2022from public repositories
alphaCTF 2022
9 challenges with 9 published solutions between them. CTFtime has no listing for this event at all, so nothing built on CTFtime can show what it was made of. These writeups were found in public repositories instead. Each link is pinned to the commit it was read from.
Where these writeups liveForensics4
Recover something from a file, a capture, or a disk image - often from a part of it the format says is unused.
Solve it with:File type identifier by magic bytesMagic byte and file signature tablePCAP analyzer for CTF network forensicsEXIF metadata viewerLearn: File forensics and carvingLearn: Network forensics
AirgapBender
1 official solutionExfiltration
1 official solutionHide And Seek
1 official solutionTheLightBrokers
1 official solution
Misc2
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Solve it with:Brainfuck and esolang decoderCipher identifier and automatic decoderRegex tester with match offsets and capture groupsLearn: Recognising encodings
alphaEcho
1 official solution
Uncategorised2
The upstream scoreboard did not say, so neither do we.
Alphasaint writeup
1 official solutionPassword Protector writeup
1 official solution
Binary exploitation1
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
Ret2win
1 official solution