‫Description Metasploitable is a virtual machine image created by SourceForge.
‫This virtual machine has many vulnerabilities.
‫Metasploitable is an intentionally vulnerable Linux virtual machine.
‫This virtual machine can be used for security training, testing security tools, and practicing common
‫penetration testing techniques.
‫To install Metasploitable, you first need to download the disk image file to your computer.
‫For this, open your favorite web browser.
‫Type Metasploitable.
‫In the search engine, click on the link belonging to SourceForge.
‫Among the results.
‫Click on the download option on this screen.
‫When the save button is clicked on the screen, the image file starts to be downloaded to the computer.
‫The download process will take time depending on the internet connection speed.
‫Add Metasploitable VirtualBox.
‫Open the VirtualBox program.
‫Click the import button on the screen that appears.
‫Navigate to the folder where the OVA file is located.
‫You can do this by clicking the folder icon next to the box labeled file.
‫Select the file, click open.
‫Click next to proceed to the next step.
‫This section contains general information about the virtual computer at the bottom of the window.
‫In the machine based folder section, we determine where the image file will be installed.
‫My recommendation would be to collect all virtual computers under a single folder.
‫I use a folder called VMs on my computer and I create all my virtual computers.
‫Here you can right click on the image file and copy or move it with one of the copy or move options.
‫I go to the folder, click Open Folder, click finish and wait for the import process to finish.
‫At the end of the import process, you can see that Metasploitable has been added to the virtual box
‫menu.
‫Start the computer by clicking Start Enter Username and password.
‫The default credentials are.
‫Username vagrant.
‫Password vagrant.
‫You may get an error message like this after adding Metasploitable.
‫This is due to a problem with the virtual machines Ethernet cards.
‫To solve this problem, click setting of the Metasploitable virtual Machine.
‫Click network on the left side.
‫Click adapter to on the right side screen.
‫Remove the box next to enable Network Adapter.
‫Click okay and exit start Metasploitable.
‫In a virtual computer is ready to be used.