I only managed one task in the 2016 VolgaCTF, but it was a fun one. Coding a tic tac toe bot.

Challenge:

Tic-Tac-Toe

An important step towards the strong AI is the ability of an artificial agent to solve a well-defined problem. 
A project by the name 'tic-tac-toe' was one of such test problems. It's still up...

nc tic-tac-toe.2016.volgactf.ru 45679

Challenge:

File Checker (rev60)

Description:

My friend sent me this file. He told that if I manage to reverse it, I’ll have access to all his devices. My misfortune that I don’t know anything about reversing :/

Challenge:

FlagStore (exp70)

Description:

Here’s the ultimate flag store. Store and retrieve your flags whenever you want.

Challenge:

It’s Prime Time! (code60)

Description: We all know that prime numbers are quite important in cryptography. Can you help me to find some?

Service: 188.166.133.53:11059

Solution:

Running netcat against the address gave the following output:

> nc 188.166.133.53 11059
Hi, you know that prime numbers are important, don't you? 
Help me calculating the next prime!
Level 1.: Find the next prime number after 5:

I haven’t done much work with Ruby, but this little challenge from the Internetwache CTF looked interesting.

Challenge:

Ruby’s count (exp50)

Description: Hi, my name is Ruby. I like converting characters into ascii values and then calculating the sum.

Service: 188.166.133.53:12037

Solution

The first thing to do was to poke the service using netcat:

> nc 188.166.133.53 12037
Let me count the ascii values of 10 characters:
> 123
WRONG!!!! Only 10 characters matching /^[a-f]{10}$/ !

A nice little Stego challenge from SharifCTF

Challenge:

We have hidden a message in png file using jar file. Flag is hidden message. Flag is in this format:

SharifCTF{flag}

Files:

cheetah.tar.gz

Extracting the supplied tar.gz archive provided a PNG image:

Also included was Hide.jar, the Java code used to embed the flag in the image.