Certifications
How do certifications work?
OSINT Certification CTF's are meant to test and prove your skills.Download the materials. You'll get a ZIP file with a briefing, instructions and your starting materials. After completing all the steps, you find a link to a form.Fill out the form and claim your personalized certificate.The ingredients give you an idea of the skills needed to complete the challenge.
Ingredients
🌎 – Geolocation
🔎 – Forensics
🚢 – Maritime
🥸 – Social
🧩 – Logic
💾 – Data
🌐 – Web
Intro to Chinese OSINT
Follow traffic patterns originating from Chinese sources. Multiple sites appear to be distributing invite codes for t00ls, a Chinese hacking forum.
🌐🥸💾🧩
Easy Contracts
How to Play
Contracts are what we call our CTF Challenges. They're story driven, clandestine espionage assignments for SERPENT. Simply download a CTF and start playing.You get a badge or card for completing each CTF Challenge. Drop this badge or card in our Discord server's "card-brag" channel and receive XP and Coins. You can spend these coins on store items, listed on the site and in Discord.The ingredients show you what to expect for each CTF.
Ingredients
🌎 – Geolocation
🔎 – Forensics
🚢 – Maritime
🥸 – Social
🧩 – Logic
💾 – Data
🌐 – Web
Naval Intrusion
An enemy vessel has entered allied water, it's your task to identify the vessel and make sure our allies can take kinetic action.
🚢🌐
Cold War Enemies
Stop an international arms smuggling network ran by our old friend, Maksim Kotova, by locating a military airfield.
🌐🌎
Nightmare Fuel
Investigate disturbing bodycam footage and figure out what happened in this nightmare inducing story. Horror themed CTF.
💾
Gas Attack
Identify a target city from surveillance images to prevent a terrorist group's planned nerve gas attack.
🌎
Saving Isabella
Locate the distress signal of your SERPENT team member, Isabella Moreno and bring her home safely. Her life depends on it.
💾🌎
Friendly Fire
An unknown tank has been spotted and we need you to figure out what type this is. Identify the tank in the picture.
🌐🔎
Alien Abduction
Find out where and when this abduction took place, you don't have much to work with, so it will surely test your skills.
🌐
The Spy Who Vanished
Track down former MI5 operative who now appears briefly on social media before vanishing into the shadows.
🥸🌐
Prisoner Of War
Geolocate a captured French soldier's prison from a photo delivered by an escaped child hostage.
🌎
The Sleeper Cell
Decode encrypted instructions sent from extremist group leaders to sleeper cells to prevent planned terror attacks.
💾🧩
Chasing Bigfoot
Investigate the truth behind Sasquatch beings that evolved alongside early humans, as revealed by alien contact.
🌐
Lost At Sea
Decrypt a surveillance ship's final distress beacon data to uncover how and where it sank in the Black Sea.
💾🔎🧩
Dialogues From Atlantis
Decipher an ancient dialogue about Atlantis between classical philosophers to help a Monaco art collector validate theories.
💾🧩
Where’s Klumgongyn
Locate a rogue alien overseer's vacation spot using geolocation data from their taunting photo to retrieve them.
🌎
Emergency Transmission
Decode an encrypted emergency transmission from a downed Klumgon pilot to determine the crash location in Ecuador.
💾
Intergalactic Warfare
Locate a crashed alien scout ship and its dangerous occupants by decoding intercepted coordinates.
🌎
Kidnapped
Decode a cipher sent by kidnappers to locate a diplomat's daughter before the 24-hour deadline expires.
💾🧩
The Killer Clown
Geolocate a buried victim's location from a killer clown's photo within their remaining oxygen supply.
🌎
Rogue Agent
Hunt down a rogue CIA operative who disappeared in 2021 and now runs a Russian electronics smuggling operation.
🌎💾🔎
On The Wire
Analyze intercepted network traffic from a Malaysian politician's office to expose their involvement.
💾🔎
The Latvian Connection
Locate an active terrorist safe-house from data found on a captured operative's USB drive.
🌎
Operation Wiretap
Analyze intercepted internet traffic from a surveillance operation to uncover details about an upcoming conference.
💾🔎
Medium Contracts
How to Play
Contracts are what we call our CTF Challenges. They're story driven, clandestine espionage assignments for SERPENT. Simply download a CTF and start playing.You get a badge or card for completing each CTF Challenge. Drop this badge or card in our Discord server's "card-brag" channel and receive XP and Coins. You can spend these coins on store items, listed on the site and in Discord.The ingredients show you what to expect for each CTF.
