Category: hacking

  • UTCFT 2025 Challenge: March 14th

    Big thanks to Texas University ISSS for creating and moderating the game and the Discord chat. It was tons of fun and I learned a few new skills. Trapped in Plain Sight 1 I first SSH into the machine. The name of the challenge was “Trapped in plain Sight” so I figured the flag it…

  • Snyk CTF Challenge: Feb 28th 2025.

    String Me Along This was the first reverse engineering challenge. It was labeled easy. The first thing I did was use the strings command to view all the strings in the binary. The string command will print all the printable characters that are in the file. Next I tired to enter, “unlock_me_123” after running the…

  • Comment Column on Wireshark.

    In this tutorial, I will explain how to add a new column to Wireshark that displays comments. I have found this to be helpful at work when looking at a packet capture that has a lot of IPs, and I need to determine information about them in a quick manner. The first step is to…

  • SnackHack2: Hacking tool and Recon

    This tool comes in gem form and can also be downloaded from Github.com. Originally, this project would be my senior project, but I had to scrape the idea for a simpler project due to my course workload and mental health. To install the gem run the command below. gem install snackhack2 Indirect Command Injection This…