on my mac. This page is thus dedicated to penetration testing and how to install tools on OS X Lion.  The page will be divided in sub-pages following mainly basic categories and  will be updated following my needs and the tools that I’m using.

Pros and Cons:

Pros:

• OS X is an out of the box *nix flavor operating system
• Easy access to a shell, python, perl, C
• Fast and Easy

Cons:

• Proprietary
• Sources closed
• Tools not supported by OS X

As I said before, my  main penetration testing operating system is not OS X, however I think that OS X may be used in many cases, or even to clear the ground.

Networking :

• NetDiscover
• Wireshark
• Nmap
• Getix (Wifi Cracking)

Exploits:

• Metasploit

 Forensic Examination:

• Foremost on OSX (File Recovery)
• Scalpel on OSX (File Recovery)

Misc:

• xxd