# arch3rPro/Pentest-Windows

⚔️Windows11 Penetration Suite Toolkit 🔰 The First Windows Penetration Testing Environment on Mac M Chips

Repository: https://github.com/arch3rPro/Pentest-Windows
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pentest-windows
Homepage: https://arch3rpro.github.io/
License Family: other
Topics: pentesting, pentesting-tools, pentesting-windows, security, security-tools
Last push: 2025-06-28T02:53:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 47/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 29, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1517, "days_push": 431, "days_rel": 464, "gap_med": 30, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3549, forks 338 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:09.475278+00:00)

## What it is
A pre-built Windows 11 penetration testing virtual machine image bundling 400+ security tools and scripts, distributed for VMware, Parallels, KVM, Hyper-V, and Ventoy. It is notable as the first Windows pentest environment packaged for Mac M-series (Arm64) chips.

## Use cases
- set up a ready-to-use windows penetration testing environment
- run pentesting tools on mac m1/m2 via arm64 vm
- get a preconfigured windows vm with 400+ security tools
- build a portable pentest toolkit for vmware or hyper-v
- boot a pentest environment from ventoy on a physical machine

## When to choose
- you want a turnkey Windows pentest VM without installing tools manually
- you need an Arm64 Windows pentest environment for Apple Silicon
- you prefer Windows-native tooling alongside WSL Kali

## When to avoid
- you need a Linux-native pentest distro like Kali or Parrot
- you cannot download large VM images (30G+ disk usage)
- you require a formally licensed or audited security toolkit

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: penetration-testing, security, developer-tools
- domain: security, penetration-testing, windows
- platform: windows
- tags: pentesting, vm-image, kali-wsl, security-tools, preconfigured-environment, vmware, parallels, macos, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- arch3rPro/Pentest-Windows (main) score 47

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:09.475278+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 2026-08-29T18:34:22.135599+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/arch3rPro/Pentest-Windows (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:09.475278+00:00, sha 2b0b24138935)
  - homepage: https://arch3rpro.github.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:41.088609+00:00, sha 070e36752b64)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.