Duration
PEN-300: Advanced Evasion Techniques and Breaching Defenses
15 days (e-learning)
Overview
Building on the skills acquired in PEN-200, OffSec’s PEN-300 course explores advanced penetration testing techniques against hardened targets. Learners gain hands-on experience bypassing security defenses and crafting custom exploits in real-world scenarios, enhancing their expertise in ethical hacking and vulnerability assessment.
This self-paced course culminates in a challenging exam, leading to the OffSec Experienced Penetration Tester (OSEP) certification. Achieving the OSEP certification distinguishes professionals with advanced penetration testing skills, making them highly sought-after experts in securing organizations from sophisticated threats.
Benefits
Upon completing PEN-300 and successfully passing the OSEP exam, you’ll have mastered advanced penetration testing skills, including:
- In-depth vulnerability analysis and exploitation
- Custom exploit development
- Bypassing modern security defenses
- Exploiting authentication and authorization flaws
- Attacking Active Directory and cloud environments
- Post-exploitation techniques for maintaining access and escalating privileges
About the exam
- The PEN-300 course and online lab prepares you for the OffSec Experienced Penetration Tester (OSEP) exam
- 48-hour exam
- Proctored
Target Audience
The PEN-300 course is ideal for experienced penetration testers and security professionals seeking to master advanced penetration testing methodologies, ultimately earning the OSEP certification. While completion of PEN-200 (Penetration Testing with Kali Linux) is not a formal prerequisite, it is highly recommended due to the advanced nature of PEN-300.
Prerequisites
While there are no formal certification prerequisites, a strong understanding of operating systems, networking, and scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) is highly recommended. Additionally, familiarity with the concepts and techniques covered in PEN-200 (Penetration Testing with Kali Linux) is highly recommended for success in this course.
Syllabus
- Evasion Techniques and Breaching Defenses: General Course Information
- Operating System and Programming Theory
- Client Side Code Execution With Office
- Client Side Code Execution With Windows Script Host
- Process Injection and Migration
- Introduction to Antivirus Evasion
- Advanced Antivirus Evasion
- Application Whitelisting
- Bypassing Network Filters
- Linux Post-Exploitation
- Kiosk Breakouts
- Windows Credentials
- Windows Lateral Movement
- Linux Lateral Movement
- Microsoft SQL Attacks
- Active Directory Exploitation
- Combining the Pieces
- Trying Harder: The Labs
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.