Bandit Level 12 → Level 13
Level Goal
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 level it may be useful to create a directory under /tmp in which you can work using mkdir. For example: mkdir /tmp/myname123. Then copy the datafile using cp, and rename it using mv (read the manpages!)
Commands you may need to solve this level
grep, sort, uniq, strings, base64, tr, tar, gzip, bzip2, xxd, mkdir, cp, mv
Helpful Reading Material
Hex dump on Wikipedia
Hey guys, if anyone could help me that would be awesome. I run the data.txt file with the xxd -r command to reverse the hexdump, then run it through the strings -a command so it I read it, but I am stuck and don't know what to do past that point.
step 1. cat data.txt
0000000: 1f8b 0808 34da 6554 0203 6461 7461 322e ….4.eT..data2.
0000010: 6269 6e00 013f 02c0 fd42 5a68 3931 4159 bin..?…BZh91AY
0000020: 2653 5982 c194 8a00 0019 ffff dbfb adfb &SY………….
0000030: bbab b7d7 ffea ffcd fff7 bfbf 1feb eff9 …………….
0000040: faab 9fbf fef2 fefb bebf ffff b001 3b18 …………..;.
0000050: 6400 001e a000 1a00 6468 0d01 a064 d000 d…….dh…d..
0000060: 0d00 0034 00c9 a320 001a 0000 0d06 80d1 …4… ……..
0000070: a340 01b4 98d2 3d13 ca20 6803 40d1 a340 .@….=.. h.@..@
0000080: 1a00 0340 0d0d 0000 000d 0c80 6803 4d01 …@……..h.M.
0000090: a3d4 d034 07a8 0683 4d0c 4034 069e 91ea …4….M.@4….
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