Ingredients
🌎 – Geolocation
🔎 – Forensics
🚢 – Maritime
🥸 – Social
🧩 – Logic
💾 – Data
🌐 – Web
Undercover Fleet
Identify a mysterious vessel with suspicious cargo. Track its last known locations and help the MAOC-N stop the arms smugglers.
🚢🌎🌐
Echoes of Retaliation
Locate the execution site of several Israeli soldiers in Iran. Time is running out, you must hurry to prevent a war from breaking out.
🌎🧩
Line of Control
Translate Pakistani military documents and find the locations of imminent attacks on Indian Airforce bases.
🌎💾🌐
The Listeners
Locate a coastal European meeting spot where business rivals plan to conspire against a French client.
🌎
The Russian Blackmailer
Help a friend of James identify and locate a Russian blackmailer who's threatening to release a damning video.
🌎🥸🧩🌐
The Raid
Analyze a damaged file recovered from a wiped laptop during an FBI raid on a cybercrime operation to uncover evidence.
🔎💾
Last Flight
Find the last known location of a plane and the country where an ECCM device was installed, using a photo of the aircraft.
🌎🌐
Road To Nowhere
Pinpoint a terrorist organization's hidden safehouse location from map data found in their captured Dropbox files.
🌎💾
The Butcher
Decrypt a serial killer's laptop files using mysterious hex data to reveal locations of potential new victims in Berlin.
💾🔎
The Cartel Connection
Find a kidnapped Colombian agent's location from a distress photo before a drug cartel can execute them.
🌎
Return Of The Krohndahkyr
Translate an ancient Sardinian text to understand why peaceful Krohndahkyr aliens turned hostile toward early human settlers.
💾🌐
Bloodhound
Track a fugitive's location using photos automatically uploaded from a hidden camera after GPS tracking was jammed.
🌎🌐
Far Away Outpost
Track Kenyan poachers using humanitarian and construction work as cover for their illegal wildlife smuggling operations.
🌎
Kanonniers
Locate an old cannon used by The Golden Creed operatives for covert message exchanges in their analog intelligence network.
🌎
PeePeeKun
Solve a rival intelligence group's intricate training challenges while racing to outperform other agencies in a competitive exercise.
💾🌐🧩🌎
Klumgongyn Returns
Translate ancient Volrac text to uncover philosophical secrets from our alien collaborator Klumgongyn.
💾🧩
Lost in Time
Decipher an alien language inscription from 1762 to locate stranded extraterrestrial survivors using a discovered photograph.
💾🌐🧩🌎
Hard Contracts
How to Play
Contracts are what we call our CTF Challenges. They're story driven, clandestine espionage assignments for SERPENT. Simply download a CTF and start playing.You get a badge or card for completing each CTF Challenge. Drop this badge or card in our Discord server's "card-brag" channel and receive XP and Coins. You can spend these coins on store items, listed on the site and in Discord.The ingredients show you what to expect for each CTF.
Ingredients
🌎 – Geolocation
🔎 – Forensics
🚢 – Maritime
🥸 – Social
🧩 – Logic
💾 – Data
🌐 – Web
Florida Snow
Locate a cartel's drug shipment drop point from coded runner instructions intercepted by DEA informant.
🌎
Substation Bombing
Locate and identify the substation targeted by a Russian drone strike on Ukrainian critical power infrastructure.
🌐🌎💾
Appalachian Aliens
Decipher the mysterious audio file that sets USB drives on fire and sends grown men insane with strange signals.
🔎🧩🌐
The Road to Rome
Track down an ancient Roman artifact containing bloodline DNA to eliminate a centuries-old crime family targeting SERPENT.
🌎🧩🌐
The Midnight Slayer
Track down a serial killer terrorizing Baltimore who mutilates victims and sparks citywide panic through media leaks.
🧩🌎🥸💾
Lost Down Under
Decode seven cryptic images and text intercepted from domestic terrorists planning attacks across Australia.
💾🌎🧩
A Strange File
Analyze encrypted data from seized terrorist computers to uncover covert meeting locations for Omani authorities.
💾🌎🔎
Message From Hell
Translate inscriptions from a cursed Brazilian tablet that drove its research team insane.
💾🧩
The Copycat Killer
Analyze a copycat killer's browser history from seized laptop data to prevent further serial murders.
