Hack the Box University CTF 2024

18 December 2024 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf

I really enjoyed playing the Hack the Box University CTF 2024 with Team Frack at ZHAW. It was nice taking a break from working on my master’s thesis, open a decompiler, and have some fun.

I mostly worked on some reverse engineering challenges, running through the easy and medium difficulty challenges quite quickly. And while I didn’t quite solve the hard challenge, I particularly enjoyed that it includes analyzing a binary containing instructions in multiple, different instruction sets, thus rendering naïve use of disassemblers and decompilers partially useless. What a creative way to make the challenge harder!