Hack the Planet: Walking the CyberDelias Gauntlet

A DEF CON Cloud Village CTF write-up, from an AI chatbot through Log4Shell and an AWS PassRole chain to a phone call

In this post, I want to share my walkthrough of the CyberDelias challenge. It has an AI chatbot, Log4Shell, an AWS privilege escalation and, at the end, one phone call.

The challenge is based on the movie Hackers (1995), where a crew of teenage hackers shouts “Hack the planet!” and hangs out at a neon club. Here the club is CyberDelias, “The Geek & Hacke…