TryHackMe setup step by step guide
Hey, I am Rahul Mondal. I am a security enthusiast. I am still learning Cyber Security related topics everyday from different books, websites and from blogs.
Now whatever you learn in any field one thing is common and very true which is PRACTICE.
Now in Cyber Security field one cannot use any website or any machine to practice hacking. So there are several websites who give us a platform to practice. I chose TryHackMe.
You can access it from this URL : https://tryhackme.com/
You can learn several topics and access materiel from there for that you have to opt their subscription option or you can access the free parts of it. There are numerous machines to crack and polish your hacking skill
Just go to hacktivities option on the left panel and you can see all the machines. You can filter as your need.
Now before accessing and start hacking you have to connect it from VPN. Hope you know what a VPN is, still you can check from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network
Now first lets signup and go to “access” menu in left panel to download the configuration file.
Now i think you should do these things from your Linux machine. Because after you will use the Linux to hacking. Although there are options for windows and MAC.
After downloading the configuration file in your Linux machine. The configuration file’s extension will be .ovpn. You have to install openvpn by the command: apt install openvpn
Now just connect it by command: sudo openvpn configurationfile.ovpn
If you see in the last line. It says-> Initialization sequence Completed. It means connection is established.
For confirmation go to access page and you can see in network information it shows connected and you have an IP address
You can also verify that IP address from terminal by ifconfig command
That tun0 is the openvpn IP address for your machine. Whatever hacking you do as your machine IP, you have to put this IP address.
Now go to hacktivities and choose your machine and join the room. Just deploy the machine and you will get its IP address.
You can see my writeup in tryhackme for the machine if you stuck anywhere. I am preparing writeups for many machines in TryHackMe. Here is one of the machines.
Now what are you waiting for……
Happy Hacking…………!!!!!