Flare-On 2020 Challenges
This was my first reverse engineering capture the flag.
The results can be found here. Overall, I was one of 817 people to complete 6 challenges out of the 5,648 contestants registered (top 15%)
Posts
Takeaways
It took me a while to create the writeups for all of these challenges because I had to go back and take screenshots of the challenges. This is why the date of the posts is 2 months after the challenge ended. In some cases, my notes didn’t cover a critical step in solving the problem so I had to either remember how I solved it or re-solve the challenge in order to get the screenshots I needed. Two lessons:
- No such thing as copious notes when recording content for a How-To (or How-I-Solved-This)
- Take screenshots as you go
The challenge files can be found either on the web or at my github.
Disclaimer
I did not write the challenge files (the files included in this directory with the .7z file extension). These were written by the amazing authors at Flare-on. These files should ONLY be opened in a lab or VM that’s designed for malware analysis. The password for all of these files is flare.
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