Through the organization of the annual Catch competition, we endorse the ideas of the Cyber Security Month in 2019, thus contributing to building a more secure Internet environment and cyberspace. The competition is organised by the CESNET Association.
Basic Information
The Catch is intended as an individual competition.
The registration into the CTF portal will be opened along with the start of the competition on Monday 07 October 2019 at 14:00 CEST.
The competition will be closed on Moday 21 October 2019 at 14:00 CEST.
The top 20 players will be invited to the Award ceremony at CESNET, Zikova 4, Prague 6 on Thursday 24 October at 14:00 CEST.
The best teams shall receive valuable prizes. Other prizes (T-shirts, hoodies, small presents) will be also awarded (see The Rewards).
4th to 20 50th place - smaller gifts (medails, t-shirts, sweatshirts)
First solution of any of the competition challenge (the commander's ones) - each first solution od each Challenge will be rewarded by T-shirt,but everyone can win only one prize of this kind.
Best write-ups - the best solutions sent to thecatch@cesnet.cz until Friday 25 October 14:00 CEST will be rewarded by a gifts. Write-ups should
describe your solution of one or more challenges,
be written in english (or czech) language and
be in some standard format (txt, PDF, MD, GIT repo, etc.).
Register yourself once the registration is open, (on October 7th and onwards), i.e. register a player account in the CTF platform (nickname, e-mail and password need to be filled in). The e-mail will be used for communication related to the competition (prize awards, etc.), make sure it is entered correctly.
Start solving the challenges:
Choose any of the challenges from the list. The challenges have some prerequisites, which has to be met before the challenge is accessible. Visible challenges can be solved in whatever order.
Read the challenge assignment carefully.
Download the file(s) for the analysis or visit the stated URL.
Perform the analysis (when correctly performed, you should be able to discover the flag in format FLAG{xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx}).
Insert the flag into the platform (to verify its correctness and acquire the points). The number of attempts is limited (the flag should be acquired not guessed).
