Thailand Cyber Top Talent 2026 · Endpoint Forensics
hardby Chicken0248Windows ForensicsMFTRegistryShellcode
An IR team was called after an employee ran a command delivered via social engineering on their workstation. Responders collected a KAPE triage package from the host and handed it to you for analysis. Preliminary investigation indicates the attacker hid a payload somewhere on the host, encrypted with a key bound to the target machine's own identity. Your objective is to recover the hidden payload and calculate its MD5 hash.
Evidence
Warning: This is a forensic image of a compromised Windows system and may contain malicious artifacts. Analyze it only inside an isolated virtual machine. The download is a zip; extract it to get the .vhdx.
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