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What's New in C|EH v12

What You Will Learn


C|EH is divided into 20 modules and delivered through a carefully curated training plan that typically spans across 5 days. As you progress through your training, each module offers extensive hands-on lab components that allow you to practice the techniques and procedures taught in the program in real-time on live machines.

Ethical Hacking Labs

With over 220 hands-on labs, conducted in our cyber range environment, you will have the opportunity to practice every learning objective in the course on live machines and vulnerable targets. Pre-loaded with over 3,500 hacking tools and a variety of operating systems, you will gain unprecedented exposure to and hands-on experience with the most common security tools, latest vulnerabilities, and widely used operating systems on the market. Our range is web accessible, allowing you to study and practice from anywhere with a connection.

How You Will Get Certified


Prove Your Skills and Abilities With Online, Practical Examinations

Certified Ethical Hacking - CEH v12

Certified Ethical Hacker Certification

The C|EH exam is a 4-hour exam with 125 multiple-choice questions. This knowledge-based exam will test your skills in Information Security Threats and Attack Vectors, Attack Detection, Attack Prevention, Procedures, Methodologies and more!

C|EH Practical is a 6-hour, rigorous exam that requires you to demonstrate the skills and abilities of ethical hacking techniques such as:

This is the next step to becoming a C|EH Master after you have achieved your C|EH certification. Within C|EH Practical, you have a limited amount of time to complete 20 challenges that test your skills and proficiency in a performance-based cyber range. This exam is NOT a simulation and incorporates a live corporate network of VMs and applications with solutions to uncover vulnerabilities.

Upon Completing the C|EH (Master) program, which consists of C|EH and C|EH (Practical), the C|EH (Master) designation is awarded. C|EH Masters have shown proficiency at a master level in the knowledge, skills, and abilities of ethical hacking with a total 6 hours of testing to prove their competency. Top top 10 performers in both C|EH and C|EH Practical exams are showcased on the C|EH Master Global Ethical Hacking Leaderboard.

Course Outline

20 Modules that help you master the foundations of Ethical Hacking and prepare to challenge the CEH certification exam.

Certified Ethical Hacker Certification

Cover the fundamentals of key issues in the information security world, including the basics of ethical hacking, information security controls, relevant laws, and standard procedures.

Key topics covered: Elements of Information Security, Cyber Kill Chain Methodology, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, Hacker Classes, Ethical Hacking, Information Assurance (IA), Risk Management, Incident Management, PCI DSS, HIPPA, SOX, GDPR

Learn how to use the latest techniques and tools to perform foot printing and reconnaissance, a critical pre-attack phase of the ethical hacking process.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 30 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform foot printing on the target network using search engines, web services, and social networking sites
  • Perform website, email, whois, DNS, and network foot printing on the target network

Cover the fundamentals of key issues in the information security world, including the basics of ethical hacking, information security controls, relevant laws, and standard procedures.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 10 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform host, port, service, and OS discovery on the target network
  • Perform scanning on the target network beyond IDS and firewall

Learn various enumeration techniques, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Network File Sharing (NFS) exploits, plus associated countermeasures.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 20 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform NetBIOS, SNMP, LDAP, NFS, DNS, SMTP, RPC, SMB, and FTP Enumeration

Learn how to identify security loopholes in a target organization’s network, communication infrastructure, and end systems.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 5 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform vulnerability research using vulnerability scoring systems and databases
  • Perform vulnerability assessment using various vulnerability assessment tools

Learn about the various system hacking methodologies—including steganography, steganalysis attacks, and covering tracks—used to discover system and network vulnerabilities.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 25 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform Online active online attack to crack the system’s password
  • Perform buffer overflow attack to gain access to a remote system
  • Escalate privileges using privilege escalation tools
  • Escalate privileges in linux machine
  • Hide data using steganography
  • Clear Windows and Linux machine logs using various utilities
  • Hiding artifacts in Windows and Linux machines

