# adi0x90/attifyos

Attify OS - Distro for pentesting IoT devices

Repository: https://github.com/adi0x90/attifyos
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/attifyos
License Family: other
Topics: embedded, security, iot, iot-pentesting, internet-of-things, exploitation, hardware, hacking
Last push: 2021-08-26T13:31:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3335, "days_push": 1833, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1037, forks 173 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:19.474975+00:00)

## What it is
Attify OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 18.04 pre-configured with tools for security assessment and penetration testing of IoT devices. It bundles firmware analysis, radio/SDR, and hardware hacking utilities so researchers can start testing without manual setup.

## Use cases
- pentest iot devices
- analyze iot device firmware
- set up an iot hacking lab environment
- reverse engineer embedded firmware with binwalk and ghidra
- capture and decode radio signals from smart devices
- emulate firmware with firmadyne and qiling

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made environment with IoT security tools pre-installed
- you want firmware extraction, analysis, and emulation tooling in one distro
- you are doing authorized hardware or radio-frequency security assessments

## When to avoid
- you need a currently supported base OS (Ubuntu 18.04 support ended April 2023)
- you only need a single tool rather than a full distro
- you target web or mobile applications rather than IoT hardware

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: penetration-testing, security, reverse-engineering, developer-tools
- domain: iot, security, penetration-testing, embedded-systems, hardware
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: iot-pentesting, firmware-analysis, sdr, security-distro, hardware-hacking, ubuntu-based, linux

## Member repositories
- adi0x90/attifyos (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:19.474975+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:04:21.766761+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/adi0x90/attifyos (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:19.474975+00:00, sha 7312a07e10e0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.