My Top-10 OSCP-like HackTheBox Machines list

Ismael Rodríguez
2 min readAug 28, 2020

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As I mentioned in my OSCP Review I had done all the Linux and Windows HackTheBox machines from the TJnull OSCP-like machines list (existing until the moment of writing this text), and also a few from the “More challenging” column. But I consider these ones my Top-10 OSCP-like boxes of HackTheBox based in my experience in the course:

  1. Sniper
  2. Conceal
  3. Tally
  4. Jarvis
  5. Bankrobber— difficult but you’ll be able to practice with a specific exploitation which is VERY common in penetration testing world and which you won’t be able to get practice about, as far as I know, any other machine on HTB.
  6. Active
  7. SolidState
  8. Fortune — quite more difficult and not in the list of TJNull but I’d add it. It gets you involved in many techniques that you will practice on OSCP.
  9. Brainfuck —Only until you get a shell as user. Privesc is sick and not OSCP at all.
  10. Bart

And here a bonus with some other boxes not much OSCP-like but that I also consider a must since you will exploit different kind of technologies widely used nowadays (some might also be involved in OSCP but their exploitation may not be the same):

  1. Craft
  2. Mango *
  3. Forest *
  4. Registry
  5. Silo *
  6. Monteverde

* Added by TJNull in his list

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Ismael Rodríguez
Ismael Rodríguez

Written by Ismael Rodríguez

Cyber Security Engineer | CySA+, OSCP, Security+, ISO 27001 LA, AWS Architect

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