Know the adversary
Describe the ransomware and APT landscape, and how groups such as LockBit, CLOP and BlackCat/ALPHV operate.
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Overview
Threats hide until someone goes looking. OSTH tests the looking.
OSTH is OffSec’s foundational level 200 threat hunting credential, earned through TH-200 with no formal prerequisites. In the 8-hour proctored exam you run a hunting sprint for indicators of compromise, then assess exfiltration or encryption. It is valid for three years, and if it lapses you retake the same exam.
5Topics
480Minutes
3Years valid
8Roles
What it tests
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Find the indicators
Find network and endpoint indicators of compromise in real telemetry.
Watch the wire
Monitor traffic with IDS and IPS tools such as Suricata, and read what they flag.
Assess the damage
Decide whether attackers exfiltrated or encrypted data, and state what you found.
Course outline
What this course will cover.
What this course will cover.
The full outline is on its way.
We design this course ourselves. OffSec runs the exam and issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of OffSec.
The landscape of threat actors, with a focus on ransomware and advanced persistent threats.
- Ransomware
- APTs
Network and endpoint indicators of compromise, and how to find them.
- Network IOCs
- Endpoint IOCs
Monitor traffic with intrusion detection and prevention systems, using Suricata as the example.
- Suricata
- IDS
- IPS
Study ransomware groups such as LockBit, CLOP and BlackCat/ALPHV.
- LockBit
- CLOP
- BlackCat/ALPHV
Behavioral analysis and data correlation for custom threat hunting, with tools such as CrowdStrike Falcon and Splunk.
- Behavioral analysis
- Correlation
- Splunk
- CrowdStrike Falcon
Issued by
Certifying body · Independent of LUNARTECH
OffSec
OffSec builds the courses and runs the hands-on exams that go with them. Exams are proctored by OffSec staff over a private VPN, and some credentials, such as OSCP+, expire after three years unless renewed. LUNARTECH is independent of OffSec.
How you get there
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Here’s how you get there.
Know where you start.
No formal prerequisites. OffSec recommends solid TCP/IP networking, familiarity with Linux and Windows, and basic cybersecurity concepts.
Work through the course.
Five topics, with the full outline on its way.
Sit it with OffSec.
OffSec runs the exam and issues the credential, so you register and book directly with them.
Support
Support at every stage.
Support at every stage.
You won’t be working through this alone.
Before you start
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All the way through
A schedule that fits around your life.
Your own paceFrom anywhereAt any hour
After the last lesson
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Stay connected after you finish, with ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
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Finish a LUNARTECH course and its certificate is issued in your name, under our signature. OffSec’s credential comes from OffSec, when you pass its exam.
Certificate of completion
Your Name
OSTH course
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Pricing
This course comes with the membership.
This course comes with the membership.
So does everything else.
One membership opens every course, certification, workshop and masterclass in the Academy. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial. You register and book the exam directly with OffSec.
3 days free, then $29.97 a month. Your card is only charged once the trial ends.
Included in every plan
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- A 3-day free trial
- Learning at your own pace
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In practice
Eight roles.
Eight roles.
One credential across them all.
No single job owns it. Here’s where each role leans hardest, and where its work ends up.
- 01Threat actors
- 02Indicators
- 03IDS, IPS
- 04Ransomware groups
- 05Behavior
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Hunting starts with a hypothesis about the attacker. Behavior and correlation test it.
Indicators, Behavior, Threat actors
Threat hunting teams, Managed detection and response
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Hunting extends triage into proactive work. IOCs and IDS data feed both.
Indicators, IDS, IPS
Security operations centers, Financial services
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Ransomware response starts with scoping the damage. Indicators show how far it spread.
Ransomware groups, Indicators
Managed detection and response, Healthcare
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Group behavior is intelligence you can hunt with. LockBit, CLOP and ALPHV are covered.
Threat actors, Ransomware groups
Threat hunting teams, Managed detection and response
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Each hunt should end in a detection that runs without you. Behavior-based rules outlast indicator lists.
Indicators, Behavior, IDS, IPS
Security operations centers, Managed detection and response
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IDS and IPS output is where many hunts begin. Tuning it needs a hunter’s view of real traffic.
IDS, IPS, Indicators
Security operations centers, Managed detection and response
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Hunting is data analysis with an adversary on the other side. Behavior patterns show up in logs before alerts do.
Indicators, Behavior
Threat hunting teams, Healthcare
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Ransomware groups follow patterns you can plan against. Threat actor objectives show what to expect next.
Ransomware groups, Threat actors
Financial services, Healthcare
- Threat hunting teams
- Security operations centers
- Managed detection and response
- Financial services
- Healthcare
Threat Hunter
Hunting starts with a hypothesis about the attacker. Behavior and correlation test it.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Need help? These answers cover most of what people ask before they start.
No. OffSec issues it. LUNARTECH is independent of OffSec, and its names and marks belong to it. When you finish a course of ours, you earn a LUNARTECH certificate of completion for that course.
No. We design this course ourselves, around what the exam covers. OffSec has no part in it, and you still register and book the exam directly with OffSec.
480 minutes, remote, proctored.
No formal prerequisites. OffSec recommends solid TCP/IP networking, familiarity with Linux and Windows, and basic cybersecurity concepts.
3 years. Pass a recertification exam or a qualifying OffSec exam, or complete the CPE program.
We last reviewed it on 5 November 2026, from OffSec’s own pages. Details change, so check the official page before you book.
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The course
Build the skills behind OSTH.
Prove you can hunt a threat and say what the attacker took. Start with a free trial, or enroll in a plan and work through the course at your own pace. OffSec runs the exam and issues the credential.
LUNARTECH is independent of the vendors and certifying bodies listed here. Their names, exam titles and marks belong to them, exams are run by them, and credentials are issued by them. Reviewed 5 November 2026. Catalogues change often, so confirm the details on the official page before you book.
