This was an interesting CTF with some fresh takes at classic CTF challenges. Here is a brief writeup of the challenges that I either solved during the CTF or afterwards, in an attempt to learn some techniques and to capture some approaches for later use.
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Deadface CTF 2025
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UTCTF 2024
This CTF was organized by the University of Texas, Austin’s Info Security association. I participated as part of the team Weak But Leet and we were placed 9th out of approximately 900 teams participating.
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Jersey CTF 2024
Another edition of JerseyCTF, organized by NJIT. It is my third year of participating in this CTF and it was as much fun as the other years.
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MAPNA CTF
Organized by Asis, this CTF seems to be sponsored by an energy consortium called the MAPNA group. The challenges were indeed … challenging!
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Iris CTF 2024
A very nice, high quality CTF organized by IrisSec. It had several good quality Signals/RF related challenges, which is rare in the CTFs. I used the little time I had to play in this CTF focusing on the RF challenges.
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Backdoor CTF from IIT Roorkee
A very nice CTF organized by the Info Sec club at IIT Roorkee. A very high quality set of challenges in all categories.
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Wargames.my CTF 2023
A CTF organized by a team from Malaysia. It was a tidy little event with some interesting challenges.
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Ping CTF 2023
I focused on the Crypto challenges in this CTF. The challenges were of excellent quality.
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TUCTF
A really nice CTF hosted annually by the CTF club at the University of Tulsa. I really enjoyed some of the challenges here.
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Glacier CTF by LosFuzzys
This is a CTF contest hosted by LosFuzzys. The challenges were of good quality. I would rate them to be of intermediate to hard level. I played with the team Weak But Leet and we were placed 44th.
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Intigriti 1337Up CTF
A CTF organized by Intigriti. It had some interesting challenges. I mainly attempted the crypto category.
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