Hacking Rooms on Tryhackme

You want to join the challenge rooms on TryHackMe, but don’t want to pay to sign up for the pro version. This means you won’t have access to the roadmap that takes you from a clueless young man to a cybersecurity expert.

But in this article, I’m going to introduce you to free and super fun route rooms that will take you from being clueless to someone with average knowledge and skills.

In the list there will be some blue rooms. The red team is offensive, the blue team is defensive.

Note: This is a community-provided route of new-only free rooms. For the best experience, with your exclusive route to premium rooms, sign up for the premium version.

I have summarized a markdown for you to easily make notes at the bottom of the article.

Introducing the challenges included in the article

This article is divided into several levels, each level will teach you a piece of knowledge. You can skip the levels if you want, but they’re all essential to the hacker’s mindset.

Rooms on TryHackMe are divided into two categories:

• Walkthroughs (tutorials)

A room that introduces you to relevant issues and knowledge, and then teaches you the necessary skills.

Gives you servers and you have to hack into it without any help.

You will see instructions for the CTF challenges, however, try to read only what is necessary if you get stuck. And only read the manual if you really don’t know what to do.

Level 1 – Introduction

These are the bare minimums you should know before taking on any CTF challenge.

Here are some challenges you can try out to test what you’ve learned in the rooms above.

Level 2 – How to use tools

The most important thing in pentester is the tool. This section is intended to teach you the bare minimum of tools needed to make you a better hacker.

Again, here are some CTFs you can try to use the tools above. These rooms are a bit more difficult but with your new knowledge of the above tools you will conquer them in no time. If you can’t, don’t worry, this is all hackers do, try harder until you can’t try anymore and then learn from your mistakes.

Level 3 – Crypto & Hashes with CTF Practice

Knowledge of cryptography is essential for any hacker. This section will teach you the basics and give you some CTF practice.

Level 4 – Web

Level 5 – Reverse engineering

Decompiler engineering is the art of reading a compiled program and figuring out how it works. This section will teach you everything you need to know about reverse engineering.

Level 6 – Networking

Level 7 – Escalation of privileges

Privilege escalation is where you have a user account and get root/domain admin rights. It is essential for CTF and hacking.

Level 8 – Practice CTF

Here are some CTF exercises for you.

Level 9 – Windows

And finally, practice Windows. Note that Windows machines take a lot of resources to run, so most Windows machines are locked into the free.

Markdown version

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# Level 1 - Intro
- [ ] OpenVPN https://tryhackme.com/room/openvpn
- [ ] Welcome https://tryhackme.com/jr/welcome
- [ ] Intro to Researching https://tryhackme.com/room/introtoresearch
- [ ] The Hacker Methodology https://tryhackme.com/room/hackermethodology
- [ ] Learn Linux https://tryhackme.com/module/linux-fundamentals
- [ ] Crash Course Pentesting https://tryhackme.com/room/ccpentesting

**Introductory CTFs to get your feet wet**

- [ ] Google Dorking https://tryhackme.com/room/googledorking
- [ ] OHsint https://tryhackme.com/room/ohsint
- [ ] Shodan.io https://tryhackme.com/room/shodan

# Level 2 - Tooling
- [ ] Tmux https://tryhackme.com/room/rptmux
- [ ] Nmap https://tryhackme.com/room/furthernmap
- [ ] Web Scanning https://tryhackme.com/room/rpwebscanning
- [ ] Sublist3r https://tryhackme.com/room/rpsublist3r
- [ ] Metasploit https://tryhackme.com/room/rpmetasploit
- [ ] Hydra https://tryhackme.com/room/hydra
- [ ] Linux Privesc https://tryhackme.com/room/linuxprivesc
- [ ] Web Scanning https://tryhackme.com/room/rpwebscanning
- [ ] Shodan https://tryhackme.com/room/shodan
- [ ] RustScan (I invented RustScan so excuse the self-promo) https://tryhackme.com/room/rustscan

**More introductory CTFs**
- [ ] Vulnversity - https://tryhackme.com/room/vulnversity
- [ ] Blue - https://tryhackme.com/room/blue
- [ ] Simple CTF https://tryhackme.com/room/easyctf
- [ ] Bounty Hacker https://tryhackme.com/room/cowboyhacker
- [ ] Brute It https://tryhackme.com/room/bruteit

