OverTheWire Wargames

Bandit Level 9 –> Level 10

Level 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.

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” has many line of text

bandit9@bandit:~$ ls
data.txt

get human readable strings preceded by several ‘=’

bandit9@bandit:~$ strings data.txt | grep == 
========== the*2i"4
========== password
Z)========== is
&========== truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk

Password

truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk