KipodAfterFree CTF 2020
7 challenges with 18 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 CTFtimeReverse engineering2
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.
- virtual machine
- reverse engineering
- unpacking
Same technique in picoCTF: Checkpass, WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200
Same technique in picoCTF: Checkpass, WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200
Uncategorised2
The upstream scoreboard did not say, so neither do we.
8bytes
4 official solutionsAlso written up in: MrEn1gma/Writeups, MrPos3id0n/Writeups, MrEn1gma/Writeups, MrPos3id0n/Writeups
APT41
1 official solutionAlso written up in: leesh3288/CTF
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.
Also written up in: nobodyisnobody/write-ups
- aes
Same technique in picoCTF: AES-ABC, Compress and Attack, cryptomaze
Web1
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
Also written up in: 0xukn.fr
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
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: IRS-Cybersec/ctfdump, 0xukn.fr
- pwn
- bypassing mitigations
- shadow stack
- bof
- heap
- shadowstack
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, Bizz Fuzz