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2026-05-10
Reverse Engineering
Hard
Raptor Weekly 2 - ECHELON Rev 1 - 4.1 ; REMNANT
Reversing a stripped x86-64 ELF to recover Diffie-Hellman parameters with a smooth group order, applying Pohlig-Hellman to recover the private key, and decrypting a C2 beacon payload to extract a handshake key and the flag. Or just running the binary.
reverse-engineering
crypto
diffie-hellman
pohlig-hellman
2026-02-28
Reverse Engineering
Hard
WHAMazon! Rev 2 - Armor
Identifying a PyArmor v9.x protected Python script, generating the correct runtime to execute it, and extracting a base64-encoded flag from the crash dump it writes to disk.
pyarmor
python
obfuscation
deobfuscation