NCS 2021 Writeup
My writeup for the National Cyber Scholarship Competition 2021
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Introduction
From April 5th to April 7th I participated in this year’s National Cyber Scholarship Competition, a competitive CTF (or Capture-The-Flag) that centers on cybersecurity and ethical hacking. I ended up placing 52nd out of 3,277 high school students who participated:
For my first competitive timed CTF, I think I did pretty well. This website serves to document my approach to the challenges that I completed. Here is a list of challenges I have written walkthroughs for:
Challenges
| Binary | Crypto (WIP) | Forensics (WIP) | Networking (WIP) | Web (WIP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE01 | CM01 | FE01 | NE01 | WE01 |
| BE02 | CM02 | FE02 | NM01 | WE02 |
| BM01 | FE03 | WM02 | ||
| BM02 | FE04 | WM05 | ||
| BM03 (WIP) | FM01 | |||
| BH01 | FM02 |
My Setup
For this CTF I used 2 main environments, my main windows desktop and a Kali Linux VM. I ran the VM using WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and used Win-KeX Win to host the Kali VM GUI in a window instead of running it as a headless server.