HTB University CTF 2024

Hack The Box University CTF

What to expect

How to join

There are three things you will need to join to participate, firstly the CTF platform itself (Hack The Box), this will give you access to the challenges and let you submit flags. Secondly there is Discord, this is our primary method of communication within the team. And finally there is CTFNote, which is a collaborative platform we use to keep notes on all challenges we are doing.

Hack The Box

The event is organized by and hosted on Hack The Box, to get access first create an account on https://ctf.hackthebox.com/, then follow the steps outlined here: https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/6666329-how-to-join-university-ctf-2024.

Note that you will need to use your `@student.vu.nl` email when joining the CTF. You do not need to use this email when creating an account on the platform.

Discord

Discord is our main channel of communication, you can join it here. Once in the Discord server you can get access to the channel for this by joining the "HTB University CTF" event. To do this first go to "Events" (1), then scroll down to find the "HTB University CTF" event (you can also find it here) and finally click 'interested' (2). This should give you access to the "htb-university-ctf" channel under "CTFs - 2024" (3).

If this is not the case please reach out to any user with the "board" role. (Their names will be red).

CTFNote

Once you have access to the Discord, you can find the CTFNote authentication password in the "General" post of the "htb-university-ctf" (so not the #general channel under "TEXT-CHANNELS"). With this you can register a user on CTFNote here https://pad.studsec.nl/#/auth/register , once you've done this send a message in the channel letting us know so we can give your new account access.