Hack The Box

Hack The Box (HTB) is an Athens-based hands-on cybersecurity training platform built around gamified offensive and defensive labs, CTF competitions, and enterprise skills assessment. The consumer side covers HTB Labs (weekly-rotating retired and active boxes covering Linux, Windows, Active Directory, web, and cloud attack chains), HTB Academy (structured certification-prep paths such as CBBH, CPTS, CWEE, and CDSA), HTB Starting Point for beginners, and seasonal CTF events. The enterprise side sells Dedicated Labs, Professional Labs (Dante, Offshore, RastaLabs, Cybernetics), Attack and Defense simulations, and Enterprise Academy subscriptions for SOC, pentest, red-team, and AppSec training at companies and government teams. HTB is used by universities, military units, and named customers including Google, Toyota, Booking.com, and Deloitte for recruiting and upskilling.

The audience for affiliate content skews toward self-taught cybersecurity learners, students aiming at OSCP and adjacent certifications, pentesters comparing CPTS and OSCP, SOC analysts evaluating blue-team labs, and security managers who need a budget line for team training. Because HTB ships new content weekly and publishes retired boxes with community write-ups, the program converts well for YouTube walkthroughs, write-up blogs, and certification-path guides. Subscription tiers (VIP, VIP+, Silver Annual on Labs; monthly or annual on Academy) give creators multiple price points to recommend and a clear upgrade narrative as readers progress from beginner to certification-ready.

Publishers apply at resources.hackthebox.com/affiliates; the HTB team reviews applications weekly and, once approved, sends an invitation to set up an impact.com publisher account linked to the HTB advertiser. All tracking links, creatives, reporting, tax forms, and payout rails then live inside impact.com rather than on HTB directly. Tracking depends on the referred user accepting cookie preferences on HTB pages and registering an HTB SSO account within 90 days of the click.

Commission is 15% on HTB Labs Silver Annual subscriptions, 10% on Labs VIP subscriptions, and an equivalent percentage on HTB Academy annual plans, which HTB advertises as up to USD 230 per individual purchase. Enterprise team referrals pay USD 250 or more per corporate team that signs up through the affiliate link. HTB CTF registrations pay USD 1 for each new user and USD 0.50 for existing users joining a pillar CTF within 90 days. A referred user must register within 90 days of the click, then purchase within 90 days of registration, for the commission to post. Payouts follow impact.com's monthly cycle after HTB's internal validation, via direct deposit, PayPal, wire, or BACS, with the standard USD 10 minimum threshold.