Flare-on 11 (2024)

Write-up for my (incomplete) attempt

Now that flare-on has ended, here is my version of write-up~
(Only up to challenge 4 though)

Only up to challenge 4 though

While I did not complete the CTF, I am glad I attempted it up to where I left off. Challenge 5 alone was enough for me to learn multiple areas of computer forensics, and I got to shallow dive into javascript deobsfucation, yara rules, and Golang binaries with the rest.

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Romanticize your process to get addicted

I’m on the throes of flare on 11 at challenge 5.

I saw randomly a quote that goes like this “Get addicted: You need to romanticize your process”. Which hits hard.

I shall dedicate time to recreate the process and document them. Perhaps the easiest way now is to record as much as I can of whatever I kept.

Challenge 1:

This is the frog challenge: I simply observe the python code to realise there are a series of bricks that were defined as false, with two strangely true. Since the wall that surrounds the statue is surrounded by two walls, one within the other, I figured, there are two invisible holes.