Programming, Electronics and Security!
Hello, I wanted to self host my WordPress blog and for that I’ve chosen Digital Ocean (referral link). Because I’m lazy and I don’t know how to configure web servers that well I’ve used DigitalOcean’s WordPress one click install, the package installed WordPress and did the following things: Enables the UFW firewall to allow only SSH (port 22, rate limited), … Read more
Hello, Here’s my write-up for the Traverxec machine. Initial Shell: google User Hint: Read the configuration carefully and `ls` dem directories, and don’t forget, you’re the web server! Root Hint: In linux you can configure commands to be executed without requiring a password. The password for the PDF is the root flag. Link: BananaPr1nc3-Traverxec.pdf
Hello, Here’s my write-up for the Reversing DSYM challenge from HackTheBox. PDF: https://1drv.ms/b/s!ApWG8dlpzmQV-F7NJOZ2GJ0-f0ZJ The password for the Write-Up is the challenge’s flag. To solve it I’ve used: https://ghidra-sre.org/ https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ Write a comment if you need a hint or something is not clear. Thanks for reading!
Hello, In this post I’m going to show you how quickly you can add a dark theme switch to your Vue.JS application. We’re going to start with a blank application. And then we’re going to create a dark-theme CSS file which we’re going to save in public/css/darktheme.css. This is how the application looks without any CSS. Now, we’re going to put … Read more
I haven’t done any embedded development in a while and I was thinking to build myself a remote controlled toy car with video streaming. The project is going to take me a while. To build it I’m going to use C#. I’m already too familiar with Python and a little challenge doesn’t hurt. To interface with the hardware, I’m going … Read more
Hello, In this article I will describe how I solved the GB – Basic GameBoy crackme challenge from Root-Me. Before reading this article you should attempt to solve the challenge on your own. Start by reading/skimming through the GameBoy CPU manual then download an emulator such as mGba and play with the ROM. To disassemble the ROM I’ve used Ghidra and mgbdis. After reading through the GameBoy … Read more
I had some fun this weekend messing around with Ghidra. Having such a powerful tool for free is truly a game changer. To start scripting in Ghidra, I downloaded the latest Eclipse for Java Developers Version: 2019-09 R (4.13.0), Ghidra and Open JDK, I believe any JDK version 11+ will work. After downloading the JDK, extract the zip, put it … Read more
Hello, In this article I will describe how I solved the PE x86 – Xor Madness challenge from Root-Me This challenge will ask you for a password and the password is also used to validate the flag. What makes this challenge interesting is that it only uses xor, sub, call and ret. Here’s how I approached the challenge: Since the binary had a few function and some strings … Read more
Hello, In this article I’ll present you my solution on the Chapter 5 CTF from the book Practical Binary Analysis. For this binary, the hint is to fix four broken things. Running file gives us the following response: And the readelf command gives us: At this moment, it was clear that the ELF header is broken, in order to fix it … Read more
Hello, I don’t think I’d like to invest time and resources in this project anymore, I had fun programming it and learning about different aspects of game development and the Unity game engine. Making games involves a lot of hard work and I initially started this in order to escape from my ordinary programming activities, to do something different. Next, … Read more