HackTheBox - Spectra

IppSec · Beginner ·🔐 Cybersecurity ·5y ago

Key Takeaways

Exploits vulnerabilities in a HackTheBox challenge using nmap, Wordpress scanning with WpScan, and MySQL login attempts

Original Description

00:00 - Start 01:00 - Nmaping the box 03:00 - Checking out the web pages, discovering Wordpress 04:00 - Getting the username of wordpress by looking at the blog post author 06:30 - Running WpScan with Plugins-detection 08:25 - Finding an open directory on the testing site, accessing a backup 09:15 - Attempting to login with MySQL but cannot due to the account only being allowed on localhost 12:30 - Logging into wordpress with administrator and the devteam01 password 13:25 - Getting a shell through WordPress by editing an unused theme 15:50 - Failing to get a reverse shell... 19:30 - Using a common PHP Reverse Shell 20:45 - Discovering we are on a ChromeBook 24:50 - Discovering a password in autologin 26:30 - Using the password with local users on the box 27:10 - Logging in with Katie then seeing she can run sudo initctl 31:20 - Failing to play with init files, switching to a simpler method of testing code exec 32:15 - Putting a python reverse shell inside of init and getting root
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Start
1:00 Nmaping the box
3:00 Checking out the web pages, discovering Wordpress
4:00 Getting the username of wordpress by looking at the blog post author
6:30 Running WpScan with Plugins-detection
8:25 Finding an open directory on the testing site, accessing a backup
9:15 Attempting to login with MySQL but cannot due to the account only being allowe
12:30 Logging into wordpress with administrator and the devteam01 password
13:25 Getting a shell through WordPress by editing an unused theme
15:50 Failing to get a reverse shell...
19:30 Using a common PHP Reverse Shell
20:45 Discovering we are on a ChromeBook
24:50 Discovering a password in autologin
26:30 Using the password with local users on the box
27:10 Logging in with Katie then seeing she can run sudo initctl
31:20 Failing to play with init files, switching to a simpler method of testing code
32:15 Putting a python reverse shell inside of init and getting root
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