Null Origin CTF 2026 — Prep Suite

Team Kinetigor · Qualifier Sep 18, 04:30–16:30 UTC · Jeopardy · Humans submit flags

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Competition platform: ctf.cyberhx.com · Teammate invite: b8af1e39ef16 · CTFtime event 3346

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Control panel — tonight

Six Null Origin games

Your command screen: six Jeopardy columns, tools per game, our prep surfaces, agent demo, flag log.

Category arenas (engine-backed)

8 drills · CTF terminal + ScenarioEngine

Eight competition lanes wired to real BountyWarz engines — hands-on payload terminal, OODA forensics drills, and Hunt recon. Clear required modules per category.

Workflow rehearsal

Pre-comp drill

Run the observation drill with a recorder. Measures time-to-first-action and submission flow.

3D cyber range

OSCP · Security+ · CySA+

Fly London, breach CVE targets, pass security quizzes. All categories in one world.

Terminal recon

CEH · OSINT fundamentals

Text range: scan hosts, observe evidence, name the weakness class. Same session as the 3D world.

Operator desk

Team coordination

Contest cockpit, extension sidebar, and local desk for game-day logging.

Category drills — cert mapped

Each card links to an arena surface and a repo tool. Run local practice with python3 practice/verify.py in ctf-nullorigin.

Web

OSCP · GWAPT · CPPT

CORS null-origin theme expected. SQLi, XSS, SSRF, LFI, auth bypass.

Crypto

Security+ · CISSP

ROT13, RSA, classical ciphers. Use CyberChef for quick transforms.

Reverse engineering

GREM · OSCE

Static and dynamic analysis, XOR, strings, Ghidra workflow.

OSINT

CEH · BTL1 OSINT

DNS, WHOIS, social traces, robots.txt, public metadata. Observation before exploitation.

Forensics

GCFA · CHFI

File carving, trailing data, entropy, EXIF, memory and disk artifacts.

Binary exploitation

OSCP · GXPN · OSED

Buffer overflow, ret2win, checksec, pwntools, GDB.

Steganography

CHFI · Security+

LSB, trailing bytes, steghide, zsteg, binwalk on every image.

Misc

Security+ · CPPT

Layered encoding, QR, morse, brainfuck, base32/64 chains.

Clean URLs — paid domains

bountywarz.com Main prep hub and 3D range
/null-origin · /arena · /cyber-range · /dry-run
kinetigor.com Operator desk and prep entry
/null-origin · /desk
athelgard.io Mentor terminal and coaching
/null-origin · /start
protocolbreach.com 2D tactical Web + Pwn arena
Home → PB game
hackersjourney.com Training path entry
/train

Laptop toolkit (install before game day)

Game-day rules