I’ve decided to start blogging my masters project early, I’m still in the planning phases since I’m not due to start it until closer to mid-2016 however my current thinking is the topic of realtime DNS data exfiltration and DGA C&C detection.

Short break but we’re back CTFing. I’ve been away because I took a month of lab time doing the OSCP certification which I will write a review of later. It was very fun though. Today I’m writing up how I solved this challenge at SecCon 2015 since it was one I spent some non-trivial time on.

Very quick challenge this one, solved in one line shell script. Here’s the clue:

Cool CTF, finished top 10 so I’m happy with that. Again it began mid week for me but I got sick with a virus so had to stay home anyway. What better to do than to CTF until I feel better?