OmniCTF 2026 Quals
28 challenges with 43 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 CTFtimeMisc8
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: hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups
- misc
- ctf
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- misc
- ctf
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- misc
- ctf
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- game
- ctf
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- misc
- ctf
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- game
- ctf
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Uncrackable
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups
Reverse engineering5
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.
Also written up in: ArsenZakiriiaev/ctf-writeups, hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups, hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups
- ctf
- reverseengineering
- reverse
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: Checkpass, WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200
Also written up in: ArsenZakiriiaev/ctf-writeups, hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups
- omnictf
- writeup
- reverseengineering
- reverse
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Checkpass, WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200
Also written up in: ArsenZakiriiaev/ctf-writeups
- ctf
- reverseengineering
- reverse
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: Checkpass, WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200
Gatekepp
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups
- ctf
- reverseengineering
- reverse
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: Checkpass, WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200
Cryptography4
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: hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups, hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups
- cryptography
- ctf
- crypto
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: It's Not My Fault 2, StegoRSA, AES-ABC
Also written up in: ArsenZakiriiaev/ctf-writeups
- cryptography
- ctf
- crypto
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: It's Not My Fault 2, StegoRSA, AES-ABC
- cryptography
- ctf
- crypto
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: It's Not My Fault 2, StegoRSA, AES-ABC
Whiskerfield Meowtin B4
1 official solutionAlso written up in: ArsenZakiriiaev/ctf-writeups
Forensics4
Recover something from a file, a capture, or a disk image - often from a part of it the format says is unused.
Also written up in: danghieu0411/CTF-WriteUp
- ctf
- forensic
- forensics
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: investigation_encoded_2, FindAndOpen, Ph4nt0m 1ntrud3r
- forensics
Same technique in picoCTF: investigation_encoded_2, FindAndOpen, Ph4nt0m 1ntrud3r
Miletus
1 official solutionAlso written up in: ArsenZakiriiaev/ctf-writeups
- forensics
Same technique in picoCTF: investigation_encoded_2, FindAndOpen, Ph4nt0m 1ntrud3r
Uncategorised3
The upstream scoreboard did not say, so neither do we.
DeadWeight
1 official solutionAlso written up in: danghieu0411/CTF-WriteUp
Also written up in: Ridful/CTF-Writeups
Send Exploit
1 official solutionAlso written up in: nhh9905/CTF
Web2
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
- web
- ctf
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
- web
- ctf
- omnictf
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
Binary exploitation2
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: hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups, hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups
- binaryexploitation
- ctf
- pwn
- omnictf
- binary
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, Bizz Fuzz
Also written up in: hax1ng/OmniCTF-2026-writeups, nhh9905/CTF
- binaryexploitation
- writeup
- pwn
- omnictf
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, Bizz Fuzz