guest@apres:~/ctf$ cat README
Capture the flag · Thu & Fri from 10:00 AM, closes Fri 2:00 PM
AI-Augmented Adversary Lab
Bring your favorite assistant. Challenges simulate real investigations: logs, binaries and artifacts. Some are noisy, some incomplete, some misleading. Flags sit behind analysis, not single tricks. Large language models are encouraged and expected throughout.
- Realistic artifacts
- Production-style logs, binaries and evidence. Not textbook puzzles.
- Ambiguous data
- Noisy, incomplete, sometimes misleading. Like the real thing.
- AI encouraged
- Bring your assistant. The skill is knowing when to trust it.
- Reasoning wins
- Ask good questions, validate tool output, challenge automation.
Open to every summit attendee, any pass, any role.
you> triage auth.log. did anyone actually get in?
agent● reading auth.log … 48,213 lines
agent● 3 hosts show bursts of failures followed by a success
agent● 10.4.7.22 → 312 failures, then success as svc_backup at 02:14
agent● svc_backup is a service account. checking for interactive logins…
agent● none in 90 days. this one matters.
you> show me the raw lines. i don't trust you yet.
Feb 25 02:14:07 bastion sshd[8812]: Accepted password for svc_backup from 10.4.7.22
you> good. now: what did svc_backup do next?
APRES{████████████████} — flags unlock Feb 25, 10:00 AM MST
you>
Illustrative. The real challenges are harder, and the logs lie. When it finishes, the prompt is live: try hint.
Warm-up round · open now
There is a flag hidden on this website.
Four fragments, in the places a curious human or a well-behaved agent would look first. Join them and submit in the terminal. No prizes, just bragging rights.
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