Metasploitable2
The initial scan that you conducted in Lab 10.3 was on your personal assets. One of the best ways to experience Metasploit in a vulnerable environment is to use Metasploitable2 in a virtual machine. Metasploitable2 is an Ubuntu 8.04 server that runs on a VMware image. The Metasploitable virtual machine contains a number of purposeful vulnerable services, including the following:
- FTP
- Secure Shell
- Telnet
- DNS
- Apache
- Postgres
- MySQL
To use VMware as your virtual environment, you can get the perpetually free VMware player or the VMware Workstation Pro hypervisor that is fully functional for 30 days. I am using VMware of Workstation Pro on this workstation to create the Metasploitable2 instance. If you prefer VirtualBox, you are more than welcome to use a different virtual host. If you already have VMware Workstation installed, you can skip Lab 10.4.
In Lab 10.4 and Lab 10.5, you will install VMware Workstation Pro to run Metasploitable2.
