TCS HackQuest Season 10 Round 1: Experience| by Annette 🔐 Round 1 CTF Write Up Contest Date: — 13th December 2025 Hello All, My name is Annette George. I’m currently in my final year, pursuing …

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A personal write-up of TCS HackQuest Season 10 Round 1, a student-focused ethical hacking CTF held in December 2025. The author solved 7 of 10 challenges in 4 hours, covering Base64 decoding, LSB steganography, RSA small-exponent attack, predictable PRNG seed brute-forcing, PDF-embedded JavaScript extraction, client-side JavaScript manipulation, and chatbot prompt injection. Step-by-step approaches are provided for each challenge, along with tips on report writing and competition strategy. The author qualified for Round 2.

TCS HackQuest Season 10 Round 1: Experience| by Annette 🔐

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