SANS Holiday Challenge 2012 Zone 5 Writeup

Zone 5

Heat Miser

The last zone we need to gain access to is Zone 5 for Heat Miser. Connecting to the URL we found in the previous post, we are presented with the following:

SANS Holiday Challenge 2012 Zone 4 Writeup

Zone 4

We can use the URLs obtained in the previous post to access Zone 4 for both Snow and Heat Miser.

SANS Holiday Challenge 2012 Zone 3 Writeup

Zone 3

Using the URLs obtained in the previous post, we can access Zone 3 for both Heat and Snow Miser. Let's see if we can obtain the URLs for Zone 4.

SANS Holiday Challenge 2012 Zone 2 Writeup

Zone 2

Using the URLs obtained in the previous post, we can gain access to Zone 2 for both Snow and Heat Miser.

SANS Holiday Challenge 2012 Zone 1 Writeup

Zone 1

We can use the links found in the previous post to gain access to Zone 1 for both Snow Miser and Heat Miser. Since no more introduction is needed, let's get started.

SANS Holiday Challenge 2012 Zone 0 Writeup

Introduction

This year, SANS hosted a holiday CTF-like challenge in which participants play the role of Heat Miser and Snow Miser, two characters from the classic movie The Year without a Santa Claus, as they attempt to gain access to each other's weather control systems to alter the weather systems on Earth as we know them.