BanditOverTheWire

Bandit11

Website URL: http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/bandit11.html

Log in to the game server using credentials of bandit10.

 

 

Fig 1.

Our task for bandit11 says:

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, which contains base64 encoded data

Something new! Let’s have a look inside the file.

cat data.txt
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The string we see here is base64 encoded. We can decode it in multiple ways. I’ll use python here.

Let’s open up a python interpreter

python
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Using the base64 module, we can decode the given string to obtain the relevant information.

Fig 4

Task completed!

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