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Bandit 9 Over The Wire

Lessons Learned

finding human readable text in a file with strings

Logging in

On a kali vm/ linux machine
Type:

ssh bandit9@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220 
UsvVyFSfZZWbi6wgC7dAFyFuR6jQQUhR

Completing The Challenge

The Goal:

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, preceded by several ‘=’ characters.

The Solution:

bandit9@bandit:~$ strings data.txt | grep '='
========== the*2i"4
=:G e
========== password
<I=zsGi
Z)========== is
A=|t&E
Zdb=
c^ LAh=3G
*SF=s
&========== truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk
S=A.H&^
strings finds human readable strings in a file
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