Create a directory for machine on the Desktop and a directory containing the scans with nmap.
Task 2 - Reconnaissance
su
echo "10.10.164.129 overpass.thm" >> /etc/hosts
mkdir thm/overpass.thm
cd thm/overpass.thm
# At the end of the room
# To clean up the last line from the /etc/hosts file
sed -i '$ d' /etc/hosts
I prefer to start recon by pinging the target, this allows us to check connectivity and get OS info.
ping -c 3 overpass.thm
PING overpass.thm (10.10.164.129) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from overpass.thm (10.10.164.129): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=61.7 ms
64 bytes from overpass.thm (10.10.164.129): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=62.6 ms
64 bytes from overpass.thm (10.10.164.129): icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=66.9 ms
Sending these three ICMP packets, we see that the Time To Live (TTL) is ~64 secs. this indicates that the target is a *nix system (probably Linux), while Windows systems usually have a TTL of 128 secs.
2.1 - Find open ports on the machine
nmap --open -n -Pn -vvv -T4 overpass.thm
Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-06-26 16:34 EDT
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 16:34
Scanning overpass.thm (10.10.164.129) [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 10.10.164.129
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 10.10.164.129
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 16:34, 2.30s elapsed (1000 total ports)
Nmap scan report for overpass.thm (10.10.164.129)
Host is up, received user-set (0.066s latency).
Scanned at 2023-06-26 16:34:46 EDT for 2s
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON
22/tcp open ssh syn-ack ttl 63
80/tcp open http syn-ack ttl 63
command
result
sudo
run as root
sC
run default scripts
sV
enumerate versions
A
aggressive mode
T4
run a bit faster
oN
output to file with nmap formatting
nmap --open -vvv -T4 -sCV overpass.thm
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION
22/tcp open ssh syn-ack ttl 63 OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 2048 37:96:85:98:d1:00:9c:14:63:d9:b0:34:75:b1:f9:57 (RSA)
| ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDLYC7Hj7oNzKiSsLVMdxw3VZFyoPeS/qKWID8x9IWY71z3FfPijiU7h9IPC+9C+kkHPiled/u3cVUVHHe7NS68fdN1+LipJxVRJ4o3IgiT8mZ7RPar6wpKVey6kubr8JAvZWLxIH6JNB16t66gjUt3AHVf2kmjn0y8cljJuWRCJRo9xpOjGtUtNJqSjJ8T0vGIxWTV/sWwAOZ0/TYQAqiBESX+GrLkXokkcBXlxj0NV+r5t+Oeu/QdKxh3x99T9VYnbgNPJdHX4YxCvaEwNQBwy46515eBYCE05TKA2rQP8VTZjrZAXh7aE0aICEnp6pow6KQUAZr/6vJtfsX+Amn3
| 256 53:75:fa:c0:65:da:dd:b1:e8:dd:40:b8:f6:82:39:24 (ECDSA)
| ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBMyyGnzRvzTYZnN1N4EflyLfWvtDU0MN/L+O4GvqKqkwShe5DFEWeIMuzxjhE0AW+LH4uJUVdoC0985Gy3z9zQU=
| 256 1c:4a:da:1f:36:54:6d:a6:c6:17:00:27:2e:67:75:9c (ED25519)
|_ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAINwiYH+1GSirMK5KY0d3m7Zfgsr/ff1CP6p14fPa7JOR
80/tcp open http syn-ack ttl 63 Golang net/http server (Go-IPFS json-rpc or InfluxDB API)
|_http-title: Overpass
| http-methods:
|_ Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
|_http-favicon: Unknown favicon MD5: 0D4315E5A0B066CEFD5B216C8362564B
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
It looks like there are only two open ports on the machine: SSH and HTTP.
Task 3 - Hack the machine and get the flag in user.txt
We can strat to explore http://overpass.thm (port 80)
In the page source code we don't found nothing of interisting, the good route is to explore website hidden pathes using gobuster:
gobuster dir -u overpass.thm -w /usr/share/wordlists/dirb/common.txt
Looking at the source code of the page, we see that there are three js scripts, let's go look at them!
The login.js file contains a “login” function, which says that if the response of the authentication request is not “Incorrect Credentials” i.e. if the authentication was successful, it then sets the SessionToken to “statusOrCookie”:
Manually creating a SessionToken cookie with a value of “statusOrCookie” in the browser:
🚩 Flag 1 (user.txt)
Task 3 - Escalate your privileges and get the flag in root.txt
