Exploiting simple network services in CTF’s

Greg
3 min readSep 6, 2019

For those of you that enjoy CTF’s here are a few tips on how you can go about testing non HTTP network services.

There are plenty of different services out there to test with, and this is by no means an exhaustive tutorial, but gives you a few tips to get started testing non HTTP based services.

So how could we approach attacking these services?

In CTF challenges where you are given the binary it can make like alot easier as you can decompile the software to understand…

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Greg

Security addict, 17+ years in industry making systems more secure and finding those that aren’t