TryHackMe! Abusing SETUID Binaries - Vulnversity

[@liuculiu8366]

18:00 Using python instead of the recommended tool reminds me those teachers really explains the answer to you rather than tell you that is the answer.

[@AliTaqi]

I had been struggling to escalate my privileges and you taught me how to do that in such an easy manner. You're amazing. Thank You!

[@_JohnHammond]

There are a lot of other techniques, but I like this quick win if you have some vector to run a command as root. Thanks so much for watching!

[@AliTaqi]

@@_JohnHammond Yes. But is there any specific room in THM or any particular book/topic(s) that you'd recommend I study in order to learn more about linux privesc? I've already done commonprivesc on THM.

[@vijaykishorea3987]

@@AliTaqi Did u get any input? , do share if u get any :)

[@AliTaqi]

@@vijaykishorea3987 would've been amazing, but sadly, no.

[@vijaykishorea3987]

@@AliTaqi I think watching cybermentor's linux privesc course , can help us !!

[@elstories0]

Just finished Vulnversity. Your python script blew my mind! Got me wanting to ramp up my python skills. Thanks man!

[@enpassant7358]

A half hour video and I will be spending hours taking notes. I really enjoy learning from you. Thanks.

[@muaazahmad2601]

Just did this box today, it was interesting to see the other ways we can use to address the challenges. Great Video!

[@_JohnHammond]

Happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@sasakanjuh7660]

I got stuck on the last step, ran out of the ideas, find similar approach to what you used but I didn't know the trick with stty so input gave me a lot of pain, so I eventually gave up :/ Now I can finally complete it! :D Great video, as always! :)

[@_JohnHammond]

Happy to hear that! Thanks so much! And thanks for watching!

[@HEADSPACEnTIMING]

I just wanna say, your the only channel I have with notifications turned on. I'm part of a security group but upper management. Basically I get the reports. Iv grown a large interest in how my subordinates conduct their pen testing. Watching you has 1. Impressed me and 2. taught me how my subordinates conduct their pen testing. Kudos with the python script.

[@kenthn5396]

I actually enjoyed these videos even though I'm just a newbie in this field. I look forward to seeing more of these!

[@bitcode_]

get on TryHackMe, there are a lot of free rooms :)

[@martijnkooij-nl]

Thanks John! Been watching your videos for a month or so now and with a little help in that last bit (stabilizing the shell and actually running the service using systemctl) I just finished my first TryHackMe room. Sweet Victory!

[@alexanderb6353]

John, thank you for such a comprehensive explanation and a fascinating adventure! It's a pleasure to watch your videos, I am really waiting for more your episodes of try hack me!

[@_JohnHammond]

Appreciate all the kind words, thank you so much!

[@alexcondos9897]

It really helps when you have a solid understanding of networking, programming & basic linux fundamentals. I'm pretty sure a couple years ago i would of shat bricks and thought you were gandalf, even though you are basically gandalf, thank you

[@crazy338866]

Thank you so much for the walkthrough. I was struggling so much with the systemctl step. I didn't realize I needed to stabilize the shell to make the GTFO script to work.

[@reda4632]

Just did the box yesterday , glad to see other way to get the allowed extension

[@_JohnHammond]

Just a quick little Python script -- saves us from dealing with BurpSuite a bit ahaha. Thanks so much for watching!

[@hadesregret7582]

Definitely liked watching you do some "dirty coding" in python. And the "bash -p" trick was super clever, I never would have thought of that.

[@_JohnHammond]

Happy to hear that, thanks so much! And thanks for watching!

[@alexcolley205]

What does bash -p do?

[@TheNotoriousFonzy]

THANK YOU I WAS STUCK AND THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH!!! Your explanations and everything were clear, concise, and super helpful. A+ Thank you!!!

[@Jan_Seidel]

I love it when you take some detours and present showcases in python :)

[@markfuentes3666]

Loved the alternative ways you showed us. Thanks as always

[@sirw369]

Bro, thank you very much for this detailed walk through. I just finished a homework with a privilege escalation exercise. This solidified everything I did and more. Keep the great content coming!

[@SmashPhysical]

Thanks for this, I had waited to finish the room before I watched this, and find your approach very helpful and instructive, especially replacing burp with a python script!

[@graiglarsen3196]

Thanks John, I really liked that method you showed to get a fully functioning reverse shell. I look forward to trying it out.

[@briantech85]

John, you are doing amazing job by creating these handholding sessions for Cyber Security professionals !! Many thanks to you. Keep up the great work!!

