Recently the availability of the version of the popular Linux distribution for the Pentest, Parrot 4.10»Which is based on Debian Testing and includes a collection of tools to check system security, forensic analysis and reverse engineering.
For those who are unfamiliar with the Parrot distribution, they should know that it is positioned as a portable lab with an environment for security experts and forensic experts, with a focus on tools to verify cloud systems and IoT devices.
As well includes cryptographic tools and software for secure access to the network, including TOR, I2P, anonsurf, gpg, tccf, zulucrypt, veracrypt, truecrypt, and luks.
Main new features of Parrot 4.10
Of the changes that are presented in this new version of the distribution, we can find that Parrot 4.10 is synchronized with the database of Debian Testing as of August 2020 and that Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.7, with which all the new features of this version are transferred to Parrot 4.10.
Of the most important changes implemented, stands out:
- Improved scheduler.
- New ExFAT file system module.
- Spli Lock detection.
- Userfaultfd () write protection support.
- A BPF-based Linux security module called bpf-lsm.
- Let clone3 () spawn processes in cgroups.
- Improved cgroup perf profiling.
- Improved btrfs file system support.
In addition to this the third edition of the anonymous mode Anonsurf is proposed, which is divided into three independent modules: GUI, daemon, and toolkit.
- The GUI, which is written in the NIM language and uses Gintro GTK to shape the interface, provides tools to control the behavior of Anonsurf (for example, enable wake-up at boot time) and monitor the status and traffic of Tor.
- The demon is responsible for starting and stopping Anonsurf.
- The utilities include a CLI with a set of console commands and dnstool to manage DNS settings on the system.
Also, we can find the new version of the platform for the analysis of vulnerabilities Metasploit 6.0 in which the end-to-end encryption of Meterpreter communications is included in the five implementations (Windows, Python, Java, Mettle and PHP), compatibility with the SMBv3 client to further enable modern exploitation workflows and a new polymorphic payload generation routine for Windows shellcode that improves evasion capabilities against common antivirus and intrusion detection systems (IDS) products.
Of the other changes that are implemented in this new version:
- The basic package includes Python 3.8, go 1.14, gcc 10.1, and 9.3.
- Xfce desktop ready edition.
- New packages were added with Security Manager 11 and OpenVAS 7.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it, you can consult the details in the original note, the link is this.
Download and try Parrot OS 4.10
For those who are interested in being able to download this new version of the distribution can go directly to the website official of the project in which in its download section you can find the image of the system.
You can save the image with the help of Etcher on a USB.
On the other hand yeah you already have a version of Parrot OS give branch 4.x, you can perform an update of your system without having to reinstall it again on your team.
To do this you simply have to open a terminal and in it execute the following commands:
sudo parrot-upgrade
Or you can use these:
sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade
This process will take a little time since you have to download all the packages first and then update them. So you can take a moment to relax.
At the end of the process, you just have to restart your computer so that all the changes are saved and you can start your system with all the updated packages and the new Linux Kernel of this version of Parrot OS 4.10.
To verify that you already have the new kernel, just type in the terminal:
uname -r