# Basic Lab

A basic lab will be defined as the bare minimum required to test C2s from the C2 Matrix. It is broken up in three key components:

* Host: your main operating system running a hypervisor like vmware player/workstation, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, etc.
* Attacker VM: the attacker virtual machine in NAT mode
* Victim VM: the victim virtual machine in NAT mode


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