This was a pwn challenge from the recent Amateurs CTF that I first-blooded. The challenge utilised an internal VM from a Solana validator client, Firedancer, and involved finding vulnerabilities in the VM implementation. Interestingly, Firedancer is a clone of the Rust Solana rbpf library but re-written in C! To temper...
Palindrome, everyone’s favourite cybercrime syndicate, is back for TISC 2023. I managed to solve all 10 challenges this year and clinch 2nd place. Here are my write-ups for all 10 levels. Level 1: Disk Archaeology Level 2: XIPHEREHPIX’s Reckless Mistake Level 3: KPA Level 4: Really Unfair Battleships Game Level...
Over the weekend, I played DownUnderCTF with my team, Social Enginner Experts, placing 6th overall.
This weekend, Social Engineering Experts (SEE) held its inaugural SEETF. Here are my write-ups for the challenges I authored. I am aware of the (multiple) unintended solutions, but thought it would be good to document my intended solutions. Thanks to everyone who played!
Over the weekend, I played GreyCTF with Social Engineering Experts, placing 1st locally and 8th internationally. Having not touched CTFs for ages due to NS, I was a bit rusty, but luckily the challenges were nice twists on simple concepts, offering a pleasant mix of difficulty. I focused on the...
This is part 2 in the series on the ImageMagick vulnerability CVE-2020-10251. Part 1 discusses how to trigger the vulnerability and touches on how to recover the OOB heap data. This part will look at crafting suitable exploit files and exfiltrating useful information from the heap, making use of a...
In the past, I had done some research in the automated detection of vulnerabilities in binaries. There were a few vulnerabilities that I used as a benchmark for my algorithm to detect, one of which was CVE-2020-25674. This CVE was a bug in ImageMagick, “a widely deployed, general purpose image...
I participated in JadeCTF over the weekend. Having put CTFs on hold for some time for school, these challenges were a nice refresher for me. For these write-ups, I won’t be diving too deep into the details. Instead, I’ll mainly be focusing on the high-level method used to solve the...
TISC (The InfoSecurity Challenge) 2022, organised by CSIT, was a CTF held over 17 days. Eager to escape my exam prep, I spent the first few days trying the challenges :) I solved the first 6 challenges in the first week before deciding to resume my studying… The challenges are...
I felt that these ring’s challenges were quite fun, requiring some creative thinking to solve. There was one last challenge in this category which my team didn’t manage to solve (blackbox FSB pwn). You can find the relevant binaries in this repo.
These 3 challenges had a wide variation in difficulty, but were all worth 100 points each (static scoring). You can find the relevant binaries in this repo.
In the recent Cyber Defenders Discovery Camp (CDDC) organised by DSTA, my team “Avocado_Milk” came in 4th with an overall score of 6180 - maybe one day I’ll get that podium finish :). Here are the write-ups for the challenges I solved during the CTF. I’ll be releasing my rev...