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ZCTF 2016
6 challenges with 6 published solutions between them. CTFtime has no listing for this event at all, so nothing built on CTFtime can show what it was made of. These writeups were found in public repositories instead. Each link is pinned to the commit it was read from.
Where these writeups liveBinary exploitation4
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
Solve it with:ROP gadget finderShellcode assembler and libraryCyclic pattern generator and offset finderFormat string exploit builderLearn: Binary exploitation
Guess
1 official solutionNote1
1 official solutionNote2
1 official solutionNote3
1 official solution
Misc1
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
Adroid2
1 official solution
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
Android1
1 official solution