Wizard You have stumbled upon a wizard on your path to the flag. You must answer his questions! PS (not challenge related), thank you so much to Hadrian for supporting NahamCon 2022! Press the Start button on the top-right to begin this challenge. Solving To solve this challenge, you need to connect to your own instance via netcat. Then you
EXtravagant I’ve been working on a XML parsing service. It’s not finished but there should be enough for you to try out. The flag is in /var/www Press the Start button on the top-right to begin this challenge. Solving To solve this one, we need to upload our own malformed XML document (XML external entity (XXE) injection). Create a XML
would-you-wordle Points: 250 Someone left this secret text string and unfinished Wordle. Can you put them together to get the flag? pUpPHg3KfB15MG2KGtQQMDEECPOF8oa3VA== Solving Okay lets have a look at it. The hint tells us something about "Ron’s code". This should be RC4 according to this: RC4 (for ‚Ron’s Code 4‘) is a stream cipher developed by Ronald L. Rivest in
new-algorithm Points: 75 On the first day of the job, a new cryptography intern is insisting to upper management that he developed a new encryption algorithm for the company to use for sensitive emails and should get a raise. This seems too good to be true… are you able to prove the intern wrong by decrypting it? Here’s an example
Torrent Analyze Description SOS, someone is torrenting on our network. One of your colleagues has been using torrent to download some files on the company’s network. Can you identify the file(s) that were downloaded? The file name will be the flag, like picoCTF{filename}. Captured traffic. Solving Loading the pcap file into wireshark and started looking at it. At the beginning
St3g0 Description Download this image and find the flag. Download image Solving Looking at the hint We know the end sequence of the message will be $t3g0. Okay, I did some google research with that $t3g0 and found an interessting article. Downloaded the script from the github repo run it with the image FLAG 🙂 #import libraries import sys import
Vigenere Description Can you decrypt this message? Decrypt this message using this key "CYLAB". Solving Lets use CyberChef for that. Copy the message into the input field and use Vigenère Decode The key is given Key: "CYLAB"
Substitution Challenges Because this challenges are all very similar, we will not describe them in own articles 🙂 . Solving Substitutions cypher replace the 26 letters of an alphabet with other letters (one letter matches only one other). If you can find out which letter was replaced with which letter, then you can crack this cypher relatively easily. The best
transposition-trial Description Our data got corrupted on the way here. Luckily, nothing got replaced, but every block of 3 got scrambled around! The first word seems to be three letters long, maybe you can use that to recover the rest of the message. Download the corrupted message here. Solving Looking into the encrypted message we can see, that the first
rail-fence Description A type of transposition cipher is the rail fence cipher, which is described here. Here is one such cipher encrypted using the rail fence with 4 rails. Can you decrypt it? Download the message here. Put the decoded message in the picoCTF flag format, picoCTF{decoded_message}. Solving So – there is everything we need to know in the challenge