Getting Into Cybersecurity - Red Team Edition. Other than that, community support is available too through Slack! This lab actually has very interesting attack vectors that are definitely applicable in real life environments. SPOILER ALERT Here is an example of a nice writeup of the lab: https://snowscan.io/htb-writeup-poo/#. The lab is not internet-connected, but through the VPN endpoint the hosts can reach your machine (and as such, hosted files). Execute intra-forest trust attacks to access resources across forest. CRTP Exam Attempt #1: Registering for the exam was an easy process. I've heard good things about it. Price: It ranges from 399-649 depending on the lab duration. As I said, In my opinion, this Pro Lab is actually beginner friendly, at least to a certain extent. That does not mean, however, that you will be able to complete the exam with just the tools and commands from the course! For almost every technique and attack used throughout the course, a mitigation/remediation strategy is mentioned in the last chapter of the course which is something tha is often overlooked in penetration testing courses. Now that I'm done talking about the Endgames & Pro Labs, let's start talking about Elearn Security's Penetration Testing eXtreme (eCPTX v1). Understand forest persistence technique like DCShadow and execute it to modify objects in the forest root without leaving change logs. However, the fact that the PDF is more than 700 pages long, I can probably turn a blind eye on this. It explains how to build custom queries towards the end, which isnt something that is necessary for the exam, as long as you understand all of its main components such as nodes, paths, and edges. Complete Attacking and Defending Active Directory Lab to earn Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP), our beginner-friendly certification. Like has this cert helped u in someway in a job interview or in your daily work or somethin? I found that some flag descriptions were confusing and I couldnt figure it out the exact information they are they asking for. As always, dont hesitate to reach out on Twitter if you have some unanswered questions or concerns. In terms of beginner-level Active Directory courses, it is definitely one of the best and most comprehensive out there. The Certified Az Red Team Professional (CARTP) is a completely hands-on certification. It took me hours. After around 2 hours of enumerationI moved from the initial machine that I had accessto another user. They even keep the tools inside the machine so you won't have to add explicitly. I hold a number of penetration testing certificates such as: Additionally, I hold a certificate in Purple Teaming: My current rank in Hack The Box is Omniscient, which is only achievable after hacking 100% of the challenges at some point. My focus moved into getting there, which was the most challengingpart of the exam. Moreover, the exam itself is mostly network penetration testing with a small flavor of active directory. I've done all of the Endgames before they expire. My recommendation is to start writing the report WHILE having the exam VPN still active. Support was very responsive for example I once crashed the DNS service during the DNSadmin attackand I asked for a reset instead of waiting until next day, which they did. & Xen. You get an .ovpn file and you connect to it. The only thing I know about Cybernetics is that it includes Linux AD too, which is cool to be honest. It is exactly for this reason that AD is so interesting from an offensive perspective. My suspicion was true and there indeed was an issue with one of the machines, which after a full revert was working fine again, compromising it only took a few minutes which means by 4:30 am I had completed the examination. The lab itself is small as it contains only 2 Windows machines. The course comes with 1 exam attempt included in its price and once you click the 'Start Exam' button, it takes about 10-15 minutes for the OpenVPN certificate and Guacamole access to be active. Similar to OSCP, you get 24 hours to complete the practical part of the exam. Retired: this version will be retired and replaced with the new version either this month or in July 2020! At that time, I just hated Windows, so I wanted to spend more time doing it in Linux even though the author of the lab himself told me to do it in Windows and that he didn't test it with Linux. Since I wasnt sure what I am looking for, I felt a bit lost in the beginning as there are so many possibilities and so much information. Due to the scale of most AD environments, misconfigurations that allow for lateral movement or privilege escalation on a domain level are almost always present. In my opinion, 2 months are more than enough. In the enumeration we look for information about the Domain Controller, Honeypots, Services, Open shares, Trusts, Users, etc. I actually needed something like this, and I enjoyed it a lot! The last thing you want to happen is doing the whole lab again because you don't have the proof of your flags, while you are running out of time. I emailed them and received an email back confirming that there is an issue after losing at least 6 hours! If you want to level up your skills and learn more about Red Teaming, follow along! After going through my methodology again I was able to get the second machine pretty quickly and I was stuck again for a few more hours. Due to the accessibility of the labs, it provides a great environment to test new tools