PwnBerry Pi

PwnBerry Pi is advertised as "another penetration testing suite for Raspberry Pi" and it has many of the same tools as Kali Linux. Colleagues and other professionals have told us (the authors of this book) that the creators of PwnBerry Pi have done a good job in optimizing this platform for web-based attacks. We however, have not experienced this in our own personal testing.

It should also be noted that best practice is not to use many of the tools required for web-based penetration testing from a lower-end system such as a Raspberry Pi. For example, PwnBerry Pi includes the installation file for BeEF rather than installing it knowing most penetration testers wouldn't run this application from an ARM image. If you install BeEF on this ARM image, you will see a warning banner added by the PwnBerry Pi development team claiming they experienced erratic behavior when using BeEF from the PwnBerry Pi image.

Let's look at how to install PwnBerry Pi. The installation process of PwnBerry...