This document is intended to cover all of the solutions used to solve each challenge for HackTheBox (HTB) Cyber Apocalypse 2023 CTF Challenge (CA23).
Keep in mind that, although this is intended to be a comprehensive list, the sources used were gathered from the HTB Discord server channel "#ca23-writeups".
- Navigating the Unknown
- Shooting 101
- The Art of Deception
- Ancient Encodings
- Elliptic Labyrinth
- Elliptic Labyrinth Revenge
- Biased Heritage
- Colliding Heritage
- Converging Visions
- Inside the Matrix
- Multipage Recyclings
- Perfect Synchronization
- Small StEps
- Artifacts of Dangerous Sightings
- Bashic Ransomware
- Interstellar C2
- Pandora's Bane
- Relic Maps
- Alien Cradle
- Extraterrestrial Persistence
- Packet Cyclone
- Plaintext Tleasure
- Roten
- Critical Flight
- Debug
- HM74
- Secret Code
- Timed Transmission
- Reading the Stars
- Last Hope
- Mysterious Learnings
- On the Rescue
- Reconfiguration
- Vision Chip
- Hijack
- Persistence
- Remote Computation
- Restricted
- Calibration
- Janken
- Nehebkaus Trap
- The Chasms Crossing Conondrum
- Getting Started
- Questionnaire
- Initialise Connection
- Labyrinth
- Pandora's Box
- Control Room
- Kana
- Math Door
- Runic
- Void
- Shattered Tablet
- She Shells C Shells
- Needle in a Haystack
- Hunting License
- Alien Saboteur
- Cave System
- Vessel Cartographer
- Gunhead
- Orbital
- Passman
- Trapped Source
- TrapTrack
- Didactic Octo Paddle
- Drobots
- SpyBug
- UnEarthly Shop
In no particular order, here are each of the sources used to document solutions for each challenge.
- https://kypanz.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/03/24/Navigating-the-unknown.html
- https://medium.com/@nikhilmemane09/htb-cyber-apocalypse-2023-owning-smart-contracts-navigating-the-unknown-a5e821fd2bac
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sLT2JHr7Ps
- https://medium.com/@039305660xJs/htb-cyber-apocalypse-ctf-blockchain-8fa83e22f419
- https://sirius-a.github.io/ctf-writeups/2023/HTB-cyber-apocalypse/
- https://kypanz.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/03/24/Shooting-101.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9t-HH9DY2A
- https://kypanz.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/03/25/The-Art-of-Deception.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLIoBTDfBnA
- https://gitlab.com/Cryptopone/cyberapocalypse2023-writeups
- https://twc1rcle.com/ctf/team/ctf_writeups/cyber_apocalypse_2023/
- https://github.com/LazyTitan33/CTF-Writeups/tree/main/HTB%20-%20CyberApocalypse_2023
- https://github.com/sbencoding/htb_ca2023_writeups
- https://hakbrain.notion.site/hakbrain/ccdf64ce51cd44b2ae1ee1f8200bfe37?v=95cb45fedd594c95babd434acf57b3f6
- https://ilter.tech/blog/
- https://github.com/rafiina/CTF-Write-Ups/tree/main/Cyber-Apocalypse-2023
- https://github.com/SecYuri/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023-Writeups
- https://github.com/forensicskween/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023
- https://github.com/Fra-SM/CyberApocalypse2023_CTF_Writeups
- https://docs404.com/hack-the-box-ca-2023/
- https://github.com/D13David/ctf-writeups/tree/main/cyber_apocalypse23
- https://medium.com/@damaidec/cyber-apocalypse-2023-writeup-308ef9a94828
- https://github.com/An00bRektn/CTF/tree/main/live_events/htb_cyber_apocalypse_23
- https://fazect.github.io/htb2023/
- https://github.com/asempire/CTFs/blob/main/ca23/ca23.md
- https://github.com/4za4s/HTB-CyberApocalypse-2023-CTF
- https://infosecwriteups.com/cyber-apocalypse-2023-the-cursed-mission-f4f52a97e485
- https://medium.com/@cupochino98/htb-cyber-apocalypse-2023-ctf-walkthrough-web-e6d9b75c8d2f
- https://4trxia.github.io/posts/Hackthebox-ctf-2023/
- https://s1n1st3r.gitbook.io/ctf-writeups/htb-cyber-apocalypse-2023/2023-htb-cyber-apocalypse-challenges
- https://s1n1st3r.gitbook.io/ctf-writeups/htb-cyber-apocalypse-2023/2023-htb-cyber-apocalypse-challenges/web-spybug
