Installing Kioptrix
This is the beginning of the “Scanning and Enumeration” section of “Practical Ethical Hacking”. We will use a vulnerable virtual machine called Kioptrix.
It is easy to find the virtual machine with Google. Level 1 is available for download on VulnHub. VulnHub offers many more virtual machines that can be used to train pentesting.
The ova file can also be downloaded from TCM Sec. When the file has been downloaded, one just has to open it with VirtualBox or VMWare. The NIC has to be set to NAT, the memory should be set to at least 256 MB, 512 MB would be fine as well. Login credentials are username john and password TwoCows2. Once we are logged in, the machine can run in the background, and we will switch to our virtual Kali machine and try to penetrate the Kioptrix machine.