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Security Architect
Applied Wave 2 Draft

Security Architect

65.0h estimated 4 Courses

Applied-level certification for security architects. Covers cloud IAM architecture, AppSec patterns, identity architecture, and logging/monitoring design.

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Threat Modeling and Architecture Requirements [Non-CTF]

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Cloud Architecture, IAM and Containers

21 cards

Vigenère Cipher Cryptanalysis: Kasiski Examination and Index of Coincidence Attack

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Cracking Columnar Transposition Ciphers: Key-Length Detection and Column Reordering

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

AES-ECB Block Alignment Attack: Exploiting Deterministic Encryption for Oracle Leakage

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

CBC Padding Oracle Attack: Byte-by-Byte Plaintext Recovery via PKCS#7 Error Responses

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

AES-CTR Nonce Reuse Attack: XOR-Based Keystream Recovery and Plaintext Decryption

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Exploiting Symmetric Key Reuse Across Users: Cross-Account Ciphertext Oracle Attacks

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Extracting Hardcoded Symmetric Keys from Binaries via Static Reverse Engineering

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Attacking Weak Key Derivation Functions: Dictionary Attacks on Under-Iterated Password Hashing

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

XOR Keystream Reuse Attack: Many-Time Pad Cryptanalysis and Statistical Key Recovery

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Cracking RSA Small Public Exponents: Cube-Root Recovery and Low-Exponent Bias

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

RSA Broadcast Attack: CRT-Based Plaintext Recovery Across Multiple Recipients

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Factoring Weak RSA Primes via Fermat Factorisation and Pollard p-1 Method

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

WAV spectrogram stego

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

WAV echo stego

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

LSB RGB stego

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Bit plane image stego

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Alpha channel LSB stego

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

XOR two-image stego

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

DCT block image stego

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Recovering Wide Strings (UTF-16LE) from Memory: C2 URL and Credential Extraction via Volatility

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Detecting XOR-Encoded Payloads in Memory Dumps: Entropy Analysis and Brute-Force Key Recovery

cloud_container_security Difficulty 1–5 30 min

AppSec Patterns and Identity Architecture

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Recovering RSA Private Keys from Malformed Signatures via Fault Injection

encoding_crypto_classical Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Detecting Length-Extension and Forgery Flaws in Custom MAC Implementations

encoding_crypto_classical Difficulty 1–5 30 min

JWT Algorithm Confusion Attack: Exploiting Key Confusion and Asymmetric Misuse

encoding_crypto_classical Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Exploiting Insecure Key Exchange Protocols via Man-in-the-Middle Parameter Manipulation

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Diffie-Hellman Small Subgroup Confinement Attack: Key Recovery via Order Manipulation

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Forging Session Tokens via Weak PRNG: Exploiting Insufficient Entropy in Identifiers

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Blind SQLi login

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Boolean-based auth flaw

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Weak password policy exploit

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Account lockout bypass

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

2FA logic flaw

crypto_asymmetric Difficulty 1–5 30 min

OTP Reuse (Static Artifact): Time-Based OTP Replay and Rate Limit Bypass Techniques

crypto_asymmetric Difficulty 1–5 30 min

JWT Algorithm None (Static Artifact): Unsigned JWT Token Forgery for Authentication Bypass

crypto_asymmetric Difficulty 1–5 30 min

JWT Key Confusion (Static Artifact): Public Key as HMAC Secret for Token Signature Forgery

crypto_asymmetric Difficulty 1–5 30 min

JWT Kid Injection (Static Artifact): Key Identifier Header Exploitation for Signature Bypass

crypto_asymmetric Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Session hijacking

crypto_tokens_protocols Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Cookie Tampering (Static Artifact): Session Cookie Forgery and Authentication Bypass Techniques

crypto_tokens_protocols Difficulty 1–5 30 min

HMAC secret brute force

crypto_tokens_protocols Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Insecure remember-me token

crypto_tokens_protocols Difficulty 1–5 30 min

OAuth misconfiguration

crypto_tokens_protocols Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Email verification bypass

crypto_tokens_protocols Difficulty 1–5 30 min

IDOR (numeric)

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

IDOR (UUID guessable)

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Parameter pollution IDOR

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Horizontal Privilege Escalation: Cross-User Resource Access via Insufficient IDOR Controls

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Vertical Privilege Escalation: Role Bypass and Unauthorized Administrative Function Access

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Role misassignment

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Mass Assignment Vulnerability: Unfiltered Object Binding for Unauthorized Property Modification

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Hidden admin endpoint

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

GraphQL overexposure

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

REST verb confusion

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

CORS misconfiguration

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Multi-tenant data leak

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SQL injection (classic)

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SQLi blind time-based

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SQLi second order

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

NoSQL Injection: MongoDB Operator Injection for Authentication Bypass and Data Enumeration

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

LDAP Injection: Filter String Manipulation for Authentication Bypass and Directory Enumeration

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Template injection (Jinja2/Twig)

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SSTI chain

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

OS Command Injection: Shell Metacharacter Exploitation for Server-Side Command Execution

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Argument injection

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Path traversal

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

LFI

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

RFI

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SSTI to RCE chain

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Reflected XSS: URL-Based Script Injection and Single-Interaction Client-Side Code Execution

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Stored XSS: Persistent Script Injection for Session Hijacking and Admin Panel Exploitation

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

DOM-based XSS

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

CSP Bypass: Content Security Policy Circumvention via JSONP Endpoints, Trusted Domain Abuse and Nonce Prediction

