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Insomni’hack 2018 Wrap-Up

As every year, some Compass Security Analysts travelled to Geneva and attended the Insomni’hack conference and it’s enjoyable CTF.

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Insomni’hack 2018 – guessflag

For this task, we had SSH access to the server guess.insomni.hack and the task was to read the flag in the /home/flag directory. We were able to get the flag without even solving the challenge :)

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Insomni’hack 2018 – vba02-bitminer

Similar to the previous challenge we were provided with an Excel spreadsheet (vba02-bitminer_4052500b4f2120d3d3ae458b339ec1f16e89e870.xls) that again contained macro code that would be executed when opening the document.

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Insomni’hack 2018 – vba01-baby

In this challenge we were provided with an Excel spreadsheet (vba01-baby_272038055eaa62ffe9042d38aff7b5bae1faa518.xls). Analyzing the document using olevba (https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/wiki/olevba) quickly revealed that it contains obfuscated VBA macro code that is executed when the document is opened. Challenge Description Our Solution

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Insomni’hack 2018 – vbaby

The vbaby challenge was a simple ASP web application that accepted a single page parameter. We initially thought that it could be a local file inclusion vulnerability and therefore tried a path traversal attack:

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Insomni’hack 2018 – Authentication Service

This challenge was about LDAP injection.

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Insomni’hack 2018 – PHuck

In this challenge we were given the source of a vulnerable PHP page and were tasked with the exploitation.

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Write-up: BlackAlps Y-NOT-CTF

The BlackAlps 2017 security conference took place this week in Yverdon-les-Bains: https://www.blackalps.ch. A small delegation of Compass Security was here to present a web application security workshop and also take part in the Y-NOT-CTF. You’ll find below a write-up of the challenges we were able to solve. Fun : Beautiful Alps This was probably the […]

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Write-up: Capscii

The goal in the Capscii challenge was to solve 50 captchas consecutively in less than 100 seconds and prove that we are not human. The captcha was not your usual recognition of text though, it consisted of an operation (addition, subtraction or multiplication) on two numbers. Only problem, the numbers were printed as ASCII art on […]

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Write-up: The Great Continuation

This challenge was web based and contained a mix of XSS, CSRF and CSP bypass. We were given two web pages, admin. and bot.control.insomni.hack, and challenged to break into the administration panel to take the control of the bots. The admin page had a login form containing an obvious reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). However, it […]

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