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Offensive Development Practitioner Certification Course

  • Level > Intermediate to Advanced
  • Advanced offensive development and evasion lab challenges

Learn how to design, build, and operate custom offensive tooling including shellcode loaders, reflective payloads, process injection techniques, AMSI and ETW bypass, API unhooking, EDR evasion strategies, payload staging, and Command and Control integration inside a private AWS lab environment protected by modern defenses.

Certification Outcomes

  • Become an officially certified Offensive Development Practitioner, recognized by consultants, red teams, and internal security teams responsible for advanced adversary simulation and endpoint evasion testing.
  • Start training in the student portal and deploy your lab using only AWS access keys. Build, test, deploy, rebuild, or destroy your environment at any time. Track AWS compute cost, set budgets, and enforce automatic lab stop rules directly through the portal interface.
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What This Certification Course Delivers

The Offensive Development Practitioner Certification validates the ability to build and operate custom offensive tooling in environments protected by modern endpoint defenses.

By the end of the certification course, students will be able to:

  • Understand Windows internals and APIs from an offensive development perspective
  • Develop custom shellcode loaders and reflective payloads
  • Implement multiple process injection and execution techniques
  • Bypass AMSI, ETW, and user mode detection mechanisms
  • Perform API unhooking and memory evasion techniques
  • Integrate custom tooling with Command and Control frameworks
  • Test and refine payloads against active EDR controls
  • Document offensive tooling design and execution in a professional report

Student Portal, Lab Deployment, Budget, and Cost Controls


All students are onboarded into the White Knight Labs student portal, where all certification content is delivered in Markdown format.

The student portal provides:

  • Automated deployment of a private offensive development lab environment in AWS
  • AWS integration using only an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key
  • Automated build, destroy, start, stop, and rebuild of lab systems
  • Live AWS compute cost tracking and usage visibility
  • Budget configuration and spending thresholds defined by the student
  • Automatic lab stop when budget or runtime guardrails are reached
  • Full administrative control of all lab systems
  • A private, isolated environment per student

Students are encouraged to modify, break, rebuild, test, and redeploy tooling freely. The portal enforces only the budgets and guardrails configured by the student.

Lab Environment Overview

The ODPC lab environment is designed to simulate modern, endpoint protected enterprise systems and to support real offensive development workflows using industry standard Command and Control frameworks.

The lab environment includes:

  • Windows systems protected by modern EDR and defensive controls
  • Multiple execution and injection targets across varying security postures
  • Offensive development workflows using Cobalt Strike and Havoc C2
  • Student access to Cobalt Strike for lab execution and testing
  • Native support for Havoc C2 as an alternative Command and Control platform
  • The ability for students to bring and operate their own Command and Control framework
  • Payload staging, delivery, and callback testing environments
  • Controlled debugging and iteration workflows

Students are encouraged to build, deploy, test, and refine custom tooling using multiple C2 platforms to understand tradeoffs, detection surfaces, and operational differences between frameworks. This mirrors real red team operations where operators must adapt tooling and infrastructure based on defensive visibility and client constraints.

Real World Defensive Targets

ODPC is built around defensive technologies encountered during active red team engagements.

The lab environment includes:

  • 7+ Endpoint Detection and Response platforms that rotate and change over time
  • Windows built-in defenses and hardening configurations
  • Application control and execution restriction mechanisms
  • Defensive setups modeled after real enterprise client environments

These targets are not theoretical. They are based on defensive configurations that challenged White Knight Labs red team operators during real world engagements and adversary simulation work.

ODPC is intentionally difficult.

This certification course is crafted to push students beyond comfort zones, force iteration, and require independent problem solving. Students should expect failed payloads, blocked execution paths, active defensive telemetry, and evolving detection logic that must be understood and bypassed.

Students who successfully defeat all defensive targets and complete the certification exam demonstrate the ability to:

  • Bypass modern and evolving EDR platforms
  • Operate in environments with layered Windows defenses and application control
  • Build opsec friendly custom offensive tooling
  • Adapt tooling as defensive controls change
  • Lead offensive development efforts during real red team engagements with confidence

ODPC is not designed to be easy. It is designed to prepare operators to function when stock tooling fails and defenses are operating as intended.

Here's a sneak peek of your training experience

A sample video is available to provide a sneak peek into the certification course structure.

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All course material is delivered through the student portal. For transparency, students may download the Table of Contents to review the scope of topics covered prior to enrollment.

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Enterprise Relevance and Operator Trust

ODPC prepares students to operate in environments where custom offensive tooling is required due to modern security controls.

This certification is relevant for:

  • Advanced red team engagements
  • Internal adversary simulation teams
  • Offensive security research roles
  • Security engineers transitioning into red team operations
  • Organizations operating in high maturity or regulated environments

Offensive Development Focus Areas

Hands-on training is provided across the following areas:

  • Portable Executable internals and shellcode fundamentals
  • Windows API usage for offensive development
  • Custom loaders and reflective DLL techniques
  • Process injection and execution methods
  • Process injection and execution methods
  • API unhooking and memory evasion
  • Payload staging and delivery mechanisms
  • Command and Control integration
  • Detection testing and evasion iteration
  • Tool stability, debugging, and operational reliability

All techniques are executed and validated inside the student lab environment.

Certification Exam Requirements

The ODPC certification exam is performance based and completed inside the student deployed AWS lab environment managed through the student portal.

Students must:

  • Develop and deploy custom offensive tooling
  • Achieve execution against endpoint protected systems
  • Bypass active defensive controls
  • Capture required technical flags
  • Demonstrate operational stability
  • Submit a professional certification report detailing tooling design, execution flow, and evasion techniques

There are no multiple choice questions. Certification is issued only upon successful practical completion.

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What You Receive Upon Enrollment

  • Lifetime access to the ODPC on demand certification course
  • Certification updates for the life of the course
  • Private AWS based offensive development lab environment
  • Full lab automation through the student portal
  • Budget and cost controls configured by the student
  • Student support access through Discord
  • One certification exam voucher included with no expiration
  • Official White Knight Labs ODPC certification upon passing

Enrollment Information

This is an on demand certification course.

Students may enroll at any time and progress at their own pace.

All lab deployment, control, cost tracking, and budget enforcement are handled through the student portal.

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Certified for Real World Offensive Development

  • Validated Offensive Development Expertise
  • Proves the ability to design, build, and deploy custom offensive tooling against modern defenses
  • Certification badge reflects practical tooling execution and evasion, not attendance or progress only
  • Demonstrates skill in bypassing EDR, Windows defenses, and application control through custom development
  • Industry Recognition & Trust
  • Built and maintained by active red team operators
  • Used by consultants and security teams performing advanced adversary simulation and endpoint evasion
  • Badge signals real world experience defeating modern EDR platforms and defensive telemetry
  • Independent Operator Mindset
  • Performance based certification completed through hands on development labs and flag capture
  • Demonstrates independent problem solving when payloads fail and defenses adapt
  • All tooling design, execution flow, and evasion techniques documented in a professional certification report

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q)

  • No. ODPC is an intermediate to advanced certification course. Students are expected to have prior experience with programming, Windows internals, and basic offensive tradecraft. This course is intentionally challenging.
  • Students should be comfortable with C, C++, or C#, understand Windows internals, and have prior exposure to shellcode, loaders, or process injection concepts.
  • Yes. ODPC includes live EDR targets commonly found in real world enterprise environments. These targets are configured to behave as they would during actual client engagements.
  • The specific EDR platforms are not disclosed publicly. Students discover which EDRs are in scope after enrollment. This mirrors real world conditions where operators must adapt without advance knowledge of defensive tooling.
  • Yes. Lab systems are air gapped or specially configured to prevent leakage or unintended interaction outside the environment. The labs are designed to be safe, controlled, and isolated.
  • Students access lab systems using Guacamole and RDP. This allows controlled, browser based access while maintaining isolation and operational safety.
  • The course supports Cobalt Strike and Havoc C2. Students may also bring and operate their own Command and Control framework.
  • Yes. ODPC includes access to Cobalt Strike within the lab environment.
  • Yes. Cobalt Strike is intentionally restricted. Students have enough access to learn, operate, and abuse the framework, but administrative access to the team server is restricted. Students may not bring their own Cobalt Strike license.
  • Yes. Students can experiment with Cobalt Strike profiles, generate working beacons, and test detection tradeoffs and operational behavior.
  • ODPC uses the latest Cobalt Strike releases. New versions are tested internally before being introduced into the course environment.
  • Yes. Havoc C2 is fully supported and may be used alongside or instead of Cobalt Strike.
  • Yes. Students may bring and operate their own Command and Control framework inside the lab environment.
  • No. Each student receives a private, isolated lab environment deployed inside their own AWS account.
  • Yes. Students must have their own AWS account with administrative access to generate AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.
  • Yes. The student portal tracks live AWS compute cost, usage, and projected spend.
  • Yes. Students can define budgets, runtime guardrails, and automatic lab stop rules directly in the student portal.
  • Students can destroy and rebuild the lab environment at any time through the portal.
  • No. Not all labs include recorded videos at release. New content may be added before a video exists. Every lab includes theory and a complete Markdown walkthrough in the student portal.
  • This is a self study, on demand certification course. Students work independently and may ask questions over Discord.
  • Support is provided over Discord by instructors and other students who have purchased the course.
  • The course is updated at least two times per year. Updates may include new labs, new defensive targets, tooling changes, and refreshed detection challenges.
  • Yes. EDR targets and defensive configurations may rotate or change as the course evolves to reflect real world conditions.
  • Course and portal access does not expire at this time and remains available for the life of the certification course.
  • Yes. ODPC includes a performance based certification exam completed inside the student lab environment.
  • The certification exam is 48 hours long, followed by an additional 48 hours to submit the professional certification report.
  • No. One exam voucher is included with the course and has no expiration.
  • Students must develop and deploy custom tooling, bypass active defenses, capture required flags, and submit a professional certification report documenting tooling design, execution flow, and evasion techniques.
  • Yes. ODPC is intentionally challenging. Payloads will fail, detections will occur, and tooling must be adapted as defenses change. This reflects real offensive development work.
  • English is the only supported language at this time. Browser based translation tools may assist but are not officially supported.

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