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Case writeups.

Investigations told through the evidence. Step by step, with the assumptions left visible.

4 entries
CTF
Case writeup

Glyph — DFIR Investigation Lab | CAT Reloaded CTF 2026

A DFIR walkthrough of the Glyph challenge, tracing a Unicode homograph phishing chain through browser artifacts, PowerShell, NTFS, SRUM, malware execution, C2 activity, and persistence.

CTFCAT Reloaded CTF 26
10 min read
HackTheBox
Case writeup

AoTR 4: A Drone in the Snow

A recovered disk blew the case open. The files inside weren't theory, they were a checklist. Hours later, an unmarked matte-black drone was found half-buried in snow in Budapest,

HackTheBoxDrone_Forensics
5 min read
HackTheBox
Case writeup

AoTR 3 The Abandoned Farmhouse

The coordinates led police and investigator into winter, to a place far enough from everything that no one would notice if something went wrong.

HackTheBoxencrypted_disk
11 min read
HackTheBox
Case writeup

HackTheBox The Tunnel Without Walls

A memory dump from a connected Linux machine reveals covert network connections, fake services, and unusual redirects. Holmes investigates further to uncover how the attacker is manipulating the entire network!

HackTheBoxMemory_Forensics
5 min read