Challenge list
Compression Maze - Nested Archives
/app/flag.tar.gz is a nested compressed file. Decompress step by step: flag.tar.gz → flag.tar → flag.zip.bz2.gz →…
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…
Regex Master - Log File Analysis
The file /app/access.log contains thousands of access log entries. Extract all entries where the IP address starts…
Environment Variable Master - PATH Hijacking
There is a hidden command "getflag" in /app/secret_bin directory. However, this directory is not in PATH, so you…
Docker Forensics - Container Investigation
With no Docker daemon available, investigate the metadata of the image `registry.internal/kinoco-billing-api:2.4.1`:…
Find the Deleted API Key in Git History
/app/repo is a Git repository. A developer accidentally committed an API_KEY and removed it in a later commit. Inspect…
Python Automation - REST API Data Collection
A paginated local API runs in the container at `http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/records?page=N`. Walk every page until…
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…
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…