Signcraft

MediumMalware Reverse Engineering

Overview

Our forensics team received information that there are hidden signs in this save file, in all direction within a range of 100 chunks. Will you be able to retrieve the flag?   The game is NOT required

Lab Details

Prerequisites & Requirements

  • Python Scripting: Intermediate proficiency, particularly with nested data structures and library integration.
  • Data Structures: Basic understanding of hierarchical binary formats (NBT) and 3D coordinate systems.
  • Research Skills: Ability to navigate and implement poorly documented APIs or third-party libraries.

What will you learn?

  • Digital Forensics: Identify and parse proprietary game save structures to locate hidden artifacts.
  • NBT Analysis: Use NBT viewers to reverse-engineer data schemas and object hierarchies.
  • Automated Data Mining: Develop scripts to programmatically iterate through massive 3D datasets (chunks/blocks) to extract specific entity metadata.

Tools

  • Amulet-Core: A Python library for interacting with Minecraft’s world data.
  • WebNBT: A web-based explorer for Named Binary Tag (NBT) files.

Job Positions

Digital Forensics Analyst

Tags

Static AnalysisMalware AnalysisTriageSteganographyStrings