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The CPENT program teaches advanced network, web, API, IoT, OT/SCADA, and cloud penetration testing techniques, enabling professionals to assess and exploit complex enterprise environments securely.
720
Minutes
70/100
Passing Score
$1899
Exam Cost
Who Should Take This
It is designed for seasoned penetration testers, red team engineers, and security consultants with at least three years of hands‑on experience who aim to master testing across heterogeneous infrastructures. These learners seek to validate expertise, expand their service offerings, and meet demanding client or regulatory requirements.
What's Covered
1
Advanced Network Penetration
2
Web and API Exploitation
3
IoT Exploitation
4
OT/SCADA Testing
5
Cloud Penetration Testing
6
Binary Analysis and Exploit Dev
7
Evasion Techniques
8
Reporting and Communication
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Adaptive Knowledge Graph
Practice Questions
Lesson Modules
Console Simulator Labs
Exam Tips & Strategy
20 Activity Formats
Course Outline
60 learning goals
1
Advanced Network Penetration
2 topics
Pivoting and lateral movement
- Apply advanced scanning to discover hidden hosts filtered ports and non-standard services across segmented networks.
- Apply pivoting including SSH tunneling SOCKS proxying and port forwarding to reach internal networks from perimeter.
- Apply lateral movement including PtH PtT Kerberoasting and WMI execution across AD environments.
- Analyze network segmentation to identify trust relationships routing paths and firewall bypass opportunities.
Active Directory attacks
- Apply AD enumeration including BloodHound domain trusts GPO analysis and ACL abuse for privilege escalation.
- Apply AD exploitation including DCSync Golden Ticket Silver Ticket and NTDS.dit extraction.
- Apply AD persistence including AdminSDHolder DCShadow and skeleton key for covert long-term access.
- Analyze AD security to identify delegation misconfigurations password weaknesses and excessive privileges.
2
Web and API Exploitation
2 topics
Advanced web attacks
- Apply advanced SQLi including OOB extraction second-order injection and WAF bypass against hardened apps.
- Apply SSRF including cloud metadata exploitation internal service discovery and protocol smuggling.
- Apply deserialization attacks against Java .NET PHP for RCE through crafted serialized objects.
- Analyze business logic to identify auth bypasses privilege escalation and race conditions.
API attacks
- Apply REST and GraphQL exploitation including BOLA BFLA mass assignment and excessive data exposure.
- Apply JWT attacks including algorithm confusion secret brute-forcing claim manipulation and token replay.
- Apply WebSocket and gRPC exploitation to identify injection auth weaknesses and protocol-specific vectors.
- Analyze API authentication and authorization flows to identify OAuth misconfigurations token leakage and scope abuse attack vectors.
3
IoT Exploitation
2 topics
Firmware and hardware
- Apply firmware extraction and analysis including binwalk filesystem unpacking credential discovery and reverse engineering.
- Apply hardware interface exploitation including UART JTAG SPI I2C for debug access and auth bypass.
- Analyze IoT attack surfaces to identify insecure updates weak auth hardcoded keys and unencrypted comms.
- Apply side-channel attacks including power analysis timing attacks and electromagnetic emanation to extract secrets from embedded devices.
Protocol exploitation
- Apply IoT protocol exploitation including MQTT CoAP ZigBee BLE to intercept and inject data.
- Apply IoT cloud backend exploitation including insecure APIs weak device provisioning and data exposure.
- Design IoT penetration testing methodologies covering device network protocol and cloud attack surfaces.
- Analyze IoT ecosystem security including mobile companion apps cloud APIs and device management portals for cross-surface attack chains.
4
OT/SCADA Testing
2 topics
Protocol analysis
- Apply OT protocol analysis including Modbus DNP3 OPC-UA EtherNet/IP to identify ICS vulnerabilities.
- Apply SCADA exploitation including HMI attacks PLC manipulation and historian compromise with safety constraints.
- Analyze IT/OT convergence to identify bridge points trust weaknesses and lateral movement paths.
- Apply ICS network reconnaissance to identify PLCs RTUs HMIs and engineering workstations without disrupting operational processes.
