Lab2: Penetration Testing with Metasploit – How to Set It
Up Using NAT Adapters.
by Zaina Malhis
This illustration uses 2 virtual machines:
Kali vm with Armatage installed
Metasploit vm for exploiting
Have both VMs set for NAT adapters in Settings (the lab assignment suggests using Host Only adapters).
Make sure the MAC address of each VM is different (this is 99% likely so if you ignore this you will
probably be OK.
Setting up Nat networking
NAT vs NAT network:
The idea of using a virtual machine is to provide a maximum security by separating the host and
different virtual machine, so by default virtual machines do not communicate with each other.
When using the NAT networking option in Virtualbox, each machine acts like a real computer connected
directly to the Internet though a router (Virtualbox network engine) and all machines using the NAT
option are given the same IP address as the VMs are separated and can’t see each other
The following two images illustrate this. The first image is for the Metasploitable VM using the NAT
adapter and the second one is for the Kali VM using the NAT adapter
One way to set up a network for VMs and allow them to communicate is to use the Host-Only option.
But this can be done using the NAT network option.
