OverTheWire Bandit Level 9 → 10 Walkthrough
Using strings to extract human-readable text from a binary file
OverTheWire Bandit Level 9 → 10 Walkthrough
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.
Commands you may need: grep, sort, uniq, strings, base64, tr, tar, gzip, bzip2, xxd
Helpful reading: None
Write-up
strings commands finds all the human-readable strings within a file.
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bandit9@melinda:~$ strings data.txt | grep ======
Level 10 password:
truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk