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20
Comprehensive
Modules
220
Hands-On
Labs
3,500
Hacking
Tools
125
Multiple-choice
Questions
Seize the opportunity and build your career with the most in-demand ethical hacking certification in the world, Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH®).
Cyber-attacks are increasing in numbers and sophistication. This means the world needs more cyber security professionals to act as the first line of defense. Skill up to become the first line of defense against cyberattacks

How C|EH v12 Empowers You
- Unique “Learn, Certify, Engage and Compete” methodology for aspiring cyber professionals
- Learn ethical hacking in a structured setting across 20 domains
- Build skills with over 220 challenge-based, hands-on labs with CyberQ™ Labs
- Gain experience with over 500 unique attack techniques
- Learn commercial-grade hacking tools and techniques
- Engage: “hack” a real organization with C|EH® Elite to gain experience
- Compete with hackers around the world as part of the C|EH® Elite program
- Attain the most recognized credential in the cybersecurity industry, C|EH®
Show Off Your Skills with the World’s No. 1
Credential in Ethical Hacking
The knowledge and skills gained through the C|EH® program are second to none covering the widest
possible set of domains in cybersecurity. Holding the industry-recognized, ANSI-accredited C|EH®
certification proves to your current or prospective employer that EC-Council has evaluated your
knowledge and skills and conferred a certification to you based on your accomplishments in the program.

C|EH® Accreditations, Recognitions and Endorsements
Learn Ethical Hacking
a New Revolutionary Way!
Our exclusive Learn | Certify | Engage | Compete framework covers not only a comprehensive training program to prepare you for the certification exam but also the industry’s most robust, in-depth, hands-on lab experience of any cybersecurity program available. C|EH v12 will teach you the latest commercial-grade hacking tools, techniques, and methodologies used by hackers and information security professionals to lawfully hack an organization.

1. Gain Skills
Master new skills through a carefully curated training plan and practice every learning objective in the course on live machines and vulnerable targets. Get unprecedented exposure and hands-on experience with the most common security tools, the latest vulnerabilities, and widely used operating systems.
With C|EH®, you will get access to
- 20 modules
- Over 220 hands-on-labs with competition flags
- Over 3,500 hacking tools
(Windows 11, Windows Servers, Linux, Ubuntu, Android)

2. Gain experience
Prove your skills and abilities with online, practical examinations! The exam comprises two phases: the C|EH Knowledge exam that tests your skills in Information Security, Attack Detection, Attack Prevention, Procedures, Methodologies, and more, and the C|EH (Practical) that requires you to demonstrate the skills and abilities of ethical hacking techniques such as Port scanning tools, Vulnerability detection Attacks on a system, SQL injection methodology, and evasion techniques, and more.
Take a quick look at the two phases of the C|EH Exam
C|EH Knowledge Exam
- 20 modules
- Over 220 hands-on-labs with competition flags
- Over 3,500 hacking tools
C|EH Practical Exam
- 6 hours practical exam
- 20 scenario-based questions
- Prove your skills and abilities

3. Gain Recognition
With C|EH Engage, you will develop real-world experience in ethical hacking in a hands-on environment through a 4-phase security engagement. This engagement requires students to think critically and test the knowledge and skills gained by capturing a series of flags in each phase, demonstrating the live application of skills and abilities in a consequence-free environment through EC-Council’s new Cyber Range.
The four phases of the security engagement are
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Gaining Access
- Perimeter and Web App Exploitation
- PMobile, IoT, OT Exploitation

4. Gain Respect
You get the opportunity to participate in the C|EH Global Challenges that occur every month, providing capture-the-flag style competitions that expose you to various new technologies and platforms, from web applications, OT, IoT, SCADA, and ICS systems to the cloud and hybrid environments. Hosted 100% online in EC-Council’s Cyber Range, you will race the clock in scenario-based engagements.
Here is a quick overview of the C|EH Global Challenges:
- New challenges every month
- 4-hour competition
- Opportunity to Compete with your peers all over the world
- Chance to hack your way to the top of the Leaderboard
- A pathway to gain recognition
Here’s an Inside Look into
What You’re Going to Learn with the C|EH® Program
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 footprinting 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 footprinting on the target network using search engines, web services, and social networking sites
- Perform website, email, whois, DNS, and network footprinting 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:
- Perform footprinting on the target network using search engines, web services, and social networking sites
- Perform website, email, whois, DNS, and network footprinting on the target network
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 used to discover system and network vulnerabilities, including steganography, steganalysis attacks, and covering tracks.
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 the 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 a 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 Attacks, CRIME Attacks, Network Level Session Hijacking, TCP/IP Hijacking, Session Hijacking Tools, Session Hijacking Detection Methods, Session Hijacking Prevention Tools
Get introduced to firewalls, intrusion detection systems, 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 15 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 an 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 footprinting 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 serverless 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
Here’s Everything You’re Getting Today
With the C|EH Elite Program
Get Certified for Just $2,339
- eCourseware
- Exam Voucher*
- Next Version of eCourseware
- 6 Months of Official Labs
- C|EH Engage
- Global C|EH Challenges
- Exam Preparation
- C|EH Practical Exam
- Ethical Hacking Video Library 2
Here are the Job Roles
That C|EH Prepares You For
- Mid-Level Information Security Auditor
- Cybersecurity Auditor
- Security Administrator
- IT Security Administrator
- Cyber Defense Analyst
- Vulnerability Assessment Analyst
- Network Security Engineer
- SOC Security Analyst
- Security Analyst
- Senior Security Consultant
- Senior SOC Analyst
- Warning Analyst
- Cybersecurity Auditor
- Information Security Analyst 1
- Security Analyst L1
- Infosec Security Administrator
- Cybersecurity Analyst level 1, level 2, & level 3
- Cybersecurity Consultant
- Information Security Manager
- Solution Architect
… And much more
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