In our journey so far, we’ve dealt mostly with plain text files. Bandit Level 9 to 10 introduces a new type of challenge: extracting information from a binary file. These files are compiled for machines, not humans, and reading them with cat results in a mess of unreadable characters.

This level teaches us how to use the strings command, a specialized tool for finding and printing the sequences of readable text embedded within binary data. 🧐