Congrats to the winners of the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF

Thank you all that participated in the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF! The four day CTF was well received by the community, with 874 teams and 1903 users registered! We’ve included the high-level stats and the competition winners below. If you played the CTF and want to let the Metasploit team know which challenges you found exhilarating, interesting, or infuriating (in a good way, of course), we have a feedback survey up here:

https://forms.gle/Vha8cFsu11mojSrZ8

Congratulations to everyone who teamed up with community members, learned something new, or captured flags. The collaboration we saw on Slack and Twitter was awesome as always!

Winners

Place	Team
1	Neutrino_Cannon
2	PrettyBeefy
3	PostalTime
4	binbash
5	deadastronauts
6	EvilBunnyWrote
7	L1T
8	Mailru
9	() { :;}; echo vulnerable
10	Team sorceror
11	ADACTF
12	BisonSquad
13	socialdistancing
14	LeukeTeamNaam
15	OWASP Moncton

We’ll be in touch with winners shortly to arrange prize delivery. Big thanks to CTFd for providing technology that helped power the game, and thanks to our friends at Hack The Box for chipping in cool prizes!

Thanks to everyone that took part in this year’s CTF. All teams who made it onto the scoreboard will also have their team names incorporated into a commemorative banner in Metasploit Framework in the new year.

Stats!

• This year had 2000 total possible points from our 20 challenges. Two of these challenges were previously unsolved challenges from our January 2020 Metasploit Community CTF.
• Overall there were 1903 users and 874 teams registered
• Over 1400 machines were deployed over the course of the game
• 24 teams managed to capture all flags
• The 4 of Hearts had the most solves with 407 solves, and the 7 of Spades had the least solves with 33 solves
• 413 teams made it onto the scoreboard. Congrats to all of you who captured your first-ever flag in this year’s game!
• 2275 correct MD5 hashes were submitted, with 1229 wrong submissions.

4 of Hearts	407
Red Joker	213
8 of Hearts	183
2 of Spades	176
6 of Diamonds	157
3 of Spades	137
6 of Hearts	122
Black Joker	111
Queen of Hearts	90
2 of Hearts	87
8 of Diamonds	84
Ace of Clubs	77
Queen of Spades	75
4 of Clubs	71
9 of Diamonds	65
9 of Clubs	60
8 of Spades	49
5 of Clubs	39
9 of Hearts	39
7 of Spades	33

As in previous years, it’s possible that the hacker community will come out with detailed write-ups on how they solved some or all of this year’s challenges. We’ll do our best to list a few of those here as they roll in. You can also check out #metasploit-ctf and #write-up-links in Slack for solution discussions.

Thanks to everyone who made the competition a fun and educational experience, both the community and everyone that was involved in the creation of the CTF and its challenges: zeroSteiner, space, tychos_moose, catc0n, juggernot, n00tmeg, erinbleiweiss, pebarry, Dean, Op3n4m3, hairy_mongrel, 8_bitChris, tekwizz123 and Alan Foster. We look forward to seeing you at the next Metasploit CTF!