CTF-Course

Details

July 15 - August 15

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Evans 134 (iSuite)

Professor

• Andrew Novocin [email protected]

TAs

• Landon Jones [email protected]
• Liam Jordan [email protected]
• Matthew Zelinsky [email protected]

CTF Website (Grading)

Complete challenges in our UDCTF!

Weekly Growth Report

Every week, you should submit a personal growth report following this format: Report Format

Writeups

You can submit writeups for problems you solve for extra points! A writeup should contain any solution scripts you wrote, and it should walk the reader through the problem while explaining your thought process.

Example Writeup

Reading writeups are also a great way to learn and go about solving challenges.

Kali Linux

Kali Linux has a lot of useful tools for solving CTFs challenges.

Click here for instructions on setting up Kali with VMware.

Topics

General Skills

• Linux and Bash
• Python

Common CTF Categories

• Cryptography
• Forensics
• Web
• Reverse Engineering
• Binary Exploitation

Resources

Useful Sites

• CTFTime

Practice Sites

• GoogleCTF
• picoCTF
• CSAW 365
• OverTheWire
• W3Challs

Notes

• Class 1: Intro to CTFs
• Class 2: Talking to Servers, Hash Functions
• Class 3: Binary, XOR, One-Time Pad
• Class 4: Block Ciphers and Modes
• Class 5: RSA, Attacks
• Class 6: Web Intro, Curl, Python Requests
• Class 7: SQL, SQL Injection, CSRF
• Class 8: C, Assembly
• Class 9: Reversing Practice
• Class 10: Buffer Overflows and Memory Alteration
• Class 11: Shellcode
• Class 12: Return Oriented Programming
• Class 13: Forensics, Steganography
• Class 14: Computer Networking, Network Analysis
• Class 15: Memory Dump Analysis
• Class 16: Diffie-Hellman, Chinese Remainder Theorem
• Class 17: Last Class Wrap-Up

Sponsors

• J.P. Morgan Chase