The MetaCTF (https://metactf.com/) team is back for this year’s Capture the Flag competition!

We’ll be providing a practice environment on Day 1 of the conference to help participants prepare for the competition, find teams, and get familiar with the platform. If you’ve never participated in a CTF before, this is a perfect opportunity to get started! The actual competition will take place on Day 2. There will be plenty of challenges for participants at all skill levels, so whether you’re a seasoned CTF player or a beginner, there will be something for you! Among others, challenge categories will include web exploitation, reverse engineering, OSINT, cryptography, forensics, and binary exploitation.

You’ll need a laptop to participate. Teams can have up to 4 people, or you may compete as an individual.

For those who like to come prepared, we suggest that you have a VM or two ready. You can download Kali Linux here (https://www.kali.org/downloads/) or get a free Windows VM here (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/) or here (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/). Some tools that might be helpful include CyberChef (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/), BurpSuite, Ghidra, Pwntools, and Wireshark.

The MetaCTF team has been involved with the RVAsec CTF since 2016. They also run private cybersecurity training for technical employees. If you’re interested in learning more about the CTF at RVAsec or what MetaCTF has to offer, please reach out to roman[at]metactf.com.

Thank you to our CTF sponsor SafeBreach!

The conference is right around the corner, and the MetaCTF (https://metactf.com/) team is hard at work preparing for this year’s Capture the Flag competition!

In keeping with the format of the past several years, we’ll be providing a practice environment on Day 1 of the conference to help participants prepare for the competition, find teams, and get familiar with the platform. If you’ve never participated in a CTF before, this is a perfect opportunity to get started!

The actual competition will take place on Day 2. There will be plenty of challenges for participants at all skill levels, so whether you’re a seasoned CTF player or a beginner, there will be something for you! Among others, challenge categories will include web exploitation, reverse engineering, OSINT, cryptography, forensics, and binary exploitation.

You’ll need a laptop to participate. Teams can have up to 4 people, or you may compete as an individual.

For those who like to come prepared, we suggest that you have a VM or two ready. You can download Kali Linux here (https://www.kali.org/downloads/) or get a free Windows VM here (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/). Some tools that might be helpful include CyberChef (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/), BurpSuite, Ghidra, Pwntools, and Wireshark.

The MetaCTF team has been involved with the RVAsec CTF since 2016. If you’re interested in helping out with the CTF or have any questions, please reach out to roman[at]metactf.com

We are still looking for a sponsor for the CTF.  Please consider supporting the conference and help us provide a great experience and amazing prizes!

The RVAsec CTF team is beginning the setup and planning phase of the 2016 conference.  As many of you know, we pride ourselves with this CTF being an all-inclusive learning CTF and not just a ‘stump the chump / who’s the best engineer in the room’ kind of CTF. That said, we need volunteers to come up with fresh ideas, challenges, and setups that are both fun and informative. Additionally, we do want to provide a challenge for those who show up looking for one, so if you are a more advanced user or admin and have some killer challenges that can stump someone, we’ll need those too for the higher tiers.

Speaking of Tiers, we plan to have 3 or 4 tiers this year and they will be as follows:

Tier 1 -Beginner

This tier will comprise the majority of the challenges and points ideally. Challenges in this category should be purely beginner level challenges. Some examples of year past are:

 Connecting to SSH and copying part of the SSH key as the flag

 Looking in web page source code for the flag

 Trivia questions related to IT / Hacking History / Etc.

 Wireshark dumps of plain text authentications

 Port and/or device identification (that’s port 25, used for SMTP, running on a Raspberry pi, identified by its MAC OUI)

Tier 2 – Moderate

This is a moderate tier geared more towards people who digging deeper into Security and the different facets it includes as well as experienced Pentesters. Some examples from the past:

 XOR code samples with python

 Heartbleed exploit to retrieve login information

 Local privilege escalation to find the Flag

 SQL injection

 MS08-67 Exploits

 Brute force SSH or SFTP sites

 DFIR recovery and artifact location

Tier 3 – Hard

The hard tier, built mainly with ‘stump the chump’ challenges that are for the seasoned CTF player and people solely after winning prizes and spending the whole con in the CTF:

 Reverse engineering samples

 Malware C2 traffic Analysis

 Chained exploits

 Ghost services that have to fuzzed

 Firmware disassembly

Tier 4 – Hardware

Hopefully, we will be able to include various hardware challenges this year with the help of HackRVA as we have in the past, this tier will be specific to the Badges but we are always open to including other Hardware or IoT related challenges in at this level, so any idea, let us know!

So all that said – Come help out! If you are interested in assisting, please send an email to Mike Bailey and we’ll add you to the mailing list going forward as we begin to work it all out.

We are looking for a sponsor for the CTF, if you are interested please contact us to discuss!

Thanks and we will provide more updates as they happen!