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CubeCTF
7 challenges with 7 published solutions between them. CTFtime lists this event but has no writeups filed against it, so it is absent from the index CTFtime feeds. These were found in public repositories instead. Each link is pinned to the commit it was read from.
The event on CTFtimeBinary exploitation4
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
Mission Control Malfunction
1 official solutionNeural Pattern Analysis
1 official solutionNexus Corp Override
1 official solutionOrbital Station Override
1 official solution
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
Incantation
1 official solution
Uncategorised1
The upstream scoreboard did not say, so neither do we.
Workerdb
1 official solution
Forensics1
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
Writeup01
1 official solution