CTF Competitions

What are CTFs?

CTFs (Capture The Flag) are hacking competitions where you solve challenges to find hidden "flags" and earn points while competing with others.

Here are some of the CTFs I participated in:

My journey through Capture The Flag competitions - from my first experience to challenging solo competitions

DownUnderCTF 2025

Solo
622nd
out of 1,667 teams
Team:S1DD3CATED(Solo Team)

I solved various challenges in specifically: AI (prompt injection), web exploitation and other complex categories, such as reverse engineering. This was a great CTF, I enjoyed playing this a lot. What motivated me the most was the community and the funny memes in the challenges itself. It was a mix of learning hacking and entertainment.

Categories Explored

AI/Prompt InjectionWeb ExploitationBurp Suite (Community Edition)Reverse EngineeringBinary ExploitationComplex Challenges

Achievements & Statistics

DownUnderCTF 2025 Scoreboard showing S1DD3CATED team
DownUnderCTF 2025 Scoreboard showing S1DD3CATED team
S1DD3CATED Certificate for DownUnderCTF 2025
S1DD3CATED Certificate for DownUnderCTF 2025

L3akCTF 2025

Solo
509th
out of 1,587 teams
Team:S1DD3CATED(Solo Team)

I solved various challenges in categories like: OSINT, web exploitation, cryptography and more. This was a very fun but hard CTF since there were 60+ challenges and I was solo. Although I was on my own, I made as many challenges as I possibly could and ended up completing 10/60 challenges. This was a very fun CTF, and gave me a new perspective on things like OSINT and complex challenges.

Categories Explored

OSINTWeb ExploitationCryptographyReverse Engineering/GhidraComplex ChallengesBurp Suite (Community Edition)

Achievements & Statistics

L3akCTF 2025 Scoreboard showing S1DD3CATED team name
L3akCTF 2025 Scoreboard showing S1DD3CATED team name

Hack The System - Bug Bounty CTF

Solo
242nd
out of 1,323 teams
Team:S1DD3CATED(Solo Team)

This CTF was a very interesting CTF for me. This was my first solo, and Hack The Box CTF. Out of the 5 complex challenges which were given 2 days for, I solved 1 very hard challenge, it was a Flask-based web application which generated certificates based off of input fields, and were vulnerable to SSTI.

Categories Explored

Bug BountyWeb ExploitationBurp Suite (Community Edition)SSTIInjection TechniquesFlask-based (Python)

Achievements & Statistics

Bug Bounty CTF Certificate for S1DD3CATED
Bug Bounty CTF Certificate for S1DD3CATED

PicoCTF 2025

355th
out of 10,460 teams

This was my very first CTF, which was luckily beginner-based. I completed several challenges in the following categories: binary exploitation, cryptography, general skills and web exploitation. This first CTF was a great learning for me and was very fun to play and taught me fundamental concepts which could help me in other CTFs.

Categories Explored

Binary ExploitationCryptographyGeneral SkillsWeb Exploitation

Achievements & Statistics

SiddDev PicoCTF 2025 Statistics
SiddDev PicoCTF 2025 Statistics
CyberTeam PicoCTF 2025 Team Statistics
CyberTeam PicoCTF 2025 Team Statistics
4
CTFs Completed
3
Solo Competitions
15,137
Total Teams Competed Against