Bandit Level 5 To 6

15 Mar 2022 - mike

Level 5 -> 6

Game Instructions

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

So we’re looking for a file that is:

• Human readable
• 1033 bytes in size
• Non-executable

Let’s get logged in:

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

password: koReBOKuIDDepwhWk7jZC0RTdopnAYKh

There are obviously a few ways that we can tackle this one. The one that sticks out to me is the 1033 byte file size. This is very easy to search with find. And if we do happen to have a lot of files that are 1033 bytes in size, we’ll further refine with the other criteria.

So let’s use find and get this party started:

# Find in *Everywhere* and print all files 1033 bytes in size
find * -size 1033c -print

This gives us:

maybehere07/.file2

We found it! No need to further filter as it’s the only file that is 1033 bytes.

Now let’s just read the file and get the password:

cat maybehere07/.file2

password: DXjZPULLxYr17uwoI01bNLQbtFemEgo7

Bam! Now we have the password for the next game!