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by Alexander Sotirov
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CSAW final reverse engineering challenge
Nov 6, 2010
The final round of the CSAW CTF competition took place on October 29th in New York and included a reverse engineering challenge I created specifically for this event. Since the teams in the qualifying round showed some pretty impressive reversing talent, I tried to make the final harder. Much harder. So hard that in fact not a single team solved the challenge.
If you'd like to try, you can download the CSAW-FINAL-SOTIROV.RAR archive, which contains an installer for a modified version of Adobe Reader 9.2 and a PDF file. Once you extract the files, follow the instructions below:
Install AdbeRdr910_bg_BG.msi. This is a slighly modified version of Adobe Reader with some extra functionality.
Open CSAW.pdf and enter a key in the form. If the key is correct, Adobe Reader will pop up a message box to congratulate you.
Your goal is to find the modifications in Adobe Reader and find the key that brings up the message box. If solve the challenge, I would appreciate it if you post a description of how you solved it and email me to let me know.