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Writeups on miscellaneous challenges.

Csaw Misc

Russian Jet Tracking

Last Friday night, the little me who aspired to be like those hackers in movies finally had her dreams come true. Or, girl tracks Russian planes.

Rachel Koh 3 min read
Kitctfctf Misc

Grep it? CodeQL it!

CodeQL: a surprisingly handy tool! Just need to read the instructions more carefully next time…

Zi Teoh 6 min read
Nitectf Misc

The Boys

Miscellaneous sure is one way to describe it.

Sam Sliman 2 min read
Xmas Misc

Blocker, Cookie Market, & Bread Bank

Blockchain: a new way to program… and a new way to write vulnerable code.

David Perez 15 min read
Buckeyectf Misc

frog-universe

Welcome to Frog Universe!

Aryan Garg 33 min read
Buckeyectf Misc

spelunk

All of these challenges are too hard for me. Wait… is that Minecraft???

Maya 5 min read
Buckeyectf Misc

nile & andes

Despite having worked in smart contract security, I have never actually performed an attack before – until now. Let’s take a look at some not-so-smart contracts, shall we?

Ben Siraphob 11 min read
Buckeyectf Misc

devil

I can sorta do CTF problems – but deep down, I’m a DevOps guy.

Nisala 7 min read
Bluehensctf Misc

Rick and Morty - One Time Pad - Esoteric Languages

Memes as an internet subculture, World War era encryption schemes, and program states as stacks of dynamically sized integers, oh my! How do they all connect?

Patrick Dobranowski 20 min read
Bluehensctf Misc

Wordles with Dads

Another variation of Wordle, just like my previous writeup on Vocaloid Heardle.

squ1rrel team 11 min read
Sekaictf Misc

Sus

Someone sent this file to me, claiming he got it from a SEKAI where the palette is not colorful but purple. I had no idea what he was talking about – I only

Evelyn 2 min read
Bluehensctf Misc

CryptoDuck!

Digital circuits and Python: low-level meets high-level in the solution to this oddball of a challenge.

squ1rrel team 4 min read
Sekaictf Misc

Vocaloid Heardle

Well, it’s just too usual to hide a flag in stegano, database, cipher, or server. What if we decide to sing it out instead?

Zi Teoh 8 min read
Sekaictf Misc

Matryoshka

ANSI escape codes. Race conditions in PNG parsing. Digital COVID-19 vaccination records. De-noising audio files and the NATO phonetic alphabet. The only thing linking all of them? A race to solve a CTF

Ben Siraphob 9 min read
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