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Lab - Threat Hunting: Network Hunting

This lab provides an environment for you to follow along with the demonstrations in the Threat Hunting: Network Hunting course.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
2h 5m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Normalizing the Traffic

    Follow along with the Normalizing the Traffic module.

  3. Challenge

    Phishing

    Follow along with the Phishing module.

  4. Challenge

    Command and Control

    Follow along with the Command and Control module.

  5. Challenge

    Lateral Movement

    Follow along with the Lateral Movement module.

  6. Challenge

    Actions on Objective

    Follow along with the Actions on Objective module.

  7. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Brandon is a Sr. Security Author at Pluralsight. Prior Experience with Elastic and FL Air National Guard includes threat hunting, security analytics, and incident response.

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