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.

<p><span class="ql-size-title">Welcome To </span></p><p><span class="ql-size-title">Free Lab Fridays</span></p>

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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impacket

July 29, 2026

Impacket Ubuntu VM In this lab we will Stand up a local SMB server (Samba) as our "target" Use Impacket to: List SMB shares Browse directories Upload and download files (Optional) query basic SMB/RPC…

Lab Impacket tools PD-WRL-007 OPM 541 NF-COM-001 CIS 5 CIS 12 TA0002 T1569 TA0006 T1003 T1558 TA0008 T1021 T1550

impacket

July 29, 2026

Impacket Ubuntu VM In this lab we will Stand up a local SMB server (Samba) as our "target" Use Impacket to: List SMB shares Browse directories Upload and download files (Optional) query basic SMB/RPC…

Lab Poisoning the Well IR Intro To SOC PD-WRL-003 PD-WRL-001 OPM 531 OPM 511 NF-COM-001 CIS 8 CIS 8.11 CIS 17 TA0006 T1110 TA0008 T1021

Incident Response Labs

July 29, 2026

Poisoning the Well - Incident Response Labs Lab Objective In this lab, we will navigate through log files that simulate an attack on a corporate domain. Our goal is to illustrate how to investigate…

Lab Net Use tools IO-WRL-005 PD-WRL-007 OPM 451 OPM 541 CIS 3 CIS 3.3 TA0007 T1135 TA0008 T1021

net use

July 29, 2026

net use Windows VM is a built in Windows command that connects to, disconnects from, and lists shared network resources (file shares, printers). It has existed since the early NT days and is still one…

Lab NetExec tools PD-WRL-007 OPM 541 NF-COM-001 CIS 5 CIS 5.2 CIS 12 TA0006 T1110 TA0007 T1135 TA0008 T1021

netexec

July 29, 2026

NetExec Lab Goal The goal of this lab is to introduce netexec , a tool widely used in penetration testing assessments. In this lab, we will focus on SMB protocol enumeration. In this lab you will…

Lab Nmap Information Security Core Skills IO-WRL-005 PD-WRL-007 OPM 451 OPM 541 NF-COM-009 CIS 4 CIS 4.4 CIS 4.5 CIS 5 CIS 5.2 CIS 10 CIS 10.1 TA0002 T1569 TA0112 T1685 T1686 TA0006 T1003 TA0007 T1046 TA0008 T1021 T1550

Nmap

July 29, 2026

This is a lab from John Strand 's Information Security Core Skills Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/information-security-core-skills-tm/ Host Firewalls and Nmap Lab Objective In this…

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Welcome To Free Lab Fridays

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