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WRITEUPS

Reproducible solve notes from the CTFs we played under THEM?!.

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V1t CTF 202509 Nov 2025

Talking Duck

Bro this duck is talking to me or something? I'm high or what?? Attachment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOVJwPqHTZBRRUiuve8E1VwBSmMyB4Us/view?usp=sharing

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V1t CTF 202509 Nov 2025

Specimen 512

An unmarked data file was recovered from an abandoned research server labeled only as Specimen 512 . No accompanying documentation, no metadata, and no obvious contents โ€” just a massive file filled with strange sequences. Some say it hides

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ImaginaryCTF 202515 Sept 2025

certificate

As a thank you for playing our CTF, we're giving out participation certificates! Each one comes with a custom flag, but I bet you can't get the flag belonging to Eth007!

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ICTF 202514 Sept 2025

whoami

They can't leak what they don't know Please don't test your payloads on remote; use your own OpenRouter key. nc whoami.chal.imaginaryctf.org 1337

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ICTF 202514 Sept 2025

significant

The signpost knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater. Consequently, the position where it is,