Hack The Box — Optimum

Hey folks, today we have an interesting machine from HackTheBox “Optimum”, in this machine we will learm about new tool for CVE scan, it’s useful, at the first let’s know more about out machine

Ok let’s get started…

Nmap Scan

As we begin every machine we will scan the dns for open ports, service running on them, OS detection and more information we need to know

> nmap -A -T4 -oG blue.gnmap 10.10.10.8
-A : service detection, OS detection, script results 
-T4: Threads=4 to increase the speed 
-oG: to get the output in the extension gnmap to brute force the credentials by…

The results says that there’s one open port 80 and have one service runnign on it HttpFileServer 2.3 so we will take this as entry point to search for any vulnerability in this service by google or searchsploit

So now we have exploitation from rapid7 which works with metasploit and also you can use this code from GitHub to hack it without metasploit but you need to edit it

we will use metasploit to hack this service so we will use metasploit search about this keyword as follow

nice, we have one here, let’s try it by typing use 0 and then show options and set the machine IP from RHOSTS and your local IP from LHOST and finally type run to start attack

As you can see it’s worked and open a new meterpreter session but it’s seems that we’re not the root so let’s get the user flag first..

Good, now we have the user flage, let’s try to get the root flag from Administrator directory

Unfortunately, we don’t have access on this directory so let’s think about how to exploit privileges escalation vulnerability and to do that we need to do 2 things:

1. Get the system info from systeminfo
2. Try to search about the CVE available for this info

As you can see now we have the system information, let’s jump to the next step.

I have searched more and more about privilage escilation vulnerability for this info but unfortunately there’s nothing returned so I’ve discovered a wonderful tool which will scan the machine for the CVE’s and return back me the results, tool name Windows-Exploit-Suggester which need the systeminfo data in .txt format as follows

Host Name:                 OPTIMUM
OS Name:                   Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
OS Version:                6.3.9600 N/A Build 9600
OS Manufacturer:           Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration:          Standalone Server
OS Build Type:             Multiprocessor Free
Registered Owner:          Windows User
Registered Organization:   
Product ID:                00252-70000-00000-AA535
Original Install Date:     18/3/2017, 1:51:36 ��
System Boot Time:          16/12/2020, 12:19:02 ��
System Manufacturer:       VMware, Inc.
System Model:              VMware Virtual Platform
System Type:               x64-based PC
Processor(s):              1 Processor(s) Installed.
                           [01]: AMD64 Family 23 Model 1 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2000 Mhz
BIOS Version:              Phoenix Technologies LTD 6.00, 12/12/2018
Windows Directory:         C:\Windows
System Directory:          C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device:               \Device\HarddiskVolume1
System Locale:             el;Greek
Input Locale:              en-us;English (United States)
Time Zone:                 (UTC+02:00) Athens, Bucharest
Total Physical Memory:     4.095 MB
Available Physical Memory: 3.528 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size:  5.503 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 4.979 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use:    524 MB
Page File Location(s):     C:\pagefile.sys
Domain:                    HTB
Logon Server:              \\OPTIMUM
Hotfix(s):                 31 Hotfix(s) Installed.
                           [01]: KB2959936
                           [02]: KB2896496
                           [03]: KB2919355
                           [04]: KB2920189
                           [05]: KB2928120
                           [06]: KB2931358
                           [07]: KB2931366
                           [08]: KB2933826
                           [09]: KB2938772
                           [10]: KB2949621
                           [11]: KB2954879
                           [12]: KB2958262
                           [13]: KB2958263
                           [14]: KB2961072
                           [15]: KB2965500
                           [16]: KB2966407
                           [17]: KB2967917
                           [18]: KB2971203
                           [19]: KB2971850
                           [20]: KB2973351
                           [21]: KB2973448
                           [22]: KB2975061
                           [23]: KB2976627
                           [24]: KB2977629
                           [25]: KB2981580
                           [26]: KB2987107
                           [27]: KB2989647
                           [28]: KB2998527
                           [29]: KB3000850
                           [30]: KB3003057
                           [31]: KB3014442
Network Card(s):           1 NIC(s) Installed.
                           [01]: Intel(R) 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
                                 Connection Name: Ethernet0
                                 DHCP Enabled:    No
                                 IP address(es)
                                 [01]: 10.10.10.8
Hyper-V Requirements:      A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

