n00bzCTF2023
NoobMaster
Second Edition - n00bzCTF – Completed Successfully!!!!
Our team, n00bzUnit3d, just hosted our second edition of n00bzCTF, from 9th-11th June, 2023. The CTF received overwhelming response with around 1250 teams and 2000 participants.
Challenges
Our CTF had a total of 42 challenges.
Categories
- 8x Misc
- 6x Forensics
- 6x OSINT
- 6x Rev
- 6x Web
- 6x Pwn
- 3x Crypto
- 1x Blockchain
_Fig. 1: Misc, Forensics and OSINT challenges_
Fig. 2: Rev, Web and Pwn challenges
Fig. 3: Crypto and Blockchain challenges
We had challenges of varied difficulty levels, with the easiest challenge, which was surprisingly not sanity, but “Welcome”, made by Hieth, with over 600 solves! It was solved by more than 70% of the teams whereas “CaaS2”, made by me, had just 26 solves, solved by exactly 3.0% of the teams.
Fig. 4: Solve Percentages per Challenge
Sponsors
Prizes
We had a prize pool of over $8000! We had two divisions, Open and High School. There were prizes for write-ups as well.
Participants
We had almost 2000 Users and 1250 Teams!
Scoreboard
The CTF winners were as follows –
Open division
- 796f75
- FR13NDS TEAM
- RedHazzarTeam
Highschool
- po_beda
- emu exploit
- Rubi di Cubrik
The top 10 team’s graph is as follows –
Fig. 5: Top 10 teams
Contributions
Huge shoutout to all members of this team who worked so hard for this: “NoobHacker” (for the challenges, infra, contacting sponsors and distributing prizes!). “NoobMaster” (made around 60% challenges and managed so many tickets!), “noob_abhinav” (for the challenges and tickets!), “0xBlue” (thanks for the website, challenges, and tickets!), “Spectral “& “NoobKids “(for the challenges and tickets!), and “Censored1375” (tickets and distributing prizes!) and “I do tickets sometimes” (tickets, tickets, tickets!), and “yeha” (he came online and helped!)