OWASP Mantra Security Framework

OWASP Mantra Security Framework

OWASP Mantra Security Framework Screenshot under Windows 7 environment
Slogan "Hack3r's browser"
Developer(s) Team Mantra
Initial release 5 December 2010 (2010-12-05)
Stable release

0.81 code named Armada

/ 30 December 2011; 2 months ago (2011-12-30)
Operating system Cross-platform
Engine Gecko
Size 44.4 MB – Windows[1]
77.7 MB – Mac OS X[1]
56.7 MB – GNU/Linux (i686)[1]
57.3 MB – GNU/Linux (x86_64)[1]
64.7 MB – source code[1]
Development status Active
Type Web browser
License GNU GPL
Website www.getmantra.com

Mantra is a free and open source security toolkit with a collection of hacking tools, add-ons and scripts based on Firefox[2] intended for penetration testers[3], web application developers and security professionals etc.

Contents

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, Linux or in Macintosh.

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 project in March 2011[4] and included in BackTrack 5 Linux security distribution in May 2011 soon after its first public beta 0.52[5] ClubHack release in December 2010.[6] On 15 June 2011 FireCat[7] officially integrated with Mantra.[8][9] Matriux Krypton released it as part of their Arsenal on 15 August 2011.

Team Mantra have released a pre-alpha version of MoC [10][11][12] that is based on Google Chrome on the 2nd day of September 2011

Tools

OWASP Mantra Security Toolkit have tools under following categories, complete list is here

+ Information Gathering

+ Editors

+ Network Utilities

+ Miscellaneous

+ Application Auditing

+ Proxy

Team

Abhi M Balakrishnan - Project Leader
Gokul C Gopinath - Team Leader
Yashartha Chaturvedi - Project Manager

Gopu C Gopinath - Design Head
Thomas Mackenzie - Contributor and Tester
Maximiliano Soler - Translator and Tester

See also

BackTrack 5
Matriux OS
ClubHack 2010
ClubHack Magazine

References

External links

Download OWASP Mantra Security Framework
Mantra official page
Mantra at Sourceforge.net
Mantra at Google Code

External links