[@Ayahalom123]

dude you are so humble, I just love your videos and personallity!

[@_JohnHammond]

Appreciate that, thank you so much! And thanks for watching!

[@jasonrobinson6620]

So I have absolutely no idea what you’re doing, but it’s presented in such a way that I feel like I do. Either way, thoroughly enjoyable!

[@leesugden9555]

Really hand trick i didn't know about stabilising the shell using Python will be sure to use that a lot more often. Completed the room before watching your video as i like to do them without help. Awesome content regardless, I learn a lot from the way you think thanks for sharing :)

[@sayondutta3530]

After watching this video , I am a great fan of you and want to become like you .

[@enpassant7358]

Watching you code the Python script was super helpful. Thank you!

[@bv.hd883]

19:10 man did that shit escaladed quickly lolll good stuff!

[@karangadhave9002]

Hey, man! Thanks for explaining that python script, I would rather use python as well as it also helps to keep touch with the language or else we tend to forget things. These niche things like slapping the python script and explaining it makes me wanna watch these videos... Keep it up.. learning a lot

[@r82gf61ndp]

Perfect Technique John, thanks for your sharing. Love your clear explanation I am new in OSCP. Those skill helps me a lot.

[@Vannelle1337]

Watching your video and actually understanding keeps me smiling. Thanks for the great explanation!

[@nyleen]

Doing the youtube algorithm thing. Tho I actually came for the video.

[@_JohnHammond]

Thank you so much! And thanks for watching!

[@wackyskullgaming6711]

nice explanation, got here bcuz been stuck on that privesc part for several hours, got to learn something new, thanks

[@freeman1884]

It feels great to find that I can understand more of what you are doing lately!

[@_JohnHammond]

Ahaha excellent! Thanks so much for watching!

[@aimsx]

Loved the Python script instead of BurpSuite - thanks for showing us that little trick!

[@ripmeep]

Did this box like an hour before watching this! Awesome video

[@neilthomas5026]

Thanks for your videos man !! They are actually educational and like it makes sense so like thanks man ♥️♥️

[@mdgaziur001]

Tried at yesterday for the first time. Followed the same process untill I found systemctl. First tried to do prevesc using setuid but couldn't bcz I'm a massive noob. But then I exploited the vulnerability where systemctl can run process as any user to run bash as root and pipe it to my tun0. Then used netcat to reverse shell. But now I know where I did mistake while trying setuid stuff. THANK YOU.

[@abbasleaders5214]

wow, that was a beautiful walk through and a top $ explanation as I was having an issue understanding the last part about systmctl privesc part but you made it so much easy and the python script is top pro man, as burp didn't work as it showed all .php files as status 200 including the .phtml., where your script nailed it 100%.

[@psp.youtube]

This is the best YT channel, hands down.

[@_JohnHammond]

Well I am very flattered, thank you so much! And thanks for watching!

[@enpassant7358]

I've been using Linux in some capacity since 1998 and this is the first I've truly understood SUID.

[@thewolf-ps1qz]

this is amazing to watch, even i don't understand any of this (actually a bit), but its interesting to watch, seriously i never skip the vid xD

[@davidleitman]

many thanks to you John for the embedded python lesson

[@ricardobrito6868]

So much knowledge in this video... Learnt a lot!

[@franklinodom4259]

I was struggling with burp, got to learn python and it was so much easier. Of course with your code :P baby steps...baby steps.... thanks man im hooked on your vids.

[@jonahhex1295]

AWESOME, i loved the python script, very instructive as always , thanks pal !!!

[@_JohnHammond]

Happy to hear that! Thanks so much for watching!

[@TheDarkopsis]

Hmm thank god the youtube algorirthm showed your channel, I'm a web dev and i wasn't that interested in cyber security but you got me hooked ! Please continue on the TryHackMe site as it is very well made and really accessible, even to n00bs like me !

[@LegacyInBlood]

Love it! Please do more of these

[@djzio]

John, the last 3 or 4 minutes of that video, I could swear you melted a few keys!

[@ImpulseMarkets]

I loved the shoutout to Ippsec lol. Great channel man!

[@_JohnHammond]

Thanks so much! And thanks for watching!

[@Klausi-uq4xq]

Thank you for the bin/bash hint!!!

[@Creative.Ferments]

Thank you for the content! I just got into cybersecurity. I can't wait to see more. -Cheers

[@karthibalaji3817]

Congrats to hit 100k in very advance !.

[@DavidWarrington]

I came for John's haircut... And was not disappointed.

