Calling all CTF Creators!

We are hosting a four week long CTF development competition from June 15 to July 15 to find the next best CTF developers.  So if you have a clever idea for a CTF, this is your chance!

This competition is currently open to the following categories:

  • Web
  • Mobile
  • OSINT
  • Boot2Root
  • Forensics
  • Binary Exploitation/Pwn
  • Others

Submissions

Any challenge that you submit should be fully encapsulated within one or more Docker containers. That means your Dockerfile should be the source of truth and properly EXPOSE any necessary ports for the end-user and player to interact with the challenge. You are welcome to create multiple services and even multiple Docker containers (i.e., ran together with docker compose).

It is very important that you include a thorough README.md file for your own notes, explanation, and any necessary documentation pertinent to your challenge. Be sure to include a “solve script” or simple automated tooling that will validate and prove your challenge is solvable, or at a minimum, you have written out the manual steps that must be completed to solve your task. Your challenge will not be judged if it does not include enough documentation and streamlined solution details.

Prizes

Four winners will selected to receive a portion of the $2,000 prize pool based on the following criteria.  We’ll be reviewing your challenges based on the following:

  • Functionality (does the whole challenge work? nothing is broken?)
  • Difficulty (is this a multi-step challenge? it takes more than a few minutes to solve?)
  • Innovation (is this a clever idea? does this cover novel techniques?

Prizes are awarded for the following:

  • Best 3 submissions for category (1 per category)
  • HackingHub team’s favorite ($250)
  • Community voted ($250)

In addition to the prizes, we’ll showcase some of our favorite CTFs on John Hammond and NahamSec’s YouTube channels.

Submit