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Windows Privilege Escalation for OSCP & Beyond! (Udemy.com)

Finding and exploiting Windows vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to gain an administrator shell.

Created by: Tib3rius

Last updated September 2020

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What you will learn

  • Multiple methods for escalating privileges on a Windows system.
  • In depth explanations of why and how these methods work.
  • Tools which can help identify potential privilege escalation vulnerabilities on a Windows system.
  • A setup script you can run on a (free) trial version of Windows 10, creating an intentionally vulnerable VM to practice privilege escalation on.

How it compares

Against the other 523 rated Udemy courses in Hacking on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 85% of them
  • Reviews3,284#66 of 524 by number of reviews
  • Length1.6 hoursshorter than 88% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2020earlier than 80% of them

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Course Description

This course teaches privilege escalation in Windows, from basics such as how permissions work, to in-depth coverage and demonstrations of actual privilege escalation techniques. The course comes with a full set of slides (150+), and a script which can be used by students to create an intentionally vulnerable Windows 10 configuration to practice their own privilege escalation skills on. This is a 100% privilege escalation course, with absolutely no filler!


Please note that this course is aimed at students currently taking, or planning to take the OSCP, and thus covers more common forms of privilege escalation. Some extra methods are included, and more methods may be added in the future, however this course was not designed to cover every possible (or obscure) method.

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Instructor Details

Tib3rius

Tib3rius is a professional penetration tester who specializes in web application hacking, though his background also includes network penetration testing. He is OSCP certified, and likes developing new tools for penetration testing, mostly in Python. He helps run an OSCP prep discord server, and enjoys passing on his knowledge to students who have a passion for information security.

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Reviews

4.7

3,284 ratings on Udemy

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By James Mathieu on 11/3/2025

For some reason I could not cast to my Roku stick, but I could choose to cast to my neighbor's TV - true, but still LOL.

By Abalo Edem Médard ANATO on 5/24/2024

Great content !! I highly recommand this course to anyone wanting to learn the basics of windows privilege escalation

By Piers Bullock on 4/28/2023

Concise, clear and step by step. So clearly presented without excess words or waffle to get in the way and take up time. A couple of bits didn't work for me and may have dated, but in terms of understanding the core, timeless concepts, this course absolutely nails it.

By Alex sinor on 7/8/2021

Course was great and right to the point. is it possible to add a video just for accesschk and all the options used. that would be super helpful as I was watching and taking notes had to constantly to stop to research them. not a pain but that video would be convenient.

By Takashi Doyama on 6/8/2021

Great course which comprehensively covered Windows Privilege Escalation which can be much harder. The minimal use of exploits mean that the skills obtained on this course are highly transferable in future versions of Windows

By Stuart Owen-Davies on 1/1/2021

A perfect course to prepare for the PWK labs and OSCP exam. This comprehensive course has given me a more structured and strategic approach to privesc than I previously had, and has really helped me identify the possibilities, and likely paths earlier. Many thanks for the well structured lessons, and thorough teaching.

By Brian Coates on 11/15/2020

To those wanting to learn Windows Priv Esc:
The good: I strongly suggest this course, it covers the basics of Windows privilege escalation neatly, concisely and in an easily understood way. The price is more than reasonable for the content and the author is friendly and seems to respond to concerns from students. The solid and clear structure of the course makes it so easy to learn you'll be escalating your privileges before you know what's happening.
The 'bad': Because this course focusses on the meat of the privilege escalation if you are at the stage of being a very early beginner (unfamiliar with things like networking, common tools, not entirely comfortable with the command line, etc) then this course can still work for you, but you would likely need to pause and take the time to learn these things as and when required.
To the course author:
You explain things very clearly and well despite (or perhaps because) of the brevity. Indeed I've hesitated to buy courses due to a short amount of video content before and only really opted for yours because of being familiar with you from Twitter; however you've definitely changed my mind on length of content being an important factor. This isn't my first priv esc course and the first half of the course was fairly well known to me, but the things I hadn't quite understood the last time I tried to learn this (Potato attacks and Port forwarding) were suddenly very easy to understand, and in such a short time frame as well.
I liked that the preamble and extra details were kept short and neat (set up, general concepts, spawning shells, tools).
Thanks to the logical structure of the course the delineation of the subject matter was readily apparent and this aided in my understanding of the topic.
The choice of set up script was good, and it ran without any serious issues. That said, as mentioned in another review, it did take some effort to get Kali to cooperate as the SMBserver. As I recall I ended up needing to specify Python version.
You should be very proud of your work here and thank you for making it such good value for money.

By Thor Kristiansen on 11/15/2020

All is good. Almost! The cli video shots need 1080 and some more light.

By Ciaran McGlynn on 11/15/2020

Instructor was really clear and knowledgeable - the course set out clearly what would be covered and then covered those topics really well - I highly recommend the course for those looking for additional OSCP pric esc preparation.

By pai red on 11/8/2020

I expected more from the course mainly due to the positive reviews . As mentioned in the course description i expect the course to be detailed but its not .Most of the information is already present in the internet for free . May be its a course for absolute beginner .And compared to other courses in Udemy the price is high for a 1.5 hour class . There are free websites providing better info on privesc than this course .
And moreover there is more to privesc than things covers in the course .
How to transfer the files ?
Architecture ?
What id there is AV ?
Powershell restrictions ?
Nothing is covered on a course focued on privesc .
There is no proper methodology explained for a privesc . The author could have showed privilege escalation process for atleast one box .The course only shows separate explanation of each technique .Not showing the approach as a whole !.
For an absolute beginner the course is good ! But if you have a slight idea about windows privesc , have gone through awesome guides already available for free this course wont add much value .
thanks

By Daniel Hargis on 10/24/2020

Pretty good course, the lab setup/use was very straight forward and functional

By Denis Kapshukov on 10/23/2020

Brilliant!

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Overall Score : 94 / 100