HackTheBox - Mentor
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Start of Nmap
03:30 - Enumerating for virtual hosts with ffuf to find the api.mentorquotes.htb page
05:30 - Talking about FastAPI, attempting to utilize the endpoints but Authentication is required. Create an account
07:00 - Logging into the endpoint, discovering how to send authentication to the endpoints. Don't really gain anything
10:40 - Using ffuf to search for extra endpoints and discover /admin/ but can't do anything
14:00 - Running NMAP again with UDP to discover SNMP
17:10 - EDIT: Showing the minrate with nmap to scan UDP much quicker
18:30 - Using SNMP Walk
19:40 - Using SNMP-BRUTE to bruteforce other community strings
20:45 - EDIT: Showing Hydra and OneSixtyOne fail to enumerate the second community string
23:05 - Using SNMPBruteWalk to dump the SNMP Database, showing how much faster it is than SNMPWalk
25:00 - SNMP Shows running processes and arguments, there was a password passed via STDIN and we can get the password and login as James on FastAPI
28:15 - Accessing the Admin Endpoint, and figuring out what parameters it expects via error messages
30:50 - Discovering command injection in the backup endpoint
35:19 - Shell returned!
37:30 - Editing the User Endpoint in FastAPI to dump password hashes. Talking about Pydantic
40:45 - EDIT: Showing how we could background out reverse shell with nohup so we don't hang the webserver
47:15 - Cracking the hashes and getting svc's password and then logging into the server via SSH
53:00 - Doing some light forensics looking for files edited on the box shortly after linux was installed
56:45 - Finding a password in the snmpd password which gets us root
01:01:10 - Editing LinPEAS to add an extra regex to pull passwords out of SNMPd configuration
01:04:30 - Rebuilding the LinPEAS Shell script and then running LinPEAS to discover we now detect the password in SNMPD
01:06:40 - Forwarding PostGres to our server with chisel so we can dump the database
01:12:20 - Enumerating PostGres manually to dump
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Chapters (25)
Intro
1:00
Start of Nmap
3:30
Enumerating for virtual hosts with ffuf to find the api.mentorquotes.htb page
5:30
Talking about FastAPI, attempting to utilize the endpoints but Authentication
7:00
Logging into the endpoint, discovering how to send authentication to the endpo
10:40
Using ffuf to search for extra endpoints and discover /admin/ but can't do any
14:00
Running NMAP again with UDP to discover SNMP
17:10
EDIT: Showing the minrate with nmap to scan UDP much quicker
18:30
Using SNMP Walk
19:40
Using SNMP-BRUTE to bruteforce other community strings
20:45
EDIT: Showing Hydra and OneSixtyOne fail to enumerate the second community str
23:05
Using SNMPBruteWalk to dump the SNMP Database, showing how much faster it is t
25:00
SNMP Shows running processes and arguments, there was a password passed via ST
28:15
Accessing the Admin Endpoint, and figuring out what parameters it expects via
30:50
Discovering command injection in the backup endpoint
35:19
Shell returned!
37:30
Editing the User Endpoint in FastAPI to dump password hashes. Talking about Py
40:45
EDIT: Showing how we could background out reverse shell with nohup so we don't
47:15
Cracking the hashes and getting svc's password and then logging into the serve
53:00
Doing some light forensics looking for files edited on the box shortly after l
56:45
Finding a password in the snmpd password which gets us root
1:01:10
Editing LinPEAS to add an extra regex to pull passwords out of SNMPd configura
1:04:30
Rebuilding the LinPEAS Shell script and then running LinPEAS to discover we no
1:06:40
Forwarding PostGres to our server with chisel so we can dump the database
1:12:20
Enumerating PostGres manually to dump
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