Safety-aware testing
- Apply passive OT reconnaissance including network mapping traffic analysis and device fingerprinting.
- Apply OT vulnerability assessment using non-intrusive scanning and configuration review techniques.
- Design OT pen test methodologies balancing thorough assessment with safety and operational continuity.
- Analyze OT network segmentation to identify Purdue model violations flat networks and unmonitored cross-zone communications.
5
Cloud Penetration Testing
2 topics
Cloud exploitation
- Apply cloud IAM exploitation including role chaining confused deputy and cross-account abuse for privilege escalation.
- Apply container escape including kernel exploits namespace abuse and runtime vulnerabilities.
- Apply serverless exploitation including function injection environment extraction and event source manipulation.
- Analyze cloud configs to identify misconfigured storage exposed services and overly permissive IAM.
Cloud post-exploitation
- Apply cloud persistence including backdoor IAM Lambda triggers and modified AMIs for maintained access.
- Apply cloud data exfiltration including S3 replication snapshot sharing and DNS tunneling.
- Analyze end-to-end cloud attack paths from initial access through escalation to exfiltration.
6
Binary Analysis and Exploit Dev
2 topics
Exploit development
- Apply buffer overflow exploitation including stack heap and SEH overwrites for code execution.
- Apply shellcode development including PIC encoder chains and staged payloads for multi-platform delivery.
- Apply ROP and code reuse to bypass DEP ASLR and canary protections in modern OS.
- Apply heap exploitation including use-after-free double-free and heap spraying techniques for modern application compromise.
Reverse engineering
- Analyze binaries using IDA Pro Ghidra and debuggers to identify vulnerabilities and develop exploits.
- Apply fuzzing using AFL and custom harnesses to discover memory corruption in target applications.
- Design custom exploit chains combining multiple vulnerabilities for end-to-end compromise demonstrations.
7
Evasion Techniques
2 topics
Endpoint evasion
- Apply AV/EDR evasion including process injection AMSI bypass and custom payload generation.
- Apply living-off-the-land techniques using LOLBins to execute attacks without dropping custom tools.
- Analyze endpoint detection capabilities to identify blind spots and develop targeted bypass techniques.
- Apply payload staging and delivery techniques including DLL sideloading reflective loading and in-memory execution for AV bypass.
Network evasion
- Apply IDS bypass including packet fragmentation protocol tunneling and encrypted channel evasion.
- Apply WAF bypass including encoding manipulation parameter pollution and protocol-level evasion.
- Design multi-layered evasion strategies combining endpoint network and application bypass techniques.
8
Reporting and Communication
2 topics
Professional reporting
- Apply professional pen test reporting with executive summaries technical findings risk ratings and remediation.
- Apply evidence documentation including screenshots command output captures and proof-of-concept demonstrations.
- Analyze findings to prioritize remediation by CVSS severity business impact exploitability and environment.
- Apply risk-based finding communication to translate technical vulnerabilities into business risk language for executive stakeholders.
Program design
- Apply retesting and verification procedures to confirm vulnerability remediation effectiveness.
- Design continuous pen testing programs incorporating automation purple teaming and regression testing.
- Analyze pen test program effectiveness by measuring vulnerability discovery rates remediation velocity and risk reduction.
Scope
Included Topics
- All domains in EC-Council CPENT covering advanced penetration testing including network pivoting IoT OT cloud and exploit development.
- Advanced network testing including multi-machine exploitation pivoting and AD attacks.
- Web application and API exploitation including advanced injection auth bypass and business logic attacks.
- IoT and embedded device exploitation including firmware analysis hardware interfaces and protocol attacks.
- OT/SCADA testing including industrial protocol analysis and safety-aware exploitation.
- Cloud pen testing including IAM exploitation container escapes and serverless attacks.
- Binary analysis exploit development and defense evasion techniques.
Not Covered
- Foundational ethical hacking covered by CEH.
- Forensics/IR covered by CHFI/ECIH.
- SOC operations covered by CSA.
- Secure development covered by ECDE/CASE.
- Executive governance covered by CCISO.
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