Bandit [Level 9] - Overthewire

ssh bandit9@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
bandit password: EN632PlfYiZbn3PhVK3XOGSlNInNE00t

Task

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, beginning with several �=� characters.

Solution

Again file data.txt, In order to sort out the plain text ran “cat data.txt

string”. The next part is to grep the lines that start with the = sign. To do everything in 1 line I used the command below

cat data.txt | strings | grep ^=

Look result

========== password
========== is
=TU%
=^,T,?
========== G7w8LIi6J3kTb8A7j9LgrywtEUlyyp6s

==> CTF: { G7w8LIi6J3kTb8A7j9LgrywtEUlyyp6s }