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
23 items

ACHunter2 Lab
July 29, 2026
Now, let's play with AC Hunter! Please go to You might be prompted by a warning stating that your connection isn't private. This is Okay . Simply click Advanced and then click Continue The creds are:…

Advanced C2 PCAP Analysis Lab
July 29, 2026
This is a lab from John Strand 's Active Defense and Cyber Deception Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/active-defense-and-cyber-deception-with-john-strand/ Advanced C2 PCAP Analysis -…

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…
Domain Fronting As C2
July 29, 2026
Domain Fronting as C2 Once an attacker has a foothold inside a network, they need a way to communicate with their tools remotely. That communication channel is called Command and Control , or C2. The…

Domain Fronting As C2 CTF #1
October 19, 2026
Check out this CTF challenge from Faan Rossouw & Keith Chew’s webcast on January 9th, 2026!

Domain Fronting As C2 CTF #2
October 19, 2026
Check out this CTF challenge from Tim Fowler’s webcast on October 22nd, 2025!
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