Setting up Metasploitable 3 in a VM

Released in 2016 by Rapid7, Metasploitable 3 is the latest updated version which comes with more vulnerabilities than its predecessor. Metasploitable 3, however, is not available as a downloadable virtual machine but requires several components, which must be installed and configured, requiring the user to build the virtual machine themselves.

In this example, I'll be building the Metasploitable 3 VM on a Windows 10 host machine. To do this, we will first need to download the following:

• VirtualBox or VMware (VirtualBox users have reported issues with version 5.2 but have experienced good results using version 5.1.14, available on the VirtualBox page)
• Packer
• Vagrant