Detailed Walkthrough Bandit Level 3 → Level 4

Introduction

Bandit from OverTheWire is a beginner-friendly wargame designed to teach the basics of Linux and cybersecurity.  It introduces players to…

“The password for the next level is stored in a file called --spaces in this filename-- located in the home directory”

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt and is the only line of text that occurs only once

“The password for the next level is stored somewhere on the server and has all of the following properties:

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt next to the word millionth

The password for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to port 30000 on localhost.

The password for the next level is stored in /etc/bandit_pass/bandit14 and can only be read by user bandit14. For this level, you don’t…

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, which is a hexdump of a file that has been repeatedly compressed. For this…