Ethical Hacking
& Pen Testing
Internship
Master offensive security from the ground up. 42 hands-on lessons with Kali Linux โ covering penetration testing, web exploitation (SQLi, XSS, LFI), information gathering (Nmap, Shodan), vulnerability scanning (Nikto, OWASP ZAP, Skipfish), Metasploit, and Remote Access Trojans.
Hands-On Lessons โ Beginner to Pentester
Security Tools: Metasploit, Nmap, Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP & More
Web Exploitation Techniques: SQLi, XSS, LFI, OS Injection, Backdoors
Course + Internship Certificate Issued on Completion
42 Lessons โ Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing: Complete Course Outline
Every lesson listed. Two free previews included. Hands-on practicals tagged orange. Exploitation lessons tagged red. Vulnerability assessment tagged yellow. RAT analysis tagged purple.
10+ Industry Security Tools โ All Covered with Hands-On Lessons
Every major tool used by real-world ethical hackers and penetration testers is covered in dedicated lessons โ giving you genuine platform fluency, not just theoretical awareness.
6 Ethical Hacking Skills You Master in 42 Lessons
Six distinct competency areas โ building you from a Kali Linux beginner to a capable penetration tester with hands-on tool experience across the full ethical hacking lifecycle.
Kali Linux Mastery
Master the operating system of choice for every serious security professional โ Kali Linux. The course dedicates 12 foundational lessons to Kali administration: terminal navigation, sudo, file management, user/group management, SSH, file permissions, process viewing, and network commands. Every subsequent skill is built on this Kali foundation.
Web Exploitation Techniques
Execute real web application attacks in a controlled lab environment. The course covers six major exploit types: backdoor planting via remote code execution, Local File Inclusion (LFI) using Burp Suite across two lessons, OS command injection for website takeover, SQL injection (SQLi), and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) โ the five vulnerability categories that dominate web application security testing.
Information Gathering & OSINT
Learn the reconnaissance techniques used at the beginning of every professional penetration test: information gathering with Nmap, DNS enumeration, leveraging Shodan.io for internet-wide device discovery, subdomain enumeration, and email/information extraction using SFcrawler. These six lessons build the intelligence-gathering skills that make exploitation possible.
Vulnerability Assessment โ 4 Scanner Tools
Master the four web application vulnerability scanners used most widely in professional security assessments: Nikto (web server scanner), OWASP ZAP (the most widely adopted open-source web app security tool), the Nmap Scripting Engine for vulnerability scanning, and Skipfish for web application security reconnaissance. Plus directory brute-forcing for finding hidden file directories and Proxychains for anonymized scanning.
Metasploit Framework Exploitation
The Metasploit Framework is the most widely used penetration testing platform in the world. Two dedicated lessons cover Metasploit in depth โ framework architecture, modules, payloads, handlers, and practical exploitation workflows. The AI in malware reverse engineering lesson adds a cutting-edge perspective on how artificial intelligence is reshaping defensive and offensive security.
Remote Access Trojans (RAT) โ 4-Part Series
Remote Access Trojans are among the most dangerous and commonly deployed malware tools โ understanding them is essential for both offense and defense in cybersecurity. The course introduces RAT in Lesson 2 (free preview) and then dedicates three additional deep-dive lessons (Parts 2, 3, and 4) to RAT analysis โ covering how they work, how they are deployed, and how defenders detect and mitigate them.
This Ethical Hacking Internship Is Built for You
Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing career fields globally โ and a verified ethical hacking credential with hands-on tool experience opens doors across every sector that depends on digital security.
CS & Engineering Students
A verified ethical hacking internship certificate with hands-on experience in Kali Linux, Metasploit, Nmap, and OWASP ZAP is one of the most career-differentiating credentials a computer science or engineering student can present. This internship gives you the applied security portfolio that academic degrees alone don't provide โ and the verified credential that proves every skill listed.
