General Information

Welcome to the Equinor CTF. This CTF is hosted by the Equinor Cyber Defence Center and is aimed at students and security professionals.
The CTF starts at November 8^th 10:00 and ends at November 8^th 20:00 (Europe/Oslo).

The entire event, including all challenges, the platform, and communication, will be in English.

Announcements

All announcements and other useful information will be published on Discord. There will be a third and final onsite participation verification round before the CTF begins; all participants must therefore make sure to follow the #announcements channel on Discord.

Detailed Schedule:

09:00 - The venue (The Hub Hotel) opens. Coffee will be available throughout the day.
09:40 - Opening and practical information
10:00 - CTF starts
12:00 - 🔥 challenges releases
13:00 - Lunch will be served
17:00 - Food
18:00 - Bar opens
20:00 - CTF ends
20:15 - Awards ceremony
20:30 - Crowning Norway's best hacker
23:00 - Bar closes
23:30 - Doors closed.

Network Infrastructure

We will provide both wired and wireless network access. Network cables will be provided at the venue, but it's important that contestants bring a computer with a network card or USB-to-Ethernet adapter/dongle to use the wired network connection.

Hints

No hints will be given in direct messages. If we are to release hints, they will be published in the #announcements channel on Discord.

🔥 Fire challenges 🔥

To make sure everyone is ready to go when the onsite action is taking place and to make it possible for smaller teams/single players to win prizes, we have added the concept of "fire challenges". If you are able to get first blood (be the first team that solves the challenge) on one of these challenges you will win a prize. These challenges are marked with flames "🔥" in the name.

Difficulty

Our target audience is students and beginners, but there will be challenges of various difficulty levels. Take a look at last years challenges here.

Divisions

We will have three divisions:

Students For teams where all members are onsite students.
Open For onsite teams that do not qualify for the student division.
Remote For participants competing online (not eligible for onsite prizes).

Team Size & Onsite Eligibility

Teams can have a maximum of 10 members. You can compete solo or form teams of any size up to this limit.

To qualify as an onsite team, all team members must be registered as onsite participants and physically present at the venue. Teams with any remote participants may still compete but are not eligible for onsite prizes and will be considered a "remote team".

Flag format

EPT{this_is_a_flag}

Duration

The CTF will start at November 8^th 10:00:00 (Europe/Oslo), and ends after 10 hours on November 8^th 20:00:00 (Europe/Oslo).

Prizes

The top team in each onsite division (Students and Open) will receive up to 10 trophies.

The top three teams in each onsite division will receive up to 10 coins.

Eligibility note: To qualify as an onsite team, all members must be registered as onsite participants. Teams with remote participants are not eligible for onsite prizes.

We will also be handing out exclusive EPT/Equinor Coins to some lucky winners using pseudo random algorithms and to participants who stand out in a positive way, for example by sharing write ups of challenges, reporting challenge bugs, etc.

Support

If you have technical issues or require assistance, create a support ticket in the #support channel on Discord. We will try to have someone online 24/7, but response times might be a bit slow during late night and early morning Norwegian time.

Rules

Do not discuss challenge details in public. If you have issues with a challenge, create a support ticket on Discord
Do not share hints or flags with other teams.
Do not attack the CTF infrastructure.
You are not allowed to brute-force any challenge on a server, unless specified otherwise.
Be nice :)