As mentioned previously, the Metasploitable virtual machine was created by the team at Rapid7 (www.rapid7.com) for the purpose of cybersecurity awareness and training. In this section, I'll walk you through the steps involved in setting up a Metasploitable virtual machine in your lab:
- Firstly, you need to download the virtual image file from https://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable/files/Metasploitable2/. Once downloaded to your computer, extract the ZIP folder to view the contents.
- Next, right-click on the following highlighted file, and either choose the option to import or open with a hypervisor of your choice:
- Once the importing process has finished, the new virtual machine will appear in your library ...