METASPOITABLE 2

Metasploitable 2 is a deliberately insecure virtual machine used for practicing penetration testing and ethical hacking. It's widely used by students, cybersecurity professionals, and anyone learning tools like Metasploit.

• It is a linux-based cirtual machine.
• It is packed with vulnerabilities to test.
• Mainly designed to be attacked in a safe and isolated lab environment.

What you can practice ?

• Network scanning.
• Exploitation.
• Brute force attacks.
• Service enumeration.

It is intentionally running runs outdated and insecure services like FTP,SSH,Telnet,Apache server,Samba.

It is typically used in virtuals machines like Virtualbox, VMware. It can run only locally. It never exposed to public network.

How to install in virtual machine ?

Step 1: Open the browser and search for metasploitable 2.

Step 2: Select the first one.

Now it shows a page like this. Click on the download option.

Step 3: After the download, we will get a zip file extract that file.

Step 4: Open the virtual machine.

Step 5: Click on open a virtual machine.

Step 6: Select the path.

Now the grub will load.

Now the metasploitable is booted. To login

login: msfadmin
password: msfadmin

login: msfadmin
password: msfadmin

Now we can test and analyse the vulnerabilities.