Bandit Level 10

Goal

The password is in data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, preceded by several = characters.

Key concept

strings extracts readable sequences from a binary-ish file.

Steps

1. SSH in:

ssh bandit10@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220

2. Extract readable strings and look for the marker:

strings data.txt | grep "==="

You should see the password on a line with ==== (or similar) before it.

That output is the password for Level 11.

Notes

• You can widen the search if needed:

strings data.txt | grep -n "="

• If grep "===" returns nothing, try strings data.txt | tail -n 50 to eyeball the end.