Offensive Security Tool: Sparta
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Offensive Security Tool: Sparta
Authors:
SECFORCE
SPARTA was created and developed by:
Antonio Quina (@st3r30byt3)
Leonidas Stavliotis (@lstavliotis)
Description
SPARTA is a python GUI application which simplifies network infrastructure penetration testing by aiding the penetration tester in the scanning and enumeration phase. It allows the tester to save time by having point-and-click access to his toolkit and by displaying all tool output in a convenient way. If little time is spent setting up commands and tools, more time can be spent focusing on analyzing results. Despite the automation capabilities, the commands and tools used are fully customizable as each tester has his own methods, habits and preferences.
Features
⦿ Run nmap from SPARTA or import nmap XML output.
⦿ Transparent staged nmap: get results quickly and achieve thorough coverage.
⦿ Configurable context menu for each service. You can configure what to run on discovered services. Any tool that can be run from a terminal, can be run from SPARTA.
⦿ You can run any script or tool on a service across all the hosts in scope, just with a click of the mouse.
⦿ Define automated tasks for services (ie. Run nikto on every HTTP service, or sslscan on every ssl service).
⦿ Default credentials check for most common services. Of course, this can also be configured to run automatically.
⦿ Identify password reuse on the tested infrastructure. If any usernames/passwords are found by Hydra they are stored in internal wordlists which can then be used on other targets in the same network (breaking news: sysadmins reuse passwords).
⦿ Ability to mark hosts that you have already worked on so that you don’t waste time looking at them again.
⦿ Website screenshot taker so that you don’t waste time on less interesting web servers.
Requirements
It is recommended that Kali Linux is used as it already has most tools installed, however SPARTA would most likely also work in Debian based systems.
Kali 2020:
sudo apt install python3-sqlalchemy python3-pyqt5 wkhtmltopdf
Other than these, the following tools are required for SPARTA to have its minimum functionality:
- nmap (for adding hosts)
- hydra (for the brute tab)
In Kali, to ensure that you have all the tools used by SPARTA’s default configuration use:
apt-get install ldap-utils rwho rsh-client x11-apps finger
Installation
cd /usr/share/
git clone https://github.com/secforce/sparta.git
Place the "sparta" file in /usr/bin/ and make it executable.
Type 'sparta' in any terminal to launch the application.
Happy hacking!
