First comment on RUclips ever and I have watched ALOT of RUclips videos John. This video just saved me roughly 8 hours of OSCP test-taking time. I am at the very beginning of the journey so I will be implementing this strategy into practice ASAP. Thank you for the all the information you share.
Holy spaghetti monster, I was gonna ask you for this but you what they always say, try harder, so I continued searching all the corners of web. But the thought appeared the moment I finished watching your OSCP video. Everyone talks about the necessity of taking good notes (found a nice video how to automatically upload cherry files every hour or so on the cloud of your choosing in case of some corruption or disaster... because that always happens during exam, of course) but this, this is gold. Thank you John. Your star 💫 shines brighter from now on. Every n00b and wannabe hacker will sleep better now. My apologies for rambling and humor but if you knew the hours (weeks) of searching for this...
Just set up the PWK vm and tested out my lab connection pack. I AM SO STOKED!!! Thanks for all the inspiration John! I hope to see you at DC28 brother!
Hey John, congrats on the new cert! What materials did you study in preparation to the OSCP? Did you read some books? Utilize vulnhub VM's? If so which one's? Also, how long did you prep for this certification? Thanks again for the help. I'll definitely be recommending your vids to my college colleagues.
Hey John, Thanks for the generate bash script, but the author has released the automatic md to pdf ruby script which also packages the report into 7z package.
Hey John, congrats on the OSCP cert. You deserve it. Could you please share your techniques on how to stay organised with the screenshots like in what phase did you took a screenshot (nmap phase, nmap banner phase, machine's foothold, inside machine enumeration, etc)? I am asking because seems that you report had a pretty good number of pages, not too long and not too short. Also please tell us if you are using a handy software like "flameshot" to take the screenshots. Thank you.
Hey John, Congrats on OSCP. I came across the channel a few weeks ago and now i'm hooked. Is there any chance you can do a quick tutorial video on how you created your test report, so taking it from Sublime to pdf. Would like to see how you did it and integrate screenshots into it. Cheers.
Just wanted to let you know that I enjoy the videos. I really liked the advent of cyber you guys did with thm, cool stuff! I have a quick question for you regarding the oscp lab report. I’m pretty sure that offsec has a size limit of like 20 or 30 MB for the report. I’m fairly certain that my lab report along with the 10 machine writeups offsec wants included with the lab exercises is going to exceed to maximum size limit. It’s roughly around ~300 pages. I’m just not really sure what I should cut out to get it down to their acceptable size limit. I tried to be as detailed as possible when writing the lab report and going through all the materials as I figured this was the point of doing the exercises. Never thought I would run into this problem. Anyway any advice that you might have would be greatly appreciated!
any chance of doing an updated version of this using Obsidian?- i'm not a complete newb but I'm having a difficult time following along - and reverse converting what's happening in this video and making it work ...
Great tutorial- keep up the good work John. Why you are not using sublime anymore? Do you have any suggestions for a taking method that is easy and simple and that can be easily synced across platforms. I am tired of testing, note-taking apps (trilium., apples notes, obsidian etc). Also aiming for OSCP and easting Kali linux for breakfast and dinner... ps that was a joke.
Hi bro this very helpful and a good time saver, but I have two questions, 1) how would we add screenshots in that automatic generated PDF 2) Did you used offsec vm for lab and exam, it's very slow in my vmware because of ram limit I guess. Can I use my other 64 bit Kali vm for labs and exam without any any issues like compilation,bof, etc?? Please help Thanks
1. You should edit the md file like this: medium.com/markdown-monster-blog/getting-images-into-markdown-documents-and-weblog-posts-with-markdown-monster-9ec6f353d8ec
Nice video!! I want to start OSCP course but I don't have a lot of money to begin on the official site. Is-it possible to stat with free ressource and just take abonnement for 3 months and passe? I have basic notion on security and i have attempt the UDACITY Nano degree - Security Enginneer. Thanks
Congrats John. You're one of my references. I'm aiming to take the OSCP next year, for now studying and learning. I've been looking at too much stuff :-) And I'm trying to find an OSCP like report on a HackTheBox Machine. Do you know if there is such, and where ?
I did, yes -- I tried to do everything I could to keep things in line with what Offensive Security "recommends," as to make things easier on them and ideally help myself or streamline things that might not work as easily if I did things a different way. Thanks for watching!
Hi John thanks for the tip I have started using this system of note taking for my OSCP studies. I was wondering, do you find that your code samples appear to get chopped off at the right edge of the page. (the code is still there but not visible at times) when using the templates in your video ? Did this happen in your exam submission document? Please help , I am afraid to use it like this. Also have you found a way to highlight code changes in red (in markdown) or did you rely on commenting the code, the way I am doing atm.
