Hack.lu CTF 2025
22 challenges with 36 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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Byterepr
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF, c240030/openArchiveCTF
Echelon
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF, c240030/openArchiveCTF
Fieldordering
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF, c240030/openArchiveCTF
Fixedweight
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF, c240030/openArchiveCTF
Irreducible
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF, c240030/openArchiveCTF
Keygen
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF, c240030/openArchiveCTF
Matgen
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF, c240030/openArchiveCTF
Parameters
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF, c240030/openArchiveCTF
Server
1 official solutionAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF
Syndroem
1 official solutionAlso written up in: c240030/openArchiveCTF
VM creation notes
1 official solutionAlso written up in: HeroGamers/CTF
Ynetd
1 official solutionAlso written up in: HeroGamers/CTF
Misc7
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Also written up in: jiegec/ctf-writeups
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Also written up in: jiegec/ctf-writeups
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- misk
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
GissaPlatser suite
1 official solutionAlso written up in: tommy-kay.github.io
Lucky Number
1 official solutionAlso written up in: 7rocky.github.io
Spooky Safebox
1 official solutionAlso written up in: 7rocky.github.io
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.
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: It's Not My Fault 2, StegoRSA, AES-ABC
Web1
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
- web
- xss
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, msfroggenerator2
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.
Also written up in: popax21.dev, HeroGamers/CTF
- windows-kernel
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, Bizz Fuzz