VM Setup and Test

by Coleman Kane

LAB01: VM Setup and Test

On Tuesday, we walked through using features in VirtualBox to import, snapshot, and configure networking on the Kali VM. I have configured a Win7 VM that is linked in the courseware announcement. The VM is configured to use NAT by default (similar to how Kali was configured) and already has ncat.exe installed.

This independent lab will have you achieve the following goals - you’ll want to use (tcpdump -w as we demoed in class, on the Kali VM, to capture the traffic):

Configure the networking to use Host-Only Network, and using the same VirtualBox/vboxnet host network that Kali is configured to use.

• a) Ensure that you can run both VMs, and try to ping one VM to the other, identifying the pings are responded to
• b) Use ncat.exe on the Windows system as a listener (-l, -p options) and connect to it from the Kali VM, and type a short message across the connection that includes your UC username
• c) Use ncat.exe on the Windows system, as a listener, and use cmd.exe, python.exe, or powershell.exe (your choice) to create a simple remote shell that you connect to from your Kali VM. Use this channel to write a new file named “myoutput.txt” onto the Windows 7’s Desktop, and this file may contain whatever you want, but needs to at least contain your username.

Attach a ZIP file containing the PCAP generated by tcpdump, and also the output.txt file, as the submission for this assignment. Method #2 from This Example might be helpful if you’re using cmd.exe and want a tip on how to accomplish the file write operation without a GUI.