Networked Virtual machines

Well like promised here is some more examples on how to hack inside virtual machines.

After you have installed virtual box and atleast two operating systems you can do a lot of things with them but the most important thing you must know how to do is to put them in the same network and let them communicate. For this tutorial i have used backtrack and windows xp in the network.
before you boot into one of your two operating systems you have to tell virtual box to connect them, and this can only be done before booting.  so open up virtual box and select one os and go into its network settings, on the adapter1 select nat and on adapter 2 select Host-only adapter.

after you have done this you can boot up your operating systems and start your hacking. for starters you must find each of the machines ip addresses for windows you can use the ipconfig command in command prompt and for backtrack the ifconfig command will work perfectly. after you have the ip adresses you can start hacking, for starters you can do a port scan on windows with nmap scanner preinstalled on your backtrack os.
I would suggest switching off the firewall in windows as this can stop alot of your hacking attempts. after you get bored with that you can switch on the firewall and find some more vulnerabilities.

Till next Happy Hacking

Finally some practical hacking.

One of the biggest problems most budding hackers have is the fact that hacking is illegal without written consent from the owner of the other computer. and what business owner is going to let you stuff around on his half-a-million dollar network? nobody! And if you are like me you can't afford much more than a plain simple bottom of the range laptop and snailspeed internet, But there is a solution.

Enter VirtualBox. virtual box lets you install as many os's as your space allows you too on top of your host operating system. For instance you can install and run linux on top of your native windows seven (no need for dual-booting and partitioning your hard drive) that means you can have as much os's running on one computer as you want at the same time! The smart people have already figured out this one, if  you dont know what i am on about, think about it you can use the one operating system to hack the other or a program on the other. and the best part is whatever happens inside a virtual machine can not affect your host os, so you can even try those untested viruses of yours inside one of these virtual machines with no danger to your host os. ( be careful though some viruses don't attack software but hardware, so try not to corrupt your hard drive).
These virtual machines can be connected to each other in a network to simulate network attacks
You can install a server os like ubuntu server, and host a small website (not on the internet) to hack around with.

You can download Oracle virtual box for free at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Once you have downloaded and installed virtualbox you are ready to install some operating systems some suggested free operating sytems are:
Backtrack which is a free linux based operating system with a twist, it was designed for security profesionals and boasts all the hacking tools that you will need in one package. (but beware it is quite a large download approx: 1.9GB).
Ubuntu  which is also linux based and free but has more of the everyday programs on it.
Ubuntu server same as the desktop version but is of course a server operating system.
For those who like their windows, you can download a cracked copy of windows XP here
Note: you must download the iso image file for each one

From her on it is fairly easy to set up a virtual machine.
open up Virtualbox and you should see a button that says "new" with a blue star at the top of it. click it.
This should open up a welcome menu just press next
Now it will ask you for a name for the VM and what type it is, complete this for this example i am going to run you through the installation of Ubuntu, well call the VM "Ubuntu" (or whatever you want) and you will see that it guesses that you are going to install Linux Ubuntu. Click next
Now it asks you how much of your ram you want to make available to the OS,( don't worry you wont lose the space you gain it back once you close your VM again), the default value is perfect. click next
Now it asks you if you want to create a start up disk, it is basically a virtual disk on your actual hard disk, your host os sees it as a big file and the os you are installing sees it as the whole disk. make sure "create new hard disk" is checked and click next
Now it asks you what type of hard disk you want to make, for now  VHD or virtual hard disk is perfect. click next.
Now the program asks whether you want it to be a fixed size or dynamic re-sizable hard drive, dynamic is perfect. click next
next you can leave location as is, and preferably the size aswell. click next.
click create.
click create.


Now you will see your newly created virtual machine in the left pane, but it still needs an operating system installed, it is like a brand new computer with no software on it.

Double click your VM to start it this will open up a first time use dialog,click next
Now it wants you to show it where to find the os, the default is the CD drive, but next to it is a small file icon, click it, navigate to where your Ubuntu .iso file is and open it. Click next
Now click start, it will start to boot from Ubuntu
when it asks you if you want to try or install Ubuntu, install it
when it asks where, you can erase all data on disk and install Ubuntu (dont worry it wont affect your base system just the virtual drive you created.)
Follow the prompts and youre good to go.


I will in the future give more posts on actual hack attacks using virtual machines but for now you can atleast start enjoying virtual machines.

Happy Hacking!