and then run the tool

$ ./windows-exploit-suggester.py --database 2020-06-06-mssb.xlsx --systeminfo systeminfo.txt

then the reusults will be like this

[*] initiating winsploit version 3.3...
[*] database file detected as xls or xlsx based on extension
[*] attempting to read from the systeminfo input file
[+] systeminfo input file read successfully (utf-8)
[*] querying database file for potential vulnerabilities
[*] comparing the 32 hotfix(es) against the 266 potential bulletins(s) with a database of 137 known exploits
[*] there are now 246 remaining vulns
[+] [E] exploitdb PoC, [M] Metasploit module, [*] missing bulletin
[+] windows version identified as 'Windows 2012 R2 64-bit'
[*] 
[E] MS16-135: Security Update for Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers (3199135) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40745/ -- Microsoft Windows Kernel - win32k Denial of Service (MS16-135)
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41015/ -- Microsoft Windows Kernel - 'win32k.sys' 'NtSetWindowLongPtr' Privilege Escalation (MS16-135) (2)
[*]   https://github.com/tinysec/public/tree/master/CVE-2016-7255
[*] 
[E] MS16-098: Security Update for Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers (3178466) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41020/ -- Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x64) - RGNOBJ Integer Overflow (MS16-098)
[*] 
[M] MS16-075: Security Update for Windows SMB Server (3164038) - Important
[*]   https://github.com/foxglovesec/RottenPotato
[*]   https://github.com/Kevin-Robertson/Tater
[*]   https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=222 -- Windows: Local WebDAV NTLM Reflection Elevation of Privilege
[*]   https://foxglovesecurity.com/2016/01/16/hot-potato/ -- Hot Potato - Windows Privilege Escalation
[*] 
[E] MS16-074: Security Update for Microsoft Graphics Component (3164036) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39990/ -- Windows - gdi32.dll Multiple DIB-Related EMF Record Handlers Heap-Based Out-of-Bounds Reads/Memory Disclosure (MS16-074), PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39991/ -- Windows Kernel - ATMFD.DLL NamedEscape 0x250C Pool Corruption (MS16-074), PoC
[*] 
[E] MS16-063: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (3163649) - Critical
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39994/ -- Internet Explorer 11 - Garbage Collector Attribute Type Confusion (MS16-063), PoC
[*] 
[E] MS16-032: Security Update for Secondary Logon to Address Elevation of Privile (3143141) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40107/ -- MS16-032 Secondary Logon Handle Privilege Escalation, MSF
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39574/ -- Microsoft Windows 8.1/10 - Secondary Logon Standard Handles Missing Sanitization Privilege Escalation (MS16-032), PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39719/ -- Microsoft Windows 7-10 & Server 2008-2012 (x32/x64) - Local Privilege Escalation (MS16-032) (PowerShell), PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39809/ -- Microsoft Windows 7-10 & Server 2008-2012 (x32/x64) - Local Privilege Escalation (MS16-032) (C#)
[*] 
[M] MS16-016: Security Update for WebDAV to Address Elevation of Privilege (3136041) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40085/ -- MS16-016 mrxdav.sys WebDav Local Privilege Escalation, MSF
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39788/ -- Microsoft Windows 7 - WebDAV Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS16-016) (2), PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39432/ -- Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 x86 - WebDAV Privilege Escalation (MS16-016) (1), PoC
[*] 
[E] MS16-014: Security Update for Microsoft Windows to Address Remote Code Execution (3134228) - Important
[*]   Windows 7 SP1 x86 - Privilege Escalation (MS16-014), https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40039/, PoC
[*] 
[E] MS16-007: Security Update for Microsoft Windows to Address Remote Code Execution (3124901) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39232/ -- Microsoft Windows devenum.dll!DeviceMoniker::Load() - Heap Corruption Buffer Underflow (MS16-007), PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39233/ -- Microsoft Office / COM Object DLL Planting with WMALFXGFXDSP.dll (MS-16-007), PoC
[*] 
[E] MS15-132: Security Update for Microsoft Windows to Address Remote Code Execution (3116162) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38968/ -- Microsoft Office / COM Object DLL Planting with comsvcs.dll Delay Load of mqrt.dll (MS15-132), PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38918/ -- Microsoft Office / COM Object els.dll DLL Planting (MS15-134), PoC
[*] 
[E] MS15-112: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (3104517) - Critical
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39698/ -- Internet Explorer 9/10/11 - CDOMStringDataList::InitFromString Out-of-Bounds Read (MS15-112)
[*] 
[E] MS15-111: Security Update for Windows Kernel to Address Elevation of Privilege (3096447) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38474/ -- Windows 10 Sandboxed Mount Reparse Point Creation Mitigation Bypass (MS15-111), PoC
