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This year’s HACKvent was hosted on the brand new Hacking-Lab 2.0 plattform. Each day from the 1st of december until the 24th a new challenge is published raising in difficulty. The flag format changed from HV18-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx to HV19{...}. After all I managed to solve all 28 challenges 🙂 |
This years online qualification for the Google Capture The Flag finals (ctftime.org) ran from 22/06/2019, 00:01 UTC to 23/06/2019 23:59 UTC.
As last year, there were plenty of diversified challenges, which were worked out very well.
I tried to take at least a look at as much challenges as possible and solved the challenge Quantum Key Distribution, which was relatively easy based on the amounts of solves. Within this article I want to share my writeup on this challenge.
The writeup is divided into the following sections:
Continue reading “Google CTF 2019 (Quals) – Quantum Key Distribution” |
As every year hacking-lab.com carried out the annual Hacky Easter event with 27 challenges. As usual the variety of the challenges was awesome. I actually got full score this year 🙂 Many thanks to daubsi, who gave me a nudge once in a while on the last challenges (you can find his writeup here). |
The VolgaCTF 2019 Qualifier (ctftime.org) took place from 29/03/2019, 15:00 UTC to 31/03/2019 15:00 UTC.
There has been a really interesting RSA crypto challenge called Blind, which I would like to share with you in this writeup.
The article is divided into the following sections:
→ Challenge description
→ What does the script do?
→ Blind RSA Signature
→ Retrieving the Flag
The nullcon HackIM 2019 CTF (ctftime.org) ran from 01/02/2019, 16:30 UTC to 03/02/2019 04:30 UTC.
I did the pwn challenge babypwn, which was really fun to do. The following article contains my writeup being divided into the following sections:
→ Challenge description
→ Security mechanisms and disassembly
→ Signedness vulnerabilitiy
→ Format string vulnerabilitiy
→ Final exploit
This article contains my first writeup on a machine from Hack The Box. If you have not checked out Hack The Box yet, I really suggest you do. Aside from providing classical CTF-style challenges, the plattform hosts plenty of vulnerable machines (boxes), which are supposed to be exploited. The boxes tend to be geared to realistic scenarios and are thus an awesome opportunity to increase your own pen testing skills.
In order to prove the exploitation of a machine, there are two different flag files stored on each machine. The first one to acquire is a file called user.txt, which can be read by a low privileged user. The next step after initially exploiting the machine is to escalate privileges gaining access to an administrative user (root access). With this high privileged user a second file called root.txt can be read. Both files contain a flag (an md5sum), which is supposed to be submitted on the Hack The Box website rewarding you with the corresponding points for this machine.
According to those two steps/files the article is divided into the following sections:
→ User
– Port Scan
– FTP (Port 21)
– SSH (Port 22)
– HTTP nginx (Port 80)
– HTTP nginx (Port 8080)
– Back to SSH
→ Root
– Initial Enumeration
– SUID binaries
– myexec
– libseclogin.so
– myexec’s password
– ldconfig
– Compile own shared Library
The Codegate CTF 2019 Preliminary (ctftime.org) ran from 26/01/2019, 00:00 UTC to 27/01/2019 00:00 UTC.
Within this article I want to share my quick writeup on the challenge KingMaker.
Continue reading “Codegate CTF 2019 Preliminary – KingMaker”
For the sixth time in a row now hacking-lab.com carried out the annual HACKvent. Each day from the 1st of december until the 24th a new challenge is published. I would have loved to spend more time on it, but time is a rare resource especially on the days before christmas 😉 After all I managed to solve 21 of 24 tasks:
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Easy |
| Day 01: Just Another Bar Code Day 02: Me Day 03: Catch me Day 04: pirating like in the 90ies Day 05: OSINT 1 Day 06: Mondrian Day 07: flappy.pl |
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Medium |
| Day 08: Advent Snail Day 09: fake xmass balls Day 10: >_ Run, Node, Run Day 11: Crypt-o-Math 3.0 Day 12: SmartWishList Day 13: flappy’s revenge Day 14: power in the shell |
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Hard |
| Day 15: Watch Me Day 16: Pay 100 Bitcoins Day 17: Faster KEy Exchange Day 18: Be Evil Day 19: PromoCode Day 20: I want to play a game Day 21: muffinCTF (Day 1) Day 22: muffinCTF (Day 2) Day 23: muffinCTF (Day 3) |
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Final |
| Day 24: Take the red pill, take the blue pill | |
The goal of this article is to explain in detail how an off-by-one vulnerability on the heap also known as poison null byte can be exploited. Although this technique does not work with the latest libc, I think it can be used very good in order to demonstrate how exploits based on heap-metadata corruption work (also check out shellphish’s how2heap).
In order to do this I created a vulnerable program, which we will use as an example to create such an exploit. If you like to, you can start by analyzing and exploiting the program on your own (at least check out Environment):
–> heap.zip
Though it is not required to the exploit the program, the source-code might be helpful:
–> heap.c
The article is divided into the following sections:
–> Environment
–> Vulnerable Program
–> Heap Basics
–> Libc-Leak
–> Control Instruction Pointer
–> One Gadget
–> Final Exploit
Continue reading “Heap Exploitation: Off-By-One / Poison Null Byte”
The Meepwn CTF Quals 2018 (ctftime.org) ran from 13/07/2018, 19:00 UTC to 15/07/2018 19:00 UTC.
There were a lot of interesting-looking challenges. As always, time was the limiting factor 😉 I managed to spend 2 hours on saturday morning solving the pwn challenge babysandbox.
