Parrot OS 3.0 (Lithium) – Friendly OS designed for Pentesting

Features:

System Specs

• Debian jessie core
• Custom hardened linux 4.5 kernel
• Rolling release upgrade line
• MATE desktop environment
• Lightdm Dislpay Manager
• Custom themes, icons and wallpapers

System Requirements

• CPU: at least 1Ghz dual core cpu
• ARCH: 32bit, 64bit and ARMhf
• RAM: 256Mb – 512Mb suggested
• GPU: No graphic acceleration required
• HDD Standard: 6Gb used – 8Gb suggested
• HDD Full: 8Gb used – 16Gb suggested
• BOOT: Legacy bios or UEFI (testing)

Cloud

• Parrot Server Edition
• Parrot Cloud Controller
• Parrot VPS Service
• Custom installation script for Debian VPS

Digital Forensic

• “Forensic” boot option to avoid boot automounts
• Most famous Digital Forensic tools and frameworks out of the box
• Reliable acquisition and imaging tools
• Top class analysis softwares
• Evidence management and reporting tools
• Disabled automount
• Software blockdev write protection system

Cryptography

• Custom Anti Forensic tools
• Custom interfaces for GPG
• Custom interfaces for cryptsetup
• Support for LUKS, Truecrypt and VeraCrypt
• NUKE patch for cryptsetup LUKS disks
• Encrypted system installation

Anonymity

• AnonSurf
• Entire system anonymization
• TOR and I2P out of the box
• DNS requests anonymization
• “Change Identity” function for AnonSurf
• BleachBit system cleaner
• NoScript plugin
• UserAgentOverrider plugin
• Browser profile manager
• RAM-only browser profile
• Pandora’s Box – RAM cleaner
• Hardened system behaviour

Programming

• FALCON Programming Language (1.0)
• System editor tuned for programming
• Many compilers and debuggers available
• Reverse Engineering Tools
• Programming Template Files
• Pre-installed most-used libs
• Full Qt5 development framework
• Full .net/mono development framework
• Development frameworks for embedded devices