08 - FLARE-ON 2018

The 2018 FLARE-ON Challenge I've been trying to write two posts per month, though it's been faltering lately, obviously. Over the past few days / week, I've been working on the FLARE-ON challenge, so my attention hasn't really been on blogging, but I thought I'd take some time to make a placeholder for when the current FLARE-ON challenge ends-- then I can freely blog about the challenges and how far I got. In the event you haven't heard of FLARE, it's an acronym for FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering. Apparently this is the fifth year this challenge has run. I'd never heard of it until recently, but it looked fun and so far it has proved to be entertaining, as well as quite challenging. I'm not really well versed in RE... I'm interested in it, more for the exploit dev side of things than malware analysis, but more or less I'm just trying to get better at it. Little CTF challenges like this one are a great time and hel