DEMO CHALLENGES

Test your skills with these practice challenges. Each one demonstrates a different category you'll encounter during the event. These do not count toward scoring.

Flag format: BLACKVECTOR{...}

WEB DEMO-1

Insider Access

An internal Meridian portal was left exposed. Gain access to the admin panel and retrieve the classified data.

meridian-defense.internal/portal

MERIDIAN DEFENSE SYSTEMS

INTERNAL PORTAL

⚠ AUTHENTICATION REQUIRED

Access restricted to authorized personnel.
Contact IT Security for credentials.

CRYPTO DEMO-2

Cipher Chain

This message was intercepted in transit. It appears to have been encoded multiple times before transmission. Peel back the layers to reveal the original message.

INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSION:

516b78425130745752554e5554314a37624746355a584a6c5a46396c626d4e765a476c755a33303d

FORENSICS DEMO-3

Data Recovery

A corrupted database dump was recovered from a Meridian server. The records are hex-encoded. Most are mundane, but one contains classified data. Recover it.

Download: db_dump.txt

MISC DEMO-4

Number Station

A numbers station was detected broadcasting the following sequence on a loop. Intelligence believes it contains a coded message. Decode the transmission.

INTERCEPTED BROADCAST — 4.7125 MHz:

66 76 65 67 75 86 69 67 84 79 82 123 110 117 109 98 101 114 115 95 116 111 95 108 101 116 116 101 114 115 125

SIGNAL REPEATS EVERY 30 SECONDS — RECORDING ENDS