Fun CTF with some binary exploitation challenges that were at my basic level and had no significant hidden catches to block me solving them. I’ll cover zoom2win, Tweety birb and Broke College Students in this writeup.

Another great CTF this week with a lot of variety of challenges and very helpful admins. For the second week in a row I’m writing about a solution which was not my first pathway. This challenge was in the Reverse Engineering category but if taken as a Crypto category challeng it solves much more easily.

Great CTF with a lot of variety of challenges plus great infrastructure stability. Nice job team. This challenge I solved using a backup idea I had when my original solution wasn’t working. Details below.

Fun CTF for TamilSec Con 2021 which wasn’t taking itself too seriously. This was the group’s first year and it was clear they had a lot of fun trying to come up with creative new challenges. I solved quite a few and this was one that got me stuck the longest. It was a memory forensics challenge. Here’s how I solved it which does not have an intended ending…

DownunderCTF has become a big event in the yearly CTF calendar. Nice job all involved! It’s also one of the only CTFs that is run in a cloud region geographically near me. Loved the super fast ping times to all the infrastructure. What a luxury!