Get an introduction to the different types of malware, such as Trojans, viruses, and worms, as well as system auditing for malware attacks, malware analysis, and countermeasures.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 20 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Gain control over a victim machine using Trojan
  • Infect the target system using a virus
  • Perform static and dynamic malware analysis

Key topics covered: Malware, Components of Malware, APT, Trojan, Types of Trojans, Exploit Kits, Virus, Virus Lifecycle, Types of Viruses, Ransomware, Computer Worms, Fileless Malware, Malware Analysis, Static Malware Analysis, Dynamic Malware Analysis, Virus Detection Methods, Trojan Analysis, Virus Analysis, Fileless Malware Analysis, Anti-Trojan Software, Antivirus Software, Fileless Malware Detection Tools

Learn about packet-sniffing techniques and how to use them to discover network vulnerabilities, as well as countermeasures to defend against sniffing attacks.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 10 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform MAC flooding, ARP poisoning, MITM and DHCP starvation attack
  • Spoof a MAC address of Linux machine
  • Perform network sniffing using various sniffing tools
  • Detect ARP poisoning in a switch-based network

Key topics covered: Network Sniffing, Wiretapping, MAC Flooding, DHCP Starvation Attack, ARP Spoofing Attack, ARP Poisoning, ARP Poisoning Tools, MAC Spoofing, STP Attack, DNS Poisoning, DNS Poisoning Tools, Sniffing Tools, Sniffer Detection Techniques, Promiscuous Detection Tools

Learn social engineering concepts and techniques, including how to identify theft attempts, audit human-level vulnerabilities, and suggest social engineering countermeasures.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 4 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform social engineering using Various Techniques
  • Spoof a MAC address of a Linux machine
  • Detect a phishing attack
  • Audit an organization’s security for phishing attacks

Key topics covered: Social Engineering, Types of Social Engineering, Phishing, Phishing Tools, Insider Threats/Insider Attacks, Identity Theft

Learn about different Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS (DDoS) attack techniques, as well as the tools used to audit a target and devise DoS and DDoS countermeasures and protections.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 5 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform a DoS and DDoS attack on a target host
  • Detect and protect against DoS and DDoS attacks

Key topics covered: DoS Attack, DDoS Attack, Botnets, DoS/DDoS Attack Techniques, DoS/DDoS Attack Tools, DoS/DDoS Attack Detection Techniques, DoS/DDoS Protection Tools

Understand the various session hijacking techniques used to discover network-level session management, authentication, authorization, and cryptographic weaknesses and associated countermeasures.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 4 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform session hijacking using various tools
  • Detect session hijacking

Key topics covered: Session Hijacking, Types of Session Hijacking, Spoofing, Application-Level Session Hijacking, Man-in-the-Browser Attack, Client-side Attacks, Session Replay Attacks, Session Fixation Attack, CRIME Attack, Network Level Session Hijacking, TCP/IP Hijacking, Session Hijacking Tools, Session Hijacking Detection Methods, Session Hijacking Prevention Tools

Get introduced to firewall, intrusion detection system, and honeypot evasion techniques; the tools used to audit a network perimeter for weaknesses; and countermeasures.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 7 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Bypass Windows Firewall
  • Bypass firewall rules using tunneling
  • Bypass antivirus

Learn about web server attacks, including a comprehensive attack methodology used to audit vulnerabilities in web server infrastructures and countermeasures.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 8 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform web server reconnaissance using various tools
  • Enumerate web server information
  • Crack FTP credentials using a dictionary attack

Key topics covered: Web Server Operations, Web Server Attacks, DNS Server Hijacking, Website Defacement, Web Cache Poisoning Attack, Web Server Attack Methodology, Web Server Attack Tools, Web Server Security Tools, Patch Management, Patch Management Tools

Learn about web application attacks, including a comprehensive web application hacking methodology used to audit vulnerabilities in web applications and countermeasures.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 15 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform web application reconnaissance using various tools
  • Perform web spidering
  • Perform web application vulnerability scanning
  • Perform a brute-force attack
  • Perform Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Attack
  • Identify XSS vulnerabilities in web applications
  • Detect web application vulnerabilities using various web application security tools

