Develop offensive skills across emulated hosts, identities, applications and security-tool workflows. Plan the engagement, investigate a target, collect exercise evidence and explain your findings.
Five consoles, one deliverable.
Scope, rules of engagement, findings scored on CVSS 3.1, kill-chain timeline, print-ready report.
Nodes and edges rendered from the emulated directory, with shortest-path finding from any user to any target.
A deterministic beacon fleet with a 13-task catalog: shell, hashdump, mimikatz, kerberoast, screenshot, exfil.
Repeater and Intruder over the emulated storefront: catch IDOR, stored XSS and blind SQLi with OWASP-tagged findings.
Replay a campaign from the defender's chair: the log lines each move leaves, the rule that fires, and the techniques that stay dark.
For each offensive lab: the way in, the CIS, NIST 800-53 and ATT&CK mitigations that answer it, the hardening change, and the replay that proves it took.
How to read a mirrored row in order, what to change when it is partial or blind, and a drill that hides the verdict and asks you to call it.
Real msfvenom flags (-p / -f / -e / -i / -x / -b), deterministic bytes, sha256 / md5 / imphash, artifact dropped on the VFS.
nmap, sqlmap, gobuster, ffuf, nikto, hydra, netexec, impacket, responder, powersploit, bloodhound, mimikatz, aircrack-ng, atomic-red-team.
Fire ATT&CK techniques from the C2, check the SIEM for a signal, and file the ones that produced nothing as detection gaps.
Seven offensive labs, deliverable-first.
Each lab ends with an entry filed to a real /pentest engagement — CVSS score, OWASP tag, remediation. The consoles above are what you use to get there.
pt-01-external-recon-to-footholdpt-02-ad-attack-graphpt-03-web-app-assessmentpt-04-cloud-privescpt-05-purple-team-emulationpt-06-wireless-assessmentpt-07-phishing-simulationForge Anvil — the same workspace, real tools, your machine.
A separately entitled, signed desktop kit for authorized engagements. Real tools run locally on the tester’s own computer against targets an approved scope names, with every command, artifact and capture recorded into evidence that traces straight to a finding. No hypervisor, no remote shell, and no traffic originating from Cybrary.