Reverse this binary to find the password. There are no anti-reversing tricks, and you don’t need to change the binary to find the solution. Fun and frustrations promised.
Reverse this binary to find the password. There are no anti-reversing tricks, and you don’t need to change the binary to find the solution. Fun and frustrations promised.
You and your team are close to hacking a very complicated CBC
encryption algorithm. The missing piece of the puzzle is finding a key
which has a special property: a key which only has groups of 2
identical characters. For example, “00:bb:44:22:11:ff:dd” is such a
key, where “12:42:de:ff:aa:cc:34″ is not. You and your team are
searching for the “first” secret key with this property, meaning the
secret key with the lowest possible number of iterations.
Hint: you can solve this level by only changing 1 byte! Enter your
answer using the following format: “00:bb:44:22:11:ff:dd” (without the
quotes).
Question 1
Anagramania! Who could Runic Breeches be? (FORMAT: firstnamelastname, all lowercase and no blanks)
Question 2
Long time ago, the World Wide Web was born in the blue circle. These days, this place is known for something else entirely. What does the green circle represent? (FORMAT: wordwordword, no blanks)
Question 3
You wake up because your phone rings. Your headache tells you you have a hangover. It’s cold outside, even though it’s July. You pick up the phone. It’s your girlfriend, asking you where the hell you are (you’re having lunch at her parents’). What are you going to tell her? (FORMAT: namecity, in one word. Use the native language for the city.)
Question 4
This plaque is situated somewhere in the UK. In which town exactly, and to whom has it been dedicated? (FORMAT: townnamefirstnamelastname)
Question 5
Please download the following file (not infected :) ) (FORMAT: firstnamelastname, no spaces)
[Level_A200.mp3]
Question 6
The guy in the one picture has the same name as the creature in the other picture. One of them lives in Middle-Earth, the other in Norway. What is their name? Use the spelling with -h in the end.
Question 7
Please decode: KQKRSEAPNZLZGVTH. FORMAT: make sure to submit the answer as one word.
Question 8
Which world is [level_A200_image8.jpg] FORMAT: the answer is a number between 1 and 9.
Question 9
Yes, it’s true, the Hex Factor made me a billionaire. I own a fancy car, a wild cat as a pet, and a supercomputer. Coincidentially, all of them have the same name. My car and my pet are movable objects, but my computer isn’t really, so I live in the place where it is located. Where is that? (FORMAT: the answer consists of a four-letter initialism, make sure you write it in lowercase).
Question 10
What is the last name of these famous three brothers?
Download and execute the binary (“java -jar TheMalwareFactor.jar“).
Welcome to The Hex Factor zombie legion! Talk to the botmaster to get your score.
Question 1
“Mikä on minun syntymäpäiväni?”

Question 2
My father’s name is Rollo. I was third in 2003 and second in 2004. My son George won in 2005
and my daughter Joan in 2006. From time to time I speak gibberish. What is my name?
Question 3
“Who is the author of this book?
Question 4
Could you provide the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?
Question 5
What is the last name of the protagonist in this PC game?
Question 6
I went here in July 2010. Which event is located here? The answer consists of one word.
Question 7
Could you put [a] Abraxas [b] Morris Worm [c] ILOVEYOU [d] INIT1984 [e] Staog in chronological order?
Please answer in the following format: abcde
Question 8
Whose song is this: If(you.tintColor==0×000000 || you.tintColor==0xFFFFFF) {matter=false;}?
Question 9
What is the title of this movie?
Question 10
What is the most commonly used word for the following number:
MTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAw
MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwM
DAwMDA?
As you may know, 13th&14th of October 2010, Malaysia will host a great event. Hack in the Box competition will be held between 8 teams from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, USA and Vietnam.
There will be conferences beside this hacking competition and many big sponsors support the event. Some of these sponsors are Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Zone.h.
As I searched the net before, it’s not possible to find this competition’s materials; therefore I asked my very best friend to give them to me for sharing. All questions are designed by
Which you will see in future posts. I will publish them one by one, and the answers will be published once I find the right answer. In addition it is possible to suggest your answers and discuss the them in comments.
For further info about registration refer to