Welcome To
Free Lab Fridays
Free Lab Fridays is an initiative started by
Black Hills Information Security, Antisyphon Training, and their partner, MetaCTF
This initiative has a simple goal: Education for All.

HOW IT WORKS
Looking for a place to safely complete all of the labs you see?
Free Lab Fridays has the answer.
By providing your email at the link below, you will receive a special code that will grant you 2 HOURS of access to a meticulously crafted lab environment,
hosted on MetaCTF’s CloudLab platform.
On this platform, you will be able to spin up a snapshotted instance of a virtual machine that has everything you will need to complete all 200+ labs,
and the best part? It's all accessible with the click of a button.
One VM. Unlimited Capability.
What If I Use All 2 Free Hours?
Don’t worry! Come back next Friday,
and you’ll get another 2 VM Lab HOURS, for Free!
Please Note: Stacking Hours is NOT possible!
Looking for something Specific?
Browse through our Lab Database
6 items

Covert TCP Lab
July 29, 2026
CovertTCP - IP Identification Covert Channel Capture file: Topology Role IP Address MAC Address Notes Sender (covert encoder) 10.1.1.10 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:01 Encodes secret data in outbound IPID fields…

fragroute lab
July 29, 2026
IP Packet Fragmentation via Fragroute - Hands-On Lab Capture file: Topology Role IP Address MAC Address Notes Victim / IDS 192.168.20.10 00:11:22:33:44:AA Runs a shallow-inspection IDS/firewall…
Network Threat Hunting
July 29, 2026
Network Threat Hunting Network threat hunting is the practice of actively searching network traffic for signs of malicious behavior instead of waiting for alerts to fire. It focuses on finding…

Network Threat Hunting CTF #1
October 19, 2026
Check out this CTF challenge from Faan Rossouw & Keith Chew’s webcast on October 25th, 2025!

Network Threat Hunting CTF #2
October 19, 2026
Check out this CTF challenge from Troy Wojewoda’s webcast on December 11th, 2025!

Network Threat Hunting CTF Quiz
July 29, 2026
Test your knowledge of Network Threat Hunting with this CTF quiz!
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