CSAW Quals 2024

Welcome to the write-up of CSAW Quals 2024. This document details the CTF challenges I solved during the competition. The Triple Illusion (Forensics) We were given three .png files. I used ExifTool on one and zsteg on the other two to extract some information from the files, as shown below for all of them. ╭─rezy@dev ~/Desktop/images ╰─➤ exiftool datavsmetadata.png ExifTool Version Number : 12.76 File Name : datavsmetadata.png User Comment : Think about a two-input gate that outputs when inputs differ....

September 11, 2024 · 14 min · 2824 words · Me

Pentester Nepal's 2024 CTF Writeups

Hello guys, this year PTN is hosting 24 hour CTF competition in celebration of 11th Anniversary. The CTF is styled in jeopardy mode. So I, rezydev is playing this CTF with NCA1@Nepal. Let’s get into CTF writeup now. No one goes empty handed! The CTF was supposed to be started at 3:00 PM NPT but we were supposed to register our team at 12:00 noon. So, I registered my team and was just looking around the website to read “CTF Competition Rules”....

September 3, 2024 · 9 min · 1710 words · Me