Africa Bug Pwn 2024 Writeups

2024-10-21 ::

Recently I took part in the Africa Bug Pwn 2024 Capture the Flag Competition and managed to get second position with 2310 points. The CTF was very interesting and I got to learn a thing or two. This blog post will be a writeup of some of the challenges I managed to solve.

UrchinSec Tanzania National CTF MMXXIV

2024-04-28 ::

#Linux #ReverseEngineering #Patching #Crypto

This blogpost is a walkthrough of the UrchinSec Tanzania National CTF challenges. The UrchinSec Tanzania National CTF was an interesting ctf organized by the urchinsec team . From the ctf, I managed to solve several challenges one of which was a 500 point reverse engineering challenge.

HTB-PlayCyberCTF

2024-01-30 ::

#Linux #Pwn #Patching #Ret2libc

This blog post is a walk-through of the Orb Pwn Challenge from the Global Cyber Games: New Year Mayhem 2024 CTF . This pwn challenge was a medium level challenge and an interesting challenge to solve.

ShmooCon CTF

2024-01-13 ::

#Linux #Ssti #DotNet #Ctf #ShmooConCTF

Over the recent weekend, I found some free time that enabled me to participate in the ShmooCon CTF. While it did not have pwn challenges as I had hoped, they offered a variety of challenges I enjoyed solving. This blogpost is a walkthrough of some of the challenges I managed to solve. Catalog Reverse Engineering First .NET WordSmith WordSmith2 Cloud Statically Charged Putting in Work Troposphere Walking Crypto Barcode ShmarCode Cloud Statically Charged For this challenge, we are provided with a url and upon visiting the link , we get a slideshow of some AI generated images.

CrewCtf Writeups

2023-07-11 ::

#Linux #Volatility #Forensics #Truecrypt

It has been a while since I last participated in a CTF (Capture The Flag) competition. With a few moments to spare this weekend, I decided to immerse myself in CrewCTF by theHackersCrew CTF team. Their event offered a diverse range of challenges, but I chose to focus primarily on the fascinating field of forensics. In this blog, I will share my approach and solutions for the different challenges I managed to solve.

CyberConKE Finals CTF

2022-11-15 ::

#Ctf #CyberConKE

This past weekend (12th Nov 2022), I got the opportunity to participate in the #CyberConKE Finals CTF at United States International University (USIU) which was an amazing experience. I played as Team ShellPhish with my teammates mug3njutsu and levanto, and we managed to attain first position. The challenges were amazing and I got to learn a thing or two. The challenges were hosted on cyberranges and are not available at the time of writing this writeup since the competition has already ended.

Blogger - Box

2022-10-31 ::

#Linux #Wordpress #Arbitrary file upload #Pwnkit

In this blogpost , I will document how I was able to gain access to the Blogger Machine from Offensive Security Proving Ground Labs. The Blogger Box was a beginner level easy box.

Machine is running on 192.168.241.217. First things first, we add the entry to /etc/hosts

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