Software Developers Moving into Security
Software developers who understand how systems are attacked write significantly more secure code. This internship teaches SQLi, XSS, LFI, OS command injection, and directory brute-forcing โ the exact attack vectors that exploit insecure code. Developers who complete this internship come away with the attacker's perspective that makes every line of their own code more secure.
IT Professionals Upskilling
Network administrators, system administrators, and IT support professionals who want to move into cybersecurity roles need two things: technical offensive security skills and a verified credential that demonstrates them. This internship provides both โ 42 hands-on lessons covering every major penetration testing domain, with a globally authenticated dual certificate.
Aspiring Penetration Testers
Penetration testing is one of the most in-demand and highest-paid cybersecurity specialisations. This internship covers the complete penetration testing workflow โ from information gathering (Nmap, Shodan, DNS enumeration) through exploitation (Metasploit, SQLi, XSS) to post-exploitation analysis โ giving aspiring pentesters the foundational credential and hands-on experience to pursue their first security role.
Cybersecurity Analysts & Blue Teamers
To defend against attacks effectively, security analysts need to understand exactly how those attacks work. The attacker's toolkit covered in this internship โ RAT analysis, backdoor techniques, web vulnerability scanning, Metasploit exploitation โ directly strengthens every defensive security decision a blue teamer makes. Understand the offense to sharpen the defense.
Beginners with No Security Background
The internship starts from Lesson 1 and builds the Kali Linux foundation that all subsequent security work rests on โ from absolute scratch. No prior Linux, networking, or security knowledge is required. The course sequence is deliberately designed to take a complete beginner from "what is Kali Linux" to executing penetration tests across web, network, and system targets.
The Ethical Hacking Credential That Proves Real Skill.
Complete all 42 lessons and earn two separately verified, globally recognized certificates. The course certificate proves you mastered ethical hacking and penetration testing โ from Kali Linux fundamentals through Metasploit exploitation. The internship certificate proves you practiced it hands-on โ in lab environments, with real tools, on real vulnerabilities. Both are LinkedIn-compatible with live verification links, recognized by cybersecurity employers in 50+ countries.
They Ran the Tools. Got Certified. Landed Security Roles.
Real learners who completed the EasyShiksha Ethical Hacking internship and used the credentials to break into cybersecurity and penetration testing careers.
I was a third-year computer science student from Hyderabad who had been following cybersecurity on YouTube but had no hands-on lab experience and no credential to show for the interest. The EasyShiksha Ethical Hacking internship changed that in six weeks. By Lesson 27 I had run actual SQLi attacks on BWAPP. By Lesson 35 I had used Metasploit. The dual certificate on my LinkedIn generated three messages from cybersecurity recruiters within a month. I am now doing a paid security internship at a Hyderabad-based IT security firm. The verified credential was the difference-maker.
I had been working as a network administrator in Lagos for four years and wanted to move into penetration testing. Every pentesting job required tool experience I couldn't demonstrate โ Metasploit, OWASP ZAP, Nmap scripting engine. The EasyShiksha Ethical Hacking internship filled every single gap. The four web vulnerability assessment lessons alone made me more hireable than any certification prep course I had tried. The internship certificate gave my CV the verified applied credential that made my transition credible. I am now a junior penetration tester at a Lagos cybersecurity consultancy.
I am a self-taught developer from Karachi who had been interested in bug bounty hunting but didn't know where to formally start. The EasyShiksha Ethical Hacking internship was exactly the right structured program. The BWAPP setup in Lesson 14, the Burp Suite LFI lessons, the XSS and SQLi exploitation โ all in a legal lab environment โ gave me the methodical approach I was missing. Three weeks after completing the internship and adding the certificate to LinkedIn and HackerOne, I submitted my first valid bug report to a public program. The credential and the skills both proved real.
Ethical Hacking Internship โ Your Questions Answered
Everything you need to know before applying for the EasyShiksha Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing Internship.
What does the ethical hacking internship cover?
Is this ethical hacking internship legal?
What tools are covered?
