As the first of the two vulnerable machines that we will be creating, the vulnerable instance of Ubuntu will contain a single vulnerable FTP service, as well as some other services.
Setting up a vulnerable Ubuntu instance
Provisioning an Ubuntu EC2 instance
The very first step in setting up our vulnerable lab in the cloud will be to provision an instance that will be running a vulnerable operating system. For this purpose, we can use an Ubuntu LTS version. This can be accessed from the AWS Marketplace for quick deployment.
We will use Ubuntu 16.04 for this purpose:
Once we click on the Continue to Subscribe button, we are prompted to configure the instance that we are going to launch. Since this is a pretty standard image...