Key topics covered: Web Application Architecture, Web Application Threats, OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks – 2021, Web Application Hacking Methodology, Web API, Webhooks, and Web Shell, Web API Hacking Methodology, Web Application Security

Learn about SQL injection attack techniques, injection detection tools, and countermeasures to detect and defend against SQL injection attempts.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 4 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform an SQL injection attack against MSSQL to extract databases
  • Detect SQL injection vulnerabilities using various SQL injection detection tools

Key topics covered: SQL Injection, Types of SQL injection, Blind SQL Injection, SQL Injection Methodology, SQL Injection Tools, Signature Evasion Techniques, SQL Injection Detection Tools

Learn about wireless encryption, wireless hacking methodologies and tools, and Wi-Fi security tools

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 3 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Foot Print a wireless network
  • Perform wireless traffic analysis
  • Crack WEP, WPA, and WPA2 networks
  • Create a rogue access point to capture data packets

Key topics covered: Wireless Terminology, Wireless Networks, Wireless Encryption, Wireless Threats, Wireless Hacking Methodology, Wi-Fi Encryption Cracking, WEP/WPA/WPA2 Cracking Tools, Bluetooth Hacking, Bluetooth Threats, Wi-Fi Security Auditing Tools, Bluetooth Security Tools

Learn about mobile platform attack vectors, Android vulnerability exploits, and mobile security guidelines and tools.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 5 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Hack an Android device by creating binary payloads
  • Exploit the Android platform through ADB
  • Hack an Android device by creating APK file
  • Secure Android devices using various Android security tools

Key topics covered: Mobile Platform Attack Vectors, OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks, App Sandboxing, SMS Phishing Attack (SMiShing), Android Rooting, Hacking Android Devices, Android Security Tools, Jailbreaking iOS, Hacking iOS Devices, iOS Device Security Tools, Mobile Device Management (MDM), OWASP Top 10 Mobile Controls, Mobile Security Tools.

Learn about packet-sniffing techniques and how to use them to discover network vulnerabilities, as well as countermeasures to defend against sniffing attacks.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 2 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Gather information using Online foot printing tools
  • Capture and analyze IoT device traffic

Key topics covered: IoT Architecture, IoT Communication Models, OWASP Top 10 IoT Threats, IoT Vulnerabilities, IoT Hacking Methodology, IoT Hacking Tools, IoT Security Tools, IT/OT Convergence (IIOT), ICS/SCADA, OT Vulnerabilities, OT Attacks, OT Hacking Methodology, OT Hacking Tools, OT Security Tools

Learn different cloud computing concepts, such as container technologies and server less computing, various cloud-based threats and attacks, and cloud security techniques and tools.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 5 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Perform S3 Bucket enumeration using various S3 bucket enumeration tools
  • Exploit open S3 buckets
  • Escalate IAM user privileges by exploiting misconfigured user policy

Key topics covered: Cloud Computing, Types of Cloud Computing Services, Cloud Deployment Models, Fog and Edge Computing, Cloud Service Providers, Container, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless Computing, OWASP Top 10 Cloud Security Risks, Container and Kubernetes Vulnerabilities, Cloud Attacks, Cloud Hacking, Cloud Network Security, Cloud Security Controls, Cloud Security Tools

In the final module, learn about cryptography and ciphers, public-key infrastructure, cryptography attacks, and cryptanalysis tools.

Hands-On Lab Exercises: Over 10 hands-on exercises with real-life simulated targets to build skills on how to:

  • Calculate MD5 hashes
  • Perform file and text message encryption
  • Create and use self-signed certificates
  • Perform email and disk encryption
  • Perform cryptanalysis using various cryptanalysis tools

Key topics covered: Cryptography, Encryption Algorithms, MD5 and MD6 Hash Calculators, Cryptography Tools, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Email Encryption, Disk Encryption, Cryptanalysis, Cryptography Attacks, Key Stretching