SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2020: Scapy Challenge

Sarah Noles
7 min readFeb 18, 2021

Each year, the SANS and Counter Hack Challenges teams put together my favorite capture the flag (CTF) competition, the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge. The 2020 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge, featuring KringleCon 3: French Hens! was held at Santa’s newly renovated castle at the North Pole from December 10, 2020 to January 11, 2021. This is a walk-through for a terminal challenge from the event.

Alabaster Snowball challenged me to the Scapy Terminal challenge. Scapy is a Python package that allows sending, receiving, and manipulating network packets…

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Sarah Noles

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