Re: Pwdump2 with UNICODE?

From: Tony Lambiris (methodicat_private)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 10:45:53 PDT

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    I thought under UNICODE, you arent able to run such commands as rdisk
    and pwdump, because IIS runs as IUSR?
    
    On 08.07.01, Kevin Lam <kevinlam@packet-works.com> wrote:
    > Hi Allen,
    > 
    > If you have UNICODE working, you could upload cmdasp.asp which will let
    > you execute commands on that server.
    > 
    > If this is NT then what you can do is run "rdisk /s-" to silently update
    > the repair sam._ file (this is a little trick that I used to use when I
    > did pen-testing for Deloitte).  Then go to c:\winnt\repair and copy
    > sam._ to say a public internet folder like c:\inetpub\wwwroot and then
    > go to your browser and just download the file.
    > 
    > Run l0phtcrack against it and you'll get your passwords.  Hope this helps.
    > 
    > 
    > Kevin
    > kevinlam@packet-works.com, www.packet-works.com
    > 
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Lists [mailto:listsat_private]
    > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:29 AM
    > To: Penetration Testers
    > Subject: Pwdump2 with UNICODE?
    > 
    > 
    > Hello all. Our company is currently doing a pentest for a customer.
    > Normally, we grab the boot.ini file from the target server and that is
    > sufficient. However, this customer has required us to "grab the hashes", as
    > the sysadmin of the company stated. He feels that he has proper permissions
    > set on all of the "important" files and this would not be an adequate test.
    > The server was found to be vulnerable to the UNICODE vulnerability. We were
    > able to use the upload.asp exploit to upload pwdump2.exe and samdump.dll to
    > the server. However, we have been unable to get pwdump2 to execute properly.
    > We also copied cmd.exe to another directory renaming it to cmd1.exe to run
    > the commands. But again, no results.
    > 
    > Has anyone been successful in getting pwdump2 to work through UNICODE? If
    > so, what was the syntax you used to get it to go through?
    > 
    > Any advise on this would be greatly appreciated.
    > 
    > Thanks!
    > 
    > Allen Archer
    > Creative Solutions, Inc.
    > Atlanta, Georgia 30303
    > 
    > 
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