Break In 2016
32 challenges with 95 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.
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Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
Go To The Scoreboard 20
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
I Have The Power 100
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Jquery.Min
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Oops 50
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Also written up in: dfcictf/ctf-writeups2016
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
Steganography6
Find the payload hidden inside a carrier that looks ordinary. Bit planes, appended data, metadata, and audio spectrograms.
Eighth Circles Of Hell 200
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Make Pair 200
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Three Thieves Threw Thrumpets Through Trees 100
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
You Cant See Me 100
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
- steganography
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Glory of the Garden, Investigative Reversing 0
- steganography
- stego
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Glory of the Garden, Investigative Reversing 0
Misc6
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Bot Are Awesome 100
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Ethernet Patched Transmission 200
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Knock Knock 200
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Also written up in: dfcictf/ctf-writeups2016
- golang
- irc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- stegno
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- stegno
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Uncategorised6
The upstream scoreboard did not say, so neither do we.
Bugbug
1 official solutionAlso written up in: vngkv123/CTF
Checker
1 official solutionAlso written up in: vngkv123/CTF
Floppy
1 official solutionAlso written up in: vngkv123/CTF
Jmper
1 official solutionAlso written up in: vngkv123/CTF
Manager
1 official solutionAlso written up in: vngkv123/CTF
Zwiebel
1 official solutionAlso written up in: vngkv123/CTF
Forensics5
Recover something from a file, a capture, or a disk image - often from a part of it the format says is unused.
Find The Idiot 100
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
Also written up in: dfcictf/ctf-writeups2016
- password cracking
- forensics
- linux filesystem
Same technique in picoCTF: investigation_encoded_2, FindAndOpen, Ph4nt0m 1ntrud3r
F1recracker
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: ByteBandits/writeups, Hope0351/CTF-collection
- networking
Same technique in picoCTF: investigation_encoded_2, FindAndOpen, Ph4nt0m 1ntrud3r
- networking
Same technique in picoCTF: investigation_encoded_2, FindAndOpen, Ph4nt0m 1ntrud3r
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.
Numbero 100
5 official solutionsAlso written up in: ctfs/write-ups-2016, epicleet/write-ups-2016, jashanbhoora/write-ups-2016, Niccher/write-ups-2016, vishwaraj/write-ups-2016
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: It's Not My Fault 2, StegoRSA, AES-ABC