So, I haven’t been playing HTB for quite sometime, and I finally had some motivation (or mood) to try out some boxes. So here is my writeup for the HTB seasonal machine: PermX.

This year, wargames is filled with very interesting challenges. As for this miscellaneous challenge - Splice, it’s a more lighthearted challenge as compared to the other brain-cells consuming challenges. The challenge is to recover 2 QR code that are removed at the middle of the QR image.

CTF or capture the flag is a hacking competition that participants race against time to solve as many challenges and gain as much points to win. There are mainly 2 types of CTF, Jeopardy-Style in which is the traditional challenge solving CTF, or Attack-and-Defence Style that competitors will hack into each other’s system while patching their own vulnerable systems.