Use Archlinux as your pentest distribution
Posted on September 19, 2021 by Adrian Wyssmann ‐ 2 min read
Often pen-tester/security expert/hacker use Kali Linux or Parrot as their distro of choice. While they are great, I use Archlinux as my daily driver. Thus I want to have the same toolset as these distros installed and configured on my Archlinux
I love my Archlinux and I have no intention to replace it with Kali Linux or Parrot. However I want to have all this nice Tools a pen-tester/security expert/hacker. Unfortunately these tools are not in the official Archlinux-repos nor the AUR. I found Blackarch - an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. So what about if I could install this on-top of my current setup?
Well, looking at the official user guide, this is actually quite easy:
Run
strap.sh
as root and follow the instructions. See the following example.Now download a fresh copy of the master package list and synchronize packages:
Now you can install one or multiple tools from the blackarch repository.
To list all of the available tools, run
To install all of the tools, run
To see the blackarch categories, run
To install a category of tools, run
That’s cool, so now you have access to the 2740 tools, which would required around 46 GB of disk space if you want to install them all together.