Category: Network Forensics

DFA/CCSC Spring 2020 CTF – Wireshark – shell.pcapng Write-up

In May 2020 the Champlain College Digital Forensics Association, in collaboration with the Champlain Cyber Security Club, released their Spring 2020 DFIR CTF including Windows, MacOS, and Apple iOS images, as well as network traffic analysis, OSINT, and reversing challenges. This series of write-ups covers the network forensics section. As the questions were split over […]

TufMups Network Forensics Challenge Write-up

Recently I was browsing the DFIR.training CTF section and found a nice network forensics challenge released by Andrew Swartwood in December 2017 called TufMups Undercover Operation. We are given a PCAP to analyse, and the following briefing: You’re an agent with a government law enforcement agency. You’ve been tracking a group of criminal hackers known […]

OtterCTF 2018 – Network Challenges – Otter Leak Write-up

OtterCTF dates from December 2018 and includes reverse engineering, steganography, network traffic, and more traditional forensics challenges. This write-up covers the network forensics portion. I have previously written-up the memory forensics section, and the Birdman’s Data and Look At Me network challenges. The whole CTF is available to play as of the publication of this […]

OtterCTF 2018 – Network Challenges – Look At Me Write-up

OtterCTF dates from December 2018 and includes reverse engineering, steganography, network traffic, and more traditional forensics challenges. This write-up covers the network forensics portion. I have previously written-up the memory forensics section, and the Birdman’s Data network challenge. The whole CTF is available to play as of the publication of this post. I managed to […]

Security Blue Team VIP CTF #1 – Sneaky Transmission Write-up

The first CTF created by Security Blue Team was initially for subscribers only, but was made available to the public for a short time at the end of February 2020. While it covered network traffic analysis, password cracking, steganography, forensics, and some general knowledge challenges I didn’t have as much time as I would have […]

OtterCTF 2018 – Network Challenges – Birdman’s Data Write-up

OtterCTF dates from December 2018 and includes reverse engineering, steganography, network traffic, and more traditional forensics challenges. I have written-up the memory forensics section in a previous post. The whole CTF is available to play online as of March 2020. This series of write-ups will cover the three challenges I was able to complete out […]