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Writeups from challenges and CTFs i take part in.

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Level 5 → Level 6

After logging in with

ssh bandit5@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220

Password: 4oQYVPkxZOOEOO5pTW81FB8j8lxXGUQw

and after cding into inhere we can see that ther’s multiple directories. Instead of viewing each one of them (since each directory hs multiple files), we can search for what the game tells us to find:

• human-readable;
• 1033 bytes in size;
• not an executable file.

We can do this with this command: find inhere -type f -size 1033c

This will only return files (-type f) that are 1033bytes (-size 1033c) in size. in our case:

inhere/maybehere07/.file2

By using cat on inhere/maybehere07/.file2 we can see that the password is:

HWasnPhtq9AVKe0dmk45nxy20cvUa6EG