TUCTF Event

This weekend I decided to check out the TUCTF Capture the Flag event.  The event started on Nov. 23rd 2018 in the evening.

Location – Online: https://tuctf.com/challenges

The rules were simple:

  • ABSOLUTELY no sharing flags
  • There is no limit to team members
  • Prizes are given to the top 3 placing collegiate and high school teams
  • Prizes are limited to those participating in the United States
  • Be a human being.

I will be participating solo.  Lets get started.

Challenge #1: Welcome

Easy enough. Next

Challenge #2:   Mrs. White’s Messy Maids

Immediately saved the jpeg to the desktop expecting some steganography goodness.  Then inspected the page and found this fella.

The slash is a dead giveaway.

Challenge #3: Mr. Green’s Weird Website

Login page with no odd findings in the source code, however when I entered a value, submitted then backed up to the original page.  I found a new entry in the history dropdown.

Decided to try admin/admin.

Lucky.

Challenge #4: Easter Egg: Copper Gate

Source looked normal, so decided to go straight to BurpSuite for a spider.

Visited the /images directory and seen sitenotes.txt (Looks interesting)

From the original spider you can see a directory for copper gate.  Lets check that out.

Included string.  Looks like base64 encoding. Pasted the string into file named base.txt.

Indeed it was!  Challenge complete.

Challenge #5: Danger Zone

First we will need to uncompile the .pyc using uncompyle6

The .py includes many functions to decode messages, but the main function returns a base64 value.

So after running through the decoding process the order to decode the message was reverse > base64 > rot13 > lastchar to front.  I modified the code in the main function for simplicity.

Now lets run this.

Ahh Haa.  Challenge complete.

Results:

 

 

Lessons Learned:

Throughout the CTF I have picked up a few new skills including using the Repeater and Sequencer functions within BurpSuite.  The CTF also pushed for additional research on the following header values and how they could be exploited: Cache-Control, If-None-Match, and If-Modified-Since.

Look for more posts on CTF challenges in the future, and until next time, stay safe in the Trenches of IT!

 

 

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