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Mission Objective

You and your space crew will traverse star system UIUCTF 2025 to explore its various celestial bodies. Missions of types PWN, REV, CRYPTO, OSINT, WEB, and MISC will be assigned to your crew upon arrival.

Mission Parameters

STA DUR 48H FMT Jeopardy CRW Unlimited Team Size

Directives

  1. Don't cheat.
    Each person can only compete on one team. Sharing flags or solves between teams will lead to immediate disqualification.
  2. Don't attack the infrastructure.
    Unless otherwise specified, do not run brute-force or enumeration tools such as nmap or dirbuster.
  3. Don't flag hoard.
    Submit flags as you find them and don't submit all at once towards the end.

Prizes

  • 1st Place $2,048 USD
  • 2nd Place $1,024 USD
  • 3rd Place $512 USD
  • 4th to 5th Place (each) $256 USD
  • 6th to 10th Place (each) $128 USD
  • Writeup Prize Pool $1,500+ USD

Note: In order to be eligible for cash prizes totaling over $600, you must be a tax entity in the United States. If you are not, you can choose to split the prize and/or donate to charity.

Contact

Join us on Discord to talk with Mission Control and other crews! We utilize a Discord bot application for support tickets. Please send a direct message to Modmail in order to create a ticket. Do not DM challenge developers or admins directly. For inquiries via email, please contact us at hello at sigpwny dot com.

Sponsors

Since 2012, Trail of Bits has helped secure some of the world's most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.

Learn more about Trail of Bits.

Zellic is a security research firm. We hire top CTF talent to solve the world's most critical security problems. Before Zellic, we founded perfect blue, the #1 CTF team in 2020 and 2021. We hire internationally, and we look for people experienced in vulnerability research (VR) / binary exploitation, reverse engineering (RE), cryptography, or web security.

To learn more about Zellic, check out our blog.
Work at Zellic: jobs@zellic.io

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