Official HackyBird Discussion

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Official discussion thread for HackyBird. Please do not post any spoilers or big hints.

0xczar

Well....

wardrive

Spoiler Removed

Ph03n1xr1535

Any hints on this please...

I am not sure what needs to be done exactly.. Do we need to find the window procedure for the "space" key event and modify something to win the game ?

DefaulTs

This challenge is quite funny it was fun, pm if u need help ^^

ryancor

this challenge makes zero sense. for a 30 point challenge, it got extremely annoying

wardrive

So I didn't actually realize I had posted a spoiler until after I had solved it, so I apologize.

For a more generic hint:
How would one normally cheat in a PC game that doesn't have hardcoded cheatcodes?
How do you go about creating your own simple cheats?
What's the "win" condition?

parrotsecurity

I run the exe in any run and it says that the exe is trojan when I put exe to virus total it says that the av recognize the exe as trojan the link https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7aa24d17cec7181c71a04b7a8279e420c30f7364acd8cc7ac351be63254071b0/detection

Baseizo7

Also seeing the exe tagged as trojan. Perhaps HTB or creator could chime in?

femfyratre

This challenge was not easy, like at all. I don't understand why it is listed in easy track.

Anyway, after getting some hints and guessing some numbers, I was able to solve it. Very disappointed that I could not find some logical way to solve it, without guessing.

I did lookup a writeup on GitHub just to find out that the solution was to "guess some numbers" and voilà, "we solved this challenge".

I would love to see a proper walkthrough involving logical steps to solve such challenges.

socialkas

Hi there, I just solved it without guessing any numbers. In fact, this is indeed an easy challenge, though I have to admit that I was a bit puzzled because I am not used to the old-fashioned Windows API calls.

PM me if you want more details.

Cheers!

ezricissp

Type your comment> @parrotsecurity said:

I run the exe in any run and it says that the exe is trojan when I put exe to virus total it says that the av recognize the exe as trojan the link https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7aa24d17cec7181c71a04b7a8279e420c30f7364acd8cc7ac351be63254071b0/detection

Most likely a "false positive". HTB would be liable for distributing viruses. Note 38 engines think it's a Trojan while 33 engines say, it is OK. Run the challenge in a safe VM if in doubt

ezricissp

@Baseizo7 said:
Also seeing the exe tagged as trojan. Perhaps HTB or creator could chime in?

Not creator but in this field there will be many false positives.

TazWake

@parrotsecurity said:

I run the exe in any run and it says that the exe is trojan when I put exe to virus total it says that the av recognize the exe as trojan the link https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7aa24d17cec7181c71a04b7a8279e420c30f7364acd8cc7ac351be63254071b0/detection

Good opportunity to look at how AV works and why its good to dig into the detection rather than assume the AV alert is legitimate.