feat(creds): Phase 2 — MySQL handshake hash + MSSQL Login7 plaintext

Closes the cred-coverage gap for two database services that had been
capturing only the username:

- MySQL — extends _handle_packet to read the auth-response after the
  null-terminated username. mysql_native_password puts a 1-byte
  length followed by 20 bytes: SHA1(password) XOR SHA1(salt +
  SHA1(SHA1(password))). Plaintext irrecoverable, lands as
  secret_kind="mysql_native_password" with the 20 hash bytes in
  secret_b64. Hash is canonical for "hashcat -m 11200" if an operator
  ever wants to crack offline.

- MSSQL — fixes a pre-existing bug AND adds password capture. The
  prior _parse_login7_username read offsets 36/38, which is actually
  ibHostName/cchHostName in the Login7 layout — username sat at
  40/42 and was never touched. Replaced with _parse_login7_creds()
  reading the correct offsets (40 username, 44 password). Login7
  password is XOR-then-nibble-swap obfuscated against 0xa5;
  _deobfuscate_login7_password reverses it. Plaintext-recoverable,
  lands as secret_kind="plaintext".

The pre-existing test_login7_auth_logged_and_closes only verified the
error response ships and the connection closes; it didn't validate
the parsed username, so the hostname-as-username bug was silent. New
tests cover both the deobfuscation algorithm directly and the full
ingester round-trip for both services.

Sync: copies the canonical syslog_bridge.py into mysql/ and mssql/
template build contexts so service_testing tests load the version
with classify_authorization + encode_secret available.

37 tests pass in the touched scope. Phases 3-7 still pending.
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2026-04-25 07:07:33 -04:00
parent 3404e3b3a6
commit 0c1316f74c
3 changed files with 172 additions and 14 deletions

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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ a login failed error. Logs auth attempts as JSON.
"""
import asyncio
import base64
import os
import struct
@@ -142,26 +143,63 @@ class MSSQLProtocol(asyncio.Protocol):
self._transport.write(_PRELOGIN_RESP)
self._prelogin_done = True
elif pkt_type == 0x10: # Login7
username = self._parse_login7_username(payload)
_log("auth", src=self._peer[0], username=username)
username, password = self._parse_login7_creds(payload)
extra: dict = {}
if password:
pw_bytes = password.encode("utf-8")
extra = {
"principal": username,
"secret_kind": "plaintext",
"secret_printable": password,
"secret_b64": base64.b64encode(pw_bytes).decode("ascii"),
}
_log("auth", src=self._peer[0], username=username, **extra)
self._transport.write(_tds_error_packet("Login failed for user."))
self._transport.close()
else:
_log("unknown_packet", src=self._peer[0], pkt_type=hex(pkt_type))
self._transport.close()
def _parse_login7_username(self, payload: bytes) -> str:
@staticmethod
def _deobfuscate_login7_password(blob: bytes) -> str:
"""MS-TDS Login7 password obfuscation: each byte was rotated-right
4 bits then XOR'd with 0xa5. Inverse is XOR 0xa5 then rotate-left
4 bits (== nibble swap). Plaintext-recoverable.
After deobfuscation the bytes are UTF-16-LE encoded characters."""
out = bytearray(len(blob))
for i, b in enumerate(blob):
x = b ^ 0xa5
out[i] = ((x & 0x0f) << 4) | ((x & 0xf0) >> 4)
return bytes(out).decode("utf-16-le", errors="replace")
def _parse_login7_creds(self, payload: bytes) -> tuple[str, str]:
"""Login7 offset table starts at payload offset 36:
36-37 ibHostName 38-39 cchHostName
40-41 ibUserName 42-43 cchUserName
44-45 ibPassword 46-47 cchPassword
Both lengths are CHARACTER counts; multiply by 2 for byte length.
The password field is XOR/swap-obfuscated — see
:meth:`_deobfuscate_login7_password`. Plaintext-recoverable.
"""
try:
# Login7 layout: fixed header 36 bytes, then offsets
# Username offset at bytes 36-37, length at 38-39
if len(payload) < 40:
return "<short_packet>"
offset = struct.unpack("<H", payload[36:38])[0]
length = struct.unpack("<H", payload[38:40])[0]
username = payload[offset:offset + length * 2].decode("utf-16-le", errors="replace")
return username
if len(payload) < 48:
return "<short_packet>", ""
user_off, user_len = struct.unpack("<HH", payload[40:44])
pw_off, pw_len = struct.unpack("<HH", payload[44:48])
username = payload[user_off:user_off + user_len * 2].decode(
"utf-16-le", errors="replace"
)
password = ""
if pw_len:
password = self._deobfuscate_login7_password(
payload[pw_off:pw_off + pw_len * 2]
)
return username, password
except Exception:
return "<parse_error>"
return "<parse_error>", ""
def connection_lost(self, exc):
_log("disconnect", src=self._peer[0] if self._peer else "?")

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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ attempts as JSON.
"""
import asyncio
import base64
import itertools
import os
import struct
@@ -109,17 +110,38 @@ class MySQLProtocol(asyncio.Protocol):
def _handle_packet(self, payload: bytes):
if not payload:
return
# Login packet: capability flags (4), max_packet (4), charset (1), reserved (23), username (NUL-terminated)
# Login packet: capability flags (4), max_packet (4), charset (1),
# reserved (23), username (NUL-terminated), auth-response.
# mysql_native_password puts a 1-byte length followed by exactly
# 20 bytes: SHA1(password) XOR SHA1(salt + SHA1(SHA1(password))) —
# plaintext is unrecoverable but the 20 bytes ARE a credential the
# attacker knew, so they land as secret_kind="mysql_native_password".
username = "<unknown>"
auth_response = b""
if len(payload) > 32:
try:
username_start = 32
nul = payload.index(b"\x00", username_start)
username = payload[username_start:nul].decode(errors="replace")
# auth-response length byte + bytes
if len(payload) > nul + 1:
resp_len = payload[nul + 1]
if resp_len and len(payload) >= nul + 2 + resp_len:
auth_response = payload[nul + 2:nul + 2 + resp_len]
except (ValueError, IndexError):
username = "<parse_error>"
extra: dict = {}
if auth_response:
_b64 = base64.b64encode(auth_response).decode("ascii")
extra = {
"principal": username,
"secret_kind": "mysql_native_password",
"secret_printable": auth_response.hex(),
"secret_b64": _b64,
}
_log("auth", src=self._peer[0], username=username,
connection_id=self._conn_id)
connection_id=self._conn_id, **extra)
# Real mysqld includes client IP in the error text.
src_ip = self._peer[0] if self._peer else "?"
msg = f"Access denied for user '{username}'@'{src_ip}' (using password: YES)"

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@@ -325,6 +325,104 @@ async def test_sip_digest_native_shape():
assert cred["principal"] == "alice"
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_mysql_native_password_hash():
"""MySQL handshake auth-response: 20-byte sha1 chain hash. Plaintext
irrecoverable; lands as secret_kind=mysql_native_password."""
from decnet.web.ingester import _extract_bounty
repo = MagicMock(); repo.upsert_credential = AsyncMock()
raw = bytes(range(20)) # arbitrary 20-byte "hash"
log_data = {
"decky": "decky-01",
"service": "mysql",
"attacker_ip": "10.0.0.5",
"fields": {
"username": "root",
"principal": "root",
"secret_kind": "mysql_native_password",
"secret_printable": raw.hex(),
"secret_b64": base64.b64encode(raw).decode("ascii"),
},
}
await _extract_bounty(repo, log_data)
cred = repo.upsert_credential.call_args[0][0]
assert cred["service"] == "mysql"
assert cred["secret_kind"] == "mysql_native_password"
assert cred["principal"] == "root"
assert cred["secret_sha256"] == hashlib.sha256(raw).hexdigest()
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_mssql_login7_plaintext():
"""MSSQL Login7 password is XOR/nibble-obfuscated but plaintext-
recoverable. Lands as secret_kind=plaintext after deobfuscation."""
from decnet.web.ingester import _extract_bounty
repo = MagicMock(); repo.upsert_credential = AsyncMock()
log_data = {
"decky": "decky-01",
"service": "mssql",
"attacker_ip": "10.0.0.5",
"fields": {
"username": "sa",
"principal": "sa",
"secret_kind": "plaintext",
"secret_printable": "hunter2",
"secret_b64": base64.b64encode(b"hunter2").decode("ascii"),
},
}
await _extract_bounty(repo, log_data)
cred = repo.upsert_credential.call_args[0][0]
assert cred["service"] == "mssql"
assert cred["principal"] == "sa"
assert cred["secret_printable"] == "hunter2"
def test_mssql_deobfuscate_roundtrip():
"""Direct unit test of the MSSQL Login7 deobfuscation against a
handcrafted obfuscated buffer. Exercises the algorithm itself."""
import importlib.util
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from types import ModuleType
from unittest.mock import MagicMock
# Stand up a fake syslog_bridge so the template imports cleanly,
# then load the mssql module and test the static helper.
fake = ModuleType("syslog_bridge")
fake.syslog_line = MagicMock(return_value="")
fake.write_syslog_file = MagicMock()
fake.forward_syslog = MagicMock()
fake.SEVERITY_INFO = 6
fake.SEVERITY_WARNING = 4
fake.encode_secret = MagicMock(return_value={"secret_printable": "", "secret_b64": ""})
fake.classify_authorization = MagicMock(return_value=None)
sys.modules["syslog_bridge"] = fake
# Load the real instance_seed so the mssql module's top-level
# _seed.pick(...) tuple-unpack works. MagicMock returns sentinels
# that don't satisfy iterable unpacking.
repo_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
if "instance_seed" not in sys.modules:
seed_spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(
"instance_seed", repo_root / "decnet" / "templates" / "instance_seed.py"
)
seed_mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(seed_spec)
seed_spec.loader.exec_module(seed_mod)
sys.modules["instance_seed"] = seed_mod
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(
"_mssql_under_test", repo_root / "decnet" / "templates" / "mssql" / "server.py"
)
mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
spec.loader.exec_module(mod)
# Build the obfuscated form of "abc": each byte → swap nibbles, XOR 0xa5.
plain = "abc".encode("utf-16-le") # 6 bytes
obfuscated = bytes(
(((b & 0x0f) << 4) | ((b & 0xf0) >> 4)) ^ 0xa5
for b in plain
)
decoded = mod.MSSQLProtocol._deobfuscate_login7_password(obfuscated)
assert decoded == "abc"
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_lossless_b64_survives_nonprintable_password():
"""Even when secret_printable is sanitized, secret_b64 still decodes