Welcome to my personal writeups for TryHackMe’s Advent of Cyber 2025 — a free, beginner-friendly cybersecurity event offering 24 days of hands-on challenges, spanning offensive, defensive, cloud, malware, forensics, and AI-security topics.
This repository documents solutions, notes, and learning outcomes for each day.
- A 24-day guided cybersecurity challenge running from December 1st to December 24th.
- Designed for absolute beginners to intermediate learners.
- Includes certificates, daily tasks, hints, videos, and industry mentor guidance.
- Covers topics ranging from Web Security to Incident Response to Malware Analysis to AI Security.
- Features community leaderboards, team challenges, and a storyline centered on the frozen town of Wazaville.
- Exploitation with cURL
- Web Attack Forensics
- Phishing Detection
- Malware Analysis
- AWS Security
- Linux CLI
- SOC Alert Triage
- Password Cracking
- Splunk Basics
- Network Discovery
- Container Escape
- IDOR Exploitation
- Prompt Injection
- Web Log Analysis
- Registry Forensics
- Social Engineering
- AI in Security
- CyberChef
- ICS/Modbus
- YARA Rules
- Race Conditions
- C2 Detection
- Obfuscation
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└── Day 24/
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Wareville falls under strange icy conditions while the spirit of SOC (Security Operations Center) is under threat. The mascot McSkidy has vanished, TBFC is in chaos, and cyber incidents escalate daily. Your job across 24 days is to investigate, secure the town, uncover threats, and restore order.
This repo is meant as a clean, structured collection of Advent of Cyber 2025 solutions, insights, and references, focused on learning, clarity, and reproducibility.