Wireshark-Hammerhead

In this advanced challenge, you’ll step into the role of an elite threat hunter tasked with investigating a nation-state level APT campaign. Over a six-hour capture window, you’ll uncover how attackers use covert channels, protocol abuse, and anti-forensics to evade detection while orchestrating multi-vector operations. You’ll analyze DNS tunneling, ICMP covert communications, HTTP steganography, supply chain compromises, and insider threat patterns. Along the way, you’ll extract intelligence indicators, correlate activity across multiple attack vectors, and reconstruct the entire campaign timeline. By completing this lab, you’ll learn the same expert-level methodologies used by top security teams worldwide to defend critical infrastructure and national security assets against the most dangerous cyber adversaries.