PatriotCTF is a beginner-friendly capture-the-flag competition hosted by GMU's cybersecurity club, MasonCC. All are welcome to participate, including students and security professionals. Challenges will range from beginner to expert, so there should be something for everyone. This is a jeopardy-style CTF, meaning there will be various challenges from the different categories described below.
My team, Unsually Skilled Comedy Group (USCG), solved all of the available challenges at around the 24-hour mark of the competition.
- Welcome (Beginner)
- Uh Oh! (Beginner)
- WPA (Easy)
- Twins (Beginner)
- Flag Finder (Easy)
- ML Pyjail (Easy)
- Binary (Easy)
- 1972 Schism (Beginner)
- Mascot Conundrum (Beginner)
- Mason ID OSINT (Easy)
- Final Four (Easy)
- Getting down like a bunch of Tito Clowns (Easy)
- Multi-numeral (Beginner)
- My phone! (Easy)
- ReReCaptcha (Easy)
- Breakfast club (Medium)
- Secret Wall Code (Medium)
- Mason Competitive Cyber (Medium)
- Mason Competitive Cyber 2 (Hard)
- Unsupported Format (Easy)
- Capybara (Easy)
- Congratulations (Easy)
- Unsupported Format 2 (Medium)
- Evil Monkey 1 (Medium)
- Read The EULA (Medium)
- Evil Monkey 2 (Medium)
- Elbonia (Hard)
- Gotta Ping Em All (Expert)
- Bad Documentation (Easy)
- Rouge Access Point (Easy)
- Satellite Killer (Easy)
- Karter (Medium)
- Marketing Campaign (Medium)
- Name That Plane (Hard)
- Coffee Shop (Easy)
- Python XOR (Beginner)
- Patchwork (Easy)
- Suboptimal (Medium)
- Python Garbage Compiler (Medium)
- Reduced Reduced Instruction Set (Hard)
- GoLmoL (Hard)
- Reduced Reduced Instruction Set 2 (Expert)
- guessinggame (Beginner)
- printshop (Easy)
- bookshelf (Easy)
- bookshelfv2 (Medium)
- softshell (Expert)
- Note Taker (Expert)
- Scavenger Hunt (Beginner)
- Checkmate (Medium)
- Flower Shop (Medium)
- Pick Your Starter (Medium)
- One-for-all (Hard)