Thryve CTF 2026
14 challenges with 15 published solutions between them. No writeups were ever filed against this event's listing, so its solutions were found in public repositories instead. Each link is pinned to the commit it was read from.
The event listingReverse engineering6
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.
Black Blood
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Chimera Mirrors
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Also written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Parallax
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Redline
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Also written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
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.
Black Ice
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Blue Boy
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
I Love Bamboo
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Smiley
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
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.
Abyss Oracle
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups, hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Secret Door
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
Forensics1
Recover something from a file, a capture, or a disk image - often from a part of it the format says is unused.
It Works On My Machine
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups
OSINT1
Answer a question about the real world from public sources. The work is pivoting between identifiers, not exploiting anything.
Thryvetechs Resistance
1 official solutionAlso written up in: hax1ng/thryve-ctf-2026-writeups