With a vulnerable Linux Server set up, we now set up an attack vector through a Windows server that's running a vulnerable web application. This application shall provide two environments that readers without an actual test environment can try their hand at.
Setting up a vulnerable Windows instance
Provisioning a vulnerable Windows server instance
For the purpose of this lab host, we will be using a Server 2003 instance from the AWS Marketplace:
The provisioning steps are pretty much identical to what we used to set up the Linux instance earlier. Care should be taken that the VPC settings are similar to what we used for the previous instance. This will later allow us to configure the VMs to be on the same network.
After...