Fall 2025 Kickoff CTF
Welcome to the Fall 2025 Kickoff Capture The Flag competition! There are 15 questions across 10 challenges. Each question is worth 1 point.
NOTE: Your correct answers are being saved and sent even if you refresh the page.
OSINT
Challenge 1
Debrief: We've found this bug-like creature that you need to identify.
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
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:
Steganography
Challenge 8
This dog's picture seems to be hiding something.
What's the flag?
Challenge 9
This dog also seems to be hiding something.
What's the flag?
Web App Exploitation
Challenge 10
We've found a website with 3 flags, can you find them?
Flag 1:
Flag 2:
Flag 3:
Credits
- Author(s): Divesh Gupta (legendile7)