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What is Capture the Flag?

Capture the Flag (or CTF) is a cybersecurity competition where participants compete individually or in teams using different security tactics in a gameplay environment. 

There are three major types of CTF events in the market today: 

What is Capture the Flag?

Jeopardy CTFs

Questions or tasks are arranged by category and participants get points for solving those questions or tasks correctly. Formats can be Red Teaming, Blue Teaming or a mixture of both.

What is Capture the Flag?

Attack/Defend CTFs

Work in teams to patch vulnerable hosts, ready tools to defend your environment or prepare to attack other teams. Gain points for successfully defending or attacking various environments.

What is Capture the Flag?

Mixed CTFs

Combine the best of both formats with an integrated game format that will test your knowledge and practical application of said knowledge. 

What is a CTF team?

Capture the Flag participants compete in teams to solve challenges and navigate the environment from Kali Linux Machines. 

Teams include one team leader and up to four players. Each team is assigned four virtual machines (VMs) to play. Captains decide VM and IP address assignments. Note: if there are more than four team members, players will have to share a VM and associated IP address.

The IP addresses are listed below:

  • Player 1: 192.168.1.11
  • Player 2: 192.168.1.12
  • Player 3: 192.168.1.13
  • Player 4: 192.168.1.14

Code of conduct

By logging in to the WWT Cyber Range, participants affirm their agreement with the WWT Capture the Flag Competition Official Rules.

Code of conduct

No cooperation

No cooperation between teams. Sharing of keys or providing revealing hints to other teams is cheating. Don't do it.

Code of conduct

Don't attack the scoreboard

Don't attack the scoreboard infrastructure. If vulnerabilities are found, please alert the range admins immediately. 

Code of conduct

No brute forcing

No brute forcing of challenge flag/keys against the scoreboard infrastructure. Choose another way to flex your skills. 

Code of conduct

Denial of Service

DoSing the underlying platform is forbidden. Stay within the game space of 192.168.0.0/16 and 172.16.0.0/16.

Pre-game resources that can help

Success in the WWT's Cyber Range is dependent on usage of hacking techniques and tools. 

A basic understanding of some or all of the tools (and their commands) listed below is recommended. All of these tools are installed on the Cyber Range attack platform -- Kali Linux. 

Relevant tools (all available within the Kali Linux machines):

Burp Suite
Dig
DNSmap
DNSrecon
DNSwalk
Docker
Fierce
Nmap

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