💾🔎🧩
Our Universe
SERPENT
You are part of a clandestine espionage group called “SERPENT: Special Espionage, Reconnaissance, Protection, Enforcement, and Neutralization Taskforce”. A group of carefully selected individuals, tasked with maintaining the delicate balance on our blue planet. You work diligently to keep the world safe from a wide variety of threats.You have access to alien technology, working closely together with your alien liaison “Klumgongyn”, a delegate from the planet Varnyr. SERPENT takes on assignments that require the highest levels of confidentiality. Keeping the historic timeline of our planet in check, preventing alien invasions and eliminating anomalies.No assignments for evil are accepted, earning SERPENT a name for being the right hand of justice. And you, Special Agent K, are the best they've got.
Bombardier Global 8000
SERPENT’s “Shadow Wing” is a turbo‑charged Bombardier Global 8000 that feels like a luxury jet, a flying fortress, and a covert headquarters rolled into one. It’s the fastest civil jet since Concorde, cruising at Mach 0.92 and topping out at Mach 0.94, with an 8,000‑nautical‑mile range that lets SERPENT go anywhere. Its roomy cockpit, plush crew quarters, ultra‑clean air system, and turbulence‑damping wings make it the ultimate mobile headquarters.
Overseer
The head of SERPENT is the Overseer, a role reserved for someone who has earned respect. The role can only be fulfilled by a long standing team member, and after a unanimous favorable vote by all team members.
Julia Sharpe
🇬🇧 Overseer and Mission Coordination
Julia Sharpe holds several degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge. Serving as high-risk negotiator and handler in MI6 for several years. She joined SERPENT as an analyst, quickly becoming the spiritual heart of her team mates. When the previous Overseer resigned due to health complications, Julia was voted in as replacement.
ASIC
The ASIC (All Source Intelligence Cell), provides all intelligence services needed by SERPENT. With a wide range of specialists, this is the beating heart of intelligence operations. Members of the ASIC are the most qualified.
Special Agent K
🌍 Open Source Intelligence and Forensics
You, the player character, the star of the whole operation. Special Agent K, an expert in the field of Open Source Intelligence and Forensics. Coming from a long background of clandestine operations and with a strong sense of right and wrong, your unmatched intelligence gathering skills are vital.
Oriana Olivetti
🇦🇷 CTI and Signals Intelligence Specialist
Oriana started her career in criminology and later cyber security. Proving herself a skilled and disciplined hacker, with a knack for application security and signals intelligence. She was recruited after her collaboration with SERPENT during an operation in Argentina. She is religious about her favorite drink, mate. Drinking it incorrectly will earn you a stern look.
Dimitri Zechev
🇧🇬 Red Team and Tech Support
Dimitri Zechev is a Bulgarian prodigy hacker and the technological mastermind of all the Red Team operations in SERPENT. Teaching himself programming at age 7, Dimitri became a local legend for exposing corruption within his countries' tumultuous government. Internally he is led by a strong moral compass, and will always follows that.
Mei Huang
🇨🇳 Psychology, Linguistics and interrogations
Mei Huang, born and raised in Shenzhen China. She's a brilliant psychologist and expert in criminal behavior, she's also fluent in 12 languages. A Cambridge graduate and former MI6 analyst, she was recruited into SERPENT for her unmatched ability to profile targets and analyze psychological weaknesses.
Isabella Moreno
🇲🇽 Historian and Cultural Expert
Isabella Moreno is a historian and intelligence specialist from Mexico City and a key member of SERPENT's intelligence efforts. Driven by a passion for history and justice after losing her parents to cartel related violence, Isabella joined the military as an intelligence officer before being recruited during a joint exercise.
Field Operations
They like their missions shaken, but not stirred. Impeccably dressed, intelligent and sometimes a little too confident. These Field Operatives often deploy well before boots hit the ground, providing that extra human touch on location.
Fox Meyer
🇺🇸 Extraterrestrial Liaison and Field Operative
Growing up with a fascination for aliens and outer space, Fox joined the TFBI right after college. Eventually spearheading their Y-Files program, where he came into direct contact with aliens. This made him the perfect fit to be the liaison officer with Klumgongyn and the Volracs aliens race. He really does, want to believe.
James Brown
🇬🇧 Espionage and International Crime Expert
Beginning his career at MI6, James became a legend in the intelligence community for his cunning espionage abilities. Infiltrating various criminal enterprises and taking them down became second nature. He's familiar with Julia Sharpe, who recruited James after she became Overseer. James likes them shaken, not stirred.
Cassandra Laurent
🇫🇷 Diplomatic Relations and Political Expert
Cassandra started her career in the French military as an intelligence officer, after resigning she pursued a career in politics, eventually moving to Brussels. It was this combination of career choices that made her an excellent choice for SERPENT. Bringing valuable contacts, insights and negotiation skills. Speaking 15 languages is also a big bonus.
