Hack The Box is an online platform allowing you to test your penetration testing skills and exchange ideas and methodologies with other members of similar interests. It contains several challenges (vulnerable virtual boxes) that require knowledge to solve them. It is a brilliant way for hackers to learn and practice their skills. But what if you are a total novice with no background in the subject? Hack The Box comes with a solution that provides a guided learning experience that will eventually help gain the required knowledge.

HTB Academy’s goal is to provide a highly interactive and streamlined learning process to allow users to have fun while learning. Content within Academy is based around the concept of “guided learning”. Students are presented with material in digestible chunks with examples of commands and their output throughout, not just theory. Students are provided target hosts where they can reproduce the materials presented in each section for themselves, hands-on exercises that serve as “checkpoints”, and skills assessments to test their understanding of the material.

Modules are aimed at teaching you a specific topic. They contain several Sections and usually, some of them are Interactive.

Modules can be standalone, like the one you are currently working on, or they can be part of a Path, which we will outline in the next section.

Skills Assessment

Many, but not all modules will have a final skills assessment (in addition to the in-module exercises) that must be taken in order to reach full completion and earn all cubes that the module awards. Skills assessments are performed against a separate target host. These assessments aim to test the student’s knowledge of the material covered within the module sections and are designed to reinforce concepts presented in the module text. Depending on the size of the module and the breadth and depth of the content, a skills assessment may require multiple steps and contain multiple questions. Other modules may have a skills assessment that only requires the student to perform a task (i.e. exploit a web application vulnerability) and submit a single flag.

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