Seems like the website of Flare-On (http://flare-on.com/) just added a timer; Flare-On 10 is going to start on September 29!

I wonder if the medal shipments of last year will be in time before this next installment

 

Who's joining this year?

Edited September 8, 20231 yr by Washi

I don't know... without medals it's not the same...

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On 9/8/2023 at 5:00 PM, kao said:

I don't know... without medals it's not the same...

Seems like they had some problems with their previous vendor and that they will start shipping roughly at the same day flare 10 starts.

 

The 10th annual Flare-On Challenge begins on September 29th, 2023 at 8:00pm ET. This year's flareon contains 13 challenges!

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This year’s contest will feature 13 challenges covering a variety of architectures, including 32- and 64-bit Windows, Linux, and Android; and even a retro-computing challenge involving PDP-11.

 

 

Edited September 18, 20231 yr by akkaldama

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Edited September 20, 20231 yr by akkaldama

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#flareon10 Early Registration is now live! https://flare-on10.ctfd.io/register

Source: https://twitter.com/nickharbour/status/1707387365407215685

Did you prepared your VM's?

2 hours ago, bluedevil said:

Did you prepared your VM's?

which one is your favorite one

3 hours ago, bluedevil said:

Did you prepared your VM's?

My primary machine actually decided to die on me today... And since I'm "old sk3wl CTFer", I don't have all my infra in the cloud.

 

 

Someone finish the ch#2 ?

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The pictures IV.png and ps.png are important or just another decoy?

Thanks ! cheers

 

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yes

 

Edited October 4, 20231 yr by cybercat

Finally i did it the ch#2. hahaha😂

I need a nudge for #5.

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I have decoded multi-stages of the payload.  I got to the code where it pops up the message box.  I also figured it out how different parts of the code communicate with each other.  I also found the hint near the code that popped up the message box.  However, I cant seem to locate what the thing/function the hint was pointing at.   Thanks in advance!

 

@pcmcia:

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you need to find the exact thing that you can't seem to locate. Then feed it with some data.

 

Edited October 5, 20231 yr by kao

44 minutes ago, kao said:

@pcmcia:

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you need to find the exact thing that you can't seem to locate. Then feed it with some data.

Thanks for the reply / nudge!

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I think I found the thing I needed to located.  I'm trying to feed it some "data" to unlock it.  But I can't seem to find that.   Is this some kind of guess work?  Also, how long is that "data" I need to feed it?

Edited October 5, 20231 yr by pcmcia

For everyone playing Flare-On this year - no challenge requires a *significant* computing power for bruteforcing large values, or an *unreasonable* guessing game. You might need to Google some things but that's about it.

 

@pcmcia: it's all there, keep looking. I can't tell you anything else w/o giving a full solution.

editing opcodes directly in memory - that is very confusing approach   (ch#3)

Oh... I'm on FlareSay task. How to get that key with a hash, any ideas? It seems not possible to brute that number of bytes. Im pretty sure the result has to be Winning + decrypted string (0x54 bytes) using that key.

I wonder if this task is about knowledge in crypto and there is some kind of crypto mistake, or need to search around..

P.S. [LATER] Hah... understand. Crazy. I hadn't been born yet.

Edited October 8, 20231 yr by Kolombo

18 minutes ago, Kolombo said:

P.S. [LATER] Hah... understand. Crazy. I hadn't been born yet.

Sometimes just narrating what you've done so far really works wonders doesn't it

I have also a question regarding ch5:

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I found the hint with the crypto algorithm but dont no where to look for it. I have also seen the decryption of the resources but I'm not sure if this is the algorithm that is to be found. Maybe somebody can help

Many thanks in advance

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I just guessed  ch5, where it might be and hit the nail from the 1st attempt. It is quite straightforward. I'm really not sure if it is possible to solve other way (if anyone did please tell). So, you have a hint, find where and apply the hint.

Actually you have everything at this point. People tend to be lazy to do another way the thing you have already analysed.

Edited October 9, 20231 yr by Kolombo
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@test

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You can find an open source implementation of the algorithm on the web. You can then try to cross-reference it with anything you have found.

 

1 hour ago, Washi said:

@test

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You can find an open source implementation of the algorithm on the web. You can then try to cross-reference it with anything you have found.

 

Thanks for the response.

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Thats what I tried all the time but I'm not really sure if I'm looking at the right spot. I tried to look for constants, but wasn't able to identify anything similar

 

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Hmm.. I think the way to identify the place where the algo using open source implementation is difficult in this case and time consuming. Just need to set  a HW BP where the first byte will be written. You have a process creation and the memory where the decryption is done. Just backtrace it, find a call, identify params and use it to decrypt the last stage. That way I did.

 

Edited October 9, 20231 yr by Kolombo