There’s no clear indication of when you can take it. In mid-February, after 30 days into the OSCP lab, I felt like I can do it. Use walkthroughs, but make notes of them so that you won’t have to refer to a walkthrough if you had to pwn the same machine a few days later. It’s not like if you keep on trying harder, you’ll eventually hack the machine. New skills can’t be acquired if you just keep on replicating your existing ones. I never felt guilty about solving a machine by using walkthroughs.
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So when I get stuck, I’ll refer to my notes and if I had replicated everything in my notes and still couldn’t pwn the machine, then I’ll see the walkthrough without guilt :)įeel free to make use of walkthroughs but make sure you learn something new every time you use them It took me more than a day to solve an easy machine and I was stuck often. Of course, when I started pwning machines a year ago, things weren’t going exactly as I planned. I will always try to finish the machine in a maximum of 2 and half hours without using Metasploit. Whenever I tackle new machines, I did it like an OSCP exam. Spend hours looking at the output of privilege escalation enumeration scripts to know which are common files and which aren’t. This will help you find the odd scripts located at odd places.
Getting comfortable with Linux and Windows file systems is crucial for privilege escalation. You can find all the resources I used at the end of this post. So, I wanted to brush up on my Privilege escalation skills. But that’s not the case of Privilege escalation. Because I had a few years of experience in application security from the bug bounty programs I participated in, I was able to get the initial foothold without struggle in HTB machines. I started HackTheBox exactly one year ago (2020) after winning an HTB VIP subscription in Nova CTF 2019. LOL… Crazy that, it all started with a belief. Even though I had no idea when I’ll be taking OSCP, or even will I be able to afford it, I just started learning buffer overflows hoping that at one point in my life, I will be able to afford the exam cost.
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