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Hacker House are community sponsors at this year’s BSides London 2017 and, to celebrate, we have an exploit challenge for you. A key date in the UK security scene, it offers an alternative technical conference for the hackers and tech geeks to share war stories and learn. We are providing a challenge lab designed especially for the conference that attendees can sink disassemblers into. If you aren’t at the event, you can also hack along at home, but remember that prizes for solutions can only be claimed at our stand during the event! The challenge is provided in ISO format which you can boot in VirtualBox or any similar virtualisation software, heck you can even run it on an ATM if you like, but this is unsupported. If you solve our little brain teasing conundrums and beat the system to get root, the first three successful solutions presented to us at our stand can claim one of our awesome hoodies, check them out in our shop! This challenge is open to individuals, but if you do decide to team up, then let us know as only one prize can be claimed per solution. We are also giving several t-shirts away during the raffle so make sure you get your tickets!

Our challenge will test your elite hacking skills and requires web application, reverse engineering, cryptography and exploit abilities. It shouldn’t take the competent skilled hacker too much time, but if you do struggle then watch our social media feeds during the event for some tips to this adventure. You should run the challenge in Host-Only networking mode and on successful boot you will be presented with a console, similar to the one shown at the end of this post. You should solve the challenge from a network perspective, only solutions using this route will be accepted for prizes (unless they are really cool!).

The goal of the challenge is to hack the ISO, level up your skills and get root, come and show us how you did it if you want to claim your prize! If you are struggling with the configuration of our challenge, you can check out our training course free module, which details steps for configuring a similar lab. You can find details and upcoming dates of our training here.

Happy hacking and remember sharing is caring so post (tweet us @myhackerhouse!) or email a solution and let us know about it after the event. We will share links to the best of them on this blog! May the force be with you, young padawan, and remember that hacking isn’t just a skill – it’s a survival trade.

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Game of Thrones Hacking CTF

This is a challenge-game to measure your hacking skills. Set in Game of Thrones fantasy world.


Goal:

Get the 7 kingdom flags and the 4 extra content flags (3 secret flags + final battle flag). There are 11 in total.

Rules/guidelines to play:

  • Start your conquer of the seven kingdoms
  • You'll need hacking skills, no Game of Thrones knowledge is required. But if you play, it may contains spoilers of the TV series
  • Difficulty of the CTF: Medium-High
  • Don't forget to take your map (try to find it). It will guide you about the natural flag order to follow over the kingdoms
  • Listen CAREFULLY to the hints. If you are stuck, read the hints again!
  • Powerful fail2ban spells were cast everywhere. Bruteforce is not an option for this CTF (2 minutes ban penalty)
  • The flags are 32 chars strings. Keep'em all! you'll need them

Requirements/starting guide:

  • Import the Linux based CTF challenge virtual machine (OVA file)
  • OVA file is compatible with Oracle Virtualbox and Vmware
  • The challenge vm needs 1 cpu and 1512mb RAM to work properly
  • The challenge vm has its network configured by default as bridge. It will take an IP from the DHCP of your network

Downloading challenge CTF vm:

Troubleshooting

  • Vmware:
  • If you get a warning/error importing machine, press "Retry" and it will be imported flawlessly
  • Oracle Virtualbox
  • It's recommended to use "Import Appliance" menu option instead of double click on OVA file
  • If you get an error regarding network, just select your network interface

Good luck, the old gods and the new will protect you!


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Designed by/Credits

  • Óscar Alfonso (OscarAkaElvis or v1s1t0r)
  • Contact: [[email protected]]
  • Thanks to the beta testers, specially to j0n3, Kal3l and masAcre
  • Version 1.0 (September 2017)
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C0m80 Boot2Root

https://3mrgnc3.ninja/2017/09/c0m80/


About

This is my third public Boot2Root, This one is intended to be quite difficult compared to the last two.

But again, that being said, it will depend on you how hard it is :D

The theme with this one is all about 'enumeration, enumeration, enumeration', lateral thinking, and how to "combine" vulnerabilities in order to exploit a system.


Important Note

Once you have an IP insert it into your attack system /etc/hosts like this:

[dhcp-ip-address] C0m80.ctf

This VM will probably be different to other challenges you may have come across. With C0m80 You will be required to log in locally in the VirtualBox console window at some point. This, I know, may 'rile' some of the purists out there that say you should be able to compromise a boot2root fully remotely over a network. I agree to that in principle, and in this case I had intended to allow vnc or xrdp access. Alas, due to compatibility problems I had to make a compromise in this area in order to get the challenge published sooner rather than later.

It should be obvious at what point you need to log in. So when that time comes just pretend you are using remote desktop. ;D

Sorry, I hope you can forgive me.


Difficulty Rating

[Difficult] but depends on you really


Goal

There is only one goal here. Become God on the system and read the root flag.

I Hope You Enjoy It.


Download Link

https://3mrgnc3.ninja/files/C0m80_3mrgnc3_v1.0.ova


Details

  • File: C0m80_3mrgnc3-v1.0.ova
  • OS: WondawsXP ;D
  • VM Type: VirtualBox
  • IP Address: DHCP
  • Size: 2.7 GB

Walkthroughs

Please leave feedback and comments below. Including any info on walkthroughs anyone wishes to publish, or bugs people find in the VM Image.

Alternatively email me at 3mrgnc3 at techie dot com

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