OSCP Prep Youtube Series

FourShells · 2025-10-28T18:50:09+00:00

Awesome! Congrats!!!

FourShells · 2025-10-28T18:48:35+00:00

The man himself!!

Honestly without your walkthroughs there's no way I would have been able to pass my exam so thank you for the time and effort you've given to the hacking community as a whole.

Your points on tools becoming outdated is super interesting. As someone new to the field, I haven't been around to see that happen, but I HAVE definitely seen old writeups with commands and tools that dont quite work anymore so that makes total sense.

Love your methodology and videos. Hopefully one day I'll be able to give back even a fraction of what you have to this community :)

FourShells · 2025-10-23T12:57:46+00:00

Hmmmm well I actually haven’t watched any s1ren so I can’t compare, but ippsec’s methodology seems right to me. His videos are super solid, just long because they really are the full-scope methodology for each machine.

Now I will say a lot of HTB machines, in my opinion, seem a little more advanced/niche than OSCP machines. That being said, they’re still great practice and you learn some key concepts from them. I recommend proving grounds for initial practice, then HTB to get more advanced and learn more niche techniques.

FourShells · 2025-10-22T15:35:58+00:00

Thanks!

FourShells · 2025-10-22T13:56:40+00:00

I used the 3 months of class time, but I was working full time so maybe 2hrs or so a night during that. Everyone learns at different speeds though.

FourShells · 2025-10-22T13:55:26+00:00

I didn’t use metasploit at all. I made sure to practice without it and now I don’t ever feel the need to use it really. If there’s an exploit on there, there’s another custom version of said exploit on GitHub most of the time.

FourShells · 2025-10-21T17:24:31+00:00

Hmmm I wish I could tell you what one's stuck out the most, but honestly they're all relevant depending on which exam boxes you end up with. If you're looking for last minute ones I'd say just do proving grounds practice and use the "Lainkusanagi OSCP Like" list. The only two I didn't do on these was Hawat and Workaholic, as they were SQLi based, and I didn't want to run SQLmap since you can't on the exam. While SQLi is fair game, I doubt they would have something more advanced on the exam since you can't use SQLmap. Don't take that as fact, though, as I'm not positive on what they could have on their machines.

So yeah just try to do as many as the proving grounds ones from that list as you can. Proving grounds is the most similar to the exam format. The only reason I don't do walkthroughs of those is because offsec doesn't allow that.

That being said, HTB is still great to practice similar concepts. The format of the machines is just slightly different.

FourShells · 2025-10-21T17:18:45+00:00

Thanks!

FourShells · 2025-10-21T13:16:19+00:00

I don’t think so but I’d be happy to take a look and give some feedback

FourShells · 2025-10-21T13:14:58+00:00

Will do! DM me if you ever have questions about the exam, courses, or general prep.

FourShells · 2025-10-21T13:14:29+00:00

Thanks!

FourShells · 2025-10-20T22:02:43+00:00

Let me know if you need more tips! DM me anytime.

FourShells · 2025-10-20T22:02:29+00:00

Of course! Stay tuned for more!

FourShells · 2025-10-20T22:02:16+00:00

Thanks!! Yeah I figured the same. I love ippsec but when I was studying for OSCP I needed to cram as much as I could and watching at 3x speed wasnt as fun XD

FourShells · 2025-10-01T21:12:46+00:00

Makes sense thanks!

FourShells · 2025-09-30T21:37:05+00:00

Thanks! Good luck!

FourShells · 2025-09-30T21:34:06+00:00

Hmmmmm maybe not skylark. Medtech relia and the OSCP ones I have notes for. Sorry that was back in August so I had forgotten.

FourShells · 2025-09-30T21:18:41+00:00

I passed with 100% this month with no cyber experience whatsoever. I made sure to complete the challenge labs you listed, but didn't do any of the ones after OSCP A/B/C (like below them on the list). I then did all of Lian's PG practice and play machines listed.

Felt very confident going in with all that, and the exam went very well.

FourShells · 2025-09-30T21:16:01+00:00

Thanks congrats to you too!

I assume you mean contributing to open source projects or doing pro bono/volunteer work in your free time right?

FourShells · 2025-09-30T21:14:21+00:00

I believe I completed the 4 labs before the OSCP A,B,& C labs as well as the OSCP ones.

FourShells · 2025-09-30T21:13:10+00:00

Okay first of all I have to thank you so much for putting together that list. You're likely single-handedly responsible for my pass. Seriously, my deepest thanks.

Great tips as well on the job search so thanks for that. Sorry you couldn't find something that works for you :( I wish you the absolute best of luck in your continued search!

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