FIC Forensic CTF Platform ========================= This is a CTF server for distributing and validating challenges. It is design to be robust, so it uses some uncommon technics like client certificate for authentication, lots of state of the art cryptographic methods and aims to be deployed in a DMZ network architecture. This is a [monorepo](https://danluu.com/monorepo/), containing several micro-services : - `admin` is the web interface and API used to control the challenge and doing synchronization. - `backend` is an inotify reacting service that handles submissions checking and team's files generation. - `dashboard` is a public interface to explain and follow the conquest, aims to animate the challenge for visitors. - `frontend` is only responsible for receiving submissions. It is the only dynamic part accessibe to players, so it's codebase is reduce to the minimum. It does not parse or try to understand players submissions, it just write it down to a file in the file system. Parsing and treatment is made by the `backend`. - `qa` is an interface dedicated to challenge development, it stores reports to be treated by challenges creators. - `remote/scores-sync-zqds` is an inotify reacting service that allows us to synchronize scores with the ZQDS scoring platform. - `repochecker` is a side project to check offline for synchronization issues. In the production setup, each micro-service runs in a dedicated container, isolated from each other. Moreover, two physical machines should be used: - `deimos` communicates with players: displaying the web interface, authenticate teams and players, storing contest files and handling submissions retrieval without understanding them. It can't access `phobos` so its job stop after writing requests on the filesystem. - `phobos` is hidden from players, isolated from the network. It can only access `deimos` via a restricted ssh connection, to retrieve requests from `deimos` filesystem and pushing to it newly generated static files. So, the general filesystem is organized this way: - `DASHBOARD` contains files structuring the content of the dashboard screen(s). - `FILES` stores the contest file to be downloaded by players. To be accessible without authentication and to avoid bruteforce, each file is placed into a directory with a hashed name (the original file name is preserved). It's rsynced as is to `deimos`. - `PKI` takes care of the PKI used for the client certiciate authorization process, and more generaly, all authentication related files (htpasswd, dexidp config, ...). Only the `shared` subdirectory is shared with `deimos`, private key and teams P12 don't go out. - `SETTINGS` stores the challenge config as wanted by admins. It's not always the config in use: it uses can be delayed waiting for a trigger. - `SETTINGSDIST` is the challenge configuration in use. It is the one shared with players. - `startingblock` keep the `started` state of the challenge. This helps `nginx` to know when it can start distributing exercices related files. - `TEAMS` stores the static files generated by the `backend`, there is one subdirectory by team (id of the team), plus some files at the root, which are common to all teams. There is also symlink pointing to team directory, each symlink represent an authentication association (certificate ID, OpenID username, htpasswd user, ...). - `submissions` is the directory where the `frontend` writes requests. It creates subdirectories at the name of the authentication association, as seen in `TEAMS`, `backend` then resolve the association regarding `TEAMS` directory. There is also a special directory to handle team registration. Local developer setup --------------------- ### Using Docker Use `docker-compose build`, then `docker-compose up` to launch the infrastructure. After booting, you'll be able to reach the main interface at: and the admin one at: . #### Import folder ##### Local import folder The following changes is only required if your are trying to change the local import folder `~/fic` location. Make the following changes inside this file `docker-compose.yml`: 23 volumes: 24 - - ~/fic:/mnt/fic:ro 24 + - /fic:/mnt/fic:ro ##### Owncloud import folder If your are trying to use the folder available with the Owncloud service, make the following changes inside this file `docker-compose.yml`: 29 - command: --baseurl /admin/ -localimport /mnt/fic -localimportsymlink 29 + command: --baseurl /admin/ -clouddav=https://owncloud.srs.epita.fr/remote.php/webdav/FIC%202019/ -clouduser -cloudpass '' ### Manual builds Running this project requires a web server (configuration is given for nginx), a database (currently supporting only MySQL/MariaDB), a Go compiler for the revision 1.16 at least and a `inotify`-aware system. 1. First, you'll need to retrieve the dependencies: go mod vendor 2. Then, build the three Go projects: go build -o fic-admin ./admin go build -o fic-backend ./backend go build -o fic-dashboard ./dashboard go build -o fic-frontend ./frontend go build -o fic-qa ./qa go build -o fic-repochecker ./repochecker ... 3. Before launching anything, you need to create a database: mysql -u root -p <: this is the administration part. ./fic-backend & This daemon generates static and team related files and then waits for new submissions (expected in `submissions` directory). It only watchs modifications on the file system, it has no web interface. ./fic-frontend & This one exposes an API that gives time synchronization to clients and handle submission reception (but without treating them). ./fic-dashboard & This last server runs the public dashboard. It serves all file, without the need of a webserver. It listens on port 8082 by default. For the moment, a web server is mandatory to serve static files, look at the samples given in the `configs/nginx` directory. You need to pick one base configation flavor in the `configs/nginx/base` directory, and associated with an authentication mechanism in `configs/nginx/auth` (named the file `fic-auth.conf` in `/etc/nginx`), and also pick the corresponding `configs/nginx/get-team` file, you named `fic-get-team.conf`.