How to install Metasploitable on Virtual Box

Akshay Bhalerao
2 min readJul 19, 2021

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Metaspolitable is an intentionally vulnerable Virtual Machine which can be used to practice hacking or penetration testing.

Download Metasploitable from-

Metasploitable — Browse /Metasploitable2 at SourceForge.net

After Downloading extract the files.

After extracting the file open Virtual Box.

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Click on New- By clicking here you can create a new virtual machine.

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Set Name as metaspoitable

Select Type as Linux

Select Version as Debian 64 bit

Click Next.

Keep the default memory size.

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Click Next.

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When you would see the above window select Use an existing virtual hard disk file and then click the small yellow folder icon which will ask you to choose a virtual hard disk file.

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Click in Add Disk Image Option

Navigate and Select the ‘metasploitable.vmdk’ file.

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Click Choose

Then click on create.

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This will create the Virtual Machine.

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Click on Start.

You have now successfully installed Metasploitable on Virtual Box and can practice your hacking skills.

The default login credentials are-

username-msfadmin

password-msfadmin

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Akshay Bhalerao
Akshay Bhalerao

Written by Akshay Bhalerao

CompTIA Security+ | CySA+ | Cybersecurity Analyst

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