Mail


waldo@admirer:/var$ ll mail
total 32K
4.0k drwxrwsr-x  2 root  mail 4.0k nov 16 15:08 .
 24k -rw-rw----  1 waldo mail  19k nov 16 15:08 waldo
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 12 root  root 4.0K Nov 29  2019 ..

A mailbox is available for the waldo user This was also found by PEAS earlier

waldo@admirer:/var$ cat mail/waldo
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 22 apr 2020 11:50:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:50:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 22 apr 2020 11:55:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:55:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 22 12:00:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 22 apr 2020 12:00:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:00:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 09:50:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 09:50:01 +0100
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:50:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 09:55:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 09:55:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:55:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 10:00:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 10:00:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:00:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 10:05:01 +0100
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:05:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:10:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 10:15:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 10:15:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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message-id: <E1jTio1-0000cZ-SR@admirer.htb>
date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:15:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 10:20:02 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 10:20:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:20:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 10:40:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 10:40:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:40:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 10:45:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 10:45:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:45:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 10:50:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 10:50:01 +0100
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:50:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 10:55:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 10:55:01 +0100
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:55:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 11:05:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 11:05:01 +0100
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*
mime-version: 1.0
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:05:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 11:09:01 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 11:09:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm -r /tmp/*.*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:09:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*.*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 11:10:02 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 11:10:01 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
to: root@admirer.htb
subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm /home/waldo/*.p*
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message-id: <E1jTjfF-0000bC-Vu@admirer.htb>
date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:10:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/home/waldo/*.p*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 11:12:02 2020
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	for root@admirer.htb; wed, 29 apr 2020 11:12:02 +0100
from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm /home/waldo/*.p*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:12:02 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/home/waldo/*.p*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 11:13:01 2020
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:13:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/home/waldo/*.p*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb wed apr 29 11:14:01 2020
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from: root@admirer.htb (Cron Daemon)
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subject: Cron <root@admirer> rm /home/waldo/*.p*
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date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:14:01 +0100
 
rm: cannot remove '/home/waldo/*.p*': No such file or directory
 
from root@admirer.htb thu aug 24 16:05:11 2023
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from: root <root@admirer.htb>
date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:04:51 +0100
 
linux-latest (80+deb9u16) stretch-security; urgency=high
 
  * From Linux 4.9.303-1, the Extended Berkeley Packet Fillter (eBPF)
    facility is no longer enabled by default for users without the
    CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (this normally means only the root user).
 
    eBPF can be used for speculative execution side-channel attacks, and
    earlier attempts to mitigate this have not completely succeeded.
 
    this can be overridden by setting the sysctl:
 
        kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=0
 
 -- ben hutchings <benh@debian.org>  mon, 07 mar 2022 22:37:11 +0100
 
cron (3.0pl1-128+deb9u2) stretch-security; urgency=medium
 
  * As a reasonable protective measure, crontabs are now limited to 10000 lines
    in length per crontab.
    The maintainers find it very unlikely that longer crontabs exist; however,
    if you do have a use case, please file a bug report with a brief rationale,
    and we will consider raising this limit.
 
 -- christian kastner <ckk@debian.org>  sun, 10 mar 2019 17:44:13 +0100
 
 
from waldo@admirer.htb thu nov 16 14:53:37 2023
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from: Waldo Cooper <waldo@admirer.htb>
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date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:53:17 +0000
 
admirer.htb : Nov 16 14:52:57 : waldo : 1 incorrect password attempt ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/run/shm ; USER=root ; COMMAND=list
 
 
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admirer.htb : Nov 16 15:08:16 : waldo : a password is required ; TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/run/shm ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/id
 
 
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admirer.htb : Nov 16 15:08:16 : waldo : a password is required ; TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/run/shm ; USER=root ; COMMAND=list

There are a lot of mails came to the waldo user While most of them are automated messages from authentication, the rest are from cronjob. It’s about 2 following things;

  • rm: cannot remove '/tmp/*': No such file or directory
  • rm: cannot remove '/home/waldo/*.p*': No such file or directory

Cronjob


That indicates that there is a cronjob, in the background, actively executing the following suspected commands;

  • rm -rf /tmp/*
  • rm -rf /home/waldo/*.p*