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, beginning with several ‘=’ characters.

Level Answer

1. strings data.txt | grep [-E] [PATTERN]

• [-E] Interpret PATTERN as an extended regular expression

$ strings data.txt | grep -E "=+"
nfZ=
U=R*q
=-VW+
========== theP`
    =uN
\<P5J7=^
========== password
L='.
L========== isA
G&eB_=
9T=8?
9=!/"
========== truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk

2. ssh [-p port] [user@]hostname

• [-p port] Port to connect to on the remote host.

$ ssh -p 2220 [email protected]

Level Password

truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk