CTFPad

What

A webapp for managing CTFs by teams playing CTFs. If you're looking for a platform for hosting CTFs use CTFd.

Build

For most people, this will suffice:

$ git clone https://github.com/hugsy/ctfpad
$ cd ctfpad
$ cp .env.example .env
### CHANGE THE CREDENTIALS IN .env ###
$ nano .env
### BUILD EXCALIDRAW USING .env VARIABLES ###
$ make build
$ docker compose up -d --build

If you want to use SSL locally, follow the instructions to generate local SSL certificates and run:

$ cp .env.nginx-proxy.example .env
$ docker compose -f docker-compose-proxy.yml -f docker-compose.yml up -d --build

Features

A non-exhaustive list of features:

• Full Django + Python 3 code
• Clean (Bootstrap) interface
• Key-in-hands setup via docker-compose
• Fully built on top of HedgeDoc: smart markdown note mechanism, with tons of features
• Possibility to create and play private CTFs
• Internal statistic system to track members' involment + basic ranking system
• Jitsi integration: instantly jump on video chat with your team mate
• CTFTime integration: import CTF (+ data) from CTFTime in 2 clicks
• Dark mode (duh!)
• Basic search engine
• Self-hosted Excalidraw integration: draw & share ideas with your team mates
• Discord notifications
• ...and more to come...

Community

Gallery

Note: the development of CTFPad is very active, the screenshots below might not reflect the exact state of the tool.

Dashboard

View CTF

Import CTFs from CTFtime

Challenge

Statistics

Why

I was fed up of not finding a tool to my liking to manage CTFs for teams playing so I wrote one. You should probably not use it 😋 I wrote it quickly because I really couldn't find something that fitted my needs. Some other projects of the sort of collaboration during CTFs:

• CTFPad: nice project but NodeJS, so yeah. Also etherpad-lite doesn't support MarkDown easily. I like the name, so I took it shamelessly
• rizzoma: a horrible outdated collaborative platform, poorly suited for CTFs.

I discovered HedgeDoc (aka. old CodiMD), an awesome platform, 100% Markdown, easily integrable. This project is just an eye-candy around using HedgeDoc as a central platform when doing a challenge collaboratively.

It's a toy project, so there's a lot of TODOs, features will be added (slowly).

Notes

Flag images are downloaded from https://flagpedia.net/