So now that we have our attack platform 1
set up, we need to install some victims. 2
I'm going to start by installing a 3
Microsoft Windows platform. So what I'm 4
going to do is click New, just like we 5
did with Kali, give it a name, in my case 6
I'm going to call it Windows XP. Now I 7
understand that Windows XP is a very old 8
operating system, but the reason I use it is 9
because it uses very little resources, 10
and there's plenty of vulnerabilities 11
for us to attack against. So for those 12
who have a weak laptop you can still run 13
VirtualBox, Kali, and Windows XP on it and 14
do just fine. So in this case I'm going to 15
hit Continue, I'm going to give it half a 16
gigabyte, which is 512 megabytes. I'm 17
going to create a 10 gigabyte hard disk, 18
which is plenty of room for a Windows XP 19
installation. And then we'll create a 20
dynamically allocated disk, which means 21
it won't use all the space until windows 22
needs it. We'll hit Continue, now we're 23
going to have to install the CD ROM, so I'm going 24
to click on Optical Drive, choose my 25
image, and select my windows XP CD and 26
click Open. Now, if you don't have a 27
Windows XP CD, you can get one on eBay, 28
Amazon, Newegg, or any of the hundreds of 29
other websites out there. They're very 30
cheap, they're very old, and most of us 31
have one just laying around someplace. At 32
this point, we'll start. This begins the 33
boot process with windows XP, and you'll 34
see it's going to go through our 35
standard Windows setup. I'll create this 36
full screen, at this point we're going to 37
hit enter to set up a new installation, 38
F8 to agree to the licensing terms, then 39
we're going to hit C to create a partition. We'll 40
hit enter to use the entire disk, which 41
was the 10 gigabytes we made, that 42
virtual partition, and enter again to 43
install onto that new C drive. We'll 44
format it quickly, using NTFS, 45
and now it will copy over our files. This will 46
usually take about three to five minutes 47
on most systems, because XP installs 48
very quickly because it's such a small 49
operating system. Once the files have 50
copied it will ask you to restart, we'll 51
hit enter, and the virtual machine will 52
restart. At this point we'll get into the 53
graphical setup of the Windows 54
installation. 55
Next we're going to select the regional 56
language options. In this case I'm going 57
to accept the defaults of the United 58
States. We're going to give it a name, in 59
my case I'm going to use the name of 60
John Sim. And his organization is going to be 61
Sim Incorporated. We're going to give 62
his computer a name, I'm gonna call it 63
John PC, and then we'll give it an admin 64
password. In my case I'm going to use the 65
traditional favorite of "password" P-A-S-S 66
W-O-R-D, and confirm with "password." We'll 67
check the date and times, in my case I'm 68
on the East Coast, and we use the typical 69
settings for the network. And we'll use a 70
work group environment, 71
and once that's done, it will reboot. 72
We'll go through the setup, we can tell 73
it to not do the updates because we're 74
not going to connect to the internet, 75
we'll skip the registration, and say not 76
at this time. Again I'm going to use John 77
Sim as my user, and then say finish. 78
The last thing we want to do is we want 79
to go ahead and change our network 80
settings. So we'll click on network, we're going 81
to take our network adapter and right 82
now we're going to put it on internal 83
network, and we'll just call that I-net 84
and hit OK.