@Higgsx said:
Machines in PWK lab are little easier than machines on HTB - in my humble opinion. I have OSCP cert and pwned few machines here, so I can say for sureMy advice,which in my opinion is best if you want to go further without too much suffering.
- Read Georgia Weidman’s book about penetration testing. This book fully covers everything that Offsec PWK/OSCP training covers.
- Do vulnhub, buy VIP subscription and do retired hackthebox boxes. They have official walkthroughs and you can learn a lot from them. Also watch Ippsec’s videos on Youtube, he is great at explaining things.
- Do active HTB boxes.
In summary, do as much box as you can. I started doing boxes in December-January I didn’t have OSCP cert still back then. First box that I started doing was Kioptrix #1 from vulnhub. It was really hard for me. I needed 2 days for it. Since then I did lots of boxes including 31 from offsec’s pwk lab + exam 8 boxes( I passed on 2nd try
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Hope that helps
We pwned same number of machines 
I am so lazy to use pivoting and only pwned machine in public network…
Georgia Weidman’s is excellent and I read it usually now. I purchased 1 year VIP and reading retired machine walkthrough…some techniques really new for me and I need some time to test for them.
Hope I can adopt the new environment soon and strengthening my hacking skills~