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Fall 2025 Kickoff CTF

Welcome to the Fall 2025 Kickoff Capture The Flag competition! There are 15 questions across 10 challenges.

OSINT​

Challenge 1​

Debrief: We've found this bug-like creature that you need to identify.

Bug

What game is this creature from?


What is this creature's name?


What was this creature's occupation while in this outfit?


Challenge 2​

Debrief: We've found a suspicious link hiding something, see if you can figure it out.

Link: https://flag.thehackpack.org (yes, this link is not supposed to load)

What DNS record type holds the secret?


What is the flag?


Challenge 3​

Debrief: We want you to figure out some details about the event(s) in the picture

Image

What year did the "Vegas Dawgs After Dark" happen?


Cryptography​

Useful tools:

Challenge 4​

Decode 124 110 120 173 145 162 155 137 167 150 141 164 137 164 150 145 137 163 151 147 155 141 175


Challenge 5​

Decode GSK{hsabta}


Challenge 6​

Decode NjYgMzMgOSAwIDcgNDQgNjY2IDY2IDMzIDAgOSA0NCA2NjYgMCAzIDQ0NCA3Nzc3


Challenge 7​

Decode this symbol cipher:

Cipher


Steganography​

Challenge 8​

This dog's picture seems to be hiding something.

Image

What's the flag?


Challenge 9​

This dog also seems to be hiding something.

Image

What's the flag?


Web App Exploitation​

Challenge 10​

We've found a website with 3 flags, can you find them?

Access Website

Flag 1:


Flag 2:


Flag 3:


Credits​

  • Author(s): Divesh Gupta (legendile7)