Anyone on the OSCP journey soon?

Hi all,

Is there anyone else which enrolled the PWK/OSCP journey ?
I'm looking at making contacts in order to potentially exchange infos and advance together..

Thanks in advance,
regards,
m.

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TechGuru80

Blade3D wrote: »

Got my packet with everything yesterday and started reading the PDF. Ready to start hitting this hard.

Nice...the anticipation for getting mine is killing me.

NovaHax

mokaz wrote: »

These are my array of resources i'm currently using (in bold are my favorites):

Black Hat Python
Conquering The Command Line
Coding for Penetration Testers
Command Line Kung Fu
Counter Hack Reloaded, Second Edition
Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide
Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook
Linux Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition
Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing
Metasploit Penetration Testers Guide
Netcat Starter
Ninja Hacking - Unconventional Penetration Testing
Python Penetration Testing Essentials
Python for Secret Agents
Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
Penetration Testing with the Bash shell
Penetration Testing - A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking
Professional Penetration Testing - Creating and Learning in a Hacking Lab
The Linux Command line - A Complete Introduction

Well, my book made it in the list...but sadly not among the bolds.

mokaz

NovaHax wrote: »

Well, my book made it in the list...but sadly not among the bolds.

Hey!! tell us which one it is !!! also the boldness is just purely subjective as this implies only to me...
But sincerely, all these books are simply great !!!

OSCP update --> 16 hosts are mine / IT Dept & Dev Dept unlocked.

I'm moving slowly but i didn't had all the time i'd wanted lately..

Thanks,
regards,
m.

BuhRock

I just started friday. I've been in Mr. Agent's IRC. So far, I got 3 boxes popped manually, and a few with ms08_067, but saving the others as there is a python exploit I want to try out.

NovaHax

mokaz wrote: »

Hey!! tell us which one it is !!! also the boldness is just purely subjective as this implies only to me...
But sincerely, all these books are simply great !!!

OSCP update --> 16 hosts are mine / IT Dept & Dev Dept unlocked.

Kali Linux: Network Scanning Cookbook (from Packt). I didn't really take offense. Mine is kind of a niche one among those anyways. It focuses largely on Python scripting with Scapy. Actually, the original intention was to write it exclusively on Scapy...but Packt wanted a larger scope. If I had to do it over again...I would have self-published and done it more the way I wanted to...but meh...hindsight is 20/20.

Congrats on your progress so far man and keep it up

unkn0wnsh3ll

Good work guys, Its too tempting to jump into course, but still I have doubts on myself on certain areas and hence holding trigger with patience.....

reaste

As the above post ^ I am all fired up after sec+ would love to dive in but I think I should hammer out a few back to basics first. Thanks for the book list

ilikeshells

I plan on starting in mid-August, if anyone wants to partner up, message me.

M0CAMB0

ilikeshells wrote: »

I plan on starting in mid-August, if anyone wants to partner up, message me.

Hey man, I don't have enough posts to pm you, but I'm registering as well, but planning on starting around July 18, a little bit earlier, but let me know if you want to partner up as I'll still be balancing a full time job so I may not be going at the same pace as you.

unkn0wnsh3ll

I might start middle of july provided OSCP officials confirms for my registration as I signed with free mail rather corporate emailid. Anyway I will confirm the same sooner so we could partner up on the course, by the way Mocambo, Me to same boat like you, so could well workout for the course......let me know your convenience.....

Cheers

MrAgent

Good luck with that! You'll need to show proof of your identity.

unkn0wnsh3ll

MrAgent wrote: »

Good luck with that! You'll need to show proof of your identity.

Yes Mr.Agent, I did sent my Driving license as proof of ID, not sure of turnaround time for this (Any idea how early they get back?)... It looks like they do not have start date for this weekend, most likely next weekend if all goes well...
Cheers

MrAgent

I had mine done all in the same day, but I did not use a free email provider.

unkn0wnsh3ll

I could provide my workplace emailid, But due to secure nature, i cannot receive any outside email at my workplace and in case if Offensive Security wants me to confirm in reply, I wouldn't even receive their email.......

ilikeshells

M0CAMB0 wrote: »

Hey man, I don't have enough posts to pm you, but I'm registering as well, but planning on starting around July 18, a little bit earlier, but let me know if you want to partner up as I'll still be balancing a full time job so I may not be going at the same pace as you.

I'm balancing a full-time gig, too. I plan on doing 90 days. I'll see if I can start end of July instead of mid-August. If so, I'll reply back here and we can trade IRC names.

cjbischoff

I ordered 90days and I might extend that another 30 - so I will be well into/past August - my email is in my profile - gimme a shout

unkn0wnsh3ll

Im, IN, starting on 19-Jul-2015....See you there guys......

BuhRock

I'm 11 boxes in, one including gh0st. I'm on the IRC channel. irc.osswg.org:6667 usually.

mokaz

short update --> got my 20th system today..

Good luck to all the newly added students !! Do backups !! After a while in the labs, loosing my work would drive me absolutely crazy...

Cheers,
m.

griffondg

Looks like I'm going to have to extend for 30 days. Between travel for work, vacations, family commitments etc I've only been able to compromise 16 systems so far and my lab time ends Friday. I'm taking off the rest of the week from work so I should be able to add a few more systems but realistically I know I probably need at least double that total before I'm ready to take the exam. My goal is to get at least all of the public servers outside of the Big 3.

Eric

Leftya88

I'm starting 1 August. I feel like I'm going to be in way over my head based off some of the threads on this board. Looking forward to sharing my experiences with everyone.

impelse

I am moving very slow, I am with privilege escalation with ossec

expphoto

Totally want to, though the only way it will happen is if my work pays for it. Chances are, I'd need the full 3 months. While I'm familiar with Kali now, not familiar with creating my own exploits.

cjbischoff

I purchased the full 90 days - about half through the time and have completed 13 or 14. I have been spending time, some of it is just not "clicking".

Also I just don't think that way - as a developer/sys admin I don't setup systems that poorly (password reuse for example) - basically I attempt the more difficult direction (tech) vs the easier (people).

Blade3D

I'm very slow rolling, started dating someone, and this is a busier time at work with grant work needing to be finished. I'm hoping to have read the entire packet and watched all the videos by the first month mark giving me 2 months to go back over them while working through the lab. I'm about 2/3 through the packet and watch 10 videos so far. I am going on vacation next week so hoping to knock out almost all the videos on the flight there and back so I gotta knock out this packet in the next few days.

mokaz

Hi all,

So it's official, i've successfully passed the OSCP challenge.

I'll probably do a longer PWK/OSCP review later on. The only few things i'll give you for now are these:

- Automation is KEY (automate as much as you can, or know in advance which tools you're gonna let run in background while you do something else)
- Manage time 23:45 minutes flies out at a speed you will not admit.. So at some points you got to make your moves wheter you're sure about them or not..
- the challenge seemed really harder to me than the lab hosts..

Thanks for all your support, i'm very very happy about this outcome and proud of course.
Special thanks goes to Mosunit for friendship & support / Jollyfrogs as well of course you guys r0ckz!!!
MrAgent for the IRC --> that was neat as well !!!

Cheers,
regards,
m.

MrAgent

Congrats! The OSCP club is getting bigger around here!

ilikeshells

Congrats on the pass! My start date got delayed but I'm anxious to begin myself! I'm just curious as to technique. If you dive into the test (labs too) environment, I assume the best thing to do is to run some nmap scripts (standard, -Pn flag, a full TCP + UDP, etc.) and further enumeration. Until those complete, what else would you recommend doing to make best use of your time? Start working on the early results?

impelse

Congrats

griffondg

Congrats!