Resources
This challenge is built for learners. Whether you’ve never touched a terminal or you just learned what CTF means yesterday — you can start today and make real progress before the competition.
This page has all the resources to help you learn, explore, and level up at your own pace.
Categories of Challenges
In this section, you’ll get a quick tour of the main challenge categories you’ll encounter in the competition: Web Exploitation, Cryptography, OSINT, Forensics, and Reverse Engineering.
Categories Details
Web Exploitation
- This YouTube Playlist covers more than web vulnerabilities, it is the most recommended: Penetration
- PortSwigger hands-on labs for practical learning for each web vulnerability with explanation of topics for each one: PortSwigger Labs
- Labs of (Web for Pentester I & II) in pentesterlab covers almost all the web vulnerabilities even the advanced ones: Pentesterlab
For tools:
Burpsuite is the main tool for web exploitation, as it intercepts and analyzes web requests , Download link (it is downloaded by default in kali linux)
Cryptography
Some TryHackme rooms that contains explanation for many topics with Practical Learning:
Collection of crypto CTF concepts and tools: Crypton
Main tools for Cryptography:
Cyberchef: Visual tool for decoding, encoding, hashing, etc: DownLoad Link
OSINT
Best YouTube video for OSINT Techniques: OSINT in 5 Hours
Full Framework that contains all the search engines and tools for everything: OSINT framework
Forensics
- A beginner-friendly introduction to digital forensics in CTFs: forensics overview
- An open-source, smart digital image forensics tool designed to help analyze images: sherloq
- A curated collection of beginner to intermediate forensics challenges with sample files. Perfect for hands-on practice: digital forensics lab
Reverse Engineering
A structured and beginner-friendly course covering the fundamentals of reverse engineering: Z0FCourse Reverse Engineering
A practical web-based guide to reverse engineering concepts, tools, and workflows: 0xinfection Reversing Guide