Free Udemy Course 2025: Practical hacking and pentesting course for beginners

*The ultimate Practical Hacking and Pentesting Guide for Beginners. Learn Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing! Learn to use real techniques and tools that are used by black hat hackers*Welcome to this comprehensive course on practical hacking and pentesting. In this course, you'll learn techniques and tools to crack windows passwords, recover office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel Passwords), hack wireless networks and practical pentesting techniques to hack your targets over the network. This course assumes you have NO prior knowledge in hacking and cracking, and by the end of it, you'll be at a comfortable level, being able to start with your pentesting journey skilled with the basic toolsetThe course is a practical guide and only focuses on the practical stuff leaving out python or other theoretical stuff that you find in other courses to fill up the content. More than 4 hours of practical hacking and pentesting stuff with real-world guides. You'll learn everything by example and practical guides,  so we'll never have any dry boring theoretical lectures.Each practical lecture is accompanied by a free pdf presentation explaining the attack which can be downloaded and used as a quick reference.The Quick Breakdown of the content is as follows:-How to Install Kali Linux in a virtual environment in a quick and easy way.How to break into Windows passwords.How to crack WIFI passwords.How to crack office files passwords.How to hack machines(both windows and Linux) over the network.How to sharpen your skill with practice on Hack the box free machines.The Major Modules include.1.   Windows Password cracking and bypassing passwords to gain accessAfter finishing the module, you will also be acquainted with the best free password-cracking tools and techniques that you can implement in your future learning path. We also discuss some services and tools that can help you to speed up the office password-cracking process.The Quick Breakdown of the content is as follows:-How to break Windows Passwords.How to Hack into Windows without cracking passwords.How to use Hashcat for faster GPU-based Attacks.How to use  Hashcat from Windows to crack the Passwords.How to extract passwords from RAM with MimiKatz.2.   Wifi HackingWifi is everywhere and learning the tools to crack and hack into the wifi is one of the most important skillset in any hackers arsenal.The quick breakdown of the content is as follows:How to hack WPA2 wifi networks with old aircrack utility.How to capture handshakes with Hcxdump tools.How to crack wifi password with fast GPU based cracked- Hashcat.How to crack wifi passwords with single command in an automated manner.How to crack wifi networks from Windows.What are the best GUI based tools to crack passwords.3. Office Files (Word, powerpoint, excel) and RAR/ ZIP files password crackingWhat about learning to break into the most important and used file types. The module is perfect for it. The Quick Breakdown of the module content is as follows:-How to password protect word, excel and PowerPoint Files.How to use John to crack office passwords on Kali Linux.How to use Hashcat for faster GPU-based Attacks.How to install John the ripper and Hashcat on Windows.How to crack office passwords from Windows without Kali Linux.How to Unlock read-only Excel Files.How to remove sheet and workbook protection from Excel sheets.How to remove read-only restriction from Word and PowerPoint files.How to remove passwords from office documents with free online password recovery service.How to use Paid tools to crack office passwords.How to remove passwords from very old word documents with Guaword utility.4. Practical pentesting and network attacksIn this module, we learn about how to go with practical pentesting and hacking machines over the network The Quick Breakdown of the module content is as follows:-What is Metasploit and how to hack windows with it.How to scan the targets to extract maximum information.How to perform a vulnerability assessment of a target with automated tools.How to extract information from a target, start a keylogger and take screenshots of a target after gaining a foothold.How to practice pentesting for free.We guarantee you this is one of the most comprehensive online course on hacking and pentesting for beginners which is focused on only practical stuffNotes:This course is created for educational purposes only and all the attacks are launched in my own lab or against systems that I have permission to test. The instructor is not linked to any tool or service mentioned in the course in any capacity.