CTF Binary Exploitation

by ljagiello

CTF Binary Exploitation is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ljagiello in ctf-skills.

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Install CTF Binary Exploitation

Copy CTF Binary Exploitation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ljagiello/ctf-skills/tree/main/ctf-pwn ~/.claude/skills/ctf-pwn

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ljagiello/ctf-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: ctf-pwn/SKILL.md in ljagiello/ctf-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ctf-pwn
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What CTF Binary Exploitation does

CTF Binary Exploitation provides binary exploitation techniques for CTF challenges, covering buffer overflows, ROP, heap attacks, format strings, kernel exploitation, and seccomp bypass. Use when you have a vulnerable native target and need to turn memory corruption into code execution.

CTF Binary Exploitation is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. CTF Binary Exploitation comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, claude-code, claude-code-skills, codex and codex-cli.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CTF Binary Exploitation (Pwn)

Quick reference for binary exploitation (pwn) CTF challenges. Each technique has a one-liner here; see supporting files for full details.

Prerequisites

Python packages (all platforms):

pip install pwntools ropper ROPgadget

Linux (apt):

apt install gdb binutils strace ltrace qemu-system-x86

macOS (Homebrew):

brew install gdb binutils qemu

Ruby gems (all platforms):

gem install one_gadget seccomp-tools

Manual install:

pwndbg — Linux: GitHub, macOS: brew install pwndbg/tap/pwndbg-gdb
checksec — included with pwntools

Additional Resources

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands CTF Binary Exploitation provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/ctf-reverse
/ctf-misc
/ctf-web
/ctf-crypto
/flag

Frequently asked about CTF Binary Exploitation

What else does ljagiello publish alongside CTF Binary Exploitation?
CTF Binary Exploitation is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ljagiello/ctf-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include CTF AI/ML, CTF Challenge Solver and CTF Cryptography. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CTF Binary Exploitation does, and is maintained by ljagiello in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ljagiello/ctf-skills page.
How does CTF Binary Exploitation compare to other AI Engineering skills?
CTF Binary Exploitation ranks #671 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of CTF Binary Exploitation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.