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[SOC-Level 1] Tryhackme - TShark Challenge I

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[SOC-Level 1] Tryhackme - TShark Challenge I

TryHackMe- TShark Challenge I

Task & Introduction

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An alert has been triggered: "The threat research team discovered a suspicious domain that could be a potential threat to the organisation."

The case was assigned to you. Inspect the provided teamwork.pcap located in ~/Desktop/exercise-files and create artefacts for detection tooling.

Your tools: TShark, VirusTotal.

Task 1: What is the full URL of the malicious/suspicious domain address?

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    Investigate the contacted domains.
    Investigate the domains by using VirusTotal.
    According to VirusTotal, there is a domain marked as malicious/suspicious.

    What is the full URL of the malicious/suspicious domain address?

    Enter your answer in defanged format.

Okay lets get started. First we investigate the contacted domains.

We use:

tshark -r teamwork.pcap -Y "http.request" -T fields -e http.host -e http.request.uri

  • -r for read pcap
  • Y for Display Filter
  • "http.request" is the filter expression used here. It filters the packets to only show HTTP request packets
  • -T fieldstells tshark to output specific fields in a structured format instead of the full packet details. This allows you to extract and display just the relevant information
  • -e specifies which field we want to extract from each packet
  • http.host is the field that contains the hostname of the requested server
  • http.request.uriis the field that contains the URI part of the request

Lets check the output:

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ubuntu@ip-10-10-97-13:~/Desktop/exercise-files$ tshark -r teamwork.pcap -Y "http.request" -T fields -e http.host -e http.request.uri
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/js/script.js?_=1492480834538
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/inc/visit.php
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/inc/login.php
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/suspecious.php
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/shield.png
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/update.php
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/icon_checked.png
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/icon_uncheck.png
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/feedback.png
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/logo.svg
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/font/PayPalSansSmall-Medium.woff2
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/setting.png
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/js/jquery.creditCardValidator.min.js?_=1492480834539
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/arrow.png
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/profile.png
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/js/cc.js?_=1492480834540
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/csc_standard.png
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/
www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	/img/logo_ccVisa.gif
toolbarqueries.google.com	/tbr?client=navclient-auto&ch=63514382238&features=Rank&q=info%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com%2F%23

We have a lot of www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com URLs and one toolbarqueries.google.com. We use `Virustotal to check both.

Virustotal

Okay that seems to be the malicious/suspicous URL. We have to defang it via Cyberchefand then we have our Answer:

Answer: www[.]paypal[.]com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery[.]timeseaways[.]com/

Task 2: When was the URL of the malicious/suspicious domain address first submitted to VirusTotal?

Lets check the Details Tab at Virustotal:

Virustotal-2

Answer: 2017-04-17 22:52:53 UTC

Task 3: Which known service was the domain trying to impersonate?

Okay when we check again the URL:

www[.]paypal[.]com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery[.]timeseaways[.]com/

We can clearly see the Service which the domain tries to impersonate:

Answer: Paypal

Task 4: What is the IP address of the malicious domain?

Of course we use tshark for that task. We just adjust our last command a bit and add -e ip.dstto our fields:

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ubuntu@ip-10-10-97-13:~/Desktop/exercise-files$ tshark -r teamwork.pcap -Y "http.request" -T fields -e http.host  -e ip.dst |awk NF |sort -r |uniq -c
     21 www.paypal.com4uswebappsresetaccountrecovery.timeseaways.com	184.154.127.226
      1 toolbarqueries.google.com	216.58.217.100

And we use Cyberchef again on 184.154.127.226 to defang the IP address.

Answer: 184[.]154[.]127[.]226

Task 5: What is the email address that was used?

Okay lets bake our command here.

We use:

tshark -r teamwork.pcap -Y "ip.addr == 184.154.127.226 && http.request.method == POST" -T fields -e text

  • -r for read pcap
  • Y for Display Filter
  • ip.addr == 184.154.127.226 is the filter expression used here. It filters only traffic to this ip address
  • ` http.request.method == POST we only want to see POST`requests for submitting a login for example
  • && is the logical AND
  • -T fieldstells tshark to output specific fields in a structured format instead of the full packet details. This allows you to extract and display just the relevant information
  • -e specifies which field we want to extract from each packet
  • text is the field that contains any text content within the packet
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ubuntu@ip-10-10-97-13:~/Desktop/exercise-files$ tshark -r teamwork.pcap -Y "ip.addr == 184.154.127.226 && http.request.method == POST" -T fields -e text
Timestamps,POST /inc/visit.php HTTP/1.1\r\n,\r\n,Form item: "xBrowser" = "Mozilla FireFox v43",Form item: "xOperatingSystem" = "Linux",Form item: "xPlatForm" = "Desktop Platform"
Timestamps,POST /inc/login.php HTTP/1.1\r\n,\r\n,Form item: "user" = "johnny5alive@gmail.com",Form item: "pass" = "johnny5alive",Form item: "xBrowser" = "Mozilla FireFox v43",Form item: "xOperatingSystem" = "Linux",Form item: "xPlatForm" = "Desktop Platform",Form item: "xTimeZone" = "Mon Apr 17 2017 22:00:35 GMT-0400 (EDT)",Form item: "xResoLution" = "Computer: 1920x1080; Browser inner: 1920x762; Browser outer: 1920x1027",Form item: "xLang" = "en-US"

And we can see in this text:

"user" = "johnny5alive@gmail.com",Form item: "pass" = "johnny5alive"

So we have the mail addresse. Lets defang it.

Answer: johnny5alive[at]gmail[.]com

Have a look to TShark-Challenge-02 !! :-)

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