[@_JohnHammond]

Ha! Thanks! And thanks for watching!

[@garrettblackard2288]

Really enjoyed that python scripting I would love to see more challenges solved that way. Been wanting more coding projects and tasks, thanks m8!

[@_JohnHammond]

Very happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@garrettblackard2288]

@@_JohnHammond having an issue with the SUID priv esc it doesnt do anything just goes black but idk going to keep cracking away at it i guess

[@garrettblackard2288]

@@_JohnHammond haha ignore me i had to actually start the service created in tmp folder for some strange reason just got it hopefully as time goes on tryhackme will be less buggy i submitted a correct flag yesterday 5 times and did not get the correct flag indicator until number 5 after refreshing LULz

[@scottym50]

Great video, thank you. I learned a lot from you.

[@KaLata123456]

Gotta love that python demo ...

[@asdsasdergrg]

For basic and amateurs . I like it

[@IvarsRuza]

I would use command: lsof -nP | grep -i listen -> to check which user is running on port 3333

[@_JohnHammond]

Ooooh, good call! Thanks for sharing -- and thanks for watching!

[@HappyGick]

I decided to just check the /home/ directory. It shows all users, and pretty much anyone has access to that directory

[@m8_981]

@Peter Lustig why?

[@ghosthookcc2050]

@Peter Lustig how is he a script kiddy? This is far from saying "i can hack your bank account" while sitting in cmd. He thinks in a logical way and even creates his own little python scripts to solve problems, not a script kiddy if you ask me.

[@aldiyark1593]

pressed Like button four times, this is how much i liked your video)

[@Ms.Robot.]

💗I like your hairstyle too 💗

[@daanbreur]

I finnally learned how to do priv escalation, Im never able to pull it off but now you learned it me

[@_JohnHammond]

That is good to hear! Thanks so much!

[@daanbreur]

@@_JohnHammond your welcome

[@emilioastier]

thank you for the video, really interesting and valuable

[@henrythierry179]

Your hair cut's great

[@ocortesl]

Thanks for the video!

[@shreyastrcr7]

@JohnHammond I ve been following you sir for a very long time.. thank you for all the amazing help ur content has done not only to me but to so many..!!! you are just amazing at what you do.. and i wish this channel reaches over a million soon.so more people can benefit from your knowledge...!!! and also can you tell me how can i learn python specifically for cybersec.. i have good basics of python.. but cant script or understand exploits..can u help me where i can learn from.. thanks a lot..!!!!!!!

[@forhadhossain8913]

You are amazing bro!

[@acidopcodes]

I am struggling with this one. Am a beginner. Still decided to watch a tutorial coz no shame in learning!

[@TheSQL-Lover]

Nice priv escalation technique. I’ll try tomorrow. Lol

[@b4ldor243]

Gracias bro!, aprendí mucho

[@rake9462]

awesome video 👍

[@_JohnHammond]

Thank you! And thanks for watching!

[@committedcoder3352]

Kinda lost me at the end, with the suid part, particularly with running the bin/bash -p, but very cool nonetheless

[@saviofernandes5263]

Me too, but after doing a little reading up on suid, it seemed simple.

[@snoozybara]

Awesome video John! There was one thing I didn't quite understand, what did changing the ExecStart line do at the end? How come keeping the line the way it was wouldn't work?

[@bhushandaware9186]

thanks sir

[@pulkitguptag]

Really liked that python skill. Can you plz make some dedicated videos teaching python script to do these thing. It will be helpfull for script kiddies like me

[@jos1532]

Oh man Thnks so much

[@DeKiesel]

"I ended up aliasing nano to vim".... I am speechless...

[@Ziomekpionek]

Great stuff! Appreciate that you are adding some extra hints which i did't get in writeups, same for python. I noticed you are not closing files stream in for loop where you are checking different extensions upload. During scripting very often I don’t bother also :P but as we know as good practice we can use context managers like with statement or, f.close(). This is not the case here - but I just wonder does such unclose files may be some kind of vulnerability? Did you came across on that during challenges?

[@docmalitt]

Well, when in Rome, smash the stack... wait, what? Sorry, wrong youtuber.... 👋 John. Welcome. Did u have time to unwind after VirSecCon? Amazing job. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sure the sentiment is worldwide but most of your followers are using this evening (official beginning of the extended Marvel Universe weekend! Wait, what? Not Marvel? Sorry wrong weeke... 🥳) to catch up with the mentioned CTF and other beautiful challenges. And since I cheated last challenge (privesc) in Vulniversity I’ll just download this video and retreat to my den... Nice, John, nice 👍...

