malwarectf
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- Host: GitHub
- Owner: Alexreb04
- License: wtfpl
- Language: TeX
- Default Branch: main
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README.md
MalwareCTF
🔐 CTF Security: Hidden threats in Capture The Flag challenges
Authors: Alessandro Nessi & Alessandro Rebecchi
Date: March 2025
This project investigates whether CTF (Capture The Flag) challenges may contain hidden malware, using a combination of automated filtering, web scraping, and dynamic/static malware analysis.
📄 Paper
📥 You can download the final PDF from the Releases section.
Filename: CTF_Security_Paper.pdf
🧪 Methodology
- 🌐 Web scraping via Selenium to collect CTFs from crackmes.one
- 🛡️ Infrastructure setup using Proxmox, WireGuard, and Mullvad VPN
- 🔬 Malware analysis via:
- VirusTotal
- Procmon / Process Explorer
- Wireshark
- Strings
- Ghidra
📈 Results
- Total CTFs analyzed: 4042
- Suspicious matches: 70 (~1.73%)
- No conclusive evidence of active malware found.
- Flagged binaries often relied on obfuscation or packers common in reverse engineering challenges.
💡 Key Takeaways
Even when challenges are flagged by antivirus solutions, further analysis is required.
False positives are common. Secure environments are essential.
📜 License
This work is released under the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License v2.
🙌 Citation
If you use this work, please consider citing us. Citation information is available in CITATION.cff.
Owner
- Login: Alexreb04
- Kind: user
- Repositories: 1
- Profile: https://github.com/Alexreb04
Citation (CITATION.cff)
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this paper, please cite it as below."
authors:
- family-names: Nessi
given-names: Alessandro
- family-names: Rebecchi
given-names: Alessandro
title: "CTF Security: Hidden threats in Capture The Flag challenges"
date-released: 2025-03-01
version: 1.0
url: https://github.com/Alexreb04/MalwareCTF/
license: DWTFYWPL-2.0
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