Bandit10

Website URL: http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/bandit10.html

Log in to the game server using the credentials of bandit9. (Refer Bandit9)

 

 

Our task for bandit10 says:

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, beginning with several ‘=’ characters.

We need to do two major tasks.

• Find out the human-readable strings in the file
  
• Find out a string containing multiple ‘=

In such a case, let’s use the strings command, combined with a grep command.

strings data.txt | grep =

Now, if you notice, there are multiple lines matching our conditions. However, using our experience from the previous levels, we can safely assume that the password is the one in the 3rd last entry.