Plug

One of our client have reported that they might have been compromised and they don’t know how this happened, we have dump everything including USB traffic. Can you look at it and find out how our client got the virus in the first place? Category: forensics Solver: mp455 Writeup We can download a zip file. If we unpack it there is the file capture.pcapng . Wireshark This file we can open with Wireshark where we see captured USB traffic....

1 min · mp455

Rigged Lottery

Is everything in life completely random? Are we unable to change our fate? Or maybe we can change the future and even manipulate randomness?! Is luck even a thing? Try your “luck”! Category: Misc Solvers: t0b1, lmarschk Writeup In this challenge we get a binary and can spawn a docker container. Downloading and running the binary yields the following output. 💎 Cosy Casino 💎 Current cosy coins: 69.69 1. Generate lucky number....

4 min · t0b1, lmarschk

Trace

During the attempt to exploit a secure crypto-processor we identified some embedded logic in it. We were able to recreate the logic diagram and make a block diagram to map its connections to the original circuit. We need to identify its use, which may lead to compromising the chip. Category: Hardware Solver: davex Writeup We first looked up the content of the challenge website is. When you entered the website you could saw a diagram of the system described in the description....

3 min · davex

Weak RSA

A rogue employe managed to steal a file from his work computer, he encrypted the file with RSA before he got apprehended. We only managed to recover the public key, can you help us decrypt this ciphertext? Category: Crypto Solvers: 3mb0, lmarschk, HTTP418, miroka For this challenge, we had a public RSA key with 1026 Bit and a file that was encrypted with the corresponding private key. First approach: manual generate private key We analyzed the given public key with openssl rsa -noout -text -inform PEM -in pubkey....

3 min · 3mb0, lmarschk, HTTP418, miroka

Welcome

Join the HTB x UNI Qualifications discord channel. Category: Welcome Solver: t0bi Walkthrough The challenge description states that we should join the HTB x Uni Qualifications discord channel. From the CTF intro slides we know that we have to message the HackTheBoxBot with ++htbctf uni-ctf-2020 {Un!CTF_0f_HTB_2020_is_l33t}. Doing that will add us to the Uni CTF support channels. There we find the uni-ctf-rules channel. Carefully reading the rules reveals the flag in the following rule....

1 min · t0b1