Challenge list
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆AES-ECB Mode Weakness
ECB leaks repeated block patterns. This introductory task first checks the difference between encryption and encoding.…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Bash Scripting - Power of Automation
/app/numbers.txt contains numbers from 1 to 1000, one per line. Extract all numbers that satisfy these conditions and…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Git Detective - Lost Commit
/app/repo is a Git repository. A developer accidentally deleted a commit containing important information. Use git…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆JSON Master - Data Extraction
/app/users.json contains information of 100 users in JSON format. Extract users that meet these conditions: - age…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆OSINT Basics - Metadata Analysis
Files recovered from a departed employee's shared drive (photos `IMG_*.jpg` and Office documents) are in…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆RC4 Stream Cipher Weakness
RC4 was once widely used but is now deprecated. This introductory task focuses on recognizing the provided data…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Vigenere Cipher Decryption
Decrypt a Vigenere cipher when the key length is known and retrieve the flag. Ciphertext:…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-11. SQL Injection into the Employee Portal
KinoGadget's internal "Employee Access Portal" runs on a legacy authentication system. The lead developer is rumored…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-12. Reflected XSS in BlogSearch
BlogSearch is a simple search engine for blog articles. The search query is embedded into the results page as-is…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-13. Bypassing File Upload Checks in ImageVault
ImageVault is an image hosting service that accepts JPG, PNG, and GIF uploads. If its validation only checks the end…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-14. Command Injection in a Network Diagnostic Tool
This app is a diagnostic tool that runs ping against a host you supply. If the host input is passed straight into a…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-15. IDOR in the UserProfile Service
The UserProfile Service exposes an API that returns profile information for a given user ID. Check whether the service…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-16. Weak JWT Secret in the CHIMERA Research Lab
Clues found after breaching the employee portal point to an isolated research lab system codenamed CHIMERA. It…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-17. Path Traversal in FileShare
FileShare lets users list and download files from a shared folder. Check whether the filename parameter passed to the…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-18. XXE Attack via a Contact Form
This contact form serializes its input as XML and sends it to the server, which parses it and echoes the result.…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-19. CSRF Transfer in a Banking App
This banking app lets a logged-in user transfer money. Check whether CSRF protections exist by seeing if a separate…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-20. SSRF via the URL Fetcher
This URL Fetcher service retrieves and displays the content of any URL a user provides. Check whether it can be…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Text Processing Master - sed & awk
/app/data.csv contains CSV data. Perform these operations: 1. Extract only rows where column 2 (price) >= 1000 2.…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Finding Hash Collisions
MD5 collisions are practical. Hashes with broken collision resistance must not be used for security-sensitive…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Hash Length Extension Attack
Simple signatures such as hash(secret || message) can be vulnerable to length extension attacks with Merkle-Damgard…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Padding Oracle Basics
Padding oracle attacks use error differences as a plaintext recovery signal. This introductory task decodes leaked…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Process Hunter - Hidden Process
A process named "secret_service" is running in the background. Find this process and get the following information: 1.…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Rainbow Table Attack
Unsalted fast password hashes can often be reversed with precomputed lookup databases. Reverse the given MD5 hash. MD5…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Log Analysis - Find the Intruder
/app/auth.log contains authentication logs. Detect suspicious activity: - Identify the IP address with 10+ failed…