Bandit Level 8 | Akash Trehan

Bandit Level 8

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Level Goal:

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt and is the only line of text that occurs only once

Commands you may need to solve this level

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

Helpful Reading Material

The unix commandline: pipes and redirects

Write-up

I really didn’t use a proper method to solve this one. I used sort data.txt to get all data in a sorted manner so that all the repeated lines are together. Then I found out the odd one out through visual inspection. You can see below how easy it is to spot.

sort_output

Hence I got the password.

Edit: Found a better method for this. The uniq command! When the data is sorted the -u flag can be used to print only the unique lines.

sort data.txt | uniq -u

Level 9 password: UsvVyFSfZZWbi6wgC7dAFyFuR6jQQUhR




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