My OSCP Journey

To prepare myself for my future career in InfoSec, one of my main goals for the first half of 2022 is to obtain my OSCP. This repository will detail my journey from start to finish, along with any notes or details of interest to serve as a reflection of my progress.

• 01/12/2021: Journey begins
• 02/12/2021: Begin practicing on HTB machines (already had existing account with some machines owned)
• 10/12/2021: Purchased HTB VIP subscription
• 26/12/2021: +15 HTB machines rooted (ippsec)
  • OSCP-like boxes complete (TJnull):
    • Lame
    • FriendZone
    • Blue
    • La Casa De Papel
• 27/12/2021: Begin compiling personal notes/cheat-sheets for reference
• 30/12/2021: +10 HTB machines rooted
  • OSCP-like boxes complete:
    • Devel
    • Legacy
    • Irked
    • Sunday
    • Valentine
    • Sense
    • Beep
    • Nibbles
    • Bashed
    • Shocker
• 31/12/2021: Officially register for OSCP
• 06/01/2022: +5 HTB machines rooted, moving focus to more Windows boxes since OSCP exam structure is changing with more emphasis on Active Directory
  • OSCP-like boxes complete:
    • Optimum
• 09/01/2022: Enrolled in PWK, begin OSCP course material and exercises
• 29/01/2022: OSCP course material exercises complete (40 days of lab access left), moving on to PWK labs.
• 03/02/2022: 8 PWK lab machines rooted including a complete Active Directory set.
• 05/02/2022: Finished requirements for 10 bonus points on exam.
• 13/02/2022: +10 PWK machines rooted.
• 17/02/2022: Scheduled first exam attempt.
• 20/02/2022: +10 PWK machines rooted (30 total). Moving to Proving Grounds Practice.
• 26/02/2022: +10 Proving Grounds Practice machines rooted
  • OSCP-like machines complete (TJnull):
    • ClamAV
    • Wombo
    • Payday
    • Fail
    • Nibbles
    • Banzai
    • Hunit
    • Dibble
    • Hetemit
    • WebCal
• 04/03/2022: +10 Proving Grounds Practice machines rooted
  • OSCP-like machines complete (TJnull):
    • Zino
    • Nickel
    • Slort
    • Authby
    • Jacko
    • MeatHead
    • UT99
    • MedJed
    • Algeron
    • Billyboss
• 8/03/2022: +10 Proving Grounds Practice machines rooted
  • OSCP-like machines complete (TJnull):
    • Clyde
    • Vector
    • Internal
    • Bratarina
  • Additional machines:
    • Hawat
    • Depreciated
    • Roquefort
    • XposedAPI
    • Quackerjack
    • Sona
• 22/03/2022: Watch Tib3rius Windows Privilege Escalation Course
• 26/03/2022: +10 Proving Grounds Practice machines rooted (Windows/AD focused)
  • Machines completed:
    • Heist
    • Butch
    • Hutch
    • DVR4
    • Kevin
    • Compromised
    • Shenzi
    • Fish
    • Vault
    • Monster
• 01/04/2022: +6 Proving Grounds Practice machines rooted
  • Machines completed:
    • Metallus
    • Walla
    • Exfiltrated
    • Peppo
    • Algernon
    • Craft
• 05/04/2022: +6 Proving Grounds Practice machines rooted
  • Machines completed:
    • ZenPhoto
    • Snookums
    • Sybaris
    • Nukem
    • Hepet
    • Twiggy
• –/04/2022: Passed

Cheat Sheets

Kali Linux

Windows

Information Gathering

Port/Service Enumeration

Buffer Overflows

File Transfers

Networking, Pivoting and Tunneling

Shells

Metasploit

Local File Inclusion

Linux Privilege Escalation

Windows Privilege Escalation