PentestBox provides all security tools as a software package, eliminating requirement of Virtual machines or dualboot environments on Windows Operating System.
It is created because more than 50% of penetration testing distribution users uses windows. [Source]
So it provides an efficient platform for Penetration Testing on windows platform.
There are two variants of PentestBox, one without Metasploit and other one with Metasploit.
Antiviruses and Firewalls needs to be switched off to install and operate the version with Metasploit.
Download any of the variant by clicking respective download button present on the right side.
By default installer extract to C:/PentestBox/, and for its proper functioning do not make any changes.
It is a commandline utility which is all what you want. You can get to know about the commands on tools.pentestbox.com.
It is the same green font on black terminal but in an modern way.
PentestBox directly runs on host machine instead of virtual machines, so performance is obvious.
All the dependencies required by tools are inside PentestBox, so you can even run PentestBox on freshly installed windows without any hassle.
PentestBox is entirely portable, so now you can carry your own Penetration Testing Environment on a USB stick. It will take care of dependencies required to run tools which are inside it.
PentestBox contains nearly all linux utilities like bash, cat, chmod, curl, git, gzip, ls, mv, ps, ssh, sh, uname and others. It even contains your favourite text editor βvimβ. For complete list, please look at tools.pentestbox.com/#linux-utilities.
Because of this most of the pentesting tools which were earlier compatible only with Linux are working smoothly in PentestBox.
Windows has already large support of drivers for Graphic Card and wireless. So now you donβt have to worry about drivers compaitability issues. For Example now you can use your GPU power to crack hashes using Project RainbowCrack which is particularly not compaitable on linux environment.
In the making of PentestBox we have included only the best tools , but in that process we have missed some tools which you might want to use. In that case you can easily install those tools using toolsmanager present inside PentestBox, it can install/update/Uninstall tools which are not there in PentestBox.
PentestBox runs on host machine without any need for virtual machine. So it only needβs 20 MB for launching compared to atleast 2GB of RAM need for running virtual machine distributions.
It is very light on Disk as well, it only acquires less than third of linux pentesting distro do.
PentestBox contains a version of Mozilla Firefox Browser with nearly all security addons. To know the complete list of addons, please click here.
It contains an update feature through which you can keep your tools updated. To know more about update feature, please click here.
Consider a environment where you want to use PentestBox on many computers like office, lab, etc. Instead of installing PentestBox on each and every computer, you can just install that on one computer and share that folder as a drive to other computers on the same network. Check about this feature here.