Today I will walk through different ways of exploiting Metasploitable 2, the newer release of Rapid7’s popular vulnerable machine. First, what is Metasploitable? Metasploitable is an intentionally vulnerable Linux virtual machine. This VM can be used to conduct security training, test security tools, and practice common penetration testing techniques. In my lab environment, the IP of the attacker machine is 192.168.127.159, and the victim machine is 192.168.127.154. Since this is a test lab, I won’t be concerned about stealth. Instead, I will try to get the most information out of the scans. Let’s start by port scanning the target with nmap. I did a full port, aggresive scan against the target. Here are the results. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 ...