Now, to practice some of the attacks that we're going to learn in the future, lectures, you need
to have a target machine or a victim machine.
So this is a computer that you're going to target and try to hike and test the attacks that we're going
to learn against.
So you can do this against any machine.
But I highly recommend installing target machines as virtual machines.
This is great because it won't break a real computer for you if you actually break something.
It's also very easy to fix even if you have a computer that you don't care about, it's very easy to
fix virtual machines.
You can just remove it and reinstall it or store a snapshot and go back to it.
Now, as we all know, Windows is a very common operating system.
It's used by a lot of people.
So, infrastucture, I'm going to show you how to install Windows 10 as a virtual machine so that we
can test some of the attacks that we're going to learn in the future against it.
So we'll target this machine when we want to test attacks against Windows or a target user that uses
Windows.
Now, Microsoft has released ready virtual images for people to test Windows so we can actually download
a virtual image of Windows for free from Microsoft.
I'm going to include the download links and the resources of this lecture, but I have the page opened
here.
So the first thing you want to do is select the type of virtual machine that you want to download.
As I said, we want to download Windows 10, so we're selecting message on Windows 10.
Next, we need to choose the virtualization platform.
And, you know, we're using VMware.
That's why we're selecting VMware.
But you have other options if you're using other virtualization software.
Once you select VMware, you're going to see a download button in here click.
And that will download a zip archive that contains the virtual image for Windows 10.
Now, I've already done that and I already have it in here.
And my downloads, as you can see, we have it here.
I message Windows 10 VMware.
And as you can see from the icon, this is a zip archive.
Therefore, in order to use the contents inside it, we have to uncompress this file.
So to do that on Windows simply we're going to have to double click it.
Copy the content, go back one directory and pasted here, we're going to give it some time to Uncompress,
the content on Mike, you can do the same, simply double click and it will uncompressed the content.
And on Linux, you'll have to right click and click on Extract here.
Now I'm doing these steps from a Windows host computer, but you should be able to follow them on Apple,
Mac OS and Linux because we are essentially using the same virtualization software, which is VMware.
Once this is done, we're going to have another director in here with the contents of the virtual Windows
image to import this to VMware.
We're going to, first of all, run via VMware.
We're going to click on Open Virtual Machine or go to player file open.
We're going to navigate to the location where we have this file in here, so it's going to be in my
downloads and my edge Windows 10 VMware, and we're going to select the only file that we can actually
select from the list.
We're going to click on Open and we can set the name of the machine in here.
So, for example, I can set it to windows, then you can change the path where it's going to be stored.
But we're going to keep that the same and we're going to click on import to import it.
You're going to have to give it a bit of time to import this machine into VMware.
And perfect, as you can see now, it's imported in here and as usual, we can simply started by clicking
on the green play button.
But before doing that, I actually want to modify the amount of memory it has.
So we're going to right.
Click and go to settings.
And as you can see, by default, it's set to have four gigabytes of memory.
I think that's a little bit too much.
It doesn't need that much.
So we're going to set that to two by dragging the slider down to two.
We're going to click on OK and started by clicking on the green play button.
And perfect, as you can see now, the machine started, we're going to click inside and click again
to log in.
The default password in here is capital P a.
S s w zero or D escalation Mark.
I'm going to hit enter.
And here we go, we have a fully working virtual Windows 10 computer installed inside our main machine,
and we did that so we can test attacks against this virtual machine without affecting our host computer.
Now we can go in full screen by clicking here and going into full screen.
The screen should automatically resize if it doesn't.
Right.
Click display settings and you can set it to the right resolution for your screen.
I'm going to set it to three eight forty by two on 60 because I have four K screen.
You can see that the icons are actually really small because I have such a high resolution screen.
In your case, you'll only face this issue if you have a four K screen.
So you'll also probably need to set this Carelink in here to two hundred.
And as you can see now, the icon size has changed to the normal size.
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