2025weight 21.67SPbCTF
Alfa Surfing CTF
3 challenges with 3 published community solutions between them. Solution links go to CTFtime’s task page, which aggregates every writeup for a challenge - individual blog posts rot, the aggregator does not.
Full task list on CTFtimeBinary exploitation2
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
Solve it with:ROP gadget finderShellcode assembler and libraryCyclic pattern generator and offset finderFormat string exploit builderLearn: Binary exploitation
- pwn
- network
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
- pwn
- kernel
- bpf
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
Cryptography1
Recover a plaintext or a key from something that was supposed to protect it. In practice: identify the scheme, find the parameter the author got wrong, exploit it.
Solve it with:Cipher identifier and automatic decoderVigenere cipher solver with automatic key recoveryRSA decryption and attack runnerWiener’s attack on small RSA private exponentsIn-browser hash cracker with rule transformsLearn: Classical ciphers and frequency analysisLearn: RSA and the parameters that break it
- aes
- pwn
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC, Compress and Attack