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Cyber Apocalypse 2021 - Challenges

AlienPhish

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Unzip the downloadable file and view the slide1.xml.rels file. Inside is a command with some of the text backwards. Flip the text and decode the base64 for the flag.

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Authenticator

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Open the downloadable file with Ghidra and look through the functions. In the check pin function is a string with a ^9. Take the string to CyberChef and XOR with a key of 9 to get the flag.

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BlitzProp

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View the website and intecept the traffic with Burp. A hint is given on the song names since AST is capitalized. Check out AST Injection for some more info. Insert a command to read the directory the flag is in an then read the flag itself once you have the name.

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CAAS

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Have the website request file:/flag to read the flag.

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MiniSTRYplace

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Viewing the downloadable file tells us that requests with ../ will be replaced with a space. Exploit the LFI vulnerability by putting …/./…/. before the file to read the flag.
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