CAPTURE THE FLAG
SIMATS Engineering
📌 About the Event
Hosted at SIMATS Engineering (Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai), the Capture The Flag (CTF) challenge is a live, competitive cybersecurity war-game. Designed for security enthusiasts of all skill levels, participants are dropped into a sandboxed environment to exploit vulnerabilities, crack cryptographic ciphers, and reverse-engineer binaries to uncover hidden strings of text called “flags.”
ℹ️ PORTAL OVERVIEW
- Host Institution: SIMATS Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- Format: Multi-stage, On Campus Hacking Sprint.
- Event Date: June 19, 2026
- Total Capacity Limit: Strictly limited to 100 Slots .
👥 TEAM STRUCTURE & CONFIGURATION
- Flexibility: Open to solo hackers or teams of up to 3 members.
- Skill Level: Beginner friendly to advanced. No prior professional penetration testing experience is required just an understanding of logical problem-solving and command-line mechanics.
🛡️ KEY CHALLENGE CATEGORIES
Challenges carry dynamic point weights that scale directly alongside tactical difficulty:
- 🌐 Web Exploitation: Auditing faulty web applications to execute Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injections, or broken access controls.
- 🔑 Cryptography: Breaking historical ciphers, weak hashing algorithms, and misconfigured public-key crypto-systems.
- 🔎 Digital Forensics: Analyzing memory dumps, packet captures (
.pcap), and hidden metadata within corrupted system storage files. - ⚙️ Reverse Engineering: Deconstructing compiled binaries (
.exe, ELF execution blocks) to locate hardcoded logical flags. - 🕵️ OSINT (Open Source Intelligence): Utilizing digital footprints, public registries, and advanced search indices to piece together intelligence puzzles.