The Game – CTF Writeup

Platform: TryHackMe Instructions: Cipher has gone dark, but intel reveals he’s hiding critical secrets inside Tetris, a popular video game. Hack it and uncover the encrypted data buried in its code. This challenge was originally a part of the Hackfinity Battle 2025 CTF Event. Writeup Time for game hacking! I was really excited about doing […]

MD2PDF – CTF Writeup

Platform: TryHackMe Instructions: TopTierConversions LTD is proud to announce its latest and greatest product launch: MD2PDF. This easy-to-use utility converts markdown files to PDF and is totally secure! Right…? Note: Please allow 3-5 minutes for the VM to boot up fully before attempting the challenge. Work Space Opened up and did an nmap scan immediately on the […]

Oracle 9 – CTF Writeup

  Platform: TryHackMe Rating: Easy Instructions: To find out what, access Oracle 9 after allowing for a few minutes for the environment to come online, then access http://10.201.8.253 from within the AttackBox or your own browser (if you’re connected to the VPN). Writeup Going to the webpage, we notice that Oracle 9 is an LLM chatbot, so this […]

Lo-Fi – CTF Writeup

Platform: TryHackme Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/lofi Instructions: Want to hear some lo-fi beats, to relax or study to? We’ve got you covered! Access this challenge by deploying both the vulnerable machine by pressing the green “Start Machine” button located within this task, and the TryHackMe AttackBox by pressing the  “Start AttackBox” button located at the top-right of the […]

Committed – CTF Writeup

Platform: TryHackMe Instructions:Oh no, not again! One of our developers accidentally committed some sensitive code to our GitHub repository. Well, at least, that is what they told us… the problem is, we don’t remember what or where! Can you track down what we accidentally committed? Access this challenge by deploying the machine attached to this […]

Cipher’s Secret Message – CTF Writeup

Platform: TryHackMe Instructions: One of the Ciphers’ secret messages was recovered from an old system alongside the encryption algorithm, but we are unable to decode it. Order: Can you help void to decode the message? Message: a_up4qr_kaiaf0_bujktaz_qm_su4ux_cpbq_ETZ_rhrudm Encryption algorithm: from secret import FLAG def enc(plaintext): return “”.join( chr((ord(c) – (base := ord(‘A’) if c.isupper() else […]