Valentine- Hack the Box

Ip address: 10.10.10.79

So our mighty tool nmap, this gives 22(ssh), 80 port and 443 are open.

dirbuster gives on port 80, there is a folder dev.

Notes have this below data

To do:

1) Coffee.
2) Research.
3) Fix decoder/encoder before going live.
4) Make sure encoding/decoding is only done client-side.
5) Don't use the decoder/encoder until any of this is done.
6) Find a better way to take notes.

So by the wording in the notes hype_key might have been encoded is some format. hype_key contains this below data:

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root@kali:~/Documents/valentine# file hype_key
hype_key: ASCII text, with very long lines

file command shows that the file is a ascii file but it looks like hex digits, so I will use xxd tool of linux.

It looks like this is a RSA PRIVATE KEY, proc-type 4 says it may need a passphrase, as the home page on 80 port shows heartbleed. let’us try heart bleed payloads in meta sploit as below.

And we can try 32745 exploit as below.

Observe the python exploit being run as first command, and it dumps some text as base64 encoded.

Let us decode the base 64 string and see,

root@kali:~/Documents/valentine# echo "aGVhcnRibGVlZGJlbGlldmV0aGVoeXBlCg=="|base64 -d
heartbleedbelievethehype
root@kali:~/Documents/valentine#

Let’s us try using that as passphrase for the private key of ssh connection.

Yay! we are half way done. Now let us check for user flag and it is found in the desktop.

Now for the privilege escalation, search history if anything being runwith root credentials are being run.

As we can see there is a tmux session being run. Let us attach what is that session.

And the session belongs to root user and boom we get the root privileges.