Commando VM - an alternative to Kali Linux for Windows
Just the other day, FireEye presented the Commando VM system designed for pentesters and the Red Team, running under the Microsoft Windows operating systems.
FireEye positions Commando VM as a “first-of-its-kind” distro for pentesters under Windows, but they are obviously cunning, since immediately comes to mind at least a project Pentest Box , which is also ground under Windows.
At the same time, the Commando VM system itself is quite interesting and deserves attention ...
Short description
Commando VM is based on the popular Flare VM virtual machine, which is designed for reverse engineering and malware analysis. ')
In fact, Commando VM is not an image of a virtual machine, but rather an unattended installation script that turns a Windows operating system running on a virtual machine into a tool for conducting pentests.
Commando VM uses Boxstarter, Chocolatey and MyGet packages to install all the software and provides many tools and utilities to support Pentest.
List of utilities
Active Directory Tools - Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) - SQL Server Command Line Utilities - Sysinternals