Bandit Level 4

Goal: Find the password and log into level 4. The file is in a folder and is hidden.

Lets first list out the files in the current directory.

bandit3@bandit:~$ ls
inhere

We can see a folder named inhere which we can only assume is where the hidden file is so we can open the folder.

bandit3@bandit:~$ cd inhere/

Info

The cd command can be used to move around the file system and you can enter in folder names to move to them.

We can list the files in this folder and use the -a flag which will list all files in the folder including hidden files.

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ ls -a
.  ..  ...Hiding-From-You

Info

The . and .. files that are listed correspond to the current folder and the folder up in the file directory. For instance using the command cd . will seem like it is not doing anything as the . folder is referencing whatever file you are in and if you were to use cd .. would exit out of the folder you are currently in and move up a level.

Another thing is to hide any file or folder you can create the file with a . before the name and it will hide it. For instance .file.txt will not show up if you use the ls command without any flags.

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ cat ...Hiding-From-You 
[REDACTED]

Now we have our password for level 4 and we sign into the next level!