Welcome to the first part of this course.
So before we can actually dive into privilege escalation we need to actually have something to escalate
privileges against.
Now I weighed the decision pretty heavily on how I wanted to approach this the most economical way was
to actually use a service somewhere to hack the box or try hack me or or one of those other services
that are out there that have labs.
This is because Windows requires you to have a license.
You see a lot of Linux boxes out there for free will windows requires a license and licensing can be
expensive.
So instead of requiring licensing the cheaper alternative was to use a vulnerable site like hack the
box and give instruction v this.
So what we're gonna do is we're going to utilize hack the box now for the first portion of this course.
You can actually run this on any Windows machine.
We're just doing basic enumeration.
But what we're gonna be doing here is we're going to simulate an attack.
We're going to get lower level privileges on a machine and then we're going to do enumeration on that
machine.
Now you can forego all this and just do this from your command line on your own windows machine.
Nothing malicious is going to be done during the enumeration process.
However if you want to follow along step by step you will need to hack the box subscription so that
will run ten dollars to thirteen dollars approximately.
And if you've never used hack the box before.
That's OK.
It does require you to quote unquote hack your way in.
However that is very easily Google will if you want to do some research and look on how to get a subscription.
It's very very straightforward.
So we're going to be utilizing this for the enumeration portion and then as we start to tackle machines
and one off type vulnerabilities I'm going to be using different machines here to show you how that
works.
Now throughout the course my challenge to you is going to be to attempt the machine that I show you
before actually watching the next video.
So what we're going to be doing for this for example is we're gonna be spinning up this devil machine
DTV deal and it lives at ten that ten that 10 to 5.
So all you have to do is press the start button machine which I've already done.
You just press Start button next to it get it spun up and then what you're going to do is go ahead and
try to scan it use in map try to attack it see what happens.
What I want you to do is try to get to the low level user and then meet me in the next video we're going
to go through a walkthrough.
After that we'll start the enumeration.
So if you have any questions you want to see my methodology I'm going to cover that in the next video
but I'm going to kind of do it kind of quickly again this is kind of more of a non beginner course we're
kind of moving into the intermediate style level.
So I almost expect you to be able to solve this first half and then meet me kind of in the middle where
I teach you how to how to escalate the privileges.
That makes sense.
So every box that we do in this course I'm going to challenge you to go ahead and try to get to that
low level user and then we'll work on escalating every box.
We'll have a walkthrough in case you do get stuck.
So what I'm going to do now is ask you to go ahead and try.
Give it a go.
And in the next video I'm going to show you how to get a low level user on this box and then we'll start
working on enumeration and moving forward with our escalation tactics.