Challenge list
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-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-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-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-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…
Find USB History in Windows Registry
Analyze the SYSTEM file (a text model of the USBSTOR part of the registry hive) to identify the USB device that was…
Find Secret File in Disk Image
Inspect the ext4 filesystem disk image `disk.img`, find the secret backup hidden in the filesystem, and recover the…
Network Analysis - DNS Zone Transfer Leak
An unauthenticated DNS zone transfer (AXFR) against a misconfigured authoritative server was captured. Download the…
Network Analysis - ICMP Data Exfiltration
Data was exfiltrated from the internal host 10.20.0.15 to the external host 203.0.113.66 disguised as ping (ICMP echo…
Network Analysis - SMB Share Enumeration Leak
An attacker enumerating SMB shares on the network was captured. Download the packet capture (traffic.pcap), follow the…
Network Analysis - Telnet Credentials
A legacy server was administered over Telnet in clear text. Download the packet capture (traffic.pcap), follow the…
Network Analysis - Anonymous FTP Transfer
An anonymous FTP session was captured in clear text. Download the packet capture (traffic.pcap), follow the FTP data…
Network Analysis - Clear-text HTTP Credentials
Analyze traffic intercepted on public Wi-Fi where someone logged in over plain HTTP. Download the packet capture…
Network Analysis - Plaintext SMTP Attachment
The internal host 10.30.0.25 sent an email to port 25 of the mail server 10.30.0.10 without encryption. Download…
Find Password in Packet Capture
Clear-text HTTP traffic from a shop's internal network was captured. Among many requests, exactly one is the…
Identify Intrusion Time from File Timestamps
Analyze the modification times of the files in evidence/ to identify when the intrusion occurred and which hidden…
Find Process in Memory Dump
memory.dump is a simplified text of memory-analysis output (pslist / psscan / cmdline). Find the suspicious process…
Recover Deleted Files
Recover the deleted compressed file (ZIP) from the disk image and find the flag in the memo inside it. Learn how to…
Message Hidden in Image LSB
Extract the message hidden in the LSB (Least Significant Bit) of a PNG file. Learn the basics of steganography…
Extract Session Cookies from Chrome
You are given `/challenge/Cookies` and `/challenge/History` (both SQLite) taken from a Linux Chrome profile. The…
Detect DNS Tunneling
Analyze the DNS query log `dns_queries.log` to detect data exfiltration via DNS tunneling. Find the host flooding a…
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…
Web-21. Blind Injection in Secure User Search
This user search app only reports whether a username exists, without showing direct query results. Investigate whether…
Web-22. CSP Bypass on the Secure Comment Board
This comment board is protected by a Content Security Policy restricting script execution to the site itself and a…