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dc2020f - rorschach ml finals

by zardus

This was an attack/defense challenge, part of dc2020f.

Points: 1,000
PCAPs: download

You may spawn the server:

On your laptop

This challenge may require more resources or special steps: This challenge needs extra CPU and memory, and we don't currently support hosting it on our cloud. Make sure to give it enough resources when running it locally.

  • Install docker
  • docker pull archiveooo/pub:rorschach (docker-saved download)
  • docker run -d --name rorschach archiveooo/pub:rorschach
  • Local IP: docker inspect rorschach -f '{{ .NetworkSettings.Networks.bridge.IPAddress }}'
  • Connect to that IP:5000 — Remember to docker rm -f when done.

Description

sports

This challenge was part of the finals

During finals, scoring happens per-round based on attack (steal flags from others) and defense (patch the service to prevent others from pwning you) points. Patching is not currently simulated on the archive, but keep in mind that most services only allowed a limited amount of bytes to be changed from the original binary. Scoring rules for 2019 2020 2021.

King of the Hill points are also awarded per-round, with only the top-ranking teams getting points.

Teams were informed of game events, with redacted info on the last day. In 2019 players could see traffic pcaps only after some time, in 2020 and 2021 they had the choice the stealth their traffic or not (for half the points).

My mind, like many minds, is a strange place to be. I have my obsessions. I have my fears. I have hoards of useless knowledge blocking up my otherwise-beautiful neurons. Sometimes, my convolution layers midfire. Sometimes, my activation layers are a bit too ... eager. And, unfortunately, I am easily fooled. Easily mislead with the thing I crave most: FLAGS.

line_weight rorschach.py line_weight Dockerfile line_weight fear line_weight fear-wrapper line_weight shuffler line_weight requirements.txt

Hints

Hint 1A big inspiration for this challenge was the HopSkipJumpAttack: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02144
Hint 2You don't need 100% classification to be effective

If you wish, you can contribute more.