Bandit [Level 1] - Overthewire

ssh bandit1@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
bandit password: NH2SXQwcBdpmTEzi3bvBHMM9H66vVXjL

ls -la

output ==>
- # this is folder ?

This type of approach has a lot of misunderstanding because using - as an argument refers to STDIN/STDOUT i.e dev/stdin or dev/stdout . So if you want to open this type of file you have to specify the full location of the file such as ./- .For eg. , if you want to see what is in that file use cat ./-

cat < -

==> CTF: { rRGizSaX8Mk1RTb1CNQoXTcYZWU6lgzi }