B.T.R.U.
The BTRU (Borderless Tactical Response Unit) is responsible for all tactical deployments. This elite unit can reach far outside the confines of the airplane. Their primary task is extraction of HVT's and hostage rescue situations.
Gabriel Adams
🇺🇸 BTRU Team Leader and Martial Arts Expert
Growing up in project housing in Baltimore, Gabriel managed to shake his past by joining the US Marines and later becoming a Delta Force operator. He was recruited into SERPENT during his second deployment in Afghanistan. Quickly rising through the ranks and becoming the BTRU's team leader.
Mikko Häyhä
🇫🇮 Sniper and Weapons Expert
Growing up on a farm in the east of Finland, Mikko volunteered to become a professional soldier after his conscription period ended. After a long stint with the Finnish Jaegers, and volunteering for several deployments, he was recruited into SERPENT for his excellent marksmanship skills, and ability to perform in extreme weather conditions.
Amir Hussaini
🇮🇶 Breacher and Explosives Expert
Amir immigrated to France after growing up in war-torn Iraq. Unable to find meaningful employment, he joined the French Foreign Legion and served with honor for many years. Excelling in close quarters combat, SERPENT took notice during a joint operation and recruited him to the BTRU as a breacher.
Liam Irwin
🇦🇺 Assaulter and Survival Expert
Growing up in the Australian outback, Liam loves the outdoors. After a decade in the Australian SAS, Liam wanted something different. Not ready to sit in an office or give up shooting, he crossed paths with Gabriel at a recruitment drive for veterans in Australia. This opened the door he was searching for and joined SERPENT.
Pilots
The Bombardier Global 8000 isn't going to fly itself, especially given her various modifications and diverse mission set. Not to mention exotic locations and landing sites, the plane requires two experienced pilots.
Pablo Iglesias
🇨🇱 Pilot and Mechanical Engineer
Growing up at the base of the Andes mountains in Chile, son to a local crop duster, Pablo was always interested in flying. After enlisting in the Chilean airforce, he found himself operating a variety of fixed and rotary wing aircraft. It was this combination of skills that got him recruited by SERPENT during a joint rescue operation.
Peter Jansen
🇳🇱 Pilot and First Responder
Serving in the Dutch Coastguard as a helicopter pilot for a decade, Peter switched to fixed wing aircraft and became a commercial airline pilot. Quickly getting bored of the monotonous flights, he one day ran into Pablo in a bar in Panama. Pablo introduced him to Julia and the rest is history. He is never seen without a piece of cheese nearby.
The Volracs
The first alien race to ever have contact with planet earth. They're highly intelligent and adaptive. Working together with a select group of people, one of which is SERPENT. They share knowledge and help keep the universe safe.
Klumgongyn
🪐 Earth bound Alien contact point
Klumgongyn, an alien from the planet Varnyr, serves as the liaison for the Volracs within SERPENT. Rescued during Operation Galaxios, Klumgongyn decided to stay to improve collaboration with humans. He's close friends with Fox, who he met while working in Area 51 with the TFBI. He's always friendly and has a quirky sense of humor.
Discord Store
Hacktoria Coins
Spend your Hacktoria Coins in our Discord's Casino Channel. Buy weapons, vehicles, homes and gadgets. You get coins for sharing your badges, submitting write-ups, sharing memes and playing games.
Weapons
A true Special Agent needs things that go boom, smack and slice. From neatly hidden pistols to snipers, our arsenal has anything your heart desires. It's time to kaboom the bad guys into oblivion.
M249
250,000 HC
Remington 700
200,000 HC
M4
120,000 HC
AK47
120,000 HC
Remington 800
100,000 HC
Glock 19
80,000 HC
Deagle
80,000 HC
Dagger
40,000 HC
Gadgets
Go-go-gadget whatever you want. Every Special Agent needs a wide array of gadgets for each mission. You never know what the world throws at you, who needs pulverizing or to simply fly over traffic.
Satellite
800,000 HC
Brain Link
570,000 HC
Helper Robot
450,000 HC
Chameleon Suit
310,000 HC
Exo Suit
280,000 HC
Spy Fly
210,000 HC
Memory Wiper
180,000 HC
AR Headset
160,000 HC
Tough Laptop
120,000 HC
Card Cloner
90,000 HC
Truth Serum
70,000 HC
Future Spice
70,000 HC
FPV Drone
50,000 HC
Smart Watch
40,000 HC
Lock-pick Set
30,000 HC
Rubber Duck
20,000 HC
Vehicles
Walking is for peasants. A true Special Agent arrives in style. Not out of breath and sweaty. After all, you like it shaken, not stirred. Choose from a wide variety of vehicles and arrive anywhere in the world in style.
