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So yesterday, I partook in my first live CTF within a team of 4. Fortunately, we were able to place in the top 10  which we were all really happy with. The team definitely bonded and celebrated over every victory which was really cool to see.

It was just a 1 day CTF but I really enjoyed it and I look forward to doing more of those in the future.

The CTF was broken down into the following categories:

Web

Forensics

RE

Miscellaneous

Cryptography

Pwn

So managed to complete the binary exploitations in Pwn (2 buffer overflows and 1 string exploitation) which I was really happy to see. In addition, managed to work my way through a few of the RE challenges, and one in Forensics.

Where my skills were lacking were in cryptography, stenography and web. I don’t think I’ll be able to work on these areas at the moment as I’m just learning on binary at the moment, but hopefully in the future I will.

If I want to take CTFs seriously, definitely stenography is one to know the basics for.