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PT0-002 · Question #190
A penetration tester is conducting a penetration test. The tester obtains a root-level shell on a Linux server and discovers the following data in a file named password.txt in the /home/svsacct direct
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Question
A penetration tester is conducting a penetration test. The tester obtains a root-level shell on a Linux server and discovers the following data in a file named password.txt in the /home/svsacct directory:
U3VQZXIkM2NyZXQhCg== Which of the following commands should the tester use NEXT to decode the contents of the file?
Options
- Aecho U3VQZXIkM2NyZXQhCg== | base64 -d
- Btar zxvf password.txt
- Chydra -l svsacct -p U3VQZXIkM2NyZXQhCg== ssh://192.168.1.0/24
- Djohn --wordlist /usr/share/seclists/rockyou.txt password.txt
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#Base64 encoding#Linux commands#Data decoding#Post-exploitation