As many of the tools/programs in used in the examples are outdated, you may find the information below useful when setting up all the required VM. I wasn't able to download the pre-configured VMs provided in the URL @ https://nostarch.com/pentesting :sob: No one was seeding in torrent! After some googling and managed to find something - sharing them below.
https://twitter.com/georgiaweidman/status/1037030600048291841
https://github.com/r00t-3xp10it/venom/issues/1
wget https://github.com/nullsecuritynet/tools/raw/master/binary/hyperion/release/Hyperion-1.2.zip
unzip Hyperion-1.2.zip
i586-mingw32msvc-c++ Hyperion-1.2/Src/Crypter/*.cpp -o hyperion.exe
To compile 64bit version, try i686-w64-mingw32-c++ Hyperion-1.2/Src/Crypter/*.cpp -o hyperion.exe