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Tool Manifest

Syn_OS is an Arch derivative, so native tooling comes from pacman/AUR; the long tail comes from containerized distro overlays.

Installed into the base image and available on PATH without containers.

CategoryExamples
Recon / OSINTnmap, masscan, amass, theHarvester, recon-ng
Webburpsuite, ffuf, sqlmap, nikto, gobuster, zaproxy
Networkwireshark, tcpdump, bettercap, responder, mitmproxy
Exploitationmetasploit, exploitdb, sliver, gophish
Cred / Hashhashcat, john, hydra, secretsdump
Reversingghidra, radare2, gdb, binwalk
Wirelessaircrack-ng, kismet, hcxtools
Forensics / DFIRvolatility3, sleuthkit, autopsy, yara
Blue teamsuricata, zeek, osquery, wazuh-agent

Containerized (Distrobox) — full BlackArch on demand

Section titled “Containerized (Distrobox) — full BlackArch on demand”

For tools not packaged for Arch, or pinned to a specific distro, Syn_OS ships Distrobox overlays of Kali, BlackArch, and Parrot. Each overlay is a one-command container giving the full upstream toolset (~2,800 packages across the combined ecosystem) without polluting the host — keeps the base image lean while making the entire offensive/defensive tooling ecosystem reachable.

The 241 GRIMOIRE labs bundle their own pinned tooling inside per-lab container images, so lab exercises are reproducible and isolated from the host. See the Lab Catalog.

  • AUR is never pulled live — upstream releases are pinned and hash-verified.
  • Module/binary signing plus pacman pinning with build attestation.
  • A CycloneDX SBOM is generated per image profile.