Homelab

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Where the research happens: a Proxmox server, a private Tailscale mesh, a Tor relay, an always-on mini PC, a locked-down malware lab and a throwaway Active Directory forest. Open the map and click around.

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The hardware

Proxmox host

Dell PowerEdge R620

32 cores · 250 GB DDR3 · 10 TB storage

The heavy iron: every range and the malware zoo run here.

Always-on utility

Mini PC

4 cores / 8 threads · 8 GB RAM

Tiny, quiet, never off. Keeps the essentials alive.

Tor relay + counter-forensics

Lenovo laptop (battle-damaged)

Beaten up, still fighting

Dedicated hardware for Tor and anti-forensics work, kept off the main network.

The maps

MAP 01 · The whole lab

Network

WAN, firewall, VLANs, WireGuard and the three machines everything runs on. Start here, then drop through a portal into a range.

14 nodes~24 GB of 250 GB RAM
MAP 02 · AD attack & defend

Cyber Range

A disposable Active Directory network with a Kali attacker, a C2 server and an exposed web app, for practising the full attack path and what each step leaves in the logs.

11 nodes~48 GB of 250 GB RAM
MAP 03 · 20 LXC, air-gapped

Malware Zoo

Twenty LXC containers on an isolated VLAN with no route to anything. Samples run against a fake internet while every packet is captured, then everything reverts to a clean snapshot.

25 nodes~48 GB of 250 GB RAM
MAP 04 · Detect, investigate, automate

SOC / DFIR + AI

Endpoints report to Velociraptor, detections are written as Sigma rules in Git, a SIEM correlates everything, and a swarm of LangChain agents helps triage the alerts.

10 nodes~64 GB of 250 GB RAM
MAP 05 · Research bench

Mobile & macOS

Android emulators and real devices, an iOS bench, and a docker-OSX macOS box, all behind an intercepting proxy, for reverse engineering apps and testing how devices leak.

9 nodes~40 GB of 250 GB RAM