BlackRoute is yet another Slackware-based Linux distribution for security and forensic analysis, created for x86 compatible architectures. What is so special about BlackRoute is the fact that it tries to create an Open Source Linux distribution for advanced users, security and network specialists and system administrators.

As I've just said, BlackRoute is based on the very old and popular Slackware Linux, Slackware 11.0 to be more precise and it's powered by the 2.6.20.11 Linux kernel and WindowMaker window manager. It contains a lot of applications for forensic analysis tasks, the largest exploits collection ever, a lot of FUSE filesystems and more:

Archiving Tools: ￭ 7z ￭ bzip ￭ gzip ￭ tar ￭ lha ￭ rar ￭ pbzip ￭ upx

Bluetooth: ￭ bluebugger ￭ bluesniffer ￭ obexfs ￭ obexftp ￭ openobex ￭ tanya

Web Browsers: ￭ Dillo ￭ links2 ￭ lynx ￭ Mozilla Firefox Disk Management tools: ￭ di ￭ diskWriggler ￭ ddrescue ￭ gparted ￭ partimage ￭ parted ￭ testdisk

Downloaders: ￭ aria2 ￭ cmdftp ￭ curl ￭ gftp ￭ ncftp ￭ rTorrent ￭ youtube-dl ￭ wget

Text editors/viewers: ￭ biew ￭ ht ￭ moe ￭ nano ￭ vim ￭ nedit ￭ medit ￭ Leafpad

Emulators: ￭ DosBox ￭ DOSEMU ￭ QEMU ￭ WINE ￭ ZSNES Frameworks: ￭ Metasploit Framework v3 ￭ Web Application Attack ￭ Audit Framework

Instant Messengers, Chat & IRC: ￭ BitchX ￭ gtmess ￭ Pidgin ￭ Znc Multimedia tools: ￭ gtkpod ￭ LAME ￭ mp3blaster ￭ mpg123 ￭ MPlayer ￭ VLC Media Player ￭ XMMS

Password Crackers: ￭ Bob the Boucher ￭ chntpw ￭ John the Ripper ￭ Hydra ￭ ophcrack ￭ samdump2 ￭ sipcrack ￭ vnccrack

Rootkits: ￭ BackDoor_LKM ￭ enyelkm_v1.1 ￭ mood-nt ￭ mood-nt_2.3 ￭ phalanx-b6 ￭ StMichael_LKM-0.13 and more ￭ nt/xp based rootkits

Window Mangers: ￭ WindowMaker ￭ FluxBox Wireless tools: ￭ AirCrack-NG ￭ NDIS wrapper ￭ HostAP ￭ hotspotter ￭ madWiFi ￭ XAMPP 1.6.3a

BlackRoute can also be used for system rescue tasks, distributed computing or as a simple workstation. It contains support for many filesystems, such as:

￭ ext2
￭ ext3
￭ reiserfs
￭ reiser4
￭ xfs
￭ jfs
￭ vfat
￭ ntfs
￭ udf
￭ aufs
￭ squashfs
￭ iso9660
￭ and FUSE, that comes with a lot of implementations, like curlftpFS, EncFS, FosFAT, FUSEISO, HTTPFS, LoggedFS, mp3FS, NTFS-3G, SSHFS, UnionFS and WikipediaFS.

You can download BlackRoute right now from Softpedia.