rsa
Forensics (450 pts)
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Our archaeologists recovered a dusty and corrupted old hard drive used by
The Plague in his trips into the past. It contains a private key, but this
has long since been lost to bitrot. Can you recover the full key from the
little information we have recovered?

You can download the recovered information here.

bbos
Forensics (350 pts)
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You have traveled back in time, but look, hunting  The Plague is tough.
You're really just going back to relax for a while  without having to
worry about all that nonsense. As you walk in the park  you stumble
across someone's BlackBerry. Wow, people still use  BlackBerry phones
(time travel gets so confusing)? You figure you should  return it to the
owner, but you have a hard time getting inside. Figure  out what's on
the phone, and maybe we'll be able to return it to the rightful owner.

BlackBerry was this fancy pager thing, right?

zfs
Forensics (400 pts)
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The Plague is using state of the art systems for storing his data. 
Our operatives managed to steal a drive from one of his servers, 
but it seems like our haste may have led to some uber-corruption. 
Can you get the data off the drive to track down The Plague?

Sure we can. But where do we start?

This challenge was about extracting a (not very well) hidden message out of an image file:

doge_stege
Forensics (100 pts)
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You were startled to learn the The Plague has been behind many of the
most popular internet memes. We believe he hides information in these
funny pictures with steganography in order to broadcast his messages
through time without detection. Find the hidden message, stop the
signal.

Obvious Stego is Obvious

The first thing to do with every file you get from a CTF challenge is to run the file command on it:

% file doge_stege.png
doge_stege.png: PNG image data, 680 x 510, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced

Last week we played plaidCTF with Eindbazen under the name 0xffa (can you figure out why that name?). Write-ups are mandatory in the rules, so let’s start with an easy one :-)

curlcore
Forensics (250 pts)
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We managed to grab a memory dump off of The Plague's computer while
he was making a secure download. We think he may have been looking
for new places to hide the Prime Factorizer. Can you figure out what
messages were sent through his computer?

For this challenge, you get 3 files:

• capture (a network capture)
• corefile (a memory dump)
• coremaps (the process’s memory map)

and the shell script which helped generating those files

#/bin/sh

sudo rm /tmp/capture 2>/dev/null
sudo dumpcap -i eth0 -w /tmp/capture &
DUMPCAPPID=$!

sleep 1
OUTPUT="`/usr/bin/env -i /bin/dash -c 'ulimit -c unlimited; curl -k https://curlcore.local.plaidctf.com/flag.html & PID=$!;     sleep 5; printf "generate-core-file\ninfo proc mappings\ndetach\n" | sudo gdb attach $PID; wait'`"
sleep 1

sudo kill -INT $DUMPCAPPID
wait

sudo chown `whoami` /tmp/capture

echo "$OUTPUT"

sudo mv "`echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -o 'Saved corefile .*$' | cut -c 16-`" /tmp/corefile
sudo chown `whoami` /tmp/corefile


echo "$OUTPUT" | awk '/Mapped address spaces/,/(gdb)/' | grep -v '(gdb)' > /tmp/coremaps

rm /tmp/curlcore.tgz 2>/dev/null
tar czf /tmp/curlcore.tgz `grep -o ' /.*$' /tmp/coremaps | sort -us | tr '\n' ' '` /tmp/corefile /tmp/coremaps /tmp/capture     "$0"

Since we have a network capture of the https download, we need to find a way to decrypt the SSL communication…