Posted August 15, 20187 yr The FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering (FLARE) team’s annual reverse engineering challenge will start at 8:00 p.m. ET on Aug. 24, 2018. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security professionals. So dust off your disassembler, put a new coat of oil on your old debugger, and get your favorite chat client ready to futilely beg your friends for help. Once again, this contest is designed for individuals, not teams, and it is a single track of challenges. The contest runs for six full weeks and ends at 8:00 p.m. ET on Oct. 5, 2018. This year’s contest will once again host a total of 12 challenges covering architectures from x86, x64 on Windows, Java, .NET, Webassembly, and Linux, with special appearances of Bootloaders and Bootkits. This is one of the only Windows-centric CTF challenges out there and we have crafted it to represent the skills and challenges of our workload on the FLARE team. If you complete the Flare-On Challenge you will receive a prize and permanent recognition on the flare-on.com website for your accomplishment. Prize details will be revealed when the contest ends, but as always, it will be something that will be coveted and envied by your peers. In prior years we’ve had rodeo belt buckles, replica police badges, challenge coins, and a huge pin. Check out the Flare-On website for a live countdown timer and to see the previous year’s winners. For official news and support we will be using the Twitter hashtag: #flareon5. 9 days left, better brush up your skills and make sure your tools are in good order! Official site: http://www.flare-on.com/ Edited August 15, 20187 yr by kao
August 25, 20187 yr FlareOn5 Challenge started and I'm already stuck on challenge #3 I managed to get all the 48 PNGs from but now I have no clue how to get the flag. Can someone give some hints
August 25, 20187 yr @Extreme Coders 48 Files with 48 uniques number that means flag has 48 characters ?
August 26, 20187 yr That JavaScript integrates with something else, so you'll likely have to attack it in its final form. Or so I guess. It's where I'm at, and it's very frustrating :D I've not seen JS like that before, and hard to debug. Also, anyone else have their Firefox debugger unable to set breakpoints? It just doesn't let me :((
August 27, 20187 yr 14 hours ago, Rurik said: That JavaScript integrates with something else, so you'll likely have to attack it in its final form. Or so I guess. It's where I'm at, and it's very frustrating I've not seen JS like that before, and hard to debug. Also, anyone else have their Firefox debugger unable to set breakpoints? It just doesn't let me :(( I manged to break the JS file. It is first time, took so much time but yeah finally I did it
September 4, 20187 yr Author It's official - I finished as #4 this year! Subjectively - first challenges are a bit harder than last year, probably due to the exotic targets (wasm, webinjects, etc..). All in all, I enjoyed it immensely!
September 4, 20187 yr Congrats @kao! I just saw the tweet. Cue the hundreds of randos asking you for answers 😃 So far I've loved the challenges. Good variety, learned lots of new things. #6 went off rails a bit with a seemingly 'yet another reimplement this routine'. I'm hoping they pick up good after Edited September 4, 20187 yr by Rurik
September 4, 20187 yr Author @Rurik: Thanks! I don't actually use Twitter, so random DMs will not bother me at all...
September 4, 20187 yr i know it is too late to solve these challenge but i did start today, i have some free time. For challenge 3 i also got all those 48 PNGs in automated way. Now i'm stuck, i have tried multiple flags with no success. i can't find the clue
September 4, 20187 yr i did and i got all those 48 pngs. Each png has a number from 1 to 48, here i am stuck. The last pic show FLARE with two lego man on it.
September 5, 20187 yr Hi. Anybody can help me with 12 challenge. I am extract 2 vm and recover key check function. But when i try find correct bytes, i can't do it. WTF?
September 5, 20187 yr Author @Eskalina - IF you have recovered key check function correctly, you've done 95% of the task. After that it takes a few minutes of calculations to get the correct bytes. So, most likely you have made a mistake somewhere.. Spoiler If nothing else helps, read solutions of last year's FLARE - might give you some ideas on how to approach it.
September 7, 20187 yr For #7 - I think I got "the trick", however I am a bit lost. Debugging inside some network functions and connect()s don't seem to connect (I have a listener and packet capture going) and then recv() randomly receives (same) bytes every time and just outputs those + @flare-on.com . Any tips on what I am missing ?
September 8, 20187 yr Author @msr : Spoiler Not all connect()s are the same. Edited September 8, 20187 yr by kao
September 22, 20186 yr @kao I'm totally stuck on level 10 without any idea what should I do, any suggestion?
September 23, 20186 yr Author @Sina_DiR: Where exactly are you stuck? Driver does something, usermode EXE does something. Analyze what exactly they do. 1) To load and run the driver, you need a reasonably new CPU and VM. My configuration was Intel i5-2500K and VMWare 12 with "Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI" option enabled. 2) If you can't run driver for some reason (twitter commenters say they had some issues), just analyze it statically. Driver is based on open-source code, it should get you started.
September 24, 20186 yr @kao Thank you for your reply, I'm able to load the driver, I was trying to debug its driver but it seems nothing called from fhv.sys I have no idea about VMCALL so let me try again...
September 26, 20186 yr Any hints for ch#11? Trying to figure out the network comm between the sample and JJ-pc... Any hints on decrypting the responses received from the pipe?
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