CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-002 – Question112

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?

A.