Offensive Security Exam Report Template in Markdown

I created an Offensive Security Exam Report Template in Markdown so LaTeX, Microsoft Office Word, LibreOffice Writer are no longer needed during your Offensive Security OSCP, OSWE, OSEE, OSWP, OSEP, OSED, OSWA, OSDA, OSMR exam!

Now you can be efficient and faster during your exam report redaction!

:rocket: Speed up writing, don’t lose time during the 24 hours of exam report redaction
:star: No formatting hassle with WYSIWYG editors, byebye unwanted whitespaces and linefeeds from Microsoft Office Word and LibreOffice Writer
:memo: Re-use your Markdown notes, you’ll be so glad not having to reformat the bold and italic from your Markdown notes into the report
:lock: Version control ready, save your markdown template into a PRIVATE git repository, you now have an incremental backup, version control works with Markdown (.md) as it’s text but not with binaries (.doc, .odt)
:pen: Use your favorite editor or note taking app, with Markdown you’ll be able to use your favorite editor (VSCode, Atom, etc.) or note taking app (Vnote, QOwnNotes, Boostnote, etc.) to write your exam report, you won’t have to switch to Windows to use MS Word.
:tophat: Clean & professional style, a professional looking report for your professional certification
:ok_hand: Error free, use the generation script to generate the report and archive, you won’t do any submission format and name mistake that way

Examples:

OSCP whoisflynn improved template v3.2

OSCP Official Offensive Security Template v1

Requirements

Pandoc
LaTeX (eg. TeX Live) in order to get pdflatex or xelatex
Eisvogel Pandoc LaTeX PDF Template
p7zip (if you want to use the script, for generating the archive)

Examples for common distros:

ArchLinux: pacman -S texlive-most pandoc p7zip
openSUSE: zypper in texlive-scheme-medium pandoc p7zip-full
Ubuntu: apt install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-latex-extra pandoc p7zip-full

Usage

Write your report in markdown.

Automatic

There is a script that will:

Let you choose the template
Let you choose the syntax highlight style
Generate the PDF (+ preview option)
Generate the 7z archive
Output MD5 hash for verification after uploading

Choose and copy a template that you will use to write your report:

ruby osert.rb init

Generate your PDF report and 7z archive

ruby osert.rb generate

Note: If you run the generation several times, you may want to check the options (ruby osert.rb generate -h) to save time on the interactive prompt.

Manual

Generate the report PDF from the markdown template:

pandoc src/OSCP-exam-report-template_whoisflynn_v3.2.md \
-o output/OSCP-OS-XXXXX-Exam-Report.pdf \
--from markdown+yaml_metadata_block+raw_html \
--template eisvogel \
--table-of-contents \
--toc-depth 6 \
--number-sections \
--top-level-division=chapter \
--highlight-style breezedark \
--resource-path=.:src

You can change the code syntax highlight theme with --highlight-style.

Color sets

Well rendering color sets you can use in the template YAML frontmatter:

titlepage-color	titlepage-text-color	titlepage-rule-color
`DC143C` (Crimson)	`FFFFFF` (White)	`FFFFFF` (White)
`00FF7F` (SpringGreen)	`006400` DarkGreen	`000000` (Black)
`1E90FF` (DodgerBlue)	`FFFAFA` (Snow)	`FFFAFA` (Snow)
`483D8B` (DarkSlateBlue)	`FFFAFA` (Snow)	`FFFAFA` (Snow)
`FFD700` (Gold)	`000000` (Black)	`000000` (Black)
`FFEFD5` (PapayaWhip)	`000000` (Black)	`000000` (Black)
`FF8C00` (DarkOrange)	`000000` (Black)	`000000` (Black)
`FFEF96` (no name)	`50394C` (no name)	`50394C` (no name)

Syntax highlight themes can be listed with pandoc --list-highlight-styles.

Available templates

Report Templates:

Network Penetration Testing:

OSCP
- Official Offensive Security Template v1
- Official Offensive Security Template v2
- whoisflynn improved template v3.2
OSWP
- Official Offensive Security Template v1
OSEP
- Official Offensive Security Template v1
- ceso improved template v1

Web Application:

OSWA
- Official Offensive Security Template v1
OSWE
- Official Offensive Security Template v1
- noraj improved template v1
- xl-sec improved template v1

Exploit Development:

OSED
- Official Offensive Security Template v1
- epi improved template v1
OSEE
- Official Offensive Security Template v1
OSCE (deprecated)
- Official Offensive Security Template v1
OSMR
- Official Offensive Security Template v1

Security Operations:

OSDA
- Official Offensive Security Template v1

Offensive Security course table:

Exam acronym	Exam name	Lab acronym	Lab name	Course designation
OSCP	Offensive Security Certified Professional	PWK	Penetration Testing with Kali Linux	PEN-200
OSWP	Offensive Security Wireless Professional	WA	Wireless Attacks	PEN-210
OSEP	Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester	ETBD	Evasion Techniques and Breaching Defenses	PEN-300
OSWA	Offensive Security Web Assessor	WAKL	Web Attacks with Kali Linux	WEB-200
OSWE	Offensive Security Web Expert	AWAE	Advanced Web Attacks and Exploitation	WEB-300
OSED	Offensive Security Exploit Developer	WUMED	Windows User Mode Exploit Development	EXP-301
OSMR	Offensive Security macOS Researcher	MCB	macOS Control Bypasses	EXP-312
OSEE	Offensive Security Exploitation Expert	AWE	Advanced Windows Exploitation	EXP-401
OSCE	Offensive Security Certified Expert	CTP	Cracking the Perimeter	N/A
OSDA	Offensive Security Defense Analyst	SODA	Security Operations and Defensive Analysis	SOC-200

Community projects

Docker containers:

Mentions

John Hammond - OSCP - Taking Notes & Resources (video) (2019-10-06)
John Hammond - OSEP - Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester (video) (2021-02-05)
3rd Top Offensive Security Open Source Projects (2022-01-27)
Recent mentions on social medias: Social-searcher
Articles:
- Unofficial OSCP Approved Tools by FalconSpy (2019-06-05)
- Journey from nothing to OSCP by CJHackerz (2020-06-30)
- Stress-free OSCP report making by Craig Underhill (2020-04-06) (Raw Archive, use about:reader?url= for better look in Firefox)