Shared Server (ine)

 In this lab, we are given access to a server which is being used as a place for web app developer students to serve their projects.

Knowing the purpose of the compromised machine, we navigate to the /var/www/html directory and start to enumerate sensitive strings.

It is always a good idea to have a look on the system for strings such as:

password

username

db_username

db_password

db_user

db_pass

passwd

This can be done in various ways - I like to color the discovered strings in red. The command I used to find the creds on this box is:

find . -type f -exec grep --color=auto -ie "db_password" --color=always {} /dev/null \;


It was logical to next have a look inside the file of interest.

Now it was a simple matter to check for password reuse.


 


This lab shows us the importance of enumerating sensitive strings and checking for easy wins such as password reuse.

The web-root directory and its child directories are a good place to look for sensitive creds being leaked.


I hope this was of use.


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