Over the Wire - Bandit 4

Bandit 4

Objectives

The password for the next level is stored in a hidden file in the inhere directory.

Solution

after connecting up let's see whats in the home directory

bandit3@bandit:~$ lsinhere

ok there is a directory called in here..... I bet there is something in there

cd ./inhere

let's ls again to see what the folder contains

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ lsbandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ 

it doesn't show anything. Let's try it with -a switch which will list all files in the folder even hidden ones

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ ls -a.  ..  .hidden

cool, cool, cool there is a file their name .hidden
let's see what kind of file it is
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bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ file .hidden.hidden: ASCII text

ok anonther text file

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ cat .hiddenpIwrPrtPN36QITSp3EQaw936yaFoFgAB

so here is the password for the next level
pIwrPrtPN36QITSp3EQaw936yaFoFgAB


​now lets do it with python

pytbandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ python
>>> import os
>>> var1 = " cat .hidden"
>>> os.system(var1)
pIwrPrtPN36QITSp3EQaw936yaFoFgAB
0
>>> exit()