Arudius Live CD is an information assurance (IA) Linux distribution with tools for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis.

Information Assurance has many other aspects besides network security. The Arudius team has decided to call Arudius a tool for information assurance because the mainstream public identifies information assurance primarily with securing network-enabled systems.

Arudius Live CD is based on Zenwalk Linux on top of which a large collection of network security testing software has been installed. It includes tools listed on Insecure.org Top 75 list. The CD will also include in the near future other tools for information assurance developed by the creators of this distro, mainly network sniffers for IM, P2P applications and possibly an open source web content filtering system.

What are the tools included?

The list is very long, so I am gonna mention only some of them, but you should definitely check out the full list here.

￭ AIM Sniff - Sniffer / Logger for AOL Instant Messenger
￭ 802ether - convert 802.11 dumps to ethernet dumps
￭ Aircrack - 802.11 sniffer and WEP / WPA cracker
￭ Aireplay - 802.11 packet injection program
￭ Airfinder - airfinder helps to detect or locate a specific wireless MAC address
￭ Airodump - 802.11 packet capture program
￭ Airsnort - wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys
￭ Airtraf - 802.11 network analyzer
￭ Babelweb - program which allows to automate tests on HTTP servers
￭ Cctt - covert channel tunneling tool
￭ Chaosreader - A tool to trace TCP / UDP sessions and fetch application data
￭ Chntpw - Offline NT password and registry editor
￭ CiscoTorch - Cisco vulnerability scanner
￭ Cmospwd - BIOS and NT password recovery
￭ Cryptcat - lightweight version of netcat with integrated encryption capabilities
￭ Curl - command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax
￭ Darkstat - network traffic analyzer
￭ Decrypt - decrypts all packets in a pcap file from a specified AP given the proper password
￭ Dnsa-ng - DNS Swiss army knife tool
￭ Dsniff - collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing
￭ Dnssppof - forges replies to DNS queries
￭ Dnstracer - determines where a given DNS gets its information from, and follows the chain back to the servers ￭ which know the data
￭ Finalsolution - tool to check the strength of network passwords
￭ Findsmb - list info about machines that respond to SMB name queries on a subnet
￭ Firewalk - A tool to determine which protocols will pass through a firewall
￭ Flowreplay - tool to replay traffic at Layer 4 or 7 depending on the protocol
￭ Fragroute - Test a NIDS by attempting to evade it using fragmented packets
￭ Ftest - tool for testing firewalls filtering policies and IDS capabilities
￭ GPG - GNU Privacy Guard
￭ GQ - LDAP client
￭ Gspoof - GTK-based packet forging / crafting tool
￭ Guesswho - SSH brute force tool
￭ Hackbot - scanner and banner grabber
￭ Hammerhead - web server stress testing tool
￭ Hjksuite - Collection of programs for hijacking of connections through the supported protocols (irc, http, etc.)
￭ Hotspotter - wireless client hijacking
￭ Hping2 - network scanner that uses spoofed source address packets
￭ Hydra - very fast network login cracker which supports many different services
￭ Macchanger - utility for viewing or manipulating the MAC address of NIC
￭ Macof - packet generator
￭ Mailsnarf - email sniffer
￭ Massrooter - exploits vulnerabilities in bind, lpd, rpc, wuftpd, mail, ssl, ssh
￭ Nmap - utility for network exploration or security auditing
￭ Obiwan - brute force authentication attack against a webserver with authentication requests
￭ Passifist - tool for passive network discovery by analyzing broadcast traffic
￭ UPnPScan - a tool that scans a LAN for UPnP capable devices through M-SEARCH packets
￭ Urlsnarf - Tool that is an HTTP sniffer able to output in Common Log Format
￭ VNCrack - VNC password cracker
￭ Wavemon - ncurses-based monitor for wireless devices
￭ Webspy - display sniffed URL in Netscape in real-time
￭ Weplab - WEP cracker
￭ Wmap - smart HTTP / CGI scanner
￭ Xhydra - X11 frontend to Hydra

Here are some screenshots of Arudius Live CD:




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