Cybrary ForgeCYBRARY / FORGE
Forge Offensive

Practice the engagement before you perform it.

Develop offensive skills across emulated hosts, identities, applications and security-tool workflows. Plan the engagement, investigate a target, collect exercise evidence and explain your findings.

Training commands operate through the exercise's emulation profile. They do not run the corresponding tool binaries against external targets; configured services and Anvil have their own documented connections and authorization controls.

Capabilities

Five consoles, one deliverable.

The deliverable spine
Engagements & reports

Scope, rules of engagement, findings scored on CVSS 3.1, kill-chain timeline, print-ready report.

  • Scope + ROE editor locks on Start
  • Findings with CWE and OWASP tags
  • Auto-flagged scope violations
  • Executive summary and appendix
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BloodHound in the browser
AD attack-path graph

Nodes and edges rendered from the emulated directory, with shortest-path finding from any user to any target.

  • Tiered layout: users → groups → hosts → DAs
  • Kerberoast, DCSync, GenericAll edges
  • Shortest-path highlighter
  • Backed by directoryEstate seed
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Emulated command and control
C2 console

A deterministic beacon fleet with a 13-task catalog: shell, hashdump, mimikatz, kerberoast, screenshot, exfil.

  • Fleet health, sleep and jitter
  • SYSTEM-gated hashdump, Kerberoast tickets
  • Task timeline per beacon
  • Loot drawer with sha256
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Burp-lite, browser-only
Web proxy workbench

Repeater and Intruder over the emulated storefront: catch IDOR, stored XSS and blind SQLi with OWASP-tagged findings.

  • Repeater with byte-perfect responses
  • Intruder fuzz over endpoint chips
  • OWASP Top 10 categorization
  • Findings feed the engagement report
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Purple team, side by side
Blue-team mirror

Replay a campaign from the defender's chair: the log lines each move leaves, the rule that fires, and the techniques that stay dark.

  • Attacker command beside defender telemetry
  • ATT&CK technique and tactic coverage
  • Alert latency per move
  • Blind spots listed as findings to write up
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Every lab, mapped to controls
Defender playbook

For each offensive lab: the way in, the CIS, NIST 800-53 and ATT&CK mitigations that answer it, the hardening change, and the replay that proves it took.

  • Controls named against published frameworks
  • Hardening written the way an engineer makes it
  • A verification replay for every change
  • What legitimately breaks, called out
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Learn to read the telemetry
Blue-team training

How to read a mirrored row in order, what to change when it is partial or blind, and a drill that hides the verdict and asks you to call it.

  • Sources, lines, rule, latency, then verdict
  • Remediation plan per blind spot
  • Tuning versus onboarding, named
  • Scored verdict drill with explanations
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And on top of that

msfvenom payload crafter

Real msfvenom flags (-p / -f / -e / -i / -x / -b), deterministic bytes, sha256 / md5 / imphash, artifact dropped on the VFS.

Offensive toolkit

nmap, sqlmap, gobuster, ffuf, nikto, hydra, netexec, impacket, responder, powersploit, bloodhound, mimikatz, aircrack-ng, atomic-red-team.

Purple-team plumbing

Fire ATT&CK techniques from the C2, check the SIEM for a signal, and file the ones that produced nothing as detection gaps.

Learner track

Seven offensive labs, deliverable-first.

Each lab ends with an entry filed to a real /pentest engagement — CVSS score, OWASP tag, remediation. The consoles above are what you use to get there.

External recon to footholdRecon → foothold
Perimeter scan window, stale service to a foothold, first finding filed with CVSS.
Read the AD attack graphAD attack
Shortest path from helpdesk to Domain Admin, walked with Kerberoast and DCSync.
Web app assessment (OWASP Top 10)Web app
Repeater, Intruder, IDOR, stored XSS, blind SQLi — each tagged and reported.
Cloud privilege escalationCloud IAM
Leaked s3:GetObject key → sts:AssumeRole chain → SSM shell → trust-policy finding.
Purple-team emulationPurple team
Five ATT&CK techniques fired from the C2; detection-gap findings on the two that stayed dark.
Wireless assessmentWireless
Sweep both bands, capture the guest WPA2 handshake, crack against a scoped wordlist, recommend 802.1X.
Authorized phishing simulationPhishing
Clone SSO, send 100 lures against an agreed roster, track tokens in the C2 — never a real password.

For working testers

Forge Anvil — the same workspace, real tools, your machine.

A separately entitled, signed desktop kit for authorized engagements. Real tools run locally on the tester’s own computer against targets an approved scope names, with every command, artifact and capture recorded into evidence that traces straight to a finding. No hypervisor, no remote shell, and no traffic originating from Cybrary.

  • Reviewed rules of engagement become an enforced scope
  • Real terminal and qualified native tool packs
  • Crash-proof session recording with visible gaps
  • Portable, hashed evidence package and report
See the Forge Anvil
Forge Offensive is part of Cybrary Forge. Every beacon, packet, payload and finding on these training pages is generated deterministically inside the emulated estate. Generated artifacts remain labeled as exercise evidence; Anvil is the separate authorized actual-tool runtime.