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
9 items
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!

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…

Inside SOC: Triage Smarter, Not Harder
October 19, 2026
Check out this CTF challenge from Tom De Jong’s webcast on December 18th, 2025!

lolbins
July 29, 2026
LOLBins Ubuntu VM What are LOLBins? LOLBins are legitimate system binaries already present on an operating system that attackers abuse for malicious purposes - without ever dropping custom malware.…
Malicious Driver
July 29, 2026
Malicious Driver A malicious driver is a device driver that has been installed or tampered with by an attacker to maintain control over a system - even after it reboots. Because drivers run at the…
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