2020weight 21.88NorthSec Organizers
NorthSec 2020
4 challenges with 4 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 CTFtimeMisc3
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
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
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
Same technique in picoCTF: WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200, WinAntiDbg0x300