# Level 3 - Crypto & Hashes with CTF practice
- [ ] Crack the hash https://tryhackme.com/room/crackthehash
- [ ] Agent Sudo https://tryhackme.com/room/agentsudoctf
- [ ] The Cod Caper https://tryhackme.com/room/thecodcaper
- [ ] Ice https://tryhackme.com/room/ice
- [ ] Lazy Admin https://tryhackme.com/room/lazyadmin
- [ ] Basic Pentesting https://tryhackme.com/room/basicpentestingjt

# Level 4 - Web
- [ ] OWASP top 10 https://tryhackme.com/room/owasptop10
- [ ] Inclusion https://tryhackme.com/room/inclusion
- [ ] Injection https://tryhackme.com/room/injection
- [ ] Vulnversity https://tryhackme.com/room/vulnversity
- [ ] Basic Pentesting https://tryhackme.com/room/basicpentestingjt
- [ ] Juiceshop https://tryhackme.com/room/owaspjuiceshop
- [ ] Ignite https://tryhackme.com/room/ignite
- [ ] Overpass https://tryhackme.com/room/overpass
- [ ] Year of the Rabbit https://tryhackme.com/room/yearoftherabbit
- [ ] DevelPy https://tryhackme.com/room/bsidesgtdevelpy
- [ ] Jack of all trades https://tryhackme.com/room/jackofalltrades
- [ ] Bolt https://tryhackme.com/room/bolt

# Level 5 - Reverse Engineering
- [ ] Intro to x86 64 https://tryhackme.com/room/introtox8664
- [ ] CC Ghidra https://tryhackme.com/room/ccghidra
- [ ] CC Radare2 https://tryhackme.com/room/ccradare2
- [ ] CC Steganography https://tryhackme.com/room/ccstego
- [ ] Reverse Engineering https://tryhackme.com/room/reverseengineering
- [ ] Reversing ELF https://tryhackme.com/room/reverselfiles
- [ ] Dumping Router Firmware https://tryhackme.com/room/rfirmware

# Level 6 - Networking
- [ ] Introduction to Networking https://tryhackme.com/room/introtonetworking
- [ ] Smag Grotto https://tryhackme.com/room/smaggrotto
- [ ] Overpass 2 https://tryhackme.com/room/overpass2hacked

# Level 7 - PrivEsc
- [ ] Sudo Security Bypass https://tryhackme.com/room/sudovulnsbypass
- [ ] Sudo Buffer Overflow https://tryhackme.com/room/sudovulnsbof
- [ ] Windows Privesc Arena https://tryhackme.com/room/windowsprivescarena
- [ ] Linux Privesc Arena https://tryhackme.com/room/linuxprivescarena
- [ ] Windows Privesc https://tryhackme.com/room/windows10privesc
- [ ] Blaster https://tryhackme.com/room/blaster
- [ ] Ignite https://tryhackme.com/room/ignite
- [ ] Kenobi https://tryhackme.com/room/kenobi
- [ ] Capture the flag https://tryhackme.com/room/c4ptur3th3fl4g
- [ ] Pickle Rick https://tryhackme.com/room/picklerick

# Level 8 - CTF practice
- [ ] Post Exploitation Basics https://tryhackme.com/room/postexploit
- [ ] Inclusion https://tryhackme.com/room/inclusion
- [ ] Dogcat https://tryhackme.com/room/dogcat
- [ ] LFI basics https://tryhackme.com/room/lfibasics
- [ ] Buffer Overflow Prep https://tryhackme.com/room/bufferoverflowprep
- [ ] Overpass https://tryhackme.com/room/overpass
- [ ] Break out the cage https://tryhackme.com/room/breakoutthecage1
- [ ] Lian Yu https://tryhackme.com/room/lianyu

# Level 9 - Windows
- [ ] Attacktive Directory https://tryhackme.com/room/attacktivedirectory
- [ ] Retro https://tryhackme.com/room/retro
- [ ] Blue Print https://tryhackme.com/room/blueprint
- [ ] Anthem https://tryhackme.com/room/anthem
- [ ] Relevant https://tryhackme.com/room/relevant

Conclusion

Here are free resources and challenges to make learning to hack easier. And if you complete all the above rooms and challenges, your hacking level will be average. Good luck.

In addition, you can also read this article to know more about network security course Please.