tag: ECW 2023

ECW 2023: Centralized Memory (write-up)

7 Nov, 2023 by Maxime Turlure
Centralized Memory was a hard Linux pwn challenge created for the European Cyber Week CTF 2023 qualifiers. This write-up covers the intended method of exploitation through a race condition, an AES padding bug and a stack overflow.

ECW 2023: kaleidoscope (write-up)

kaleidoscope was a hard reverse engineering challenge created for the European Cyber Week CTF 2023 qualifiers, with a focus on Windows-specific mechanisms and VM-based obfuscation.

ECW 2023: The Calculator in Shadow (write-up)

7 Nov, 2023 by Anthony REMY
The Calculator in Shadow was a hard pwn challenge created for the European Cyber Week CTF 2023 qualifiers. It included exploiting a RISC-V calculator running on top of a customized QEMU that featured a poorly implemented shadow stack.