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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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Insomni’hack 2018 – Conference

This year again a small delegation of Compass Security was present at Insomni’hack in Geneva. On the novelties this year, the workshops spanned  over two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) and the conference followed the same direction (Thursday and Friday). There was also a new kind of CTF, labeled blue-team CTF, called Boss of the SOC. […]

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Fun at Insomni’hack

Last Friday a little more than a dozen Compass Security Analysts traveled to Geneva and attended the Insomnihack conference and its CTF. Conference The conference featured a variety of topics, ranging from areas such as corporate IT security, distributed systems and malware analysis, or even unusual topics such as remote exploitation of game engines. DevOOPS: Attacks […]

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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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