OverTheWire Bandit: Level 11 to Level 12
The Goal The password is in data.txt but all letters have been rotated by 13 positions — ROT13. Decode it. What I Did I knew from the description that this was ROT13 and that tr was the right to...
The Goal The password is in data.txt but all letters have been rotated by 13 positions — ROT13. Decode it. What I Did I knew from the description that this was ROT13 and that tr was the right to...
Overview First module of TryHackMe’s Pre-Security path done. Four rooms, all introductory — most of the concepts weren’t new to me after completing CS50 Cybersecurity, but this was the first time ...
The Goal The password is stored in data.txt as base64 encoded data. Decode it. What I Did Checked the man page for base64 to find the decode flag: bandit10@bandit:~$ man base64 Found -d for d...
The Goal Find the password in data.txt — stored in one of the few human-readable strings, preceded by several = characters. What I Did The level mentioned “human-readable strings” which immediat...
The Goal Find the one line in data.txt that appears only once. Every other line is a duplicate. What I Did Listed the file and opened it with cat. Hundreds of lines of what looked like random pa...
The Goal Find the password stored in data.txt next to the word millionth. What I Did Listed the directory to confirm the file: bandit7@bandit:~$ ls data.txt Tried reading it with cat: bandit...
The Goal Find a file stored somewhere on the entire server with these properties: Owned by user bandit7 Owned by group bandit6 33 bytes in size What I Did I knew the filters from the pre...
The Goal Find a file somewhere under inhere that is: Human-readable Exactly 1033 bytes in size Not executable What I Did Navigated into inhere and listed the contents: bandit5@bandit:~/...
The Goal The password is stored in the only human-readable file inside the inhere directory. There are ten files. I need to find which one is readable without opening each one manually. What I Di...
A few weeks ago I started Harvard’s CS50 Introduction to Cybersecurity. I’m a second-year BS Cybersecurity student at FAST NUCES Islamabad, so I wasn’t going into it completely blind — but I came o...