Insomni’hack 2024 – Bash to the Future writeup

The Challenge

You have been contracted to help COPERNIC Inc spot the light on a potential compromise. It seems that one of their scientists has been spied through a 20 years old malware… And fortunately, Zeus was on your side since the 4 Gb snapshot was carried out at the best possible time to facilitate your analysis.

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Insomni’hack 2023 CTF Teaser – DoH ! writeup

For this 2023 edition, i chose to focus on the DoH (DNS Over Https) protocol because it has gained popularity for attackers as a command and control (C2) communication channel for hiding DNS traffic through HTTPS rather than using the traditional DNS tunneling. In this post, i will describe in details how to solve the challenge.

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Insomni’hack 2023 – hex-filtrate writeup

In this forensic challenge, a company has been compromised and their initial investigation led to a suspicious workstation. The CEO was very anxious about a potential exfiltration, and we were provided with a network dump of that workstation in the hope that we would be able to help him make some sweet dreams again.

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Insomni’Hack 2017 – FPS Write-Ups

For the 10th Insomni’Hack anniversary, new hacking challenge categories were available during the CTF. They consisted of social engineering, hacking room, and a multiplayer FPS game.

This article will cover several write-ups for this last category. It is a great occasion to understand quickly some basis of modern game hacking.

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