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
19 items

CuckooSandbox Lab
July 29, 2026
Cuckoo Sandbox Goal: See how Cuckoo Sandbox automatically analyzes suspicious files in an isolated Windows VM, and how an analyst can read the results. In this lab we will Install and initialize…

Dionaea 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/ Dionaea Ubuntu VM In this…
Dormant Malware
July 29, 2026
Dormant Malware Dormant malware is malicious code that sits quietly on a system and does nothing - until something wakes it up. That trigger could be a specific date, a user logging in, the system…

Dormant Malware CTF Quiz
July 29, 2026
Test your knowledge of Dormant Malware with this CTF quiz!
Endpoint Analysis
July 29, 2026
Endpoint Analysis An endpoint is any device connected to a network - a laptop, a workstation, a server, a phone. When something goes wrong on a network, the endpoint is usually where the story starts…

Endpoint Analysis CTF Quiz
July 29, 2026
Test your knowledge of Endpoint Analysis with this CTF quiz!
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