Operations Intel

CTF Writeups

Technical research, exploitation walkthroughs, and event retrospectives from the operatives at Capture The Chaos.

All Web Forensics OSINT Rev Crypto
Web HTB
Bypassing WAFs with SQLi in HackTheBox 'BoardLight'
A deep dive into bypassing modern WAF filtering techniques to achieve time-based SQL injection and dump administrative credentials.
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Forensics UofTCTF 2026
Memory Forensics: Extracting Keys from Volatility
Analyzing a memory dump using Volatility3 to extract AES encryption keys left in RAM by a custom ransomware strain.
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OSINT 0xV01D CTF
Tracking the Threat Actor: OSINT Workflow
How we used metadata extraction, reverse image searching, and breached database cross-referencing to deanonymize a target.
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Rev THJCC 2026
Reversing Custom Windows Packers
Dumping and reconstructing an executable packed with a custom x64 packer, mapping out the import table manually.
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