This has turned out to be quite a fun box to attack because it has multiple ways in and supposedly multiple escalation methods too. I prefer this sort of CTF to the ones where they hide passwords in Base64 encoded jpgs in the page source and that sort of thing. This is less of a puzzle/game and more realistic, albeit an unrealistically badly configured security setup. N.B. when I write these up, I write as I'm doing it so it's not a carefully edited walk-through as such but more of a record (for myself) as to what I did, as I did and the thought-processes which I'm hoping to Continue Reading
LazySysAdmin 1 – revisited
In this post https://neilsec.com/ctf/vulnhub-lazysysadmin-1-ctf-attempt/ I had a crack at the LazySysAdmin VM from VulnHub and found the hidden flag. However it seemed a bit odd/easy to just enumerate some website directories and find a password, whilst ignoring all the Wordpress and myphpadmin bits. So I thought I'd have another look at it to see if there were other ways of rooting the box. Back to Wordpress So going back to the Wordpress site, I had a go at the login page using the credentials. WPSCAN had earlier told us that Admin was a valid username and so I tried the database Continue Reading
Vulnhub: LazySysAdmin 1 – CTF attempt
I've never tried a VulnHub box before. I initially downloaded the Bulldog one but couldn't even work out what its IP address was! LazySysAdmin 1 caught my eye. Apparently created as the author failed his OSCP - my kind of guy and this one seems to pick up DHCP OK so found it on 192.168.3.20 First off some nmapping to see what's there: Initial Enumeration (makes it sound like I have a formal plan, which I don't, but should) [crayon-5cbd59b58c446758843851/] [crayon-5cbd59b58c44f514433044/] So looks like an Ubuntu box running a web server, SSH, samba shares, a MySQL database (probably for Continue Reading