Summary
I competed in the 48 hour Buckeye CTF over the 2021-10-22 weekend and came in first place in the OSU division. This was my first CTF competition. I was on a team with two other members of the cybersecurity club. I mostly worked on the challenges in the reverse engineering category. Out of all participants, I solved Battelle's headless_horseman challenge first, and I enjoyed that challenge the most. I think I will compete in more CTFs.
Lessons Learned
- More experience with reverse engineering in Ghidra
- Using GDB for reverse engineering
- Using the Emacs Grand Unified Debugger interface
- Debugging programs running inside of QEMU