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#Trivia_All_Of_Them

**Category:** Trivia
**Points:** 10 each
**Description:** trivia questions (nerd stuff)

##Write-up
All the trivia challenges were solved quickly by googling around. We tried to inlude links to good resources about each topic.

Trivia 1
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Q: This family of malware has gained notoriety after anti-virus and threat intelligence companies claimed that it was being used by several Chinese military groups.

A: plugX , took a little trial and error since there are so many malware families connected to Chinese hacking groups. More information about plugx can be found at [this blackhat talk](https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-14/materials/Haruyama/Asia-14-Haruyama-I-Know-You-Want-Me-Unplugging-PlugX.pdf).

Trivia 2
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Q: No More Free __!

A: Bugs, It's a meme starting at security conference CanSecWest, [Trail of Bits' website](http://blog.trailofbits.com/2009/03/22/no-more-free-bugs/)

Trivia 3
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Q: This mode on x86 is generally referred to as ring -2.

A: System Management Mode , this was from the best talk of BlackHat 2015 by Christopher Domas. It blew everyone's mind how you can use System Management Mode's memory space to create privilege escalation on 100,000's of Intel based devices. You can read more about it at [blackHat.com](https://www.blackhat.com/images/page-graphics-usa-15/us-15-whitepaper.png)

Trivia 4
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Q: This vulnerability occurs when the incorrect timing/sequence of events may cause a bug.

A: Race Condition, this is a common problem with single threaded apps or those that are multithreaded but share common objects/files/cookies/database values/or whatever.. more detail can be found on [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition)

Trivia 5
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Q: On Windows, loading a library and having it's code run in another process is called _ .

A: DLL Injection, here's a [tutorial](http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/api-hooking-and-dll-injection-on-windows/)

Trivia 6
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Q: This Pentesting expert supplied HBO's Silicon Valley with technical advice in season 2. The flag is his twitter handle.

A: A little googling on a cell phone while looking at other challenges found this one. Rob Fuller [Mubix!](https://twitter.com/mubix)

Original writeup (https://github.com/Alpackers/CTF-Writeups/tree/master/2015/CSAW-CTF/Trivia).