On the high seas, the nights get boring. Try to win the game against the captain! pirates.fluxfingers.net port 6565/tcp Let’s go & connect there: > nc pirates.fluxfingers.net 6565 /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD//gAJbWQ1d2luc//bAEMABQ MEBAQDBQQEBAUFBQYHDAgHBwcHDwsLCQwRDxISEQ8RERMWHBcT <…> EgWAYlOhQqadCpxQPCn4JDjQoVacgqCQ4dtCAY4+FChVJb7BVE A6fCnKIB0+FChSuX3C8XQPuhoUKFd+JM//Z The service gives us some base64 and waits 2 seconds for reply. Unbase64ing the data, we get this jpeg: There is no …
October 2010 archive
Oct 31
Hack.lu 2010 CTF #13 (My Cool Blog) writeup
Captain Rumbarrel is shocked because he found out that the filthy pirate Boozybold has stolen a whole shipment of rum! So Rumbarrel wants his revenge by hacking Boozybolds cool blog. Unfortunately he can not hack, so help him and get 250 gold coins! From main page of his cool blog, we get three main points: …
Oct 31
Hack.lu 2010 CTF #3, #11, #14 (Most Epic Challenges :) writeup
Task #3 – Like skies that are so blue Sometime even pirates have a lazy sunday… download 0. 1. Open in your favorite image editor (ms paint) 2. Do a fill: 3. Md5 of the original file is the answer: 032c49411912397eea2a7d906dab5f7e Task #11 – Ecrime Business Cap’n Bill Greasepalms wants to start an ecrime business. …
Oct 31
Hack.lu 2010 CTF #17 (Brainfuck) writeup
You found a backdoor on Captain Brainfuck’s webspace. Exploit it and read his secret file! The page only says ‘happy hacking’, so what would we be doing without its source… [source mirror] “Source” in fact is a zip archive with php code appended: PK <..zip binary trash..> <?php @ob_clean();$z=zip_open(__FILE__); eval($f=zip_entry_read(zip_read($z),1000));@ob_end_flush();?> It simply reads itself (the …
Oct 31
Hack.lu 2010 CTF #16 (Rattlesnake’s Riddle) writeup
Solve this riddle to impress Captain Rattlesnake! download The .pyc file is a byte-compiled python code, and there is a wonderful tool called uncompyle to deal with it. $ decompyle secret.pyc > secret.py The decompyled file: 1. Takes 3 arguments 2. Checks 2nd to be 1337 3. Calculates ‘token‘ value, which is 11111112671 4. After some …
Oct 30
Hack.lu 2010 CTF Challenge #8 Writeup
Sad Little Pirate (150) Our sad little pirate haes lost his password. It is known that the pirate has just one hand left; his left hand. So the paessword input is quite limited. Also he can still remember that the plaintext started with “674e2” and his password with “wcwteseawx” Please help the sad pirate finding …
Oct 30
Hack.lu 2010 CTF Challenge #7 Writeup
Breiers Deathmatch (150) Schnuce Breier has challenged you to a cryptographer’s deathmatch. Connect to pirates.fluxfingers.net 8007/tcp and get the secret number. $ nc pirates.fluxfingers.net 8007 Hi. This is your friendly ‘Decryption Oracle’ We have implemented a well-known public-key cryptosystem. Guess which ;) Modulo: 5628290459057877291809182450381238927697314822133923421169378 062922140081498734424133112032854812341 Generator: 99 Public Key: 135744434201778324839308712462911647727754874814096844915 5264250239122362719894347099351280643528244 Ciphertext: (44750535504622985677351849167148532593337860047243938284 03819968944371696234280482660523326406427034, 40867215175893797288404 …
Oct 30
Hack.lu 2010 CTF Challenge #10 Writeup
#10 – Chip Forensic To solve this task we have something like this (original image is lost) and hex string: 0B 12 0F 0F 1C 4A 4C 0D 4D 15 12 0A 08 15. What we see on image? Some USB device. Those who have seen them on ebay or on other sites knows that …
Oct 30
Hack.lu 2010 CTF Challenge #5 Writeup
Captain Redbeard’s Battleships (500) While pirating-out a bit, you run into Captain Redbeard and his armada of ghost ships. source1, source2 pirates.fluxfingers.net 2204 /tcp. It is a Battleships game. We have to win Cpt. Redbeard 3 times in a row, to get the flag. First time he shots every 3 ships from 5, than 4 …
Oct 30
Hack.lu 2010 CTF Challenge #19 Writeup
Magicwall (400) Captain Hook found the following link after looting his last frigate. He heard that the file flag on this system is worth 400 coins. Give him this file and he will reward you! ssh: pirates.fluxfingers.net:7022 user: ctf password: ctf In the box, there was a suid executable, which we were to compromise to …
Oct 30
Hack.lu 2010 CTF Challenge #18 Writeup
Digital Treasure Chest (300) You were asked to pentest the 1.1 beta-version of the digital treasure chest. Finding an authentication bypass appears to be trivial to you. pirates.fluxfingers.net 6969/tcp $ nc pirates.fluxfingers.net 6969 010 WELCOME. Please Enter your secret digits 0 555 Wrong credentials If we try some more numbers, we will get: $ nc …