After learning multiple methods to gather information about social media accounts.
In this lecture, I would like to show you how can you set up your Osint virtual machine?
So we will be downloading and installing Trace Labs Virtual Machine, which is a customized version
of Kali Linux focused only on Osint tools.
Now, Kali Linux is a Linux distribution that's used by hackers, cybersecurity specialists, etc. now
the question is why would we even use such a distribution?
Well, the first reason is because it's a pre-configured environment.
So this virtual machine comes with pre-installed tools and configurations specifically tailored for
Osint tasks.
And this will save us a lot of time and effort in setting up the environment manually.
And the second reason is because of the tool compatibility.
So this virtual machine is equipped with a selection of tools commonly used in Osint investigations.
Because there are many tools that work on Linux and doesn't work on windows.
So at the end of each section, I'm going to show you how to use the tools in the virtual machine to
automatically carry out Osint tasks, such as extracting users from a website, downloading an Instagram
profile, or searching for a username across hundreds of websites.
So the first thing we need is a program called VirtualBox that we also use to create our sock puppet
virtual machine.
So you can basically click on Windows Host to download the version that's compatible with windows.
Or if you are using Mac, then you can download the Mac version.
And the second thing we need is the virtual machine, which we will download from Trace Labs.
So I'm going to click on Download OVA.
And then I'm going to click on this link which will redirect me to their GitHub page.
And then I'll download the file that ends with OVA.
Now in my case I have already downloaded this and it is in my download folder.
Here it is.
Here is the image and here is VirtualBox.
Now we have already installed VirtualBox, so we don't need to install it again.
And to import this image or the virtual machine to VirtualBox, all we have to do is double click on
it.
And this will run VirtualBox.
And it will ask for the configuration that we would like to set.
Now, as I said before, this is a preconfigured Cali distribution and this is why we see Cali org or
offensive security.
Of course we can change the name to Trace Labs or whatever, and then we can click on finish and then
the image will be imported.
After importing the image, I'm going to start it by clicking on start.
And after booting the image I'm going to enter the username and the password.
And the username is Osint.
And the password is also Osint.
So I'm going to make the window a little bit bigger like this.
And you can see that right now we are running Linux inside windows.
So I can use my main operating system which is windows, and I can use Linux at the same time.
And this is the cool thing about virtualization.
You'll be able to use multiple operating systems at the same time.
In this video you have learned how to download and set up your Osint virtual machine that you are going
to use it in future lectures.
Don't worry about this new operating system.
I'll teach you how to use it step by step in the next lecture.