Category Archives: CTF

Flare-On 12 – Task 8

In this mini-series I describe the solutions of my favorite tasks from this year’s Flare-On competition. To those of you who are not familiar, Flare-On is a marathon of reverse engineering. This year it ran for 4 weeks, and consisted … Continue reading

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Flare-On 12 – Task 9

In this mini-series I describe the solutions of my favorite tasks from this year’s Flare-On competition. To those of you who are not familiar, Flare-On is a marathon of reverse engineering. This year it ran for 4 weeks, and consisted … Continue reading

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Flare-On 11 – Task 7

Flare-On is an annual CTF challenged by the Mandiant Flare Team. This writeup details approaches to decrypting TCP traffic captured in a PCAP, linked to an AOT-compiled .NET binary. It discusses analyzing the binary, generating FLIRT signatures, and performing cryptanalysis to recover private keys used in Elliptic Curve Cryptography for traffic decryption. Continue reading

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Flare-On 11 – Task 5

Flare-On is an annual CTF run by Mandiant Flare Team. In this series of writeups I present solutions to some of my favorite tasks from this year. All the sourcecodes are available on my Github, in dedicated repository: flareon2024. The … Continue reading

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Flare-On 11 – Task 9

Flare-On is an annual CTF run by Mandiant Flare Team. In this series of writeups I present solutions to some of my favorite tasks from this year. All the sourcecodes are available on my Github, in dedicated repository: flareon2024. The … Continue reading

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Flare-On 9 – Task 9

For those of you who don’t know, Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). It runs for 6 weeks, and contains usually 10-12 tasks of increasing difficulty. This year I completed as 103 (solves … Continue reading

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Flare-On 9 – Task 10

For those of you who don’t know, Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). It runs for 6 weeks, and contains usually 10-12 tasks of increasing difficulty. This year I completed as 103 (solves … Continue reading

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Flare-On 8 – Task 6

Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). You can see more information here. It is a Capture-The-Flag type of a contest, where you are given a set of crackmes with growing difficulity. This year … Continue reading

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