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HTB Holmes CTF 2026 - Silent Dividend
Silent Dividend was a Forensics - Malware Analysis challenge from HTB Holmes CTF 2026. The challenge provided a single executable, TrustSettle 1.0.0.exe, and required ten questions to be answered by...
The Apex Affair - Compfest18 Qualification
So, in this post I will explain the forensic challenge I created for COMPFEST 18. The challenge focuses on how an attacker abuses LOTS (Living Off Trusted Sites) as a...
Lovely Malware - HTB Sherlocks
In this post I want to share how I solved my first Insane Sherlock challenge. Lately, I’ve been diving deeper into malware reversing, and especially during CTFs I usually rely...
Breached - C2C 2026 Qualification
This challenge is a very interesting and fun forensic scenario. We are placed in the role of the blue team, tasked with investigating a compromised virtual machine and reconstructing the...
Unorthodox Part 1 – Cyber Jawara Qual 2025
On December 27th, I participated in the Cyber Jawara 2025 Qualifiers with my team, manablokchennya-Xx and we qualified to the final stage, where one of the forensic challenges I manage...
Operation Pensieve Breach - heroCTF v7
About a month ago, I participated in heroCTF v7 with my team, CSUI, where we finished 9th overall and successfully solved all forensic challenges. I personally worked on most of...