Challenge list
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…
Digital ForensicsLevel 2★★☆☆☆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…
Digital ForensicsLevel 2★★☆☆☆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…
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…
Digital ForensicsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Find Password in Packet Capture
Clear-text HTTP traffic from a shop's internal network was captured. Among many requests, exactly one is the…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Padding Oracle Basics
Padding oracle attacks use error differences as a plaintext recovery signal. This introductory task decodes leaked…
Digital ForensicsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Identify Intrusion Time from File Timestamps
Analyze the modification times of the files in evidence/ to identify when the intrusion occurred and which hidden…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Programming - Bash Job Log Analysis
/challenge/jobs.log is a nightly batch log that is regenerated with random data every time the container starts. Each…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Programming - PIN Brute Force
/challenge/vault.json is a vault record that is regenerated with random data every time the container starts. It…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Programming - Hash Verification and Decryption
Analyze the evidence file artifact-manifest.json, which is generated randomly at every start. Each artifact…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Programming - Binary TLV Parsing
/challenge/capture.bin is a custom binary file that is regenerated with random data every time the container starts.…
Digital ForensicsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Find Process in Memory Dump
memory.dump is a simplified text of memory-analysis output (pslist / psscan / cmdline). Find the suspicious process…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Rainbow Table Attack
Unsalted fast password hashes can often be reversed with precomputed lookup databases. Reverse the given MD5 hash. MD5…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆One-Time Pad Key Reuse Attack
A one-time pad is safe only when the key is used once. Reusing the key lets known plaintext recover other plaintexts.…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Predictable Randomness
Pseudo-random output with a fixed seed is reproducible and must not be used for cryptographic secrets. Flag generation…
Digital ForensicsLevel 2★★☆☆☆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…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Breaking Small RSA Keys
Factor a tiny RSA modulus, recover the private exponent, and decrypt a list of ciphertext values. Public key and…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Cryptanalysis - Breaking the Affine Cipher
ciphertext.txt is an English report encrypted with the affine cipher E(x) = (a*x + b) mod 26. Letter case is preserved…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆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…
Digital ForensicsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Message Hidden in Image LSB
Extract the message hidden in the LSB (Least Significant Bit) of a PNG file. Learn the basics of steganography…
Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆Extract Session Cookies from Chrome
You are given `/challenge/Cookies` and `/challenge/History` (both SQLite) taken from a Linux Chrome profile. The…