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HHC 2025
35 challenges with 35 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.
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The upstream scoreboard did not say, so neither do we.
Blob Storage Challenge in the Neighborhood
1 official solutionEaster Eggs
1 official solutionEvan Booth
1 official solutionFind and Shutdown Frosty's Snowglobe Machine
1 official solutionFree Ski
1 official solutionGnome Tea
1 official solutionHack a Gnome
1 official solutionHide & Seek
1 official solutionIDORable Bistro
1 official solutionIt's All About Defang
1 official solutionJosh Wright
1 official solutionKevin McFarland
1 official solutionMail Detective
1 official solutionNeighborhood Watch Bypass
1 official solutionOn the Wire
1 official solutionOrientation
1 official solutionOwner
1 official solutionQuantgnome Leap
1 official solutionRetro Fun
1 official solutionRetro Recovery
1 official solutionRogue Gnome Identity Provider
1 official solutionSanta's Gift Tracking
1 official solutionSasabune
1 official solutionSchrodinger's Scope
1 official solutionSnowblind Ambush
1 official solutionSnowcat RCE & Priv Esc
1 official solutionSpare Key
1 official solutionThe Open Door
1 official solutionThomas Bouve
1 official solutionVisual Firewall Thinger
1 official solution
Misc3
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
Dosis Network Down
1 official solutionto Nmap
1 official solutionVisual Networking Thinger
1 official solution
Reverse engineering1
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.
Solve it with:Strings extractor for binaries and blobsWebAssembly disassemblerJava .class disassemblerPython .pyc bytecode disassemblerLearn: Binary exploitation
Going in Reverse
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
HHC2025 Pwn Script
1 official solution