Congrats to the winners of the 2021 Metasploit community CTF

Post Syndicated from Spencer McIntyre original https://blog.rapid7.com/2021/12/06/congrats-to-the-winners-of-the-2021-metasploit-community-ctf/

Congrats to the winners of the 2021 Metasploit community CTF

Thanks to everyone that participated in this year’s Metasploit community CTF! Like last year, this CTF ran over the past 4 days and invited community members to solve a series of challenges. This year saw 1,501 users registered across 727 teams. If you participated in the CTF, we have a feedback survey up here:

https://forms.gle/YmMR6Rrk9LCcrXzi8

Congrats to the winners of the 2021 Metasploit community CTF

Place Team Score
1 average ctf enjoyers 1800
2 deadastronauts 1800
3 LeukeTeamNaam 1800
4 PoSTLTimes 1800
5 EvilBunnyWrote 1700
6 BisonSquad 1700
7 Social Engineering Experts 1700
8 B47Sec 1700
9 AlphaSeal 1700
10 L1T 1600
11 APT593 1500
12 IML-SEC 1500
13 NYUSEC 1500
14 Neutrino_Cannon 1500
15 just use bloodhound 1500

We’ll be contacting the captains of the winning teams this week to arrange prize delivery. We want to thank CTFd again for providing the scoreboard software. We also want to thank our partners at TryHackMe for sponsoring prizes for the top 3 teams. Finally, we want to give a huge thank you to everyone that participated in this year’s CTF!

CTF Statistics

  • This year there were 18 total challenges for a maximum possible score of 1800
  • Four teams solved and captured all possible flags
  • The 4-of-hearts challenge had the most solves with 260, while the 7-of-hearts had the fewest at 6 (2.3% of registered teams)
  • A total of 265 teams made it onto the scoreboard
  • There were 1,264 correct challenge submissions and 1,524 incorrect challenge submissions
Challenge Solves
4 of Hearts 260
9 of Diamonds 201
2 of Spades 163
10 of Clubs 92
5 of Diamonds 70
4 of Diamonds 68
Jack of Hearts 61
9 of Spades 59
Ace of Hearts 56
2 of Clubs 48
8 of Clubs 43
3 of Hearts 29
Black Joker 29
5 of Clubs 27
4 of Clubs 18
Ace of Diamonds 18
3 of Clubs 16
7 of Hearts 6

As always, we’re excited to see the different approaches the hacker community took to solve our challenges as detailed in their writeups. There’s a #write-up-links channel dedicated for this in the public Slack workspace that we encourage users to check out.