The virtual machine used for the Security Summer School is configured with all tools required.

Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution the comes with a handful of helpful security tools used for Penetration Testing, Forensics and/or Reverse Engineering.

The VM can be downloaded in OVA format from https://repository.grid.pub.ro/cs/hexcellents/sss/. Use your curs.pub.ro LDAP credentials to authenticate.

The credentials used to login on the Kali Linux virtual machine are:

• username: root
• password: toor

• 64-bit OS
• 2 GB RAM
• 30 GB HDD space

It is Virtual Box vm using Debian 32 bit (at this point Jessie 8.1).

Download using HTTP from https://repository.grid.pub.ro/cs/hexcellents/sss/

• username: student
• password: student

The student user may issue sudo su to get a root prompt, no password required.

• 512 MB RAM
• 16 GB HDD space
• interface eth0 for Internet access (NAT)
• interface eth1 for local access through SSH (host-only)

• Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 “Jessie”
• Xfce
• Linux kernel 3.16

Install and configure packages

apt-get install sudo
apt-get install vim
cp /usr/share/vim/vim*/vimrc_example.vim /etc/vim/vimrc
update-alternatives --config editor
visudo
sudo apt-get install tcpdump gawk git gitk git-gui wget curl htop netcat nmap wireshark openssh-server gzip bzip2 zip unzip unrar-free p7zip lzma xz-utils subversion mercurial sed less bless hexedit elfutils vim strace finger tree pciutils usbutils lsof bash-completion pwgen host gdb valgrind ctags expect python emacs iotop ltrace
sudo apt-get install iotop nasm apt-file lynx ncftp ldap-utils mailutils net-tools ethtool screen tmux dtach filezilla
sudo apt-get install radare2 radare2-plugins
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common && sudo usermod -a -G wireshark $USER

Configure Git

git config --global user.name 'SSS Student'
git config --global user.email 'sss@security.cs.pub.ro'
git config --global color.ui aut

Create Desktop shortcut for Sublime Text 2

Install and configure metasploit: http://www.pkdavies.co.uk/156-debian-7-metasploit-setup.html

sudo apt-get install build-essential libreadline-dev libssl-dev libpq5 libpq-dev libreadline5 libsqlite3-dev libpcap-dev openjdk-7-jre subversion git-core autoconf postgresql pgadmin3 curl zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libyaml-dev ruby ruby-dev

sudo chmod o+r /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/robots-0.10.1/lib/robots.rb

add MSF path to PATH

Install and configure IDA

wget https://out7.hex-rays.com/files/idademo68_linux.tgz

Create Desktop shortcut for IDA

• PEDA: https://github.com/longld/peda

The Windows 7 virtual machine comes with a handful of helpful security tools used for binary inspection, forensics and reverse engineering.

The VM can be downloaded in OVA format from https://repository.grid.pub.ro/cs/hexcellents/sss/; the file is SSS - Windows 7 32 bit.ova. Use your curs.pub.ro LDAP credentials to authenticate.

• username: student
• password: student

• 32-bit OS
• 2GB RAM
• 20 GB HDD space