CTF

Level 7 - Find password in a file with certain properties (Misc)

Description

The goal of this level is to get the password for the next level stored in a file with certain properties. The properties are

  • belongs to group bandit6
  • 33 bytes
  • belongs to user bandit7

Tech used

  • cat
  • cd
  • find
  • file
  • grep

Solutions

Run ssh bandit6@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220. Password is HWasnPhtq9AVKe0dmk45nxy20cvUa6EG

  • Determine the file with find and print its output
    • Run find / -group bandit6 -user bandit7 -size 33c -exec file {} +
    • Run cat ./<file> where <file> is the filtered file from the above command