OverTheWire: Bandit Level 10
This is going to be a walkthrough of Level 10 of Bandit from OverTheWire Wargames.
We found the password from level 9.
Username: bandit10
Password: truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk
The information tells us that data.txt is encoded in base64.
First lets SSH into the box and cat data.txt to see what’s stored in the file.
Bash gives us a function we can use in order to encode and decode base64 called base64. We could in theory, just google base64 decoder and copy the string into that. But it is often quicker to use pipes.
To use the base64 function to decode data, we need to use the -d option for decode
So the final command is given as:
Which gives us the password to the next level.
To continue, please read my Bandit 11 walkthrough. Level 11
Thank you for reading. 