Challenge Categories

There are a wide range of skills tested by CTFs, but usually challenges are categorized as one of these problem types.

• General Skills
  • Scripting
  • Operating System Specific
  • System Administration
• Cryptography
• Forensics
  • File
  • Filesystem
  • Memory
  • Network
• Web Exploitation
• Uncategorized / Miscellaneous
• Reverse Engineering
• Binary Exploitation

Everyone should have a vague idea of how to do the basics for each category, but the secret to being a great CTF team is to have a person on your team specialize in each. How you do that is very situation dependent, but nobody can learn it all, so you'll have to work together.