Skills Assessment - Broken Authentication

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Hey !

i used your script to get the permutations of the shortlist and some contrycodes lit 1 or 49 or 211 but when i fuzz the message i cannot get a hit
am i using the wrong country codes ?

kind regards
porta

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Ok I’m lost I ran the modified the rate_limit.py script against support(all five) and admin(all five). I don’t know where to go from there. I haven’t tried guest yet. This was the grep command I used:

sudo grep ‘[1]’ ‘/home/htb-ac397863/Desktop/Useful Repos/SecLists/Passwords/Leaked-Databases/rockyou.txt’ | grep ‘[[:digit:]]$’ | grep “:/?#@!$&'*()-_+=,.;%{}” | grep -E ‘^.{20,}$’ > list.txt

the list had a total of 96 passwords is this right?

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you dont need a password, if you have all the accounts there are … create a tolken

edit: true you first need the password for a support account thanks for pointing that out dfgdfdfgdfd

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Password is quite useful to get a cookie and check the cookie pattern to
elevate from support to admin

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I ended up getting it and got the flag but I had to do it manually @dfgdfdfgdfd you used the rate_limit.py script right? Could I message you my script and can you take a look at it to see where I went wrong. @PortaHelle I’m going to message you too.

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Can you help me? Which command did you use to make wordlist? I think I have mistakes in my command: sudo grep ‘[1]’ ‘rockyou.txt’ | grep ‘[[:lower:]]’| grep ‘[[:digit:]]$’ | grep -E ‘^.{20,}’ | grep [[:punct:]]

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I don’t know if you created an account, but if you did you’re making your list too big.

Take out punct command and make your grep to target these:

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I make new command
sudo grep ‘[1]’ ‘rockyou.txt’ | grep ‘[[:lower:]]’| grep ‘[[:digit:]]$’ | grep -E ‘^.{20,}’ | grep ‘[@#$]’

and found 14 password
But passwords doesn’t work.
Can I show pass which I found?

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Hi , i still couldn’t find the correct syntax for the usernames. Give me some hints ?

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Guys I’ve been at this for days. I’ve enumerated the usernames with Burp Suite (really easy) and I’ve figured out the password requirements. I built a grep command that I thought worked, and it gave me about 6 results. I’ve been fiddling with ChatGPT this week and I actually asked it to generate a grep command with the same terms to check mine and, although it structured the command a bit differently, the results were the same (ChatGPT is amazing btw).

I then edited the rate limit script they provided in the module and tested it against the account I created with my password in the list to check if the script works. Which it does.

However, when I use my password list against the support accounts I enumerated I get nothing. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone nudge me in the right direction?

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What country codes are you using?, I just solved the user-enum part. The country codes are mentioned in the “brute forcing usernames” section

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Can someone help me with finding more usernames

Im using burp to find something but I cant find anything

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Do I need to keep doing this kind of research or is not the right way?

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Having the same issue. I am trying the country codes and tried supportAV, support762, adminAV. But not getting anywhere.
Anyone have any tips for username syntax with the country codes?

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Try lowercase too, and different formats, e.g “admin xx” “admin_xx” “adminSOMEOTHERCHARxx”.

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thanks @lancedelacroix

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I found 4 accounts. When I filtered rockyou.txt with the rules of passwords. I have found 35 possible passwords.
Despite all this, I could not find any account with a country code. I tried 935 country code in lower case with ‘userfound’+‘character’+‘countrycode. With as character: " *-/!?+_,;.:!><&’$"
and for the 4 discovered users, none of the 35 filtered passwords pass… am I on the right track?

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I solved it with @lancedelacroix 's hint. Try the top username short list and the country codes in lowercase and don’t forget to try the country codes with the known account - e.g. "supportSOMEOTHERCHARxx” then try some passwords on those accounts after grepping the password rules from the rockyou.txt file.

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Try two letter country code. i.g, username+.+country-code and then use filtered password form rockyou.

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After enumerating the users, I tried to use a script to blast, but it was unsuccessful. Can you help me find out where there is a problem?

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import requests

file that contain user:pass

userpass_file = “C:\Users\dne91\Desktop\userpass.txt”

create url using user and password as argument

url = “http://157.245.39.81:32452/login.php”

rate limit blocks for 30 seconds

message that alert us we hit rate limit

lock_message = “Too many failures”

read user and password

with open(userpass_file, “r”) as fh:
for fline in fh:
print(fline)
# take username
username = “support.it”

    # take password, join to keep password that contain a :
    password = "".join(fline)

    # prepare POST data
    data = {
        "userid": username,
        "passwd": password,
        "submit": "submit"
    }

    # do the request
    res = requests.post(url, data=data)

    # handle generic credential error
    if "Invalid credentials" in res.text:
        print("[-] Invalid credentials: userid:{} passwd:{}".format(username, password))
    # user and password were valid !
    elif "Messages" in res.text:
        print("[+] Valid credentials: userid:{} passwd:{}".format(username, password))
    # hit rate limit, let's say we have to wait 30 seconds
    elif lock_message in res.text:
        print("[-] Hit rate limit, sleeping 30")
        # do the actual sleep plus 0.5 to be sure
        time.sleep(31)