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CSAW Reverse 100 — Rock

When you first run rock you just get a blank prompt. Input a couple of characters and you get a couple of quotes from the talented Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and a message saying “Too short or too long” unless you guessed (or checked) the right length.

Internetwache CTF 2016 — Misc80–404 Flag not found

This one was pretty quick, but lots of fun. The initial file is a packet capture showing a number attempted GETs and DNS queries. Looking at the subdomains I noticed that they seem to be made up of hex values.

Internetwache CTF 2016 — Web80–0ldsk00lBlog

Navigating to the challenge page shows a super plain, simple HTML Blog post. There was not much to work on, but one the blog posts happens to mention the owner’s use of git.

Internetwache CTF 2016 — Web90 — Texmaker

This problem was my favorite of those I tried. When first navigating to the challenge site you are presented with an input field which generates LaTex, which is then used to generate a PDF.

HackIM Forensics 200

This challenge was pretty fun, there were a couple of dead ends/tricks.

The first step was to take a look at the packets. You can quickly notice that a ton of files are being grabbed using Wget (seen in the user-agent below). These can be exported using Wireshark’s…