Mnemonic TryHackMe Writeup
Scanning
We launch nmap with scripts and software versions.
Enumeration
We access the web service, we only see that it is in test mode.
We access the file “robots.txt” and list the directory “/webmasters/”.
We run the dirsearch tool with some known extensions and a common dictionary in the directory listed above.
We list some interesting directories.
We listed an administration panel in the “/webmasters/admin/” directory, but it does not work.
We continue with dirsearch and start searching for files by known extensions in the directories listed above.
We list a backups.zip file:
We see that the file has a password to decompress, we use zip2john and crack the hash with the rockyou dictionary.
We use the password and read the file, it gives us the username of the FTP service.
We performed brute force with the enumerated user, the rockyou dictionary and the Hydra tool. We managed to find the password of the FTP service.
We use the FTP service credentials, list several folders and two interesting files “id_rsa” and “not.txt”.
Content of both files:
Exploitation
We use the ssh2john tool, crack the hash with john and the wordlist rockyou to get the password.
We use the credentials in the SSH service to gain access to the machine.
We see that we have a restricted bash, so we reopen the ssh session with “bash –noprofile” and export a couple of environment variables so we can have an interactive shell.
I search the internet for the words “Mnemonic crypto”, find this tool on this github, download the tool and try the numerical file.
At the moment there is nothing we can do, as we need a photograph.
If we try to list the directories and files, we are able to list a couple of files of the user “Condor”, there we see two files with the title in base64.
A file is the flag of user.txt
Content 2nd file
We go back to the tool, specify the photo and the path to the text file, we will get the password of the user “condor”.
Privilege Escalation
We authenticate as the user “condor” and we see that we are able to run a python script with SUDO.
Python script in execution
We see that “date” is executed without mentioning the absolute path, this would allow us to replace it and modify the path to execute our malicious binary and gain access.
But it does not work! So we continue reviewing the code, we see something suspicious, the function with code 0 allows you to write, so we would still be able to execute commands like root….
Proof of concept
Well, easy, we call the bash binary with the flag “-p” and we will get a shell as root.
