Software Engineering Fall 2019

NSA 2019 Codebreaker Challenge

The 2019 Codebreaker Challenge consists of a series of tasks that are worth a varying amount of points based upon their difficulty. All tasks will become available immediately once the Challenge goes live and can be solved in any order, though there may be some dependencies between tasks. The point value associated with each task is based on relative difficulty and schools will be ranked according to the total number of points accumulated by their students. It is still recommended to solve tasks in order since the tasks flow with the storyline, but that is not a requirement.

The team has only gone up to Task 5 this year. These are individual notes for each team member. Note that each member has different types of files that are provided in the challenge and the answers may vary

Chris' Notes Jonah's Notes Jetro's Notes

Ghidra

• History of Ghidra

• Ghidra: A quick overview for the curious

• Ghidra - Journey from Classified NSA Tool to Open Source

• Download Ghidra:

  • Introduction on Windows

  • Introduction on Linux

  • Introduction on Mac

  • Github Repo Page

• Tutorials

  • From NSA with notes

    • https://ghidra.re/online-courses/

    • Ghidra Cheat Sheet

      • http://ghidra.re/CheatSheet.html

  • SFSCon

    • Introduction to Software Reverse Engineering with Ghidra

    • Moderately Advanced Ghidra Usage

  • Shoguns Lab's Take on Ghidra

    • Here Be Dragons: Reverse Engineering with Ghidra - Part 0 [Main Windows & CrackMe]

    • Here Be Dragons: Reverse Engineering with Ghidra - Part 1 [Data, Functions & Scripts]

• Fun with Ghidra

  • CrackMe Exercises

    • Beginner Guide of Ghidra with crackme

      • Nora Codes

        • https://github.com/NoraCodes/crackmes

        • Explanations to the answers

          • https://nora.codes/tutorial/an-intro-to-x86_64-reverse-engineering/

    • The Leetcode of CrackMe

      • https://crackmes.one/

  • Reverse engineering with #Ghidra: Breaking an embedded firmware encryption scheme

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4urMITJKQQs

  • Pull apart an EXE file with Ghidra (NSA Tool) (Reverse Engineering)

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1wAGeM9Hw

• Interesting Videos and Lessons about Ghidra

  • Mike Bell: Extending Ghidra: from Script to Plugins and Beyond

    • https://vimeo.com/377180466

  • Three Heads are Better Than One: Mastering Ghidra - Alexei Bulazel, Jeremy Blackthorne - INFILTRATE 2019

    • https://vimeo.com/335158460

• [Awesome Ghidra] Curated list of Ghidra related links - Allsafe

  • https://github.com/AllsafeCyberSecurity/awesome-ghidra