Bandit Level 16 | Akash Trehan

Bandit Level 16

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Level Goal:

The credentials for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to a port on localhost in the range 31000 to 32000. First find out which of these ports have a server listening on them. Then find out which of those speak SSL and which don’t. There is only 1 server that will give the next credentials, the others will simply send back to you whatever you send to it.

Commands you may need to solve this level

ssh, telnet, nc, openssl, s_client, nmap

Helpful Reading Material

Port scanner on Wikipedia

Write-up

First I felt it was brute force, but no, not all the ports are open. So I found out which ports were open and listening. This I did with nmap.

nmap -p 31000-32000 localhost

-p flag takes the range of ports to be checked.

nmap output

So there were 5 ports open. I decided to check them all. I tried to connect through openssl. 31790 turned out to be the right port. It gave me the private ssh key to the next level on submitting the current one. I saved the key to a file locally and used it to ssh to the next level and got the password there just like in Level 13

Level 17 password: xLYVMN9WE5zQ5vHacb0sZEVqbrp7nBTn




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