Analyze Windows identity and host evidence in CTF sandboxes. Connect authentication tickets, credentials, mailbox rules, and host activity to explain which services accept access and how movement between hosts occurs.
- Tracing authentication tickets and tokens
- Investigating mailbox rules alongside identity events
- Building a timeline of Windows host evidence
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Compare GraphQL and RPC contracts, which describe expected API behavior, with generated clients and live handlers in a CTF sandbox. Identify hidden or outdated operations and preserve minimal request pairs that demonstrate the mismatch.
- Compare API contracts with live request handling
- Trace requests made by generated clients
- Investigate hidden or outdated API operations
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Trace how requests travel through a CTF sandbox, from hostnames and proxy rules to containers and processes. Compare headers and live traffic to identify which service handles a request and what changes its destination.
- Identify which container handles a request
- Check how Host and forwarded headers affect routing
- Trace path rewrites and WebSocket routing
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Inspect firmware in a CTF sandbox, map its partitions, and trace startup and update steps. Connect extracted files, credentials, and configuration to device behavior, preserving evidence for a minimal reproducible path.
- Map firmware partitions and extracted filesystems
- Trace startup and update verification steps
- Identify where embedded credentials are used
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Trace how requests become rendered pages in a CTF sandbox. Compare display restrictions with server enforcement, inspect data passed to the browser, and preserve a minimal example that demonstrates where rendering behavior diverges.
- Trace routes through server rendering
- Inspect page data passed to the browser
- Compare display restrictions with handler enforcement
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Organize CTF investigations by mapping the supplied targets, tracing one minimal path, and selecting the relevant specialist workflow. Findings are grounded in observed behavior and reproducible evidence, with a clean baseline used for verification.
- Choosing an analysis path for a CTF challenge
- Tracing a minimal path through challenge infrastructure
- Packaging reproducible evidence for a solution
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Analyze running iOS apps in a CTF sandbox, a controlled challenge environment. Trace methods, inspect secure storage, and examine request signing and certificate checks to identify the state needed to reproduce an accepted request.
- Trace Objective-C or Swift methods
- Inspect Keychain and local app storage
- Examine certificate checks and request signing
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Solve sandboxed CTF security challenges by reconstructing encoding and encryption steps, extracting data hidden in media, and tracing mobile app signing or storage behavior. Preserve exact parameters and evidence to reproduce decoded content or signed requests.
- Reconstructing encoding and encryption chains in CTF challenges
- Extracting data hidden in images and other media
- Tracing APK or IPA request-signing logic
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Examine container isolation in a CTF sandbox, a controlled security challenge environment. The skill checks kernel and runtime conditions, verifies whether an exploit crosses into host context, and preserves a minimal reproducible chain with evidence.
- Review container isolation settings in a CTF environment
- Check kernel exploit prerequisites
- Verify whether a trigger crosses the container boundary
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Compare how proxies and backend servers interpret HTTP requests in a CTF sandbox. Use paired requests and logs to pinpoint differences in paths, headers, or message boundaries, then document a minimal reproduction of unintended routing.
- Compare HTTP interpretation across proxies and backend servers
- Investigate path normalization and decoding differences
- Trace routing changes caused by ambiguous headers
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Trace SSH keys, tokens, and other credentials in Linux CTF environments. Connect each recovered artifact to the service that accepts it, then document the resulting privileges or movement to another host.
- Trace where recovered SSH keys and tokens are accepted
- Document privilege gains through sockets or sudo
- Explain movement between Linux challenge hosts
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Trace software artifacts from source and dependencies through builds, publishing, and runtime use in CTF sandboxes. Compare intended versions with shipped files to identify the earliest divergence and document the evidence linking each stage.
- Comparing declared, resolved, and shipped dependency versions
- Tracing package or build tampering through CI/CD
- Identifying the artifact actually used at runtime
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Trace OAuth and OIDC sign-in flows in a CTF sandbox, from redirects through token exchange to application acceptance. Show where tokens become a recognized identity or permission, and preserve the smallest reproducible flow.
