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).

Announcements

All announcements and other useful information will be published 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.

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 two divisions:

Students For students (All team members).
Open For everyone else.

Team Size

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

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

Top three teams in both categories will receive a trophy and up to 10 coins.

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 :)