The Goal Submit the current level’s password to a service running on port 30000 on localhost. It will return the next password. What I Did Logged in as bandit14 and tried nc --help to understand...

The Goal No password this time. Instead, bandit13’s home directory contains a private SSH key for bandit14. Use it to log in as bandit14 and read the password from /etc/bandit_pass/bandit14. What...

The Goal data.txt is a hexdump of a file that has been repeatedly compressed. Reverse the hexdump, then decompress layer by layer until you reach plain text. What a Hexdump Is A hexdump represen...

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...