- Trace sign-in redirects and callback parameters
- Inspect state, nonce, and PKCE validation
- Check how tokens become application identity or permissions
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Build an evidence-backed incident timeline in a CTF sandbox by correlating logs, network captures, and other artifacts. Trace attacker actions across sources, distinguish confirmed events from inferred gaps, and preserve the sequence that supports the conclusion.
- Combine logs and network captures into an incident timeline
- Trace attacker actions from initial access to persistence
- Separate confirmed event order from inferred gaps
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Analyze encrypted ZIP challenges in a CTF sandbox and use bkcrack to recover legacy ZipCrypto keys from known file contents. Create a decrypted archive, validate extraction, and preserve the commands and evidence needed to reproduce the result.
- Identify the encryption used by a ZIP archive
- Recover ZipCrypto keys from known file contents
- Validate and extract a decrypted archive
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Trace server-side request forgery, where a server fetches a supplied URL, through internal services and metadata endpoints in a CTF sandbox. Document credential scope and distinguish successful token extraction from access actually accepted by another service.
- Tracing server-side requests to internal services
- Checking metadata access and token scope
- Distinguishing token extraction from accepted access
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Investigate Kubernetes permissions and cluster behavior in CTF sandboxes. Trace role-based access control, service accounts, and automated controllers to explain workload changes, secret exposure, and differences between configuration files and live objects.
- Checking service account API permissions
- Tracing secret exposure through workload changes
- Comparing YAML manifests with live cluster objects
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Analyze a custom protocol in a CTF sandbox and reproduce an accepted exchange. Recover message boundaries, checksums, and session state, then build a small replay program that preserves the required message order.
- Recover message boundaries in an unknown protocol
- Reconstruct handshake steps and session state
- Build a replay program for a captured exchange
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Analyze WebSocket and SSE realtime connections in CTF sandboxes. Trace connection setup, authentication, subscriptions, and message sequences to explain changes in displayed or stored state and identify the smallest sequence that reproduces them.
- Inspecting connection setup and authentication data
- Decoding realtime messages and subscription flow
- Tracing reconnect behavior and message order
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Analyze binaries, malware samples, memory dumps, and packet captures in sandboxed security challenges. Trace program behavior, investigate crashes, and verify exploit conditions while preserving original files, decoded artifacts, and observable evidence for reproducible findings.
- Reverse engineer a binary’s structure and behavior
- Unpack a malware sample and separate its components
- Investigate crashes and verify exploit conditions
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Trace uploaded files through extraction, conversion, parsing, and reconstruction of saved objects in a CTF sandbox, an isolated competition environment. Preserve original and derived files, distinguish visible validation from backend behavior, and document the smallest reproducible processing chain.
- Trace an uploaded file to its backend effect
- Investigate archive extraction and preview generation
- Compare visible validation with backend file handling
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Investigate prompt injection in sandboxed security challenges by tracing how untrusted text changes an agent’s decisions or tool calls. Build a minimal reproduction and preserve evidence showing where external content crosses into trusted instructions or actions.
- Trace instructions hidden in retrieved documents
- Investigate agent behavior changed by stored memory
- Reproduce altered tool arguments or secret exposure
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Investigate hidden data in CTF images, audio, video, and documents. Examine file structure and candidate hiding channels, then extract and reconstruct the payload while preserving intermediate files and reproducible steps.
- Inspecting metadata and data appended to media files
- Finding hidden data in image transparency or color channels
- Examining audio spectrograms and video frame differences
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Assess the security of LLM applications and AI agents by tracing inputs, retrieved content, tool calls, and outputs. Covers prompt injection, where content carries unwanted instructions, along with permission misuse, memory poisoning, and supply-chain risks.
- Testing chatbot resistance to prompt injection
- Auditing agent tool permissions and approval steps
- Checking retrieval access controls and memory poisoning
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill☆ 42.8KUpdated Sep 22, 2026