Monteverde

Just got user :slight_smile:

No word lists or brute forcing etc required as others have said, but you won’t just find it written down somewhere.

If you want to narrow down the usernames you should be trying obvious passwords with, you could try looking at which users have actually ever logged on. There’s an attribute on user accounts that tells you the date/time a user last logged on. Integrate that into your base L*** query and it narrows it down to just 3 user accounts.

One final tip: I actually guessed the right password straight away, but was just trying to log in to the wrong service/port. So yeah, remember there are other things to try credentials against.

User and root owned

found the password as the first guessing step…used smbclient for enumerate…
for them who s(t)ucked - copypaste)

I hate that this is purely a guessing game. I have tried all the realistic bad passwords I can think of. I feel as though it should be disclosed somewhere or have a technical means of finding it…

yes I’m just frustrated… Also VbScrub gave a good tip to reduce time… but I’m still stuck on ā€œguessingā€ a password.

EDIT: GOT User… always check syntax!!! Thank you to those that assisted kicking me in my brain!

Stuck on the guessing game with the 2 services :smiley: a nudge would be appreciated.

Spoiler Removed

Finally rooted, I learned a lot about A**** while reading to root this box. Thanks to the creator !

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_default_credentials_(OTG-AUTHN-002)

Pay particular attention to what lazy sysadmins might do when they create a new account.

Type your comment> @nebulousanchor said:

I hate that this is purely a guessing game. I have tried all the realistic bad passwords I can think of. I feel as though it should be disclosed somewhere or have a technical means of finding it…

yes I’m just frustrated… Also VbScrub gave a good tip to reduce time… but I’m still stuck on ā€œguessingā€ a password.

I was frustrated too but honestly once you get it, you realise it was not unfair to expect people to guess this. Also like I said, I actually got the correct password early on but was just trying it in the wrong place, so I thought I still had it wrong.

People saying that you don’t need word lists is actually quite a big tip. What password could an account have that would not be on a common word list but still be easy to guess?

Type your comment> @VbScrub said:

Type your comment> @nebulousanchor said:

I hate that this is purely a guessing game. I have tried all the realistic bad passwords I can think of. I feel as though it should be disclosed somewhere or have a technical means of finding it…

yes I’m just frustrated… Also VbScrub gave a good tip to reduce time… but I’m still stuck on ā€œguessingā€ a password.

I was frustrated too but honestly once you get it, you realise it was not unfair to expect people to guess this. Also like I said, I actually got the correct password early on but was just trying it in the wrong place, so I thought I still had it wrong.

People saying that you don’t need word lists is actually quite a big tip. What password could an account have that would not be on a common word list but still be easy to guess?

Yea my problem was synatx so to speak. I was checking the right password, but not against a user the system understood, if that makes sense.

for anyone stuck on getting user, the OWASP methodology link for discovering potential bad practices when admins/devs create a new account that @th3y posted is a great hint

can someone message me the services your checking creds against? I feel like I understand the password hints but its still not working. thx

Type your comment> @lowtoe said:

can someone message me the services your checking creds against? I feel like I understand the password hints but its still not working. thx

One of the most common network services.

@lowtoe try different tools, I tried few bruteforce tools but none of them worked.

Anyone got any good reading that may relate to root?

guys, when try to connect via smbclient or rccln with found credits it’s ok and they are valid
but when i try to connect via w
*m it says that AuthorizationError. can someone tell me what the problem is?

Type your comment> @IvanGlinkin said:

guys, when try to connect via smbclient or rccln with found credits it’s ok and they are valid
but when i try to connect via w
*m it says that AuthorizationError. can someone tell me what the problem is?

w*****m run with diferent user

Type your comment> @IvanGlinkin said:

guys, when try to connect via smbclient or rccln with found credits it’s ok and they are valid
but when i try to connect via w
*m it says that AuthorizationError. can someone tell me what the problem is?

Its exactly what the error message is telling you. You don’t have permission to access that service with those credentials. Look around the SMB shares with your first set of credentials and see what you can find

thanks @gverre and @VbScrub for the help. Got first shell

I am trying to use Hydra for faster password guessing but getting below error. Any advise guys?

hydra -L user.txt -p ******* smb://10.10.10.172:445
[ERROR] invalid reply from target smb://10.10.10.172:445/