What you will learn
- Parse and transform evidence
- Break investigations into testable steps
- Automate repetitive security analysis
Programming Challenges for CTF and Security
Write small programs to transform data, automate investigation, and solve security tasks that do not scale by hand.
Programming challenges
47 challenges available.
ProgrammingLevel 1★☆☆☆☆09. Python Automation - File Reading
In security work, programming is essential for processing large amounts of data. In this challenge, you'll use Python…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆API Requests - Find the Highest-Profit Trade
When the container starts, a stock API begins running on http://localhost:9102 (you do not need to start server.py).…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Practice - Bulk Base64 Stream Decoding
Every line of data.txt (about 150 lines, created at every start) is Base64. Decode line by line; when the result…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Practice - Conditional CSV Sales Filtering
data.txt, created at every start, is a sales CSV (transaction_id,date,product_id,amount,status,ref,notes). Several…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Practice - Compound JSON User Query
Examine the JSON data.txt ({"users": [...]}) created at every start. Each user has id, name, email, role, active and…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Practice - Target-IP Access Log Tracing
data.txt (about 1,300 lines, created at every start) is a web server access log. Extract only the requests from…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Automation - Bulk Base64 Decoding
Every line of data.txt (about 150 lines, created at every start) is Base64. Decode line by line; when the result…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Automation - CSV Sales Filtering
data.txt, created at every start, is a sales CSV (transaction_id,date,product_id,amount,status,ref,notes). Several…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Automation - JSON User Query
Examine the JSON data.txt ({"users": [...]}) created at every start. Each user has id, name, email, role, active and…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Automation - Access Log Parsing
data.txt (about 1,300 lines, created at every start) is a web server access log. Extract only the requests from…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Python Automation - Password Hash Cracking
Examine data.txt (a list of SHA-256 digests) and wordlist.txt (800 four-character lowercase alphanumeric tokens), both…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Programming - Bash Job Log Analysis
/challenge/jobs.log is a nightly batch log that is regenerated with random data every time the container starts. Each…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Programming - PIN Brute Force
/challenge/vault.json is a vault record that is regenerated with random data every time the container starts. It…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Programming - Hash Verification and Decryption
Analyze the evidence file artifact-manifest.json, which is generated randomly at every start. Each artifact…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Programming - Binary TLV Parsing
/challenge/capture.bin is a custom binary file that is regenerated with random data every time the container starts.…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Regular Expressions - The One-Time Golden Glyph
Extract every KINO-four-digits-four-uppercase glyph from data.txt, identify the one occurring once, and submit it to…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Python Automation - SQLite Database Analysis
Examine data.db (SQLite: users / orders / audit_log), created at every start. Aggregate orders per user_id with…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Python Automation - Custom Cipher Decryption
cipher.txt holds the flag encrypted with a custom cipher (hex). Encryption applies per byte: add (key), xor…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Python Automation - Encrypted ZIP Password Cracking
A new /challenge/secret.zip is created at every start. It contains flag.txt and readme.txt, encrypted with ZipCrypto.…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Algorithms - BFS Shortest Path Through a Maze
Use BFS to find the shortest path from S to E in data.txt, then submit the UDLR move sequence to challenge.py. A…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Programming - SQLite Evidence Database
evidence.db is a SQLite database built from random data at every start (in /challenge, with the tables users /…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Programming - Web Scraping Graph Traversal
site.json is a crawl result built from random data at every start (in /challenge). It holds the start and target URLs…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Programming - ZIP Password Recovery
secret.zip is a ZIP encrypted with ZipCrypto (the traditional PKWARE cipher), created at every start (in /challenge,…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Programming - Packet Log Analysis
capture.txt is a packet log created at every start (in /challenge). Each line is one flow of the form flow=<name>…