- https://mukarramkhalid.com/hack-the-box-cyber-apocalypse-2023-the-cursed-mission-writeups/
- https://github.com/imflikk/ctf-writeups/tree/main/Cyber-Apocalypse
- https://nitrolabs.xyz/posts/HTB-CA2023-Reversing-HW-Misc/
- https://siunam321.github.io/ctf/Cyber-Apocalypse-2023/
- https://github.com/SwordBreak3r/CyberApocalypse2023
- https://github.com/f0rk3b0mb/htb-cyberapocalypse-2023-writeup
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbdC-POk-XU&list=PLUrAjkLbvTpKBgf4uRsc2JWhs8OZeswah
- https://github.com/markv9401/HTB-CA23/blob/main/README.md
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3pTvP-hPbaxC5YbPMyfM55-eb5KxqA80
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDeZ5Q_Ml0
- https://notateamserver.xyz/ca23-elliptic-labryinth/
- https://chovid99.github.io/posts/cyber-apocalypse-2023-crypto/
- https://github.com/mateusz7988/CTF-Writeups/tree/main/CyberApocalypse2023/PerfectSynchronization
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnG35ycXPL0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_kcE539jpk
- https://pjg1.netlify.app/htbca23-artifacts
- https://starrylord.ch/blog/htb-cyberapocalypse-2023-bashic-ransomware
- https://medium.com/maverislabs/htb-ca2023-forensics-interstellar-c2-588e2419400c
- https://notateamserver.xyz/ca23-interstellar-c2/
- https://qn0x.xyz/blog/infosec/hack-the-box/ctf/writeup/2023/03/23/writeup-interstellar-c2.html
- https://github.com/ventdrop/ventdrop.github.io/blob/main/docs/pandorasbane.md
- https://qn0x.xyz/blog/infosec/hack-the-box/ctf/writeup/2023/03/24/writeup-pandoras-bane.html
- https://nitrolabs.xyz/posts/HTB-CA2023-Forensics/
- https://forensicskween.com/ctf/hack-the-box/htb-cyber-apocalypse-2023-forensics/
- https://cristi075.github.io/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023-Relic-Maps
- https://cristi075.github.io/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023-Critical-Flight
- https://cristi075.github.io/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023-Debug
- https://cristi075.github.io/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023-HM74
- https://github.com/meashiri/ctf-writeups/tree/main/202303_hackthebox
- https://cristi075.github.io/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023-Secret-Code
- https://cristi075.github.io/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023-Timed-Transmission
- https://github.com/dbissell6/MISC/blob/main/Calibration.md
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCzmJchv8RI
- https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1oHAVTbe1fVNjogWuhdOI2Wa6X1n3XLa6?usp=sharing
- https://github.com/amygutierrez/CTFCyberApocalypse2023
- https://github.com/Taoudi/Cyber_Apocalypse/blob/main/HTB.ipynb
- https://github.com/0denko/CTF/tree/main/ml_vision_chip
- https://github.com/evyatar9/Writeups/tree/master/CTFs/2023-Cyber_Apocalypse_HTB/Pwn-Labyrinth
- https://github.com/evyatar9/Writeups/tree/master/CTFs/2023-Cyber_Apocalypse_HTB
- https://chovid99.github.io/posts/cyber-apocalypse-2023-pwn/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp0QR6MFZeQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfDrVq-qWik
- https://github.com/Mymaqn/HTBCA2023_Pwn_Writeups
- https://github.com/Aleks-dotcom/writeups/blob/main/htb_apocalypse/runic_chall/writeup.md
- https://github.com/youssefboulmalf/Pandora-sbox---ret2libc
- https://notateamserver.xyz/ca23-alien-saboteur/
- https://github.com/p4yl0ad/hackthebox_rev_cavesystem_angr
- https://blog.bi0s.in/2023/03/24/RE/Vessel_Cartographer/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ8VbUAaiEA
- https://cristi075.github.io/HTB-Cyber-Apocalypse-2023-Orbital
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7sfK9sueog
- https://maikypedia.gitlab.io/posts/traptrack-hackthebox-ca2023/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyUQ2_KLo84
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5bdOoBoOrbY4cmDj9EjCFocwlc666hYx