Reversing a hex dump

h4krG33k
Aug 22, 2022

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Steps required for reversing hexdump to get original binary file is shown below in short:

Let’s you open a file and you the hexdump of the file

hexdump file [bandit overthewire challenge]

How to deal with it? How do you get back the original file? we use a command xxd

We use it like xxd -r <file> > redirected_output

redirected hexdump file to hack [output file]

Let’s check the file type of the extracted file:

As we can see got the gzip compressed file which is in binary format as opposed to hexdump format as earlier

Hope this helps!! 😎
Cheers!! 🍻🎉

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