Installing DEFT Linux 8.1 in VirtualBox
Installing DEFT Linux is very simple and only takes a few minutes. We’ll have Xplico up and running in no time. For those of you who were able to start Xplico in Kali Linux, you can skip this process and go straight to the Downloading sample analysis files section, where we will download and begin analyzing our sample files using Xplico.
To those of you opting to install DEFT so you are able to use Xplico, let’s get to it without further delay:
- DEFT is very user-friendly and based on a lightweight version of Ubuntu called Lubuntu. You can download the DEFT Linux ISO image file at https://archive.org/details/deft-8.2.
- Once downloaded, open VirtualBox and click on the New option to create a new virtual machine, as shown here.
Figure 15.2 – The New option in VirtualBox
- Enter the details in the relevant fields, as shown in the following screenshot: