Home - HackTheBox Cyber Apocalypse - The Cursed Mission (2023)

Event Details

Location: https://ctf.hackthebox.com

Date: March 18th to March 23rd 2023

Teams Allowed: Yes, up to 20 members. I participated on a team of 5 people from my workplace. Below are my writeups for challenges that I either solved or was directly involved in solving.

My progress

Our team finished in 408th place out of 6483 total teams worldwide, and 12552 total players.

Challenges completed during competition

Warmup

• Welcome! (Sanity check)
  • This was a freebie given out on the Discord channel

Pwn

• Initialise Connection (Very Easy)
  • this one is literally connect to a server with netcat and push 1, so I’m not wasting a page writing it up.
• Questionnaire (Very Easy)
• Getting Started (Very Easy)

Web

• Trapped Source (Very Easy) - Completed by a teammate
• Gunhead (Very Easy)
• Drobots (Very Easy)
• Passman (Easy)
• Orbital (Easy)

Blockchain

• We did not solve any blockchain challenges

Hardware

• Timed Transmission (Very Easy) - Completed by a teammate
• Critical Flight (Very Easy)
• Debug (Easy)
• Secret Code (Easy) - Writeup work in progress

Reversing

• Shattered Tablet (Very Easy)
• Needle in a Haystack (Very Easy)
• She Shells C Shells (Very Easy)
• Hunting License (Easy)

ML (Machine Learning)

• Reconfiguration (Very Easy)
• Mysterious Learnings (Very Easy) - Completed by a teammate

Misc

• Persistence (Very Easy)
• Restricted (Easy)
• Remote Computation (Easy)

Forensics

• Plaintext Treasure (Very Easy) - Completed by a teammate
• Alien Cradle (Very Easy) - Completed by a teammate
• Extraterrestrial Persistence (Very Easy)
• Roten (Easy)
• Packet Cyclone (Easy)
• Relic Maps (Medium)

Crypto

• Ancient Encodings (Very Easy)
• Small StEps (Very Easy)
• Perfect Synchronization (Very Easy)