>> Welcome to Cybrary. My name is Sean Pierce and I'm
the subject matter expert for Malware analysis.
Today we'll be discussing Module 2,
where we set up a malware analysis lab.
The industry standard setup is that you run
a local VM on your local machine,
and there's a victim,
usually Windows XP, Windows machine,
and then there's router or a Linux VM typically,
where you can funnel the traffic through
it out to the Internet if you need to.
Here's our basic setup where today.
>> I will show you how to
>> install VMware Workstation,
and we will install Windows XP,
and then install Kali Linux as our router.
Then we'll set up the networking so that
Windows XP will funnel its traffic to Kali.
This basic setup, like I said, involves VMware,
but you can also use VirtualBox from Oracle,
which is free and open source.
You can also use VMware Player that's free
and you can install
a virtual machine and you can execute it,
but you cannot snapshot with it.
Now, I think snapshot is very
essential to what we're doing because we'll set
up a machine with our tools
ready and then execute the malware.
We'd like to reset it so
it can run it over and over again.
I highly suggest using
either VirtualBox or VMware Workstation.
The industry standard' s VMware.
We're going to install our VMware tools.
We're going to install
our analysis tools and then we install Kali,
and we're going to install VMware tools on that.