The Hacker NewsMantra is a dream that came true for the author. It is a collection of free and open source tools integrated into a web browserFirefox, which can become handy for students, penetration testers, web application developers, security professionals etc. It is portable, ready-to-run, compact and follows the true spirit of free and open source software. Mantra is a security framework which can be very helpful in performing all the five phases of attacks including reconnaissance, scanning and enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, and covering tracks. Apart from that it also contains a set of tools targeted for web developers and code debuggers which makes it handy for both offensive security and defensive security related tasks.

This is the list of tools included:
  • Access Me
  • Add N Edit Cookies+
  • CookieSwap
  • Domain Details
  • FireFTP
  • FireFlash
  • Firebug
  • Firebug Autocompleter
  • Firecookie
  • Firesheep
  • FormBug
  • FoxyProxy
  • FoxySpider
  • Google Site Indexer
  • Greasemonkey
  • Groundspeed
  • HackBar
  • Host Spy
  • HttpFox
  • JSview
  • JavaScript Deobfuscator
  • Key Manager
  • Library Detector
  • Live HTTP Headers
  • PassiveRecon
  • Poster
  • RESTClient
  • RESTTest
  • RefControl
  • Resurrect Pages
  • SQL Inject ME
  • Selenium IDE
  • Tamper Data
  • URL Flipper
  • User Agent Switcher
  • Vitzo WHOIS
  • Wappalyzer
  • Web Developer
  • XSS Me
  • refspoof
Well, there is not much to write about. It is very simple to use and fast. Just that we do not include the browser. It comes as a self-extracting 7-zip exe archive. It is a Firefox portable with the extensions pre-built.
Download Mantra Pre-Alpha 0.01 here

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