Login

  • ssh : ssh bandit9@bandit.labs.overthewire -p 2220
  • password : 4CKMh1JI91bUIZZPXDqGanal4xvAg0JM

Task :

  • fine a the password inside a file data.txt , that is located next to some equal signs

Solution

  • after running the command file data.txt we notice that file data.txt is not a text file it is a binary file,
  • to fix that we gonna use the command strings which can turn data into readable characters
  • then with the pipe command | we find the password with grep
strings data.txt | grep =