Level 13

Objectives

  1. SSH to user bandit12
  2. Read the password from file data.txt which is a hexdump of a file that has been repeatedly compressed.

Objective 1

  • Username: bandit12
  • Password: 5Te8Y4drgCRfCx8ugdwuEX8KFC6k2EUu
  • Port: 2220
  • IP/Hostname: bandit.labs.overthewire.org
user@localhost:~$ ssh -p 2220 [email protected]

Objective 2

OverTheWire suggests we copy the file to /tmp to work.

bandit12@bandit:~$ mkdir /tmp/dirwalk
bandit12@bandit:~$ cp data.txt /tmp/dirwalk/
bandit12@bandit:~$ cd /tmp/dirwalk

We need to revert the hexdump and push the output to a file.

bandit12@bandit:/tmp/dirwalk$ xxd -r data.txt > data.1

You will need use file and rename (mv) the file appropriately.

  • gzip = .gz
  • bzip2 = bz2
  • tar = .tar

You will need to decompress each file type with the appropraite command.

  • gzip = gunzip
  • bzip2 = bunzip2
  • tar = tar xf

After you have finished with your file and your decompress commands, you will finall have your ASCII text.

bandit12@bandit:/tmp/dirwalk$ cat data8
The password is 8ZjyCRiBWFYkneahHwxCv3wb2a1ORpYL