In this step, the same thing was verified in the Apache log. The log 200 OK response code confirms that the shell was successfully downloaded on the target machine
As per the description given by the author, this is an intermediate level CTF and the target of this CTF is to get the flag.txt file.
This means that they are forbidden.
So, we’ve created the reverse shell by using the msfvenom utility. The shell is generated in the document root directory:
The link for the machine is https://www.hackthebox.eu/home/machines/profile/259. Please go through the steps to get the user flag before following the below-mentioned steps first.
This machine is a Linux based machine in which we have to own root and user both. Its difficulty level is easy and has an IP 10.10.10.194 for me and it could depend on your account.
1. When we entered the id command in the a sh user, we found that ash user is a member of the group lxd. So I tried privilege escalation with LXD. To do so Enter the following set of commands on your local system.
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Once the account is deleted from /etc/passwd, you can do whatever you want to the user's home directory and local mail spool, i.e. /home/fooand /var/mail/foo. Usually, you'd want to just remove them unless there is some reason to archive them.
Currently foois same as root. You won't find processes or files owned by foo as they all belong to root. File and process owners are registered by their uid, not by their name. So all processes or files with uid 0 appear as root. (Alternativly all root processes and files could appear as fooinstead of root).
In this step, the same thing was verified in the Apache log. The log 200 OK response code confirms that the shell was successfully downloaded on the target machine
As per the description given by the author, this is an intermediate level CTF and the target of this CTF is to get the flag.txt file.
This means that they are forbidden.
So, we’ve created the reverse shell by using the msfvenom utility. The shell is generated in the document root directory: