Metasploitable

Metasploitable will be one of two machines that we will be using for the targets in our labs. You can download Metasploitable from this link, and once downloaded we can start with the install process. After the file is extracted, we will open the VirtualBox main screen. Select the New button again, and on the first page name the machine. Metasploitable should be good for the machine name, and let's make that the OS type is Linux and its Version is Ubuntu (64 bit), and click Continue. On the Memory [1] size page, we will allocate 4 processors and 4 GB (roughly 4000) for memory.

When we are prompted to select a hard disk, we need to select use extisitng virtual hard disk file. Click on the folder icon, and browse to the file location where we unzipped the Metasploitable download. Select the .vdmk file and click the create button. Once the machine has been created, right click on the machine name and open the settings. We need to click on Network and enable Adapter 1, adding into the "Internal Lan" we created earlier in PfSense, under the Interanl Network selection in the Attached to drop down.

Once we have the settings updated, we can start the machine. Once the machine loads, it should display the Metasploitable logo in the terminal. The username and password for Metasploitable is msfadmin

'NOTE' When entering the password into metasploitable (or any shell for that matter) the screen will NOT show what characters have been entered for security reasons.

'NOTE' If the mouse disappears when the machine starts it is noraml. This is the machine capturing the mouse pointer. If it happens, press the Right CTRL button (for Windows and Linux) or CTRL-ALT (for macOS) to.