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RootHelper

Roothelper will aid in the process of privilege escalation on a Linux system that has been compromised, by fetching a number of enumeration and exploit suggestion scripts. The latest version downloads five scripts. Two enumeration shellscripts, one information gathering shellscript and two exploit suggesters, one written in perl and the other one in python.

The credits for the scripts it fetches go to the original authors.

Note

I've recently added a new script to my Github that follows the general principles of this script however it aims to be more comprehensive with regards to it's capabilities. Besides downloading scripts that aid in privilege escalation on a Linux system it also comes with functionality to enumerate the system in question and search for cleartext credentials and much more. It is in many regards RootHelper's successor and it can be found by clicking here.

Priv-Esc scripts

LinEnum

Shellscript that enumerates the system configuration.

unix-privesc-check 

Shellscript that enumerates the system configuration and runs some privilege escalation checks as well.

Firmwalker

Shellscript that gathers useful information by searching the mounted firmware filesystem. For things such as SSL and web server related files, config files, passwords, common binaries and more.

linuxprivchecker

A python implementation to suggest exploits particular to the system that's been compromised.

Linux_Exploit_Suggester

A perl script that that does the same as the one mentioned above.

Usage

To use the script you will need to get it on the system you've compromised, from there you can simply run it and it will show you the options available and an informational message regarding the options. For clarity i will post it below as well.

The 'Help' option displays this informational message.

The 'Download' option fetches the relevant files and places them in the /tmp/ directory.

The option 'Download and unzip' downloads all files and extracts the contents of zip archives to their individual subdirectories respectively, please
note; if the 'mkdir' command is unavailable however, the operation will not succeed and the 'Download' option should be used instead

The 'Clean up' option removes all downloaded files and 'Quit' exits roothelper.

Credits for the other scripts go to their original authors.

https://github.com/rebootuser/LinEnum

https://github.com/PenturaLabs/Linux_Exploit_Suggester

http://www.securitysift.com/download/linuxprivchecker.py

https://github.com/pentestmonkey/unix-privesc-check

https://github.com/craigz28/firmwalker

 

Link: https://github.com/NullArray/RootHelper

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