Challenge list
General SkillsLevel 3★★★☆☆Advanced Automation - Directory Monitor
`/challenge/logs/` holds access logs from four web front ends (combined log format, 60 files, over 100k lines). The…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆AWS CLI - S3 Bucket Investigation
An offline export of the S3 configuration is under `/challenge/s3_audit/` (`buckets.json` plus each bucket's…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆Ansible Automation - Server Configuration Management
Analyze the generated run export artifacts/ansible/vault-export.yml without running Ansible or touching a server. It…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆CI/CD Security - GitHub Actions Vulnerability
Audit the 20 GitHub Actions workflows under `/challenge/repo/.github/workflows/`. Many steps carry a `# audit-ticket:…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆Infrastructure as Code - Terraform Security
Analyze the generated terraform/terraform.tfstate without initializing a Terraform provider. The output…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆Kubernetes Basics - Cluster Investigation
Investigate the two snapshots in artifacts/kubernetes/ (pod-snapshot.yaml and secret-snapshot.yaml) without connecting…
Web SecurityLevel 4★★★★☆Web-26. Prototype Pollution in User Profile Manager
In this Node.js/Express app, a logged-in user can update their own profile. Check whether the recursive merge function…
Web SecurityLevel 4★★★★☆Web-27. GraphQL Introspection Leak
This GraphQL API exposes a schema of User objects with introspection enabled. Investigate whether undocumented queries…
Web SecurityLevel 4★★★★☆Web-28. Hijacking an OAuth Authorization Code
This OAuth 2.0 authorization provider offers a login flow, but its redirect_uri validation may be weak. Investigate…
Web SecurityLevel 4★★★★☆Web-29. NoSQL Injection in a MongoDB Login Form
This login portal is backed by MongoDB and builds its query directly from raw JSON username/password input.…
Web SecurityLevel 4★★★★☆Web-30. Insecure Deserialization in KinoVault
A legacy backup system codenamed KinoVault reportedly serializes user session objects with Python's pickle module and…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆Custom Tool Development - Web Directory Scanner
Analyze the locally generated artifacts/scanner/directory-report.ndjson instead of scanning a live website. The…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆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…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆Encrypted Communication - GPG Public Key Cryptography
Practice GnuPG decryption. Import every private key under `/challenge/keys/` and decrypt each ciphertext under…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆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…
General SkillsLevel 4★★★★☆Static Analysis - Code Vulnerability Scanning
The Python source of an internal notes app is in `/challenge/src/`. The nine lines flagged by an earlier…
General SkillsLevel 5★★★★★APT Simulation - Full Breach Scenario
This is not an attack exercise but a blue-team task of reading the logs of an incident that already happened. From the…
General SkillsLevel 5★★★★★Bug Bounty Practice - Vulnerability Discovery Master
Analyze the fixed artifacts/bug-bounty/triage-report.json instead of testing a live application. A chained report has…
General SkillsLevel 5★★★★★Red Teaming - Custom C2 Framework
No C2 server, agent, socket communication, or command execution is started. Analyze the local…
General SkillsLevel 5★★★★★Anti-Forensics - Evidence Elimination
After the intrusion the attacker covered their tracks: they cut a time window out of `/challenge/auth_syslog.log` (the…
General SkillsLevel 5★★★★★Custom Malware - Stealth Techniques
No executable malware, injection, or evasion capability is included. Analyze the inert configuration sample…
General SkillsLevel 5★★★★★Cloud Pentesting - AWS Multi-Stage Attack
Do not use AWS credentials, a metadata endpoint, or Lambda. Analyze the local artifacts/aws/cloudtrail-chain.jsonl…
General SkillsLevel 5★★★★★Container Escape - Kubernetes Privilege Escalation
Do not use a Kubernetes API, host mount, privileged container, or escape. Read the static…
General SkillsLevel 5★★★★★Supply Chain Attack - Dependency Exploitation
Audit the dependency records of the Node.js app `kinoco-webapp`: `/challenge/dependencies.txt` (the dependencies…