Metasploitable background: What is metasploitable?
“Metasploitable is a Virtual Machine that is built from the ground up with a large amount of security vulnerabilities. It is intended to be used as a target for testing exploits with metasploit.”
If you enjoy this tutorial, please check out my metasploit tutorials below
Metasploit tutorial for beginners
Metasploit for website pentest
Using metasploit to scan for vulnerabilities
Metasploitable with Vagrant
Importing Nessus results into MetaSploit
OpenVAS with MetaSploit
Why do we need metasploitable?
One of the problems you encounter when learning how to use an exploitation framework is trying to find and configure targets to scan and attack.
Luckily, the Metasploit team is aware of this and released a vulnerable VMware virtual machine called ‘Metasploitable’. This post is about Installing metasploitable with vagrant.
