Hackthebox - Access
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Windows
We take all the files in our attacking machine using get
Theres a lot of tables however only some of them have rows
The one called USERINFO contains name and password, let's get the csv version of this table
This definitely looks like a db for hr management
Another one called auth_user also has password so we take the csv as well
I put it in a file called userinfoclean cat USERINFO.csv | awk -F "," '{print $25, $46, $86}' > userinfoclean
For the other file auth_user.csv let's keep the usernames in a file called users cat auth_user.csv | awk -F "," '{print $2}' > users , I cleaned it a little removing the title of column and the quotes
We have a telnet port open
if we use admin as login we get a mention that the user does not exist
If we use engineer as login we then get prompt for the password (which means our user is valid), and if we type admin we have the handle is invalide but if we type access4u@security we get access denied, which means that our user pass combinaison is correct
Let's keep it aside engineer access4u@security
Let's run gobuster here (we do not get anything)
Let's try to bruteforce ftp with the discovered users hydra -L users -P pass 10.10.10.98 -t 4 ftp
We do not get anything
We get an Outlook email folder:
We can read this file on linux using readpst Access\ Control.pst (apt install readpst to install it), here is what we get in the email, another Password!!
Let's add these to our files
We can grab the user flag on the desktop
We are going to be able to run commands as administrator (just like sudo in linux)
Let's grab the root flag like this: C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /user:ACCESS\Administrator /savecred "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c TYPE C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\root.txt > C:\Users\security\Desktop\root.txt" and then it will be in our current user's desktop
We know with nmap that anonymous login is allowed. Let's have a look
We have an mdb file which is a microsoft access database file, we can open it using this we also could have used mdb-sql
Using `awk we have a better view of our users in USERINFO even though I think the most useful file will be the other, let's still keep this aside all cleaned up with awk
And let's do the same for the pass except that we do not need admin 2 times in it so we remove also one, so it should look like this
We land on this page
Let's try to unzip the password protected zip we found, as it is aes encrypted unzip wont work but 7z x will work:
With the new user discovered we are able to connect to the telnet port
Have a look at to see how else we could use runas
