My Journey of Cybersec

Introduction about myself a student that complated university studies related to cybersecurity a CTF player learnt cybersecurity for a few years but still weak in it How I learn ethical hacking Part 0 Back then, I don’t really know about red team and blue team and I just decided to learn hacking for fun. Since hacking others looks more fun, I decided to look into videos and anything related. The first courses I go through is actually Practical Ethical Hacking from TCM Security. After going through the first few topic of the course, I have some basic understanding about how hacking works (that’s what I thought back then). Eventually, I stopped the course halfway because the course started to go through hackthebox retired machine and I don’t have a VIP account to follow along. Instead, I decided to move on with PicoCTF and Tryhackme as some of the people mentioned this 2 platform is great for learning cybersecurity. I further improved my basic skills such as linux command and getting more new knowledge from Tryhackme since it has a lot of different room. As for PicoCTF, I was stunned for quite some times as that is the first time I find out about CTF. That is also when I found out that there are a lot of different hacking. ...

December 3, 2024 · 3 min · 516 words

MCC 2025 Mini Challenge and Solution

Description This is a mini challenge that I created for MCC 2025. chall.zip (Pass:McC2025aNdRoId) Solution I started with static analysis first. Static Analysis First step that I tried is to use jadx-gui to look into the application to check and see the source code. After looking into the code, I noticed that the format is quite weird especially the apktool.yml which looks suspicious. After some research, the apktool.yml file is there because the APK was actually decompiled using apktool. The correct method here is to unzip it first. ...

December 1, 2025 · 14 min · 2773 words

Android Traffic Interception Guide

Prerequisite If you have look into my previous post, Android Penetration Testing Setup Guide, do have a look into it to ensure that you have installed the tools. Summary I created this blog post to showcase how I intercept android traffic using Burp Suite. Creating an Android Emulator To create an android emulator, I will be using Android Studio as an example. Select “More Actions” > “Virtual Device Manager”. This is where the android emulator is managed. ...

October 10, 2025 · 4 min · 712 words