AlphaCode

Reverse-engineering a custom esolang stack machine to recover the flag.

June 16, 2026 · 1 min · 182 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Amazing

Reversing a Python marshal bytecode maze generator seeded by an LCG to find the escape path.

June 16, 2026 · 1 min · 117 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

cat

Reversing a repeating-key XOR crackme that downloads the flag from catbox.moe.

June 16, 2026 · 1 min · 89 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Franklin

Recovering the flag from TrueType GSUB ligature substitution rules.

June 16, 2026 · 1 min · 94 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

George Orwell

Decompiling a compiled AutoHotkey executable to extract the flag.

June 16, 2026 · 1 min · 79 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Hidden But Definitely Not

Recovering a flag hidden via stack-string construction and XOR obfuscation.

June 16, 2026 · 1 min · 96 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Not Your Time

Crackme that stores the bitwise NOT of the flag bytes; invert them to get the flag.

June 16, 2026 · 1 min · 67 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Perfectly Destructive File

Extracting a flag hidden inside a PDF stream using FlateDecode and base64.

June 16, 2026 · 1 min · 102 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Baby Android — DalCTF 2026

A single APK whose UI claims there’s nothing to see — the flag is split into three pieces hidden in a MainActivity field, a string resource, and a Compose theme getter.

June 6, 2026 · 5 min · 1062 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Bit Miner — DalCTF 2026

An idle/clicker TCP game whose shop checks affordability against a stale cached balance but deducts from a fresh re-read; racing two sessions as the same user underflows an unsigned long to ~1.8e19 bits and buys the flag.

June 6, 2026 · 8 min · 1545 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d