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The Hacker Academy Lab Setup

Hacker Academy

http://hackeracademy.com

THA LAB SETUP

Purpose

This lab will walk you through the steps required to set up the local testing environment required to complete the labs found at hackeracademy.com

Requirements

This lab requires the following software and hardware:

• One of the following: Virtualbox 4.3+, VMWare Fusion 5.x+, VMWare Workstation 9+
• Vagrant
• Dual core CPU or better
• 3GB of RAM, 4GB+ recommended
• 60GB of storage space, SSD recommended

Setup

The THA lab environment supports Virtualbox and VMware Fusion/Workstation has been tested with Windows, OS X, and Linux hosts.

NOTE

While using Virtualbox with Vagrant is free, using VMware Fusion or Workstation with Vagrant requires the purchase of a plugin from the developers of Vagrant. Available here. The following steps assume that you are either using Virtualbox or have purchased and installed the VMware plugin from Hashicorp.

1. Download and install Vagrant from here.

• Be sure to install Vagrant version 1.7.2 or newer to avoid any issues.

2. Download and install Virtualbox if you haven't already done so. Virtualbox.org

• If you are using VMware then you do NOT need to install Virtualbox and can skip this step.

3. Right click the THA Vagrantfile and save as with the name Vagrantfile without any file extension.

• Windows may try to add the .sdx extension to the Vagrantfile, if it does simply remove the extension.
• Failure to name the Vagrantfile properly (with no extension) will prevent your VMs from working.

4. Open a terminal and make sure you're in the same directory as the Vagrantfile, then launch your Kali VM by entering the following command:

vagrant up kali

• If you are using vmware and the vmware vagrant plugin, you may need to run vagrant up kali --provider=vmware_fusion or vagrant up --provider=vmware_workstation instead

5. The first time you run the vagrant up command it will download the Kali VM (wich can be quite large) and launch it via Virtualbox.

• In Windows the VM image is typically stored in the users home directory.
• In Linux/OSX the VM image is stored in ~/.vagrant.d.

6. Inside your Kali VM, open a new terminal and issue the following commands to create a directory to hold the THA lab information and to clone this repository into it:

   git clone git://github.com/madsec/tha-lab_setup /root/THA/setup

Note

• If the Kali VM network connection continually disconnects, simply reboot the VM.

Start the lab

• Use the Leafpad application to open and follow the instructions for lab 1 found on your Kali machine at

  /root/THA/setup/lab1.md