OSCP Course

Exercises & Labs

  • Mar 01 - 08, 2020: rooted 6 machines (Alice, Alpha, Mike, Hotline, Kraken, Dotty) & got low shell 3 machines (Bob, FC4, Sean). Total: 6 machines.
  • Mar 09 - 15, 2020: rooted 5 machines (Pain, Susie, Jeff, Phoenix, Beta) & got low shell 3 machines (Core, Disco, Leftturn). Total: 11 machines.
  • Mar 16 - 22, 2020: rooted 5 machines (Leftturn, Bethany, FC4, Core, Break). Total: 16 machines.
  • Mar 23 - 29, 2020: did some exercises (chapter 2, 3, 6), rooted 1 machines (Ralph) & unlocked IT Department. Total: 17 machines.
  • Mar 30 - Apr 05, 2020: rooted 7 machines (Bruce, Bob, Tophat, JD, Joe, Parrot, Sean) & got low shell 1 machines (Timeclock). Total: 24 machines (found the same network-secret.txt of IT Dept on another machine).
  • Apr 06 - 12, 2020: rooted 3 machines (Timeclock, Disco, Gh0st) & unlocked DEV Department. Total: 27 machines.
  • Apr 13 - 19, 2020: rooted nothing, but read some books and tried to summarize windows privesc and buffer overflows.
  • Apr 20 - 26, 2020: replicated all examples and finished exercises of BoF exploits in PWK (then decided to take OSCE right after OSCP).
  • Apr 27 - May 03, 2020: watched PWK videos & Udemy courses on Windows privesc, started writing my own cheatsheet.
  • May 04 - May 10, 2020: rooted 5 machines (Chris, Mailman, DJ, XOR-APP59, Sufferance). Total: 32 machines.
  • May 11 - May 17, 2020: rooted 1 machines (Mail, DJ - rooted manually). Total: 33 machines.
  • May 20 - May 21, 2020: took the first attempt but failed :(.
  • May 25 - May 31, 2020: after 3 months, I rooted 33 machines in the Labs, unlocked 2 other networks, did some exercises and failed my first exam. It’s the time to practice more on my enumeration and privesc skills towards the next attempt.

OSCP Preparation

Virtual Hacking Labs [my blog]

[x] Rooted all 43/43 machines

TryHackMe [my blog]

[…] OSCP Preparation Path: rooted 7/18 machines (Kali Machine, OpenVPN, Blue, Kenobi, Vulnersity, Steel Mountain, Alfred)

HackTheBox

[…] TJ_Null’s OSCP-like machines (mostly read writeups and watch Ippsec’s videos)

VulnHub

Wizard Labs

Rootme

Practical Ethical Hacking - The Complete Course (Udemy)