The aim of a CTF is to find flags through your technical, and problem-solving prowess. There will be a series of
challenges for you to complete starting from simple, and growing much harder. Each challenge will be hiding a flag
in
the format !FLAG!{flag_text_here}!FLAG! which could be hidden in a database, cipher text, locked
behind a login
page, hidden in an image, or many other challenges you'll face. When you find the flag enter it into the flag box
and you'll increase your score, the harder the challenge the more points you'll get.
Each challenge is possible to solve through free and open source tools, methods and information (since that's how
I made them), so just keep researching and testing new things and you eventually get it.
There are many different areas of challenges which will test different skills, so even if you don't know much
programming or web-development you might be able to solve cryptographic challenges which are much more based on maths and
problem solving.
Some challenges will feature a command like this: nc {IPaddress} {port}. This is a netcat command to be used in the terminal to connect
to a port on a server. If you do not have netcat installed then you will need to install it.