Sep 21
Category: exploiting Your command is to get as much information about the crew of an antique space shuttle. We know our acient father used finger as reference point at nc ctf.hack.lu 2003 Summary: bash injection, and buffer overflow on a suid binary to get more privilegies
Sep 21
Category: exploiting You have seen a deserted space station. Your task is to enter it. The first barrier is the access system. But you can find a module with the application on it. Here is the file: download What is the key? (There is also station A, but station B is the advanced one.) Summary: …
Jun 09
This challenge was on remote exploiting. The binary is for FreeBSD. The program is some kind of a Virtual Machine, with it’s own stack and memory. binary Summary: memory address check mistake, write shellcode and overwrite _exit function pointer
Jun 07
This challenge was on remote exploiting. The binary is for FreeBSD. binary Summary: buffer overflow, jump to shellcode (bruteforce address)
Jun 06
This challenge was on remote exploiting. The binary is for SunOS (Solaris). binary Summary: shellcoding challenge
Jun 06
This challenge was on remote exploiting. The binary is for Linux, statically linked and stripped. binary Summary: overflow, ROP for execve(“/bin/sh”)
Apr 27
Category: pwnables It seems like AED also has some plans to raise hacker force! We found this binary as an exploitation practice program in the office, but they forgot to remove the setgid flag on the program. So we can get the secret key! ssh username@a5.amalgamated.biz Username: exp_1 Password: jNKpzFuRLpsIW9xzqNIpCVF1 Summary: .dynamic->FINI overwriting, execl symlink …
Apr 27
Category: pwnables This time, let’s attack /opt/pctf/z2/exploitme. ssh username@a5.amalgamated.biz Username: z2_1 Password: 29rpJinvpwoI7pzdufQc4h6edzvyh Summary: buffer overflow, static binary binary
Apr 27
Category: pwnables Get access to the key using /opt/pctf/z1/exploitme. ssh username@a5.amalgamated.biz Username: z1_1 Password: GwB4eivw9NTvCjmobw1EnuyqcWfJs Summary: race condition, create a symlink before the file is opened binary
Apr 26
Category: pwnables AED’s summer internship program is notorious for attracting terrible programmers. They’ve resorted to giving them some of the simplest projects to work on. We expect this service that the latest ‘All-Star’ intern worked on all summer is no where near secure. nc a9.amalgamated.biz 60124 Summary: python eval with some filtering
Apr 26
Category: pwnables They have an update for the vulnerable C++ program trying to fix the bug. However, the coders at AED suck and introduced another stupid mistake. Get a shell (and the key, too.) ssh username@a5.amalgamated.biz Username: cpp2_1 Password: zKQaKrdFPSsT6j03XSt31NaT0H Summary: tricky overflow class’ method and exec’ing symlinks binary
Apr 26
Category: pwnables AED decided to use C++ to develop their internal tools. However, they seem to make a mistake one of their new C++ programs. Exploit and get the key! ssh username@a5.amalgamated.biz Username: cpp1_1 Password: IwKheuEHvR1jYXmjIYz8bo8FFe1h8 Summary: tricky overflow class’ method and exec’ing symlinks binary
Apr 26
Category: pwnables Amalgamated has banned the use of Solitaire due to loss of productivity. The only employee who would write a new game for everyone only likes ‘retro’ games, and has placed a text-adventure version of pacman on a company server. We don’t believe he could have coded this securely, and the server contains a …
Apr 04
Crypto300 (150 pts.) source Python source code is very clear and concise, and could sometimes bring out lots of clues. This is particularly true for this challenge. Summary: key exchange algorithm based on permutations (braid based cryptography), has some vulnerabilities
Mar 09
This challenge was an exploitation of suid binary. binary Summary: ROPing buffer overflow with NX and ASLR