STAR Labs 2025 New Year Exploitation Challenge

Think you’ve got what it takes to pop shells and snag your ticket to… RE//verse and Off-By-One? 😏

🔥 Windows Exploitation Challenge 🔥

Get SYSTEM privileges by exploiting a bug in the downloadable driver below. (pwn it!)
Keep the OS alive and happy — no BSODs, no excuses!
Your exploit must work on Windows 11 24H2.
Submit your winning solutions(exploit source code and writeup) to info@starlabs.sg.
If you think you’ve figured out the bug but can’t exploit it in time, feel free to send us a writeup too describing how you would exploit it!

🏆 Prizes up for grabs!
🥇 First to submit a working exploit wins a conference ticket to RE//verse!
🥈 Second to submit bags a conference ticket to Off-By-One!

Ready to flex those skills? Download the application here!

The password to the zip file is “gu_laoshi_ddw_kym”

On your marks, get set, hack! 😎

sha256 of MessageManager.sys : 16b929c3531996e5c2110e47a3595b7c430fb865842a625398abc7273512da89

sha256 of MessageManager.zip : b90ac5bf9c79d75166f628a56c1cdcefe85c052139f12e65359bc10c3647f6a3