[@_JohnHammond]

I'm still a little foggy after VirSecCon, admittedly, ahaha... but planning for the next one! I've been brainstorming a lot of challenge ideas so hopefully I can keep sharing a CTF event in the future. Thanks so much for playing! And thanks so much for watching!!

[@gitgudsec]

Hey John, thanks so much for this walk-through - awesome as always. I'm just wondering what was the though-process underpinning editing the standard script from GTFObins? I was able to do the whole machine blind until this part, and got stuck there for a good hour or so. very grateful for your insight but I feel like I cheated a bit by just copying your actions w/o understanding really what went into those edits. Thanks!

[@th3mant0th3g0d]

Hey John! Thanks for the video. At around 19:29, you said "Ctrl Z to foreground that" but it looked more like you were sending the NC php shell to the background instead, especially since you sent it back to foreground after you did "stty raw -echo". Did you mean background and you said foreground by accident?

[@fusca14tube]

After CTRL-Z and "stty raw -echo" command, what keys brings the process in backgroud active? CTRL-C? Tks.

[@fusca14tube]

Ummm... I think this could help: blog.ropnop.com/upgrading-simple-shells-to-fully-interactive-ttys/

[@myinamei8884]

He put the process in the background with CTRL+Z then 'stty raw -echo', then to pull the process back up he used 'fg (process id)' to see your process id for the command you put in the background type 'bg' that will give you a job list, then use 'fg (enter job list number)' to pull the process back up to the front. That is what I did, probably a better way but yeah.

[@voyageur1016]

thanks bro

[@bangxwazan9275]

thanks alot

[@synack2165]

Great videos as always. Only thing I could not get to work was the very last part. Copy & Pasting the code for systemctl. I did everything 3 times exactly as you did and every time I could not get it to get me root for whatever reason. I spent a couple hours banging my head and still couldn't get it to work. Lost for answers. Any ideas? I made sure that I had change to /home/bill dir before I copy&pasted. No idea. Thanks for making the videos!!

[@jasonfmj5621]

same issue here, were you able to resolve it?

[@trapenoone6904]

Can you make video about how to make python scripts to do penetration testing and web application, it's really cool to be able to code on the fly without relying on Burp Suite.

[@abadvibesguy2232]

I've spent like hour and a half on this and have no idea how to escalate privileges and finish last question ,but seeing this I'm sure I can quit lol ,those python skills blew my mind ,but that shell tehnique ,w.e it was ,to go from "unstable" one to the other ,that killed me ,aight ,I'm out :D

[@oober66]

Liked for quick "dirty" development in python

[@ζξζιζξζ-η9π]

I hope I can understand what you're doing one day, just got into tryhackme :)

[@_JohnHammond]

Oh absolutely, if you are exploring TryHackMe then you will get there faster than you know!! Thanks for watching!

[@TheSQL-Lover]

You will and soon. A year or maybe two ago this was “Russian” for me, lol, not anymore. And tryhackme is a great and easy platform to learn.

[@mushtakhussain9017]

Damn you're so inspiring

[@IND_Abhi]

you would have used burp intruder to find the extensions allowed

[@paranormalphenomena563]

I thought that would be better too

[@bmbiz]

I just used 'cat /root/root.txt > /tmp/win' as the command run by systemctl.

[@D0G_MaeLone]

Good Trainer .... I Subs: you

[@supremesupreme26]

NICE!

[@chiranjit9529]

Nice video man! 😄

[@_JohnHammond]

Thanks so much! And thanks for watching!

[@eyadhussien1055]

Good job bro ♥️

[@_JohnHammond]

Thanks so much! And thanks for watching!

[@mikeship7331]

Method question… when you find a file upload page is your first thought always a php reverse shell? And what drives the thought process? Thanks!

[@ngautics780]

Good

[@_JohnHammond]

Thank you!

[@prabinsigdel7538]

thats easy way thanks to you

[@alanchristuring]

are you human? or god? You are amazing John! love your videos

[@not-yourbusiness]

The only thing i wanted to see in this video is how you do it with burp sight ....

[@gaminggolfer1199]

So I have a question / comment. One thing you didn't show since you didn't use burpsuite is how you would find the /internal/uploads folder. It's nice that the THM site provided that for you in it's hints section, but if this were a blank box without that hint, using your python script how would you have been able to tell where the .phtml file uploaded to to be able to run it? What tool, other than burp, would you have used to find where your reverse shell landed?