Target practice – Adding a Kioptrix virtual machine
Penetration testing is a skill that takes practice to be perfect. To encourage the absorption of the material within this chapter we will be adding a intentionally vulnerable Linux distribution that has been made available by Steven McElrea (aka loneferret) and Richard Dinelle (aka haken29a) of the www.kioptrix.com team. Head over to the http://www.kioptrix.com website, choose your language of choice, and then click on the Kioptrix VM Level 1 link to the right of the page.
Once the download has been completed and the files have been extracted to a folder of choice, we will need to create a new virtual machine in our Oracle VirtualBox penetration testing lab and direct it to use the virtual machine we have downloaded:
Name: Kioptrix VM Level 1
OS Type: Other Linux
Memory: 256
Startup Disk: Kioptrix Level 1.vmdk (Normal, 3.00 GB)
Be sure to select the Use existing hard disk option:
Once the process has been successfully completed you should verify...
