Ctf-evenings

Projects
Participants	MRieback
Skills	Hacking, forensics, problem solving
Status	Active
Niche	Software
Purpose	Fun

Welcome to the Tech Inc Capture the Flag (CTF) training event series!

The format of this series is likely to evolve over time, but I currently assume that these evenings will feature a combination of web-based challenges, online competitions, and general-purpose learning/workshop evenings covering a variety of computer security (i.e. hacking, defensive) topics. Everyone of all skill levels is welcome!!!!

Past Activities

Training evenings

• 3 February, 2014 - Burp Suite and SQLmap
• 27 January, 2014 - PhDays retrospective + walkthroughs
• 13 January, 2014 - Intro to web hacking + Certified Secure
• 6 January, 2014 - Wireshark Jumpstart 101 + GitS teaser (Armorall - VNC pcap)
• 23 December, 2013 - Intro to x86 disassembly + I/O Smash the Stack war-game
• 9 December, 2013 - UNIX + Bandit wargame

Competitions

Upcoming

• Olympic CTF Sochi - 7-9 February, 2014 (with Team VUBAR)
• Codegate Preliminaries - 22-23 February, 2014 (Team Knuffelhackers)

Past

• Positive Hack Days Qualifiers 2014 - 25-27 January, 2014 (Team Knuffelhackers)
• RuCTFe 2013 - 14 December, 2013 (with Team VUBAR)
• UCSB iCTF 2013 - 6-7 December, 2013 (with Team VUBAR)

About the CTF Training Evenings

Types of evenings

I envision the following 3 kinds of CTF training evenings:

• 1 - Workshop/learning evenings - network analysis/forensics (Wireshark), filesystem forensics, reversing(Ollydbg, etc..)/Pwnables, code deobfuscation, pen testing (Kali-Backtrack/Metasploit/buffer overflows), cryptanalysis, web security (XSS, SQL injection, etc..), stegonography, Commandline kung-fu, recon/trivia/etc..
  • Example: I've got a whole slew of Wireshark training videos - we can watch them together!
  • We could also occasionally screen Defcon/CCC/Other videos on fun topics!

• 2 - Challenge website evenings
  • I setup a Scoreboard, so we can keep track of who's done which challenges

• 3 - Actual CTF events
  • There's a bunch of them on CTF Time - we should participate!
  • We can probably also join VUBAR when they are playing here! (Brainsmoke said that this would probably be okay)
  • We can also participate in own events, at other times..
• Possible team name: Knuffelhackers

Other things that we can do

• Setup a vulnerable server (Damn Vulnerable Linux, Metasploitable, etc..) and attack it
  • Other examples: http://exploit-exercises.com/
• Preparing for competitions
  • Setup Etherpad (or another online "multiplayer notepad") so people can make notes and work together for each challenge
    • We're currently using: Riseup Pad
  • Preparing tools (Backtrack VM, other VM images with different tools)
  • Being able to emulate weird architectures for binaries
  • Being able to test shellcode on our own system
  • Maybe we can do something with hardware in the space (i have no idea what the status is of VMWare cluster in space, but i think we have one..)
• Brainsmoke could talk about binary exploitation
  • We can also look at gdb / objdump / IDA / Hex-Rays

Challenge websites

Link to the Tech Inc Challenge Website Scoreboard: TechInc-CTF-Scoreboard

• http://captf.com/practice-ctf/
• http://ctf.forgottensec.com/wiki/
• http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/ (Bandit is good for beginners)
• https://www.certifiedsecure.com
• http://io.smashthestack.org
• http://ismellpackets.com/
• http://www.kroosec.com/?m=1
• http://exploit-exercises.com/fusion
• http://exploit-exercises.com/protostar
• http://opensecuritytraining.info/Training.html
• http://www.securitytreasurehunt.com/
• http://forensicscontest.com/
• http://ebctf.nl/challenges
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/owaspshepherd/files/ - VM
• http://www.hackthissite.org
• https://microcorruption.com/ - Embedded hacking
• http://www.bright-shadows.net

Reversing and Exploitation

• GDB Tips - Some beginning tips for how to use GDB
• https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CERT+C+Coding+Standard - Helpful for finding C constructs that can be exploited
• http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/index.html - GDB manual
• http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.24/binutils/index.html - GNU Binutils manual
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYOy7CGpPIU - The Making of Atlas: from Script Kiddie to Hacker in 5 Sleepless Nights (video)
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (book)
• Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering (book)
• http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/howto1.htm
• http://www.woodmann.com/crackz/Orc.htm
• Python Exploit Development Assistance

Tools: objdump, readelf, gdb, ktrace/kdump

UNIX hacking

• Log into Linux without a PW

Web hacking

• https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:Attack
• https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Testing_Guide_v4_Table_of_Contents
• http://w3schools.com
• http://yehg.net/lab/#toolbox
• https://hackvertor.co.uk/public
• Burp Suite
• fuzzdb
• Nikto
• http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/web-pen-testing-workshop - Nice series of videos

Network challenges

• For VNC: rfbproxy / Rfbplayer
• chaosreader

Steganography

• http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/tools.html
• http://www.slideshare.net/null0x00/nullcon-2010-steganography-stegananalysis-a-technical-psychological-perspective

Forensics

• File Signatures Table, File Signatures.net, DF Magic Numbers - File format signatures

Setting up a CTF

• http://ictf.cs.ucsb.edu/software.html
• http://www.cipher-ctf.org/Gameserver.php

Other stuff

• http://ctftime.org/ - Event listings and write-ups
• http://hackflag.org/forum/
• http://sysexit.wordpress.com/category/writeups/
• http://www.hackers.nl/about/introduktie/
• http://www.enigmagroup.org/pages/basics/
• http://shell-storm.org/repo/CTF/ - Archive of previous CTFs
• http://mitrecyberacademy.org/stem/moodle/course/view.php?id=13
• http://opensecuritytraining.info/Training.html
• http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/hackingillustrated