Research Notes

Writeups

Box walkthroughs, CTF solves and lab research — documented as I go, mostly for my own reference and occasionally useful to whoever stumbles onto them.

[+] hackastra.md SOLVED

HackAstra 2026 — Web Exploitation Chain

Walkthrough of an authentication bypass chained with an IDOR to reach admin-level access during HackAstra CTF at Herald College.

Web IDOR Auth Bypass
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[+] logpoint.md SOLVED

IEEE LogPoint CTF — SIEM Log Triage

Notes on parsing noisy Wazuh alert logs under time pressure to isolate the real indicators of compromise.

SIEM Wazuh Forensics
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[+] owasp-np.md SOLVED

OWASP Nepal Challenge — Crypto Puzzle Breakdown

How a weak key-derivation step in a custom cipher was recovered and exploited to decrypt the flag.

Cryptography CTF
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[+] softwarica24.md SOLVED

Softwarica CTF 2024 — Reversing a Packed Binary

Unpacking and reverse engineering a stripped ELF binary to recover the win-condition logic.

Reverse Engineering ELF
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