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As with last year all of my solutions can be found on this post. Due to the changes implemented this year, solutions for each act will be posted as their embargos are lifted. Additionally, the list below will denote if the challenge was completed at silver or gold difficulty. Prologue Act I Act II Act…
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Back in the DMZ we can find Pepper Mintstix and Wunhorse Openslae next to The Great Elf Conflict. This is a link to an external KQL challenge. Wombley’s team conducted a phishing and ransomware attack against Alabaster’s team and we need to pour over the logs to identify how this was done. For this challenge…
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Returning to Alabaster’s side we can find Dusty Giftwrap and his Snowball Showdown challenge. He wants our help in a snowball fight. We can team up with a friend, try to hack the game to cheat, or find the secret snow bomb. Silver Medal Nothing really to note here. I played the game normally and…
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Crossing over to Wombley’s side we can find Piney Sappington. He needs our powershell skills to access a password to their snowball weaponry. Silver Clicking on the terminal gives us a shell very similar to the curl challenge from last act. As we did in that challenge, we will run through each question and answer…
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Starting off Act 2 we have a returning challenge in Android App Analysis. Talking to Eve Snowshoes, she will tell us that she’s been working on a new app for the naughty and nice list and has a debug and a release version. Each version is missing a child on the list and we need…
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Our next challenge is with Chimney Scissorsticks in the DMZ. He’s looking to defect and needs our help analyzing some data from Wombley’s drone army. Silver We can begin this challenge by opening the terminal and clicking on the hamburger menu in the top right. From here we can navigate to menu –> File Share…
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Now that we have the UART connected we can use the attached terminal to modify the access database. Card number 42 needs to have access level 1 instead of 0. We also get a hint that passwords are sometimes left out in the open. Silver Medal Loading into the terminal we are first met with…
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In a new addition for the challenge this year we have a Hardware Hacking problem. Talking to Jewl will let us know that they need help connecting to a UART interface. They’ll also let us know that there was a note with the settings but it’s been shredded. Luckily since we already completed Frosty Keypad,…
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Moving to the right after finishing the cURLing challenge we will encounter both the Hardware Hacking and Keypad challenges. Solving the keypad will give us a hint for solving hardware hacking so we’ll start there. Talking to Morcel Nougat he will ask for our help getting some shredded documents. It looks like there are two…
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Act I kicks off with a terminal challenge. ELF NAME is looking for someone to practice some cURL with him. We can jump right into the silver medal challenge here before we get into solving the Gold Medal. Silver Medal Much like we saw with the prologue, the silver medal can be solved pretty simply…
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Moving to up and to the right from Orientation, we will encounter Angel Candysalt. Talking to her, she will ask us for help beating a high score on a Connections type game. This is also our first introduction to the Silver and Gold Medals. Both answers will be provided starting with Silver. Silver Medal To…