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!
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Looking for something Specific?
Browse through our Lab Database
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Access Token Manipulation
July 29, 2026
Access Token Manipulation When you log into a system, it does not keep asking for your password on every request. Instead, it gives you a token - a small piece of data that says "this person is…
Application Shimming
July 29, 2026
Application Shimming Application shimming is a Windows technique that was originally created for compatibility. It allows software to run even if it was built for older versions of the operating…
Backround Intelligent Transfer Service As Exfil
July 29, 2026
Backround Intelligent Transfer Service(BITS) As Exfil BITS is a built-in Windows service that was designed to transfer files in the background - think Windows Update downloads, or software patches…
Insider Threat
July 29, 2026
Insider Threat An insider threat happens when someone who already has legitimate access to an organization uses that access in a way they shouldn’t. This can be intentional (data theft, sabotage) or…
Malicious Service
July 29, 2026
Malicious Service A malicious service is a system service that an attacker has either created from scratch or modified after gaining access to a machine. The goal is simple: survive reboots and keep…
New Service Creation Modification
July 29, 2026
New Service Creation / Modification Services are background processes that run on a system - usually starting automatically when the machine boots. They handle things like networking, logging,…
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