Hey SinWolF, thanks for watching! I did notice that, yes -- code samples do not wrap on a new line. For that reason, I set a "Ruler" in Sublime Text or I would check the line length in Vim to ensure that all the lines of code were less than ~72 characters. So I excerpt some pieces of Nmap scans, or add line breaks, or separate some function calls, etc.. I still used this template for sure, I was just coignizant of the length of my code. I didn't do too much to "highlight" code changes, admittedly, I would just include what I used -- but commenting the code works just as well, if you explain what you did.
Great video! It’s nice to see my template is still helping people. N0raj did a great job with his updates/importing it into markdown
And here’s the original repo for my version (for those that want it)
github.com/whoisflynn/OSCP-Exam-Report-Template
First comment on RUclips ever and I have watched ALOT of RUclips videos John. This video just saved me roughly 8 hours of OSCP test-taking time. I am at the very beginning of the journey so I will be implementing this strategy into practice ASAP. Thank you for the all the information you share.
Holy spaghetti monster, I was gonna ask you for this but you what they always say, try harder, so I continued searching all the corners of web. But the thought appeared the moment I finished watching your OSCP video. Everyone talks about the necessity of taking good notes (found a nice video how to automatically upload cherry files every hour or so on the cloud of your choosing in case of some corruption or disaster... because that always happens during exam, of course) but this, this is gold. Thank you John. Your star 💫 shines brighter from now on. Every n00b and wannabe hacker will sleep better now. My apologies for rambling and humor but if you knew the hours (weeks) of searching for this...
This is outstanding. I absolutely love it. Took some tinkering to get it working for me, but it's so slick once you get it done.
Just set up the PWK vm and tested out my lab connection pack. I AM SO STOKED!!!
Thanks for all the inspiration John! I hope to see you at DC28 brother!
Heck yeah, I am happy to hear that! I should definitely be there!
FYI.. since MS acquired github, free accounts are able to create private repos
This is very helpful, John!
John is the best of the best. PERIOD.
Hey John, congrats on the new cert! What materials did you study in preparation to the OSCP? Did you read some books? Utilize vulnhub VM's? If so which one's? Also, how long did you prep for this certification?
Thanks again for the help. I'll definitely be recommending your vids to my college colleagues.
My hero
Very helpful! Thank you so much!!
for taking notes
i just used orgmode using the emacs editor
i can easily generate html, pdf or txt or md files or even presentations
Hey John,
Thanks for the generate bash script, but the author has released the automatic md to pdf ruby script which also packages the report into 7z package.
Hey John, congrats on the OSCP cert. You deserve it. Could you please share your techniques on how to stay organised with the screenshots like in what phase did you took a screenshot (nmap phase, nmap banner phase, machine's foothold, inside machine enumeration, etc)? I am asking because seems that you report had a pretty good number of pages, not too long and not too short. Also please tell us if you are using a handy software like "flameshot" to take the screenshots. Thank you.
Just what I was lookin for..😊😊 thankyou man
Hey John, Congrats on OSCP. I came across the channel a few weeks ago and now i'm hooked. Is there any chance you can do a quick tutorial video on how you created your test report, so taking it from Sublime to pdf. Would like to see how you did it and integrate screenshots into it. Cheers.
Awesome !! Guidelines!
very good
i had to take notes of you setting up your notes 😂
Just wanted to let you know that I enjoy the videos. I really liked the advent of cyber you guys did with thm, cool stuff! I have a quick question for you regarding the oscp lab report. I’m pretty sure that offsec has a size limit of like 20 or 30 MB for the report. I’m fairly certain that my lab report along with the 10 machine writeups offsec wants included with the lab exercises is going to exceed to maximum size limit. It’s roughly around ~300 pages. I’m just not really sure what I should cut out to get it down to their acceptable size limit. I tried to be as detailed as possible when writing the lab report and going through all the materials as I figured this was the point of doing the exercises. Never thought I would run into this problem. Anyway any advice that you might have would be greatly appreciated!
How about a vid on screenshot captures n adding to ur notes?
what kind of study material (books and notes) should i use. plz help me.
How do i resolve this error.
! LaTeX Error: Command \textquotesingle unavailable in encoding T1.
With some quick Googling I found this: sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra
github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2439
Thanks for watching!
Man super impressive, and really well explained, but I'm having a hard enough time with the other stuff!
Any updates/upgrades in 2021, John ?
