Minotaur CTF

Minotaur is a boot2root CTF. Once you load the VM, treat it as a machine you can see on the network, i.e. you don't have physical access to this machine. Therefore, tricks like editing the VM's BIOS or Grub configuration are not allowed. Only remote attacks are permitted. There are a few flag.txt files around to grab. /root/flag.txt is your ultimate goal.

I suggest you use VirtualBox with a Host Only adapter to run Minotaur fairly painlessly.

The VM will assign itself a specific IP address (in the 192.168.56.0/24 range). Do not change this, as the CTF will not work properly without an IP address of 192.168.56.X.

If you load the .ova file in VirtualBox, you can see this machine from another VirtualBox machine with a "Host Only" network adapter. You can see the machine from VMWare Workstation by: - Going into Virtual Network Editor and changing the VMnet0 network to "Bridged to: VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter". - Setting your VMWare network adapter to Custom (VMnet0) - If necessary, resetting your network adapter (e.g. ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0) so that you get a 192.168.56.0/24 address.

Location

The VM is located here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zyxbampga87nqv3/minotaur_CTF_BNE0x00.ova?dl=0 [File size: 691MB]

Hints

1. This CTF has a couple of fairly heavy password cracking challenges, and some red herrings.
2. One password you will need is not on rockyou.txt or any other wordlist you may have out there. So you need to think of a way to generate it yourself.

Contact @RobertWinkel for more hints.

Fuku CTF

Fuku (pronounced "far queue") CTF is designed to fuck with people.

This is a boot2root. Import it in VirtualBox, using a Host Only adapter, or use an adapter that will assign it an IP address in the 192.168.56.0/24 range. It only likes having an IP address in that range.

Treat the box as if it was on the network. Don't try to do anything to it that you could only do with physical access, e.g. break into the BIOS or the Grub boot loader.

There are a few flag.txt files to grab. The final one is in the /root/ directory. However, the ultimate goal is to get a root shell.

Scenario

"Bull was pissed when you broke into his Minotaur box. He has taken precautions with another website that he is hosting, implementing IDS, whitelisting, and obfuscation techniques. He is now taunting hackers to try and hack him, believing himself to be safe. It is up to you to put him in his place."

Location

The VM is located at https://www.dropbox.com/s/e2x79z5ovqqsejg/Fuku.ova?dl=0 [File size: 2GB]

Hints

1. Some scripting will probably be needed to find a useful port.
2. If the machine seems to go down after a while, it probably hasn't. This CTF isn't called Fuku for nothing!

Contact @RobertWinkel for more hints.

Simple CTF

Simple CTF is a boot2root that focuses on the basics of web based hacking. Once you load the VM, treat it as a machine you can see on the network, i.e. you don't have physical access to this machine. Therefore, tricks like editing the VM's BIOS or Grub configuration are not allowed. Only remote attacks are permitted. /root/flag.txt is your ultimate goal.

I suggest you use VirtualBox or VMWare Player with a Host Only adapter. The VM will assign itself an IP address through DHCP.

Location

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9spf5m9l87zjlps/Simple.ova?dl=0 [File size: 600MB]

Hints

1. Get a user shell by uploading a reverse shell and executing it.
2. A proxy may help you to upload the file you want, rather than the file that the server expects.
3. There are 3 known privesc exploits that work. Some people have had trouble executing one of them unless it was over a reverse shell using a netcat listener.

Contact @RobertWinkel for more hints.