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The music box melody twisted into something fast and wrong, like a lullaby played backward while drowning. His vision doubled. He saw the room, but he also saw a dark corridor lined with old PC cases, each one breathing. Each one running a single process: Symphony-of-the-Serpent.exe .

He dropped the phone. The slider hit 2.9x.

And the download was already at 99%.

On screen, the waveform was changing. It was no longer a sound file. It was a spiral, each ring a new line of text: Listen not with ears. The serpent dreams in .04091 cycles. Your skull is a speaker cone. Marcus pushed back from the desk. The sound grew louder even though his speakers were now unplugged. He could feel it in his molars. In the marrow of his spine. The slider on screen moved on its own, creeping toward Frenzy .

The fans on his PC roared. The screen flickered—not digitally, but like the bulb in an old film projector burning too hot. Then came the sound. Symphony-of-the-Serpent-.04091-Windows-Compress...

He answered.

He tried to close the window. The mouse cursor moved, but the close button didn't react. He hit Ctrl+Alt+Del. Nothing. The room’s overhead light buzzed, then dimmed. The music box melody twisted into something fast

When the progress bar finally flashed green, he didn’t hesitate. He double-clicked.

Lab Setup

You can build your own lab as elaborate as you would like. However, for the purpose of this class, the following virtual machines (VMs) will be used.

WebSploit

Kali + Additional Tools + Vulnerable Applications in Docker containers...

Raven

A vulnerable VM that you will use to perform a full assessment (from reconnassaince to full compromise)

VTCSEC

Another vulnerable VM that you will use to perform a full assessment (from reconnassaince to full compromise)

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This video explains how to setup the virtual machines in your system using Virtual Box.

Topology

The diagram below shows the lab architecture with WebSploit Full version, Raven, and VTCSEC. The VMs were created in Virtual Box. It is highly recommended that you use Virtual Box. However, if you are familiar with different virtualization platforms, you should be able to run the VMs in VMWare Workstation Pro (Windows), VMWare Fusion (Mac), or vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi server). 

You should create a VM-only network to deploy your vulnerable VMs and perform several of the attacks using WebSploit (Kali Linux), as shown in the video above. You can configure a separate network interface in your WebSploit VM to connect to the rest of your network and subsequently the Internet. Preferably, that interface should be in NAT mode.

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LAB GUIDES

Lab guides will be distributed during class...

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