Some writeups from Huntress CTF 2025. It was my first CTF event, really good fun, would definitely recommend. Although, to compete for prizes next year, I will have to take some time off in October...

Scenario While working as a SOC analyst, you may encounter alerts from the enterprise Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) system regarding unusual activity on an end-user machine. In one instanc...

Question 1 It’s your first day on the security team at Azure Crest, a few minutes left before your lunch break (and boy are you starving), when you receive an email from your manager who is OOO. ...

Scenario Forela is in need of your assistance. They were informed by an employee that their Discord account had been used to send a message with a link to a file they suspect is malware. The messa...

Description You are tasked with looking at some suspicious network activity by your digital forensics team. The server has been taken out of production while you analyze the suspicious behavior. ...

Description What does asm3(0xd73346ed,0xd48672ae,0xd3c8b139) return? Submit the flag as a hexadecimal value (starting with ‘0x’). NOTE: Your submission for this question will NOT be in the normal ...

Asm1 - Description What does asm1(0x6fa) return? Submit the flag as a hexadecimal value (starting with ‘0x’). NOTE: Your submission for this question will NOT be in the normal flag format. Asm1 -...

Description Can you get the flag? Reverse engineer this binary. Solution We are provided with an ELF file Let’s open it in Ghidra After finding the main function we see that the program as...

Scenario Just working on a typical day as a software engineer, Perry received an encrypted 7z archive from his boss containing a snippet of a source code that must be completed within the day. Rea...

Scenario *On Friday, September 15, 2023, Michael Ascot, a Senior Finance Director from SwiftSpend, was checking his emails in Outlook and came across an email appearing to be from Abotech Waste Ma...