Well it’s just a little over a week before I sit the OffSec PWB exam. To be brutally honest I am shitting myself! This has been one of the most fun, yet difficult courses that I have done to date.

I have purposely left a couple of sections to complete in the last week of my lab time before the exam, I get the feeling that I will need to know a lot about fuzzing and writing exploits. I’m hoping that by leaving them to the end (I’ve already done them before, but I want to spend some serious time on them) that these sections will be fresh in my mind.

Having said that, I got one of my big final challenges this weekend. I successfully got root on the lab Fedora Core 4 machine. I’d like to give you details in here, but it would give it away for future students, and I really don’t want to do that. All I will say is that it’s not a point and shoot exploit. There was a lot of thinking outside of the square here .. and I’m not all that great at that It was a hard challenge, and I’m very happy that I got through that one.

To anyone doing the course (or potentially doing it in the future) I still have Bob’s machine to get. I am very close to getting his machine. There has been a lot of work and frustration to get to the point I’m at now .. and I still don’t have it. That is my final goal that I need to get before my exam. I’ll spend a little time on it later on this week .. but it may have to wait till the very last minute for me to try and get it (and I may not even get it in the end).

All in all .. whether I pass or fail the final exam, this is one of the greatest courses I’ve done yet. I want you all to go and do it. You can find a million links to the Offensive Security guys and the course in some of my previous posts.

You probably won’t be hearing from me until after the exam! Be prepared for tears!! hahahahaah

(oh yeah – two things you need to get used to “Try Harder” & “Bob is laughing at you!”. Don’t forget to talk to the guys in the irc channel, they’re all really cool and helpful guys.)