{"id":4258,"date":"2016-12-05T19:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T11:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2016-12-05T19:12:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T11:12:59","slug":"minion-mozilla-security-testing-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2016\/12\/minion-mozilla-security-testing-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Minion &#8211; Mozilla Security Testing Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minion is a security testing framework built by Mozilla to bridge the gap between developers and security testers. To do so, it enables developers to scan with a wide variety of security tools, using a simple HTML-based interface.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Minion-Mozilla-Security-Testing-Framework-640x274.jpg\" alt=\"Minion - Mozilla Security Testing Framework\" width=\"640\" height=\"274\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It consists of three umbrella projects:<\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3033787195489589\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Darknet Responsive Post Ad Links [previously link ad unit] -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3033787195489589\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5456620019\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<ul>\n<li>Minion Frontend, a Python, angular.js, and Bootstrap-based website that provides a HTML interface to authenticate and authorize users, manage sites, initiate scans, and report issues<\/li>\n<li>Minion Backend, a Python, Flask, and Twisted-based backend that provides an API for the Minion Frontend, and acts as a middleman between the frontend and external security tools<\/li>\n<li>Minion VM, a repository of recipes to allow quick installations of Minion either via Vagrant or Docker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Functionality<\/h3>\n<p>Minion has limited scanning functionality built into itself. Instead, it relies on the large variety of pre-existing open source and commercial scanning tools. These plugins include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minion ZAP, which utilizes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2010\/10\/owasp-zap-zed-attack-proxy-web-application-penetration-testing\/\">OWASP Zed Attack Proxy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Minion Nmap, utilizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2012\/05\/nmap-6-released-for-download-free-network-discovery-security-auditing-tool\/\">Nmap network scanner<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Minion Skipfish, utilizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2011\/06\/skipfish-1-94b-released-active-web-application-security-reconnaissance-tool\/\">Skipfish reconnaissance tool<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Minion SSLyze, utilizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2013\/03\/sslyze-v0-6-available-for-download-ssl-server-configuration-scanning-tool\/\">SSLyze TLS scanner<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Minion SSL, which uses the sslscan TLS scanner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can download Minion here:<\/p>\n<p>Back-end: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/minion-backend\/archive\/v0.3.zip\">minion-backendv0.3.zip<\/a><br \/>\nFront-end: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/minion-frontend\/archive\/v0.4.zip\">minion-frontend-v0.4.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or read more <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/minion\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minion is a security testing framework built by Mozilla to bridge the gap between developers and security testers. 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