# R3dy/capsulecorp-pentest

Vagrant VirtualBox environment for conducting an internal network penetration test

Repository: https://github.com/R3dy/capsulecorp-pentest
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/capsulecorp-pentest
Homepage: https://www.manning.com/books/the-art-of-network-penetration-testing?a_aid=royce
Language: Ruby
License Family: other
Topics: vagrant, ansible, penetration-testing, pentesting, pentest, hacking, ethical-hacking
Last push: 2023-06-05T15:18:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2360, "days_push": 1185, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1006, forks 179 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:11.817091+00:00)

## What it is
A Vagrant and Ansible managed virtual network of five VirtualBox VMs: an Xubuntu attacker machine with common pentest tools and four Windows Server 2019 machines with deliberately vulnerable services in an Active Directory domain. It serves as a standalone practice lab and companion environment for the book The Art of Network Penetration Testing.

## Use cases
- set up a local active directory pentest lab
- practice network penetration testing safely
- learn to exploit vulnerable windows servers
- build a hacking practice environment with vagrant
- follow along with a penetration testing book
- test metasploit and impacket against a lab network

## When to choose
- you want a ready-made, scriptable vulnerable AD lab without manual VM setup
- you are following The Art of Network Penetration Testing
- you have the hardware (ideally 16GB RAM) and VirtualBox/Vagrant/Ansible installed

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained, production-grade security tool rather than a learning lab
- your machine has limited RAM or no VirtualBox support
- you need cloud-based or containerized lab environments instead of local VMs

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: maintenance
- function: penetration-testing, security, infrastructure-as-code, developer-tools
- domain: penetration-testing, security, education
- platform: windows
- tags: vagrant, ansible, virtualbox, active-directory, vulnerable-lab, pentest-lab, adversary-simulation, learning-environment, virtualization, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- R3dy/capsulecorp-pentest (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:11.817091+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:12:44.702700+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/R3dy/capsulecorp-pentest (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:11.817091+00:00, sha 562fb24ae749)
  - homepage: https://www.manning.com/books/the-art-of-network-penetration-testing?a_aid=royce (fetched 2026-08-29T13:12:43.991212+00:00, sha cad32f306e5c)
  - site_page: https://www.manning.com/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T13:12:44.000463+00:00, sha 9e27304d7757)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.