SANS-Holiday-Hack-Challenge-2024

Write Up tackling the Objectives and Challenges of the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2024 which I submitted on the 2nd January 2025 and for which I was awarded a Super Honorable Mention

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Narrative

OBJECTIVE 1 - Holiday Hack Orientation

OBJECTIVE 2 - Elf Connect

OBJECTIVE 3 - Elf Minder 9000

OBJECTIVE 4 - cURLing

OBJECTIVE 5 - Frosty Keypad

OBJECTIVE 6 - Hardware Hacking 101 (Part 1)

OBJECTIVE 7 - Hardware Hacking 101 (Part 2)

OBJECTIVE 8 - Mobile Analysis

OBJECTIVE 9 - Drone Path

OBJECTIVE 10 - PowerShell

OBJECTIVE 11 - Snowball Showdown

OBJECTIVE 12 - Microsoft KC7

OBJECTIVE 13 - Santa Vision

OBJECTIVE 14 - Elf Stack

OBJECTIVE 15 - Decrypt the Naughty-Nice List

OBJECTIVE 16 - Deativate Frostbit Naughty-Nice List Publication

Ending Epilogue & Thanks

BONUS OBJECTIVE - Hidden Story

BONUS OBJECTIVE - Finding Jason and the Docks Area