Bandit Introduction

Introduction

Bandit is a wargame designed for beginners to get their feet wet in the world of hacking and using Linux. It is fairly simple, but will pose a sufficient challenge to get you started. To begin, you should review the bandit website at https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ and read their overview.

I strongly urge you to attempt the challenges yourself, without reading my articles, unless you absolutely need assistance.

The Basics

In order to work through Bandit you will need the following:

• An SSH client
  • This can be "puTTY" found at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
  • This can be a Linux Virtual machine (If you intend to use it to work through Bandit, you can follow Homelab Tutorials 00 and 01 to have a working Parrot Security virtual machine to use.
• Tenacity
  • You will make mistakes; it will knock you down. Do not let it keep you down.

Assumptions

For these walkthroughs, I will make the following assumptions:

1. You have followed the homelab tutorials and are working from a Parrot Security Virtual machine with the Mate interface.
2. You are looking for a challenge to learn Linux better
3. You are a beginner or beginning moderate user and will need explanations.

With that out of the way, navigate to the first walkthrough: Bandit 00 - Getting Started