Bandit: Level 5→6

bandit level-5-6

The goal of this level is very similar to the last level. We have to find a human-readable file however this time we have more info to use to find the file among an even bigger group to search through

To accomplish this we are going to navigate into the inhere directory then search for the file that meets all of the requirements using the find command

First we need to log onto the level

Type the command ssh bandit5@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
Enter the password koReBOKuIDDepwhWk7jZC0RTdopnAYKh

We then need to navigate into the inhere directory again using the cd command

Once inside we can see a whole bunch of directories that contain even more files

For this search we can use the find command with some arguments

Type the command find ./ -type f -size 1033c ! -executable

In the command we use the find command which allows us to search for specific files

The ./ part looks for all files including hidden ones

The -type f -size 1033c part looks for file that are 1033 bytes in size

Finally the ! -executable looks for files that are not executables

The command will output any files that meet all of those requirements

When we run the command it gives us the file ./maybehere07/.file2

This output tells us that the file is a file inside the directory maybehere07 named file2

To read the data from that file we can use the cat command

Type the command cat ./maybehere07/.file2

Then the password for the next level gets outputted

Copy the password DXjZPULLxYr17uwoI01bNLQbtFemEgo7
Type exit to logout

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