PWK Lab vs PG Practice

Hello everyone,

I would like to touch on the differences between PWK lab and PG Practice. I solved 75 machines in PWK lab. Also, I solved about 70 machines on PG Practice. I have never experienced PG Play.

The difference between them is not very well known. I want to tell as much as I can. I've listed the pros and cons below. I hope it will be enlightening.

PWK Lab:

+ Active Directory Chains

+ You have to do post exploitation

+ There are different Client Side Attack vectors than in PG Practice

+ Lots of dependent machines

+ Network Pivoting

+ Target corporate network

+ Finding solutions to problems encountered on the student forum

+ Finding tips on the student forum (reading all posts :/)

+ Having ready-to-use win, debian, dc clients for the user

- Up to date

- No walkthrough

- Shared network

- Few BOF practices

- Need to revert the machine, before starting work on the machine

- You need to wait short time to start all services on the machine.

PG Practice:

+ Up to date

+ Lots of variety

+ Non-shared network, private network

+ Affordable monthly fee

+ Ability to open a walkthrough of the Machine at any time for 0 point (1 time in 24 hours)

+ In exchange for points, you can get hints fo Enumeration, Initial Shell, RCE, Privesc etc. (daily limit available)

+ Difficulty classifications available

+ There are many machines prepared by Offensive Security

+ There are machines created by different people.

+ Revert is much faster

+ The machine starts at the same time as its services

+ I think the network is faster

+ I think, it's content is more difficult than the PWK lab environment

+ There are machines that require lateral movement

+ There are machines that require code review

- Only kali client available (like tryhackme)

- No post exploitation

- No dependent machines

- No AD chain (but there are 3 different DC machines)

- No network pivoting

- Few BOF practices

- Ability to use only 1 target machine at the same time