Overthewire Bandit Level 5 -> 6
Solution for the Overthewire.org Bandit level 5 -> 6
Level Goal
The password for the next level is stored in a file somewhere under the inhere directory and has all of the following properties:
- human-readable
- 1033 bytes in size
- not executable
Walkthrough
Login to the server using the password obtained from the previous level Bandit level 4 -> 5.
username: bandit5
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ssh bandit5@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
Running ls on the inhere directory will give us 20 more directories.
Each of those directories contains multiple files.
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bandit5@bandit:~$ ls inhere/
maybehere00 maybehere03 maybehere06 maybehere09 maybehere12 maybehere15 maybehere18
maybehere01 maybehere04 maybehere07 maybehere10 maybehere13 maybehere16 maybehere19
maybehere02 maybehere05 maybehere08 maybehere11 maybehere14 maybehere17
bandit5@bandit:~$ ls inhere/maybehere00
-file1 -file2 -file3 spaces file1 spaces file2 spaces file3
We could run cat on each file but that would take a long time to complete.
Instead we use the find command.
The find command can be used to search for files or directories in a directory hierarchy.
Using find with specific options we can narrow the search to
- find all files (
-type f) - of size 1033 bytes (
-size 1033c) - not executable (
-not -executable).
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bandit5@bandit:~$ find ./inhere/ -type f -size 1033c -not -executable
./inhere/maybehere07/.file2
There is only 1 file with all 3 properties.
As before cat the file to print its content to screen.
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bandit5@bandit:~$ cat ./inhere/maybehere07/.file2
DXjZPU##########################