Daily AlpacaHack

A daily CTF challenge with a fun new puzzle every day

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We publish one simple, beginner-friendly or educational CTF challenge every day!

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tsuji1

SOLVED!

Mar 22, 5:53 AM

baumroll1234

SOLVED!

Mar 22, 5:39 AM

hiikunz

SOLVED!

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kakur41

Alpaca Quest

Rev

Medium

109 solves

minaminao

hit-and-hit

Misc

Medium

81 solves

tchen

Alpaca Rangers

Web

Medium

134 solves

kurenaif

One Byte Padding Oracle Attack

Crypto

Hard

69 solves

tchen

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock

Web

Hard

90 solves

minaminao

pyjs

Misc

Hard

77 solves

admin

Alpaca meets QR

Misc

Welcome

232 solves

kakur41

Bars

Web

Easy

231 solves

tan90909090

glibc's secret function

Rev

Easy

162 solves

minaminao

Flag Printer 2026

Misc

Easy

166 solves

tchen

Alert my Flag

Web

Medium

139 solves

mora

magic number

Misc

Medium

108 solves

theoremoon

high and low

Crypto

Hard

80 solves

ark

guess.js

Misc

Hard

93 solves

minaminao

FLAG OVER

Misc

Medium

106 solves

ark

💯

Misc

Medium

106 solves

pppp4649

Find XOR key

Crypto

Easy

117 solves

colza

kappa overflow

Pwn

Medium

109 solves

tchen

Another Login Challenge

Web

Medium

108 solves

asusn

Heuristic IPPON

Misc

Easy

146 solves

minaminao

flag.txt

Misc

Hard

100 solves

pppp4649

The future path

Crypto

Medium

83 solves

tchen

Free Coupon

Web

Medium

116 solves

ark

PPPPParse

Misc

Medium

88 solves

rsk0315

Flags for the FLAG

Misc

Easy

119 solves

colza

canary leak

Pwn

Medium

75 solves

chocorusk

Alpacker

Rev

Hard

62 solves

k0080

vuln4vuln

Pwn

Hard

40 solves

kanon

Planned topicXOR

Crypto

Medium

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Writeups

Writeup for Daily AlpacaHack 3/15-3/21 kakur41 ja The future path +6 2 hours ago
Writeup for Alpacker baumroll1234 ja Alpacker 14 hours ago
Writeup for canary leak colza author ja canary leak yesterday
Writeup for canary leak baumroll1234 ja canary leak yesterday
Writeup for Flags for the FLAG rsk0315 author ja Flags for the FLAG 2 days ago
Writeup for PPPPParse baumroll1234 ja PPPPParse 3 days ago
Writeup for Free Coupon baumroll1234 ja Free Coupon 4 days ago
Writeup for a fact of CTF masaki-fukura ja a fact of CTF 4 days ago
Writeup for Daily AlpacaHack 3/9-3/15 labpump ja FLAG OVER +6 4 days ago
Writeup for The future path pppp4649 author ja The future path 4 days ago

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Free Coupon

Topic: GeneralReleased: Mar 17, 2026

116 solves

Web

Medium

Author:

tchen

Get a free coupon now and buy the flag at a discount!

Beginner Hint 1: Overview of the problem (AI-translated)

When you access the page, a random session ID (sid) is assigned.
When you access the /buy page, if the balance associated with the session ID is 30 or more, you can "purchase" and view the flag.
The initial balance is 0, but accessing the /redeem page allows you to get 10 balance in exchange for a coupon. However, after that, the redeemed flag becomes true, and it looks like you can't use the coupon multiple times.
There is no way to increase the balance other than coupons.

Beginner Hint 2: Approach to the problem

The implementation of /redeem is a bit unnatural. It takes a few seconds to get the coupon when accessed, but can we exploit this specification?

free-coupon.tar.gz

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