Challenge list
Network Analysis - 802.1Q VLAN Separated Traffic
capture.pcap was captured from a mirrored switch trunk port, so frames from several VLANs are mixed together with…
Network Analysis - SNMP Information Leak
A device speaking SNMPv2c with a weak community string (public) was captured returning a GetResponse. Download the…
Network Analysis - SSL Strip Clear-text Credentials
An SSL Strip attack downgraded HTTPS to HTTP, so the victim's credentials traveled in clear text and were captured.…
Network Analysis - Unmasking WebSocket Frames
capture.pcap records WebSocket traffic between a browser and a chat server. Every client-to-server frame is masked…
Network Analysis - Custom Protocol Decoding
Traffic from a system using a small custom binary protocol was captured. Download the packet capture (traffic.pcap),…
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,…
Find Suspicious Network Connections in Memory
From the memory image of the compromised host `kinoco-app03`, the socket table `/challenge/netstat_dump.txt` and the…
Recover Executed Commands from Memory
Analyze the memory-string record `memdump.txt` to recover the executed command history. Decode the Base64 strings and…
Recover Deleted SQLite Records
You are given the SQLite database `/challenge/app.db` of the internal chat tool "kinoco-msg". The body of a message…
Decompress Multi-Layer Archive
`/challenge/artifact.xz` is a file an attacker tried to take out, wrapped many times in gzip, bzip2, xz, zip and tar.…
Decrypt Encrypted Disk
`/challenge/secret_disk.img` is a genuine LUKS2 container. Its data area holds a backup (a tar archive). The…
Cryptanalysis - RSA Common Modulus Attack
Two systems reused the same RSA modulus n and only changed the public exponent. The ciphertexts c1 and c2 of the same…
Cryptanalysis - Diffie-Hellman with a Small Prime
An old IoT device performed Diffie-Hellman key exchange with a prime p of only 36 bits. handshake.txt contains p, g, A…
Regex Expert - Data Validation
/challenge/data.txt holds 400 contact records. Each line contains an email address, a phone number, an IP address and…
Data Hidden in Audio File
`hidden.wav` hides a message encoded with on-off keying (OOK). Turn the tone on/off slots into bits and decode them to…
Advanced Automation - Directory Monitor
`/challenge/logs/` holds access logs from four web front ends (combined log format, 60 files, over 100k lines). The…
AWS CLI - S3 Bucket Investigation
An offline export of the S3 configuration is under `/challenge/s3_audit/` (`buckets.json` plus each bucket's…
Extract Secret Key from Android App
Extract a safe ZIP-formatted APK fixture (evidence/app.apk) and analyze the encrypted API secret recorded in its…
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:…
Detect Unauthorized Access in CloudTrail Logs
Analyze the CloudTrail export `/challenge/cloudtrail.json` and trace the unauthorized use of a stolen access key and…
Extract Secrets from Docker Image Layers
`/challenge/image/` is an unpacked `docker save` export (OCI layout). The layers are stored in `blobs/sha256/` as…
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…