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TrollCAT CTF 2021

24 challenges with 36 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.

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Forensics8

Recover something from a file, a capture, or a disk image - often from a part of it the format says is unused.

Cryptography6

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.

Misc5

Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.

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.

Reverse engineering2

Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.

OSINT1

Answer a question about the real world from public sources. The work is pivoting between identifiers, not exploiting anything.

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