Challenge list
AWS CLI - S3 Bucket Investigation
An offline export of the S3 configuration is under `/challenge/s3_audit/` (`buckets.json` plus each bucket's…
Ansible Automation - Server Configuration Management
Analyze the generated run export artifacts/ansible/vault-export.yml without running Ansible or touching a server. It…
CI/CD Security - GitHub Actions Vulnerability
Audit the 20 GitHub Actions workflows under `/challenge/repo/.github/workflows/`. Many steps carry a `# audit-ticket:…
Infrastructure as Code - Terraform Security
Analyze the generated terraform/terraform.tfstate without initializing a Terraform provider. The output…
Kubernetes Basics - Cluster Investigation
Investigate the two snapshots in artifacts/kubernetes/ (pod-snapshot.yaml and secret-snapshot.yaml) without connecting…
Linux-Kernel Module. Gaining Root via a Vulnerable Driver
This challenge analyzes a vulnerable character-device driver as a safe user-space simulation. No real kernel module is…
Linux-Buffer Overflow. Exploiting a gets() Vulnerability
A vulnerable SUID C binary with protections disabled is provided. Exploit its buffer overflow to redirect control flow…
Advanced Python - Custom VM Bytecode Execution
program.kvm is bytecode for a custom four-register VM. Implement an interpreter in Python from the instruction…
Custom Tool Development - Web Directory Scanner
Analyze the locally generated artifacts/scanner/directory-report.ndjson instead of scanning a live website. The…
Network Tunneling - SSH Port Forwarding
Practice SSH local port forwarding inside one container. SSH listens on 127.0.0.1:22 and the internal service uses…
Binary Repair - Firmware Header and CRC32
Repair firmware.bin by writing KINO at bytes 0-3 and the little-endian CRC32 of bytes 12+ at bytes 8-11. Submit the…
Programming - C2 Traffic Analysis
Analyze the synthetic log beacon.log, which is generated randomly at every start (no network connection is needed).…
Programming - Buffer Overflow Crash Analysis
Analyze the crash reports crash_01.txt to crash_06.txt, which are generated randomly at every start (they contain no…
Programming - Fuzzing Result Analysis
Analyze the fuzzing result log fuzz-results.log, which is generated randomly at every start (inputs are merely stored;…
Programming - Blockchain Event Reassembly
/challenge/blocks.json is a list of blocks from an offline development chain, regenerated with random data every time…
Programming - Rootkit View Diffing
proc_ps.txt (the userland ps output) and proc_kernel.txt (the result of walking the kernel task list directly) are…
Programming - Anomaly Detection
/challenge/requests.csv is a web API access log that is regenerated with random data every time the container starts…
Programming - Pentest Finding Analysis
findings.json is a scan result built from random data at every start (in /challenge). It has entry (edge-gw),…
Programming - Async Scan Result Analysis
/challenge/scan-events.jsonl is the event log of an asynchronous port scanner, regenerated with random data every time…
Encrypted Communication - GPG Public Key Cryptography
Practice GnuPG decryption. Import every private key under `/challenge/keys/` and decrypt each ciphertext under…
Vulnerability Scanning - Advanced Nmap NSE
The results of running `nmap -sV -sC --script vuln` against the internal subnet `10.66.13.0/24` are in…
Static Analysis - Code Vulnerability Scanning
The Python source of an internal notes app is in `/challenge/src/`. The nine lines flagged by an earlier…