Got that 400 like😁 am subscribing..
any chance of doing an updated version of this using Obsidian?- i'm not a complete newb but I'm having a difficult time following along - and reverse converting what's happening in this video and making it work ...
I wonder how do you insert screenshots in the initial file before generate pdf report?
how to change the background of the title page?
nevermind, found it thanks :)
Great tutorial- keep up the good work John. Why you are not using sublime anymore? Do you have any suggestions for a taking method that is easy and simple and that can be easily synced across platforms. I am tired of testing, note-taking apps (trilium., apples notes, obsidian etc). Also aiming for OSCP and easting Kali linux for breakfast and dinner... ps that was a joke.
🥨🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🍆🍒, Amazing tutorial Bro, THank you so much.
This video make me confused, do we need to write a report on oscp exam?? And that's for all labs??
Thnx
hey there, as im still not even crawling yet in command line, will this same type of system work with obsidian?
Hi bro this very helpful and a good time saver, but I have two questions,
1) how would we add screenshots in that automatic generated PDF
2) Did you used offsec vm for lab and exam, it's very slow in my vmware because of ram limit I guess. Can I use my other 64 bit Kali vm for labs and exam without any any issues like compilation,bof, etc??
Please help
Thanks
1. You should edit the md file like this: medium.com/markdown-monster-blog/getting-images-into-markdown-documents-and-weblog-posts-with-markdown-monster-9ec6f353d8ec
Nice video!! I want to start OSCP course but I don't have a lot of money to begin on the official site. Is-it possible to stat with free ressource and just take abonnement for 3 months and passe? I have basic notion on security and i have attempt the UDACITY Nano degree - Security Enginneer. Thanks
Can you tell us about where to begin to start learning hacking
Congrats John. You're one of my references. I'm aiming to take the OSCP next year, for now studying and learning. I've been looking at too much stuff :-) And I'm trying to find an OSCP like report on a HackTheBox Machine. Do you know if there is such, and where ?
Did you use anything like CherryTree for the notes as well? Did u find it more simple to use markdown?
how did you add the screenshots in Git Notes . is the same as github via creating a issue ?
how did you made your git commit show all that information on 2:28 ?
I've seen `git commit` do that by default... does it not do that for you? It might be a configuration setting to tweak.
I use org-mode in Emacs, it's much better than markdown
why Arch?
How do you add images to the report, screenshots basically taken during the process
The syntax for images in Markdown is
Thanks so much for watching!
@@_JohnHammond Thank you !!!
John aka clean shave hammond
Tes certifier oscp ?
How much of the already present "flavor-text" did you kept in your report? If any.
Did you use the default Kali VM from Offensive Security?
I did, yes -- I tried to do everything I could to keep things in line with what Offensive Security "recommends," as to make things easier on them and ideally help myself or streamline things that might not work as easily if I did things a different way. Thanks for watching!
Please show SMBshare too!
Hi John thanks for the tip I have started using this system of note taking for my OSCP studies. I was wondering, do you find that your code samples appear to get chopped off at the right edge of the page. (the code is still there but not visible at times) when using the templates in your video ? Did this happen in your exam submission document? Please help , I am afraid to use it like this. Also have you found a way to highlight code changes in red (in markdown) or did you rely on commenting the code, the way I am doing atm.
Hey SinWolF, thanks for watching!
I did notice that, yes -- code samples do not wrap on a new line. For that reason, I set a "Ruler" in Sublime Text or I would check the line length in Vim to ensure that all the lines of code were less than ~72 characters. So I excerpt some pieces of Nmap scans, or add line breaks, or separate some function calls, etc.. I still used this template for sure, I was just coignizant of the length of my code.
I didn't do too much to "highlight" code changes, admittedly, I would just include what I used -- but commenting the code works just as well, if you explain what you did.
@@_JohnHammond Hey John I think I found the solution. Add "--listings" to the pandoc arguments and this fixes the issue.
@@sinwolf5539 Oh hell yeah, that is awesome! I didn't know that, I will have to try it. Thanks for letting me know!
You don't know it yet, young John, but in the future you will make this video Markdown to PDF Code Injection ;)
What DE u r using for ur arch ?
I had been using i3 as a window manager for Arch. It worked great! Thanks for watching!
Wow now you are on arch and that too with i3
Cool
Ed Sheeran of the hacking world.
gitlab: +1
arch linux: +1
I appreciate using arch. But I dont know why +1 for gitlab.. I feel github is much better.
Cherrytree
I can’t follow you. Typing so fast ....omg
ed sheeran
VIM
Converting files in bash?🤣🤣🤣
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Cooooooool Hey Professor 😍
How to add screenshots to those templates?? please let me know
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