The installation scripts and provided tools may have bugs, be vulnerable to Man in the Middle (MitM) attacks or other vulnerabilities.
Adding additional repositories or tools for installing software extends your trust to those tool providers.

Please keep in mind that using such a VM or VMs based on the template for security and privacy critical tasks is not recommended.

How to Create a BlackArch VM

BlackArch Linux is an Arch Linux-based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The repository contains 1434 tools.

List of tools
Installation Instructions

Create ArchLinux Based BlackArch Template

Create ArchlLinux Template
- Follow the Archlinux Template instructions
Update Template
```
 sudo pacman -Syyu
```
Clone template
1. Via Qubes VM Manager
2. Via command line
```
 qvm-clone archlinux blackarch
```

Install BlackArch repository

 $ curl -O https://blackarch.org/strap.sh

 # The SHA1 sum should match: 34b1a3698a4c971807fb1fe41463b9d25e1a4a09
 $ sha1sum strap.sh

 # Set execute bit
 $ chmod +x strap.sh

 # Run strap.sh
 $ sudo ./strap.sh

Install tools

install all tools

  sudo pacman -S blackarch

or by category:

  # list available categories
  pacman -Sg | grep blackarch

  # install category
  sudo pacman -S blackarch-&lt;category&gt;

  # example
  sudo pacman -S blackarch-forensic

or specific tool

  # Search for tool
  pacman -Ss &lt;tool-name&gt;

  # Install tool
  sudo pacman -S &lt;tool-name&gt;

  # Example
  pacman -Ss burpsuite
  sudo pacman -S burpsuite

Create a AppVMs based on the blackarch template
- (Optional) Attach necessary devices

Alternative Options to BlackArch

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