Advanced Penetration Testing
Online, Available in English and Arabic
Overview
Advanced Penetration Testing is a red team operations course covering the complete attack chain used in enterprise engagements, from initial access through full Active Directory compromise. Students run a single, continuous engagement against a custom lab environment, applying defense evasion, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and Active Directory attack techniques within a professional red team methodology.
Each phase follows the structure of a real engagement: Rules of Engagement and Scope of Work first, technical execution second, and a client-ready report at the end. Students leave with a repeatable methodology, working payload templates, and a complete attack chain they can apply directly on their next engagement
Topics:
- Client-side attacks & phishing
- Custom payload development (C#, PowerShell, VBA)
- Defense evasion (AV/EDR/AMSI bypass, fileless techniques)
- Active Directory exploitation & lateral movement
- Pivoting, tunneling & C2 infrastructure
- Advanced web attacks & payload obfuscation
Who Should Take This Course: - Penetration Testers
- Red Teamers
- Offensive Security Consultants
- Security Researchers
- Application Security Testers
Tareget Audience
This course is intended for penetration testers, red teamers, and security consultants with existing offensive security experience who want to operationalize advanced techniques into a coherent red team methodology. It is not an introductory course.
Prerequisites:
- Solid understanding of Windows and Active Directory internals
- Working knowledge of PowerShell and basic scripting (Python or similar)
- Prior exposure to a C2 framework, or equivalent red team tooling experience
- OSCP or equivalent practical experience strongly recommended
By the end of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Scope and structure a red team engagement with a defensible Rules of Engagement and Scope of Work
- Craft phishing payloads using weaponized macros that bypass modern endpoint security controls
- Bypass AMSI and signature-based AV detection using JScript and reflected PowerShell execution, entirely in memory
- Implement process injection, process hollowing, and DLL injection for defense evasion
- Encrypt and stage shellcode to bypass network-layer filtering and inspection
- Escalate privileges across Windows and Linux targets
- Move laterally using Pass-the-Hash and Pass-the-Ticket
- Execute Kerberoasting, AS-REP Roasting, and delegation abuse to achieve full domain compromise
- Write a professional, client-ready penetration test report that communicates impact and remediation clearly