Specifications
| Format | Virtual machines, Learning |
|---|---|
| Level | Intermediate, Advanced |
| Price | Free |
| Access | No registration |
| Activity | Abandoned |
| Language | EN |
| Category | Systems, Networks, Web |
A catalogue of deliberately vulnerable virtual machines you run on your own hypervisor. Each entry declares a difficulty, and the machines are built around a specific stack rather than a generic victim host: Samba, Kerberos, an internal CMS, not a bare Linux box.
Pros & cons
Pros
- A ready-made lab for one specific configuration, not an abstract box
- Difficulty is declared per machine, so you can pick a level honestly
- Downloads are free and run locally: no account, no platform to depend on
Cons
- Frozen: the last machine was published on 11 July 2022 and nothing since
- Builds span a decade of VirtualBox versions, several images refuse to boot now
- You supply the host configuration, so a machine that will not start is your problem
Who it fits
Fits someone who needs a specific topology rather than another easy box, and who is willing to fix a virtual machine that refuses to boot. As a source of new material it is dead; as an archive it is one of the better ones.
Getting started
- Install VirtualBox or VMware and deploy an easy entry first
- Snapshot the disk before you touch anything, resetting by hand is tedious
- Record per machine which hypervisor build it boots on and what the intended bug was
History
The catalogue grew for years with contributors worldwide, then stopped: the last machine is dated 11 July 2022, confirmed at the check. It is all still downloadable, and the old images keep their value, since a misconfiguration of that era still breaks the way it always did. Four years without updates is why it reads as abandoned.
