Out-Of-Band RCE: CTF Walkthrough

So, this is my writeup on how I was able to achieve my first Remote Code Execution. Also after reviewing the code I was able to understand more about malicious code execution via OS functions. Finally, I was able to capture the flag and get the Hall of Fame, Check.

Out of Band(OOB) Command Injection is performed by sending a DNS request to a server, which occurs when input data is interpreted as an operating system command. By this, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the system and gain unauthorized access.

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Recap Amrita InCTF 2019 | Part 2

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Amrita InCTF 10th Edition is an offline CTF(Capture the Flag) event hosted by Amrita University. In our previous blog, we discussed about talks from the first day. In this we’ll share some lights on the talks from second day.

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Recap Amrita InCTF 2019 | Part 1

Amrita InCTF 10th Edition, is an offline CTF(Capture the Flag) event hosted by Amrita university at their Amritapuri campus 10 KM away from Kayamkulam in Kerala, India. In this year’s edition two people from Opstree got invited to the final round after roughly two months of solving challenges online. The dates for the final rounds were 28th,29th and 30th December 2019. The first two days comprised of talks by various people from the industry and the third day was kept for the final competition. In the upcoming three blog series starting now, we’d like to share all the knowledge, experiences and learning from this three day event.

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