and techniques as you discover them. Unfortunately, as mentioned, AD is a complex product and identifying and exploiting misconfigurations in AD environments is not always trivial. Note that if you fail, you'll have to pay for the exam voucher ($99). This is obviously subject to availability and he is not usually available in the weekend so if your exam is on the weekend, you can pray that nothings get screwed up during your exam. You'll receive 4 badges once you're done + a certificate of completion with your name. The certification course is designed and instructed by Nikhil Mittal, who is an excellent Info-sec professional and has developed multiple opensource tools.Nikhil has also presented his research in various conferences around the globe in the context of Info-sec and red teaming. Once back, I had dinner and resumed the exam. I started my exam on the 2nd of July 2021 at about 2 pm Sydney time, and in roughly a couple of hours, I had compromised the first host. MentorCruise. Ease of support: RastaMouse is actually very active and if you need help, he'll guide you without spoiling anything. Specifically, the use of Impacket for a lot of aspects in the lab is a must so if you haven't used it before, it may be a good start. Exam: Yes. CRTP Cheatsheet This cheatsheet corresponds to an older version of PowerView deliberately as this is. I can't talk much about the details of the exam obviously but in short you need to either get an objective OR get a certain number of points, then do a report on it. However, the course talks about multiple social engineering methods including obfuscation and different payload creation, client-side attacks, and phishing techniques. This is actually good because if no one other than you want to reset, then you probably don't need a reset! Antivirus evasion may be expected in some of the labs as well as other security constraints so be ready for that too! and how some of these can be bypassed. My only hint for this Endgame is to make sure to sync your clock with the machine! Abuse enterprise applications to execute complex attack paths that involve bypassing antivirus and pivoting to different machines. Ease of support: Community support only! Many Git commands accept both tag and branch names, so creating this branch may cause unexpected behavior. Overall, the full exam cost me 10 hours, including reporting and some breaks. To make things clear, Hack The Box's active machines/labs/challenges have no writeups and it would be illegal to share their solutions with others UNTIL they expire. Now that I'm done talking about the eLS AD course, let's start talking about Pentester Academy's. Ease of use: Easy. The Course / lab The course is beginner friendly. 1: Course material, lab, and exam are high-quality and enjoyable 2: Cover the whole red teaming engagement 3: Proper difficulty and depth, the best bridge between OSCP and OSEP 4: Teach Cobalt. However, in my opinion, Pro Lab: Offshore is actually beginner friendly. Understand and enumerate intra-forest and inter-forest trusts. At about $250 USD (at the time when I bought it a Covid deal was on which made it cheaper) and for the amount of techniques it teaches, it is a no-brainer. Since I have some experience with hacking through my work and OSCP (see my earlier blog posts ), the section on privesc as well as some basic AD concepts were familiar to me. In other words, it is also not beginner friendly. 1 being the foothold, 5 to attack. This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. The lab contains around 40 flags that can be collected while solving the exercises, out of which I found around 35. You get an .ovpn file and you connect to it in the labs & in the exam. Overall, a lot of work for those 2 machines! Otherwise, you may realize later that you have missed a couple of things here and there and you won't be able to go back and take screenshot of them, which may result in a failure grade. I suggest doing the same if possible. As usual with Offsec, there are some rabbit holes here and there, and there is more than one way to solve the labs. Overall this was an extremely great course, I learned a lot of new techniques and I now feel a lot more confident when it comes to Active Directory engagements. Exam schedules were about one to two weeks out. Labs. Pentester Academy does mention that for a real challenge students should check out their Windows Red Team Labenvironment, although that one is designed for a different certification so I thought it would be best to go through it when the time to tackle CRTE has come. Learn to extract credentials from a restricted environment where application whitelisting is enforced. Additionally, they explain how to bypass some security measurements such as AMSI, and PowerShell's constraint language mode. Just paid for CRTP (certified red team professional) 30 days lab a while ago. In short, CRTP is when a class A has a base class which is a template specialization for the class A itself. Change your career, grow into I really enjoyed going through the course material and completing all of the learning objectives, and most of these attacks are applicable to real-world penetration testing and are definitely things I have experienced in actual engagements. After passing the CRTE exam recently, I decided to finally write a review on multiple Active Directory Labs/Exams! https://www.hackthebox.eu/home/labs/pro/view/1. more easily, and maybe find additional set of credentials cached locally.