[FireEye]Flare-On 7 Challenge Solutions

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Flare-On 7 Challenge Solutions

We are thrilled to announce the conclusion of the seventh annual
  Flare-On challenge. This year proved to be the most difficult
  challenge we’ve produced, with the lowest rate of finishers. This
  year’s winners are truly the elite of the elite! Lucky for them, all
  260 winners will receive this cyberpunk metal key.

 

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We would like to thank the challenge authors individually for their
  great puzzles and solutions:

 

1. fidler – Nick Harbour (  href="https://twitter.com/nickharbour">@nickharbour)

   
2. garbage – Jon Erickson
3. Wednesday – Blaine Stancill (  href="https://twitter.com/MalwareMechanic">@MalwareMechanic)

   
4. report – Moritz Raabe (  href="https://twitter.com/m_r_tz">@m_r_tz)
5. TKApp – Moritz
       Raabe (@m_r_tz)

   
6. CodeIt – Mike Hunhoff (  href="https://twitter.com/mehunhoff">@mehunhoff)
7. re_crowd
       – Chris Gardner, Moritz Raabe, Blaine Stancill
8. Aardvark –
       Jacob Thompson
9. crackinstaller – Paul Tarter (  href="https://twitter.com/HefrPidge">@Hefrpidge)
10. break –
        Chris Gardner
11. Rabbit Hole – Sandor Nemes (  href="https://twitter.com/sandornemes">@sandornemes)

 

This year’s Flare-On challenge was the first to feature a live
  public scoreboard, so players could track their progress and the
  progress of previous Flare-On challenge champions. Despite this
  increased data at your fingertips, we are still going to bring you
  even more stats. As of 11:00am ET, participation was near record
  setting levels at 5,648 players registered. 3,574 of those players
  finished at least one challenge.

 

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The U.S. reclaimed the top spot for total finishers with 22.
  Singapore was once again in second place, but in uncontested first
  place per capita, with one Flare-On finisher for every 296,000 living
  persons in Singapore. This is the first year we have included a per
  capita finishers by country chart, and we did it to highlight just
  what a remarkable concentration of talent exists in some corners of
  the world. Consistent top finisher Russia took third place, and a
  growing player base in Germany and Israel came into full bloom this
  year, with those countries edging out other frequent top five
  countries such as China, India and Vietnam.

 

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All the binaries from this year’s challenge are now posted on the     href="http://flare-on.com/files/Flare-On7_Challenges.zip">Flare-On
  website. Here are the solutions written by each challenge author:

 

1. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge1-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #1
2. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge2-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #2
3. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge3-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #3
4. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge4-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #4
5. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge5-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #5
6. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge6a-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #6
7. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge7a-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #7
8. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge8-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #8
9. 
             href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge9-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
     #9
10. 
              href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge10-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
      #10
11. 
              href="https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/flareon7-challenge11-solution.pdf">SOLUTION
      #11

Source: Flare-On 7 Challenge Solutions