OverTheWire Wargames

Bandit Level 10 –> Level 11

Level Goal

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, which contains base64 encoded data

Commands you may need to solve this level

grep, sort, uniq, strings, base64, tr, tar, gzip, bzip2, xxd

Solution

ls command show file in home directory “data.txt”

bandit10@bandit:~$ ls
data.txt

Let’s see it

bandit10@bandit:~$ cat data.txt
VGhlIHBhc3N3b3JkIGlzIElGdWt3S0dzRlc4TU9xM0lSRnFyeEUxaHhUTkViVVBSCg==

It’s in base64 so let’s decode it

bandit10@bandit:~$ base64 -d data.txt
The password is IFukwKGsFW8MOq3IRFqrxE1hxTNEbUPR

Password

IFukwKGsFW8MOq3IRFqrxE1hxTNEbUPR