Windows Artifacts Forensics

The Windows Artifacts Forensics challenge invites us to analyze and identify the circumstances under how a Windows 10 user got hacked.  In a Sherlock Holmes-style, we will need to correlate malicious actions to certain events that occurred on the compromised machine using the information given by different sources like Sysmon logs, Windows Security Events, Windows logon events, User Download history, etc. 

Goal of the Competition

/ Identify how an attacker managed to obtain access and compromised the targeted machine.

Gameplay

/ You will receive one or more challenges at the start of the competition

/ From the 3rd day you can also ask for help on the official Discord Channel

/ The exercises are designed to take less than 3 hours to solve

Rules of Engagement

/ This competition is part of DefCamp’s Hacking Village 2021 activity series. You need to have a valid DefCamp ticket

/ Teams can have only one member.

/ No DDoS allowed

/ No sabotage of other players permitted

/ Do not attack the infrastructure. If you find a problem, please report to us.

/ Don’t ask for hints in private. We will only give hints that are available to all the teams.

/ For the final flags you are required to create a write-up.

/  Only the best can win

Duration

2021-11-22 09:00:00 UTC — 2021-11-28 12:00:00 UTC

PRIZES

The winners will be selected by raffle out of all players that solved all challenges or the best-ranked player at the end of the competition. 

Grand Prize: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Basic Bundle Voucher

Terms and conditions are available here.

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