saraguru wrote: » Today marks the end of the first Month of my OSCP journey!!! i must definitely admit that it has been awesomeeeeeee and i'm totally enjoying it ..Though it will be frustrating when you hit the wall and don't know how to proceed, the feeling you get when you find the way will be incredible!!!!!!! can't explain it through words... By the time I'm writing this, I have about 17 full shells and 3 limited shells in my hands...so, I now have the confidence that I can reach my target of getting atleast 30 shells...however, I'll work harder and try to get more and more machines... Dr. Fluxx: thanks buddy!!
gunmr wrote: » Is there any machine you recommend from vulnhub?
redworld wrote: » Awesome work man.
VoyagerOne wrote: » All the best saraguru and pls keep us posted with ur updates.
TreySong wrote: » All the best. You're giving me hope!
saraguru wrote: » Thank you TreySong!! are you taking up OSCP now?!?
TreySong wrote: » Yes I am . I am starting next week Sunday the 23rd. From what I've heard so far, it is going to be very rough. I am not reading anything to prepare myself. I am simply going to wait for next Sunday, receive my training documents and start reading the pdf and the video and take it from there. Let's keep in touch all through. Wish you well.
saraguru wrote: » If you are already a pentester by profession then it should just be a cake walk for you...otherwise I would suggest, you may do some vulnhub challenges in the meantime I say this coz although the pdf+video teaches you a lot of things it is DEFINITELY NOT sufficient for the lab..most of the times you will be googling around for almost everything!! If you do some of the vulnhub challenges you will have some idea of how things will be and get prepared accordingly!! anyway it's upto you...have a nice time in the lab
Ghostrider007 wrote: » Hi TreySong... If you're already in the pentesting world, then you already have half the job done .... Am starting my lab time from 14th May (next month), have started prep work for it. But i know of 5 pentesters at my work place who cracked it in the first go. They didn't say it was an easy task, but not too hard for them as well due to their experience and am sure it will be the same for you Keep us posted....
saraguru wrote: » Yah..As i had already mentioned, If you are a pentester by profession the course and lab shouldn't be a problem for you at all All the best for your journey Ghostrider007 (Y)
saraguru wrote: » Hi everyone, This weekend was the best for me and I experienced both painful & joyful time in the lab!! This Friday I experienced failures after failures..i tried about 3 machines but couldn't even find the entry point for any of them...later i decided to look at the forum for hints and found that all 3 of them had some dependencies...frustrated with the failures I didn't have the mindset to proceed with other machine today!! And on saturday I rooted a machine and found network-secret file in it!! By this victory I have successfully unlocked the IT network ...I have been waiting to unlock a network for a long time and it happened today!! That moment, I was really feeling like floating in the sky!!!!!! On sunday, I was working on a privilege escalation of a machine for which I have got a limited shell long long back...since I couldn't find any way after working on it for a long time I decided to get some hint from the forum for Privilege Escalation...Based on the hint provided I went back to the lab and rooted it within like 5 min or so...i was just shocked and asked myself "Did you miss something which was this obvious??!!"..so i decided to revert the machine just to ensure that I did root the machine in the right manner!! After reverting I was shocked to see that, what I had done earlier was not the intended way to root the machine and I just used a backdoor which someone has left behind when they were working!!! I was very sad and challenged myself to complete the machine within today...I tried everything which I could but still I was stuck..evening I talked to the admin and he gave me a nudge..And after an hour or so, I OWNED this box!!! Mannn, that was really awesome..I am learning very coool things which I had never even Imagined before taking up this course...And to add to the joy of rooting this box, there was another network-secret found on this box!!! so, I even unlocked the DEV network!!! it was back to back victory for me this weekend..in two days I have unlocked two networks...Only after rooting this machine I was able to have my dinner Finally, I have 20 full shells and 3 limited shells with me now and also I have unlocked IT and DEV network!!! sooon, I hope to have fun with "tunneling and pivoting" Well, that's the update for this weekend!!
Ghostrider007 wrote: » Thanks saraguru and likewise to you too, am sure you'll crack it in the first go as well... You're becoming quite an inspiration (or atleast the speeds of you popping the boxes)... Are you using msf on some/any boxes or are you just manually working through these ?
saraguru wrote: » Thanks a lotttt Ghostrider007!!! I too wish that I clear it in the first go..but I'm not so sure if i'll be able to do that My aim is to get this Cert within the end of the year though..hope I can do that Regarding MSF, till now I have used in about 4 machines...I know that out of the 4 I can get one without using MSF using some publically available exploit..however with the remaining 3 machines, i read from forum that, people who have done it manually have actually rewritten the MSF code to a standalone python script..I'm planning to do that in the end if I have time in the lab...and except these 4 machines I have exploited every other machine I own now manually
