Challenge list
Python Automation - SQLite Database Analysis
Examine data.db (SQLite: users / orders / audit_log), created at every start. Aggregate orders per user_id with…
Python Automation - Custom Cipher Decryption
cipher.txt holds the flag encrypted with a custom cipher (hex). Encryption applies per byte: add (key), xor…
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.…
SQL Query Master - Complex Joins
The SQLite database `/challenge/company.db` has 3 tables: - employees (id, name, department_id, salary, email, note) -…
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…
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…
System Call Tracing - strace Debugging
Analyze `/challenge/strace.log`, a strace recording of the source-less program `/app/mystery_program`. The program…
System Log Analysis - journalctl Master
Analyze `/challenge/system.log`, a systemd journal exported in `journalctl -o short` style. Each line reads "timestamp…
Network Master - Netcat Reverse Shell
Analyze the prerecorded artifacts/netcat/callback-transcript.log without connecting to any external host; no listener…
Performance Analysis - Find the Resource Hog
Analyze the server snapshot `/challenge/metrics.log`. The first half is a top-style process table (%CPU is column 9,…
Programming - SQLite Evidence Database
evidence.db is a SQLite database built from random data at every start (in /challenge, with the tables users /…
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…
Programming - ZIP Password Recovery
secret.zip is a ZIP encrypted with ZipCrypto (the traditional PKWARE cipher), created at every start (in /challenge,…
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>…
Programming - Multithreaded Result Reassembly
Analyze the parallel-job result log worker-results.jsonl, which is generated randomly at every start. Each slot was…
Programming - Memory Dump Analysis
Analyze the synthetic memory image memory.img, which is generated randomly at every start. In the heap table at the…
Programming - Known-Plaintext Attack
Analyze the evidence files ciphertext.b64 and known.txt, which are generated randomly at every start. ciphertext.b64…
Programming - Custom Protocol Parsing
protocol.bin is a binary capture created at every start (in /challenge): several length-prefixed frames that begin…
Programming - Image Steganography
image.pgm is a text-format (P2) PGM image created at every start (in /challenge). Collect the least significant bit…
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…
Recover Executed Commands from Memory
Analyze the memory-string record `memdump.txt` to recover the executed command history. Decode the Base64 strings and…
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…
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.…
Decrypt Encrypted Disk
`/challenge/secret_disk.img` is a genuine LUKS2 container. Its data area holds a backup (a tar archive). The…