[*] 
[E] MS15-102: Vulnerabilities in Windows Task Management Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3089657) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38202/ -- Windows CreateObjectTask SettingsSyncDiagnostics Privilege Escalation, PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38200/ -- Windows Task Scheduler DeleteExpiredTaskAfter File Deletion Privilege Escalation, PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38201/ -- Windows CreateObjectTask TileUserBroker Privilege Escalation, PoC
[*] 
[E] MS15-097: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Graphics Component Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3089656) - Critical
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38198/ -- Windows 10 Build 10130 - User Mode Font Driver Thread Permissions Privilege Escalation, PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38199/ -- Windows NtUserGetClipboardAccessToken Token Leak, PoC
[*] 
[M] MS15-078: Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3079904) - Critical
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38222/ -- MS15-078 Microsoft Windows Font Driver Buffer Overflow
[*] 
[E] MS15-052: Vulnerability in Windows Kernel Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (3050514) - Important
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37052/ -- Windows - CNG.SYS Kernel Security Feature Bypass PoC (MS15-052), PoC
[*] 
[M] MS15-051: Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3057191) - Important
[*]   https://github.com/hfiref0x/CVE-2015-1701, Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37367/ -- Windows ClientCopyImage Win32k Exploit, MSF
[*] 
[E] MS15-010: Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3036220) - Critical
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39035/ -- Microsoft Windows 8.1 - win32k Local Privilege Escalation (MS15-010), PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37098/ -- Microsoft Windows - Local Privilege Escalation (MS15-010), PoC
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39035/ -- Microsoft Windows win32k Local Privilege Escalation (MS15-010), PoC
[*] 
[E] MS15-001: Vulnerability in Windows Application Compatibility Cache Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3023266) - Important
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35661/ -- Windows 8.1 (32/64 bit) - Privilege Escalation (ahcache.sys/NtApphelpCacheControl), PoC
[*] 
[E] MS14-068: Vulnerability in Kerberos Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3011780) - Critical
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35474/ -- Windows Kerberos - Elevation of Privilege (MS14-068), PoC
[*] 
[M] MS14-064: Vulnerabilities in Windows OLE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3011443) - Critical
[*]   https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37800// -- Microsoft Windows HTA (HTML Application) - Remote Code Execution (MS14-064), PoC
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35308/ -- Internet Explorer OLE Pre-IE11 - Automation Array Remote Code Execution / Powershell VirtualAlloc (MS14-064), PoC
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35229/ -- Internet Explorer <= 11 - OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution (#1), PoC
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35230/ -- Internet Explorer < 11 - OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution (MSF), MSF
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35235/ -- MS14-064 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution Through Python, MSF
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35236/ -- MS14-064 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution, MSF
[*] 
[M] MS14-060: Vulnerability in Windows OLE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3000869) - Important
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35055/ -- Windows OLE - Remote Code Execution 'Sandworm' Exploit (MS14-060), PoC
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35020/ -- MS14-060 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution, MSF
[*] 
[M] MS14-058: Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3000061) - Critical
[*]   http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35101/ -- Windows TrackPopupMenu Win32k NULL Pointer Dereference, MSF
[*] 
[E] MS13-101: Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2880430) - Important
[M] MS13-090: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (2900986) - Critical
[*] done

With all available exploitaiton with this machine we will use one which will help us in the escilation process ms16-032 you will find it on the metasploit

but before using it you should put the meterpreter session in the background by typing background

now you can search about the exploitation and use it, then type show options and set SESSIONS 1 as you have the session 1

and then run. You will get a new shell with the root priviliges

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