Kali Linux (full terminal and administration), Nmap (network mapper + NSE scripting), Burp Suite (LFI testing โ 2 lessons), Metasploit Framework (2 exploitation lessons), Nikto (web scanner), OWASP ZAP (web app assessment), Skipfish (web recon), Proxychains, Shodan.io, SFcrawler, BWAPP (vulnerable web app lab), and Windows 10 VM via virtualization.
Do I need prior Linux or security experience?
sudo, Lesson 5 covers file management. No prior Linux, networking, or security knowledge is required. The course sequence is deliberately designed to build every skill from the ground up before applying it in security contexts.
What is BWAPP and why is it used?
How many certificates do I get?
How long does the ethical hacking internship take?
Is Metasploit covered in depth?
Ethical Hacking Internship โ 42 Hands-On Lessons: Kali Linux, Penetration Testing, and the Full Hacking Toolkit
The EasyShiksha ethical hacking internship is one of the most practically intensive online cybersecurity programs available โ 42 hands-on lessons spanning every major phase of the ethical hacking and penetration testing lifecycle, built on the industry's standard offensive security platform, Kali Linux. This is not a conceptual overview of cybersecurity principles. It is a structured, tool-by-tool, technique-by-technique internship program that takes a complete beginner from their first Kali Linux terminal command through executing real web application exploits, running professional-grade vulnerability scanners, deploying Metasploit payloads, and analyzing Remote Access Trojans โ all in legal, controlled lab environments.
Why Kali Linux is the Foundation
Every serious ethical hacker and penetration tester uses Kali Linux โ the Debian-based Linux distribution maintained by Offensive Security and pre-loaded with hundreds of security tools. The ethical hacking internship dedicates its first 12 lessons to Kali Linux mastery: terminal navigation, sudo and privilege management, file system operations, user and group administration, SSH configuration, file permissions, process management, and network commands. This foundation is not optional โ it is the technical substrate on which every subsequent security skill is built. Learners who complete this module arrive at the exploitation lessons with genuine Linux fluency, not the surface-level familiarity that forces them to pause and troubleshoot basic commands mid-attack.
Web Exploitation โ Five Attack Types in a Legal Lab
The web exploitation module of this ethical hacking internship covers five distinct attack categories across six lessons โ all conducted on BWAPP (Buggy Web Application), an intentionally vulnerable application running in an isolated network you configure yourself. Backdoor planting via remote code execution teaches how attackers gain persistent access to web servers. LFI (Local File Inclusion) using Burp Suite across two dedicated lessons covers the technique used to read sensitive files from web servers. OS command injection shows how improperly sanitized inputs allow attackers to execute operating system commands through web interfaces. SQL injection (SQLi) covers the attack that remains the most common cause of data breaches globally. Cross-site scripting (XSS) covers the vulnerability that affects the majority of web applications and enables session hijacking, credential theft, and malicious redirects.
A Globally Recognized Cybersecurity Credential
Cybersecurity professionals are in demand globally โ and demand is outpacing supply across every geography. EasyShiksha ethical hacking internship certificates are digitally verified and recognized by employers in 50+ countries, each carrying a tamper-proof digital authentication ID that any recruiter, hiring manager, or HR professional can verify in seconds. For learners targeting cybersecurity roles in India, the UAE, the UK, the US, Nigeria, or anywhere in the global security industry, the credential carries equal authority and equal authenticity regardless of where it was earned.
42 lessons. 10+ security tools. Five web exploitation techniques. Two Metasploit lessons. A 4-part RAT series. Two globally verified certificates. The most comprehensive ethical hacking internship available online โ view the full course or apply for the ethical hacking internship today.
Ethical Hacking Internship โ Kali Linux. Metasploit. SQLi. XSS. RAT. All 42 Lessons.
Master penetration testing from the ground up. Kali Linux, Nmap, Burp Suite, Metasploit, OWASP ZAP, and more โ all in hands-on labs. Earn two globally verified certificates recognized by cybersecurity employers in 50+ countries.
42 Lessons ยท 2 Free Previews ยท Kali + Metasploit + 8 More Tools ยท Course + Internship Cert ยท 50+ Countries