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

AngularJS expression injection

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Markdown rendering XSS

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

File upload XSS

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Service worker abuse

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Basic SSRF Exploitation: Internal Service Enumeration via Server-Side URL Fetch Manipulation

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SSRF to Cloud Metadata: AWS IMDS Credential Theft via Server-Side Request Forgery

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SSRF via PDF Renderer: Headless Browser Exploitation for Internal Service Access via HTML Injection

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SSRF via webhook

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SSRF Filter Bypass: IP Encoding, URL Redirection and Parser Confusion for Blocklist Evasion

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

DNS rebinding (simulated)

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Gopher Protocol SSRF: Arbitrary TCP Payload Injection for Redis, Memcached and FastCGI Exploitation

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SSRF → Redis (mocked)

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SSRF → internal admin

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Unrestricted file upload

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Extension bypass

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Content-Type Bypass: MIME Sniffing and Type Header Manipulation for Upload Restriction Evasion

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Zip Slip Path Traversal: Archive Extraction Directory Escape for Server-Side File System Write

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Archive bomb (simulated)

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Insecure deserialization (generic)

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PHAR deserialization (simulated)

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Pickle deserialization

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

YAML unsafe load

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Prototype Pollution in Node.js: __proto__ Injection for Object.prototype Manipulation and RCE Gadget Chaining

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Race condition

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

TOCTOU

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Double-spend

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Coupon stacking

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Quantity manipulation

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Order status tampering

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Payment bypass

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Feature flag abuse

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Logic-Based Privilege Escalation: Exploiting Flawed Business Rules for Unauthorized Role Promotion

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

API Rate Limit Bypass: Request Throttling Circumvention via Header Manipulation and IP Rotation

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Pagination bypass

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Batch endpoint abuse

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Swagger exposed secrets

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

API key leakage

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PNG metadata stego

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

WAV LSB stego

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Nested archive

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Weak zip password

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Verifying Cryptographic Log Integrity by Detecting SHA-256 Hash Chain Breaks

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Detecting Log Injection Attacks Through CRLF Forensics and Entry Authenticity Analysis

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Detecting Timestamp Manipulation via MFT and NTP Cross-Correlation Sequence Analysis

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Reconstructing Event Timelines from Log Rotation Artifacts and Surviving Log Fragments

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Detecting Pass-the-Hash Attacks via NTLM Logon and Multi-Source Log Correlation

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Identifying Service-Based Persistence Through New Service Anomaly and Baseline Comparison

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Correlating Brute-Force Authentication Failures with Successful Lateral Pivot Events

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Identifying Base-Encoded Chunk Queries in DNS Exfiltration Log Records

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Tracing SUID Binary Exploitation via Setuid Syscall and Privilege Transition Correlation

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Detecting Cron-Based Persistence via Scheduled Task Forensics and Download-Execute Patterns

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Detecting Unauthorized Group Membership Changes via Privilege Escalation Audit Logs

web_injection_logic Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Detecting Sudo Abuse Through GTFOBins Traces and Sudoers Modification Forensics

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Tracing Unauthorized Shadow File Access Using Auditd Event Log Forensics

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

SMTP Inbox OSINT: Mail Content Analysis, Sender Tracing and Inbox-Based Identity Discovery

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

LDAP Anonymous Reconnaissance: Unauthenticated Directory Traversal and User Attribute Harvesting

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Git Repository History Secret Recovery: Identifying Deleted Credentials via Commit Log Forensics

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

one_gadget Exploitation: Single libc Shell Gadget Identification and Constraint-Satisfying Invocation

encoding_crypto_classical Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Stack Pivot Technique: RSP Redirection to Attacker-Controlled Memory for Extended ROP Chain Execution

crypto_asymmetric Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Tcache Poisoning: fd Pointer Corruption for Arbitrary Allocation in glibc 2.27+ Heap

crypto_tokens_protocols Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PDF metadata forensics

crypto_tokens_protocols Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PDF comment stream forensics

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PDF hidden text layer forensics

crypto_symmetric_kdf Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PDF first-letter acrostic forensics

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PDF JavaScript action forensics

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PDF hidden AcroForm field forensics

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

PDF incremental update revision forensics

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Terraform State File Exposure: Extracting Infrastructure Secrets from Public S3 Backends

web_auth_sessions Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Logging Architecture, Monitoring and Incident Readiness

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Correlating Multi-Host Authentication Anomalies to Detect Lateral Movement

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Correlating Audit Events Across Linux and Windows Privilege Escalation Transitions

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

QR code decode

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Sigreturn-Oriented Programming: Signal Frame Hijacking for Full CPU Register Control with Minimal Gadgets

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Morse Code Decoding: Timing Analysis, Delimiter Identification and Transcription Methodology

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Bacon cipher

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Zero-width steganography

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Brainfuck encoding

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

NATO phonetic alphabet

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Multi-layer encoding chain

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

QR Code Forensics: Error Correction Analysis and Partially Damaged Payload Reconstruction

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Baudot encoding

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Leetspeak obfuscation

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

Azure RBAC Misconfiguration: Subscription-Scope Role Assignments and Service Principal Abuse

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

AWS Service Control Policy Misconfiguration: Cross-Account Permission Escalation

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min

S3 Bucket Policy Misconfiguration: Public Access, Cross-Account Grants and Transport Gaps

log_analysis_siem Difficulty 1–5 30 min
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CTFFactory Security Architect — Applied

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