Forbidden Paths Description Can you get the flag? Here’s the website. We know that the website files live in ‚/usr/share/nginx/html/‘ and the flag is at ‚/flag.txt‘ but the website is filtering absolute file paths. Can you get past the filter to read the flag? Solving Open the site and you will see a form, where you can read files. Some
Torrent Analyze Description SOS, someone is torrenting on our network. One of your colleagues has been using torrent to download some files on the company’s network. Can you identify the file(s) that were downloaded? The file name will be the flag, like picoCTF{filename}. Captured traffic. Solving Loading the pcap file into wireshark and started looking at it. At the beginning
St3g0 Description Download this image and find the flag. Download image Solving Looking at the hint We know the end sequence of the message will be $t3g0. Okay, I did some google research with that $t3g0 and found an interessting article. Downloaded the script from the github repo run it with the image FLAG 🙂 #import libraries import sys import
Sleuthkit Intro Description Download the disk image and use mmls on it to find the size of the Linux partition. Connect to the remote checker service to check your answer and get the flag. Note: if you are using the webshell, download and extract the disk image into /tmp not your home directory. Download disk image Access checker program: nc
Packets Primer Description Download the packet capture file and use packet analysis software to find the flag. Download packet capture Solving We got a pcap file… lets look into it… First lets check for low hanging fruits… with strings – ah there is the flag 🙂 The flag is in plainsight! Just remove the whitespaces You can use tr -d
Enhance! Description Download this image file and find the flag. Download image file Solving Lets have a look at the svg file It looks like a normal file In the last lines of the file, in the tspan tag, we can see some interessting characters… looks like the end of the flag. id=“tspan3764″>F { 3 n h 4 n c
buffer overflow 1 Description Control the return address Now we’re cooking! You can overflow the buffer and return to the flag function in the program. You can view source here. And connect with it using nc saturn.picoctf.net 51721 Info The links could be different.. the instance will be different (you have to launch your own in CTF) Solving This is
buffer overflow 0 Description Smash the stack Let’s start off simple, can you overflow the correct buffer? The program is available here. You can view source here. And connect with it using: nc saturn.picoctf.net 65445 Solving Download the sourcecode and the program If we check the sourcecode we will see, that a sigsev will give us a flag Playing with
RPS Description Here’s a program that plays rock, paper, scissors against you. I hear something good happens if you win 5 times in a row. Connect to the program with netcat: nc saturn.picoctf.net 53296 The program’s source code with the flag redacted can be downloaded here. Solving Checking the code (as mentioned in the hint of the challenge) In the
flag leak Description Story telling class 1/2 I’m just copying and pasting with this program. What can go wrong? You can view source here. And connect with it using: nc saturn.picoctf.net 51385 Solving This is a format string attack. So if we use some magic to send some format strings to the app, this should get us the flag. Here