Task 1 Get Connected
Questions
- Ready? Let’s get going! – No answer needed, carry on.
Offline checklist to track your learning path, become a great hacker and stay on task.
Task 2 Understanding SMB
- What does SMB stand for? – Server Message Block
- What type of protocol is SMB? – response-request
- What do clients connect to servers using? – TCP/IP
- What systems does Samba run on? – Unix
Task 3 Enumerating SMB
Run nmap scan.
Run enum4linux scan.
Questions:
- Conduct an nmap scan of your choosing, How many ports are open? – 3
- What ports is SMB running on? – 139/445
- Let’s get started with Enum4Linux, conduct a full basic enumeration. For starters, what is the workgroup name? – WORKGROUP
- What comes up as the name of the machine? – POLOSMB
- What operating system version is running? – 6.1
- What share sticks out as something we might want to investigate? – profiles
Task 4 Exploiting SMB
Connect using smbclient:
Use the more command, don’t forget the quotations!
Use get to copy the id_rsa file from the server to your machine:
Questions:
- What would be the correct syntax to access an SMB share called “secret” as user “suit” on a machine with the IP 10.10.10.2 on the default port? – smbclient //10.10.10.2/secret -U suit -p 445
- Great! Now you’ve got a hang of the syntax, let’s have a go at trying to exploit this vulnerability. You have a list of users, the name of the share (smb) and a suspected vulnerability. – No answer needed.
- Does the share allow anonymous access? Y/N? – Y
- Great! Have a look around for any interesting documents that could contain valuable information. Who can we assume this profile folder belongs to? – John Cactus
- What service has been configured to allow him to work from home? – ssh
- Okay! Now we know this, what directory on the share should we look in? – .ssh
- This directory contains authentication keys that allow a user to authenticate themselves on, and then access, a server. Which of these keys is most useful to us? – id_rsa
- What is the smb.txt flag? – THM{***********}
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