z0d1ak CTF Finals
- Starts
- Ends
- Runs for
- 9 hours
- Format
- Jeopardy (onsite, VIT Vellore, India)
- Rating weight
- Unrated by CTFtime
- Teams registered
- not published
Run by z0d1ak, with prizes listed on CTFtime.
What the organisers say
Team z0d1ak is thrilled to announce the first edition of z0d1ak CTF. This is the finals for z0d1ak CTF 2026 where 25 qualifying teams compete in person at VIT Vellore, India Discord: https://discord.gg/ZfjXCXbXkA Prize Sponsor: Dataflow Security Sponsors: Hackviser HackerDNA.com GenXYZ HackingHub CyberWarfare Labs
Prep briefing
What past editions were made of
Counted across 1 challenges from 2026, using the categories the scoreboards themselves used. Two things to hold in mind while reading it. The archive indexes challenges that someone published a solution to, not whole scoreboards, so this is the shape of what people wrote about rather than of everything that was set. And where a scoreboard gave no category the challenge lands in misc, so a large misc slice means “unlabelled” rather than “miscellaneous”.
1 challenges is a thin sample. Read the split below as a hint about this event rather than as its profile, and lean on the linked editions instead - they are the actual record.
- forensics 100%(1)
What to have open when it starts
Forensics
Start with the file's own claim about itself, then with what is appended after it ends. Both are one paste away.
- File type identifier by magic bytes
- Hex viewer and hexdump
- ZIP archive inspector
- PCAP analyzer for CTF network forensics
- Memory dump, disk image and registry hive analysis
New to this? Read File forensics and carving, Network forensics, Memory and disk forensics, Malware triage and defensive telemetry
The challenges people wrote about most
From previous editions, ordered by how many published solutions each attracted. Reading two solutions to one of these is the closest thing to a warm-up for this event that exists.
- Black Boxforensics · 2026 · 2 writeups