Challenge list
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Programming - Image Steganography
image.pgm is a text-format (P2) PGM image created at every start (in /challenge). Collect the least significant bit…
Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆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…
Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆Recover Executed Commands from Memory
Analyze the memory-string record `memdump.txt` to recover the executed command history. Decode the Base64 strings and…
Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆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…
Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆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.…
Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆Decrypt Encrypted Disk
`/challenge/secret_disk.img` is a genuine LUKS2 container. Its data area holds a backup (a tar archive). The…
Digital ForensicsLevel 3★★★☆☆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…
Digital ForensicsLevel 4★★★★☆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…
Digital ForensicsLevel 4★★★★☆Detect Unauthorized Access in CloudTrail Logs
Analyze the CloudTrail export `/challenge/cloudtrail.json` and trace the unauthorized use of a stolen access key and…
Digital ForensicsLevel 4★★★★☆Extract Secrets from Docker Image Layers
`/challenge/image/` is an unpacked `docker save` export (OCI layout). The layers are stored in `blobs/sha256/` as…
LinuxLevel 4★★★★☆Linux-Kernel Module. Gaining Root via a Vulnerable Driver
This challenge analyzes a vulnerable character-device driver as a safe user-space simulation. No real kernel module is…
LinuxLevel 4★★★★☆Linux-Buffer Overflow. Exploiting a gets() Vulnerability
A vulnerable SUID C binary with protections disabled is provided. Exploit its buffer overflow to redirect control flow…
ProgrammingLevel 4★★★★☆Advanced Python - Custom VM Bytecode Execution
program.kvm is bytecode for a custom four-register VM. Implement an interpreter in Python from the instruction…
Digital ForensicsLevel 4★★★★☆Decrypt TLS-Encrypted HTTPS Traffic
In `~/evidence/` there is a capture `traffic.pcap` (libpcap format) of HTTPS traffic from a client PC, and the TLS key…
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…
Network SecurityLevel 4★★★★☆Network Analysis - Rebuilding Chunked gzip HTTP from TCP
capture.pcap records two HTTP exchanges over one TCP connection. The server's segments are reordered and some are…
Network SecurityLevel 4★★★★☆Network Analysis - TCP Retransmission Covert Channel
capture.pcap contains TCP retransmissions with duplicate sequence numbers. Extract retransmissions whose payload…
ProgrammingLevel 4★★★★☆Binary Repair - Firmware Header and CRC32
Repair firmware.bin by writing KINO at bytes 0-3 and the little-endian CRC32 of bytes 12+ at bytes 8-11. Submit the…
ProgrammingLevel 4★★★★☆Programming - C2 Traffic Analysis
Analyze the synthetic log beacon.log, which is generated randomly at every start (no network connection is needed).…
ProgrammingLevel 4★★★★☆Programming - Buffer Overflow Crash Analysis
Analyze the crash reports crash_01.txt to crash_06.txt, which are generated randomly at every start (they contain no…