Anti-Slop CTF 2026
14 challenges with 14 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 exploitation3
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
- ctf
- pwn
- anti-slop
- antislop
- binary
- binary-exploitation
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
- ctf
- pwn
- anti-slop
- antislop
- binary
- binaryexploitation
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
- ctf
- pwn
- anti-slop
- antislop
- binary
- binaryexploitation
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
Misc3
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
- misc
- writeup
- anti-slop
- antislop
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- blockchain
- writeup
- anti-slop
- antislop
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Reentrance, Smart_Overflow, Access_Control
- blockchain
- writeup
- anti-slop
- antislop
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Reentrance, Smart_Overflow, Access_Control
Cryptography2
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.
- ctf
- cryptography
- anti-slop
- antislop
- crypto
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
- ctf
- cryptography
- anti-slop
- antislop
- crypto
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
Web2
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
- writeup
- web
- anti-slop
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
- web
- ctf
- anti-slop
- antislop
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
Reverse engineering2
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.
- writeup
- anti-slop
- antislop
- reverse
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200, WinAntiDbg0x300
- ctf
- anti-slop
- antislop
- reverseengineering
- writeup
- reverse
Same technique in picoCTF: WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200, WinAntiDbg0x300
OSINT2
Answer a question about the real world from public sources. The work is pivoting between identifiers, not exploiting anything.
- anti-slop
- ctf
- osint
- antislop
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- anti-slop
- ctf
- osint
- antislop
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook