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Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆

Extract Session Cookies from Chrome

You are given `/challenge/Cookies` and `/challenge/History` (both SQLite) taken from a Linux Chrome profile. The…

Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆

Detect DNS Tunneling

Analyze the DNS query log `dns_queries.log` to detect data exfiltration via DNS tunneling. Find the host flooding a…

Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆

Find Deleted File Traces in NTFS $MFT

You are given `/challenge/mft_records.txt`, the `$MFT` of the Windows machine `KINOCO-WS07` written out as per-record…

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…

Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆

Detect Brute-Force Attack in Event Logs

Analyze the sshd authentication log `/challenge/auth.log` of the server `kinoco-srv01` and identify the session of the…

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>…

ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆

Programming - Multithreaded Result Reassembly

Analyze the parallel-job result log worker-results.jsonl, which is generated randomly at every start. Each slot was…

ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆

Programming - Memory Dump Analysis

Analyze the synthetic memory image memory.img, which is generated randomly at every start. In the heap table at the…

ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆

Programming - Known-Plaintext Attack

Analyze the evidence files ciphertext.b64 and known.txt, which are generated randomly at every start. ciphertext.b64…

ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆

Programming - Custom Protocol Parsing

protocol.bin is a binary capture created at every start (in /challenge): several length-prefixed frames that begin…

ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆

Programming - Image Steganography

image.pgm is a text-format (P2) PGM image created at every start (in /challenge). Collect the least significant bit…

Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆

Find Suspicious Network Connections in Memory

From the memory image of the compromised host `kinoco-app03`, the socket table `/challenge/netstat_dump.txt` and the…

Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆

Recover Executed Commands from Memory

Analyze the memory-string record `memdump.txt` to recover the executed command history. Decode the Base64 strings and…

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Recover Deleted SQLite Records

You are given the SQLite database `/challenge/app.db` of the internal chat tool "kinoco-msg". The body of a message…

Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆

Decompress Multi-Layer Archive

`/challenge/artifact.xz` is a file an attacker tried to take out, wrapped many times in gzip, bzip2, xz, zip and tar.…

Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆

Decrypt Encrypted Disk

`/challenge/secret_disk.img` is a genuine LUKS2 container. Its data area holds a backup (a tar archive). The…

CryptographyLevel 3★★★☆☆

Cryptanalysis - RSA Common Modulus Attack

Two systems reused the same RSA modulus n and only changed the public exponent. The ciphertexts c1 and c2 of the same…

CryptographyLevel 3★★★☆☆

Cryptanalysis - Diffie-Hellman with a Small Prime

An old IoT device performed Diffie-Hellman key exchange with a prime p of only 36 bits. handshake.txt contains p, g, A…