HackTheBox - Curling
Skills:
Ethical Hacking & Pen Testing90%
01:12 - Begin of Recon
01:55 - Running Cewl to generate a wordlist
02:50 - Finding secret.txt in the HTML Source, which happens to be the password
03:28 - Runninh JoomScan so we have something running in the background
04:20 - Checking the manifest to get the Joomla Version
06:20 - Explaining what equals mean in base64
07:50 - Begin of hunting for Joomla Username
08:30 - BruteForcing Joomla Login with WFUZZ
10:35 - Troubleshooting by sending wfuzz through burp
12:25 - Turns out the CSRF Token is tied to cookie, adding that to the wfuzz command
17:10 - Success! Logged into Joomla
17:58 - Gaining code execution by modifying a template
20:20 - Getting a reverse shell
23:20 - Finding the file: password_backup which is encoded
23:55 - Extracting password_backup manually with xxd, zcat, bzcat, tar
25:43 - Extracting Password_Backup with CyberChef
27:35 - Logging in with Floris
28:17 - Looking at /home/floris/AdminArea
28:50 - Testing the input file by changing the url to us
29:30 - Getting LFI by using file:// within curl
30:38 - Pulling the cron, to see what is going on
31:25 - Cron shows curl -K to use curl with a config file, checking man page.
32:05 - Changing where curl saves to, in order to gain a root shell
33:45 - Showing another good file to read with the LFI (logs)
34:18 - Using pspy to show when processes start/end, which shows the curl command with no exploits
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Chapters (25)
1:12
Begin of Recon
1:55
Running Cewl to generate a wordlist
2:50
Finding secret.txt in the HTML Source, which happens to be the password
3:28
Runninh JoomScan so we have something running in the background
4:20
Checking the manifest to get the Joomla Version
6:20
Explaining what equals mean in base64
7:50
Begin of hunting for Joomla Username
8:30
BruteForcing Joomla Login with WFUZZ
10:35
Troubleshooting by sending wfuzz through burp
12:25
Turns out the CSRF Token is tied to cookie, adding that to the wfuzz command
17:10
Success! Logged into Joomla
17:58
Gaining code execution by modifying a template
20:20
Getting a reverse shell
23:20
Finding the file: password_backup which is encoded
23:55
Extracting password_backup manually with xxd, zcat, bzcat, tar
25:43
Extracting Password_Backup with CyberChef
27:35
Logging in with Floris
28:17
Looking at /home/floris/AdminArea
28:50
Testing the input file by changing the url to us
29:30
Getting LFI by using file:// within curl
30:38
Pulling the cron, to see what is going on
31:25
Cron shows curl -K to use curl with a config file, checking man page.
32:05
Changing where curl saves to, in order to gain a root shell
33:45
Showing another good file to read with the LFI (logs)
34:18
Using pspy to show when processes start/end, which shows the curl command with
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