Private Jet
700,000 HC
Yacht
650,000 HC
Submarine
420,000 HC
Helicopter
350,000 HC
Speedboat
250,000 HC
Sportscar
200,000 HC
4×4 Offroad
120,000 HC
Pickup Truck
80,000 HC
Jetpack
65,000 HC
Motorcycle
30,000 HC
Moped
15,000 HC
Bicycle
1,200 HC
Safe-houses
Do you know what's the problem with regular houses? They’re not safe, surrounded by normies and they just don’t come with the amenities a Special Agent requires. Don't be alarmed by the housing prices.
Private Island
950,000 HC
Classic Mansion
780,000 HC
Modern Mansion
700,000 HC
Doomsday bunker
600,000 HC
Chilean Ranch
530,000 HC
Modern Apartment
320,000 HC
Beach Bungalow
270,000 HC
Houseboat
230,000 HC
Vacation home
140,000 HC
Remote Cabin
100,000 HC
Commieblock
60,000 HC
Crackden
50,000 HC
information
About HACKTORIA
Hacktoria is a passion project, operated by 3 volunteers. We think OSINT is a vital skill for anoyone, especially in the age of AI. Here we provide free training resources, that are fun to play, let you explore OSINT and hone your skills.We've created a fictional espionage organization called SERPENT, of which the player is a member. All CTF's are made with this organziation and characters in mind. Overlaying fictional scenarios over real world events.
Website Features
Certification CTFs
Background info on SERPENT
How-to-Play information
Character backstories
Discord Store Items
Discord Features
CTF Events (created and hosted for the community)
OSINT Job Board (daily new real life OSINT jobs)
Chatroom, to hangout with the community
24/7 Community made OSINT Challenge, with scoreboard.
Card Brag Channel. Drop your badges for Coins and XP
CTF Support Channel. Ask questions about Hacktoria CTF's you're stuck on
Walkthrough Channel. Drop your walk-throughs to get them on the site
Casino Channel. Play games and spend your coins on the store items
Memelords Channel. Drop memes in exchange for Coins and XP
Walktroughs
To submit your own walk-through in our Discord Walkthrough Channel. The walk-through must be posted on a publicly indexed website. For example Medium, Reddit or a blog. Files or other hidden materials don't count.You get 30k Coins and 1000 XP for each walkthrough you submit on Discord.
| CTF Title | Author | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Cold War Enemies | HEX IN THE SHELL | hexintheshell.com |
| Cold War Enemies | Persecure | persecure.info |
| Dialogues From Atlantis | Persecure | persecure.info |
| Downtown Murderer | Michael Weber | blog.michweb.de |
| Florida Snow | Synoslabs | synoslabs.com |
| Follow The Black Rabbit | finx | medium.com |
| Friendly Fire | VEEXH | medium.com |
| Gas Attack | William Gibson | osinthalo.com |
| Gas Attack | JonnyGhizmo | medium.com |
| Gas Attack | KrowZ | youtube.com |
| Intergalactic Warfare | Persecure | persecure.info |
| Lost at Sea | The Security Noob | thesecuritynoob.com |
| Nightmare Fuel | HEX IN THE SHELL | hexintheshell.com |
| Nightmare Fuel | Persecure | persecure.info |
| Operation Bloodhound | Jeremy K | osintteam.blog |
| Operation Mare Nostrum | Michael Weber | blog.michweb.de |
| Operation Runner | David Buday | medium.com |
| Prisoner of War | The Security Noob | thesecuritynoob.com |
| Prisoner of War | Persecure | persecure.info |
| The Butcher | HEX IN THE SHELL | hexintheshell.com |
| The Cartel Connection | Synoslabs | synoslabs.com |
| The Killer Clown | Synoslabs | synoslabs.com |
| The Killer Clown | Persecure | persecure.info |
| The Killer Clown | KrowZ | youtube.com |
| The Killer Clown | The Security Noob | thesecuritynoob.com |
| The Listeners | GiladHayon | medium.com |
| The Midnight Slayer | Mugrat | mugr.at |
| The Mona Lisa Heist | Michael Weber | blog.michweb.de |
| Where's Klumgongyn | Synoslabs | synoslabs.com |