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
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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&^
========== 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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