Flawed Fortress

Capture The Flag Marker

Summary

Flawed Fortress is a front end platform for hosting Capture the Flag Event (CTF), it is programmed with PHP, JQuery, JavaScript and phpMyAdmin. Currently, It is designed to import SecGen CTF challenges using `marker.xml` file (which is generated in the project folder when creating a CTF Challenge)

Features

Admin Account

• Create Teams
• Generate Tokens (Allow players to register with their preferred logins)
• Generate Random Username & Password (Allow players to instantly login)
• Check Token Registration Status
• Send Live Announcement
• Restrict Users to Login
• Import SecGen CTF Challenges
• Update Homepage and Event Countdown Timer
• Database Management (Create or Drop all necessary tables)
• System Status (Check if there is any misconfiguration before the CTF event)
• Export Team Tokens as PDF file
• Export Username & Password as PDF file

User Account

• Team Scoreboard
• Team Activity
• Team Chat
• View Other Team Progress
• Challenges are represented as country map
• Live Timer
• Live Notification Update (For Scoreboard, Team, Chat, Flag, Announcement, Timer and Hints)

Installation

Step 1

Create database in `phpMyAdmin` with secure db_username and db_password

Step 2

git clone https://github.com/rgajendran/ctf_marker.git

Step 3

<?php
    $connection = mysqli_connect('HOSTNAME','DB_USERNAME','DB_PASSWORD','DATABASE_NAME');
?>

Open the project folder, navigate to template/connection.php file and update with your server/database login credentials.

Step 4

Transfer the entire project folder to your server domain eg.www/

Step 5

Navigate to Admin Account http://DOMAIN_NAME/admin.php

You don't need any username or password to access admin.php page for the first time.

Step 6

Create Database

Flawed Fortress front end has the capability to auto generate all required tables automatically in a click of a button.

Open   > admin.php page
Select > Options
Select > DATABASE MANAGEMENT
Click  > Create (SecGen Hint & Flag Table)
Click  > Create (Chat, Logger & Report Table)
Click  > Create (Scoreboard, Updater & Options Table)
Click  > Create (Users & Teams Table)
Click  > Create (SecGen Map Table)

Step 7

Once you create all the tables, Select SYSTEM STATUS tab in the admin account to check if there are any table errors.

Step 8

After creating Users & Team Table, the page will automatically redirect you to index.php (To secure the admin account). Direct access using http://DOMAIN_NAME/admin.php will be restricted. You would need default login details to get admin access. You can change the password after logging in.

Default Admin Login Details

Username : admin

Password : admin

Usage

• Step 1

  • Login to admin account and create teams.

• Step 2

  • Choose registration method (Generate Tokens or Username and Password).

• Step 3

  • Export login credential as PDF and distribute with team players.

• Step 4

  • Import SecGen challenges (Import same challenges for all the registered teams or Import seperate challenges for every single team)

• Step 5

  • Set Game End Timer

• Step 6

  • Allow Users Login

• Step 7

  • Start your Game

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on GitHub
2. Clone the project to your own machine git clone https://github.com/rgajendran/ctf_marker.git
3. Commit changes to your own branch
4. Push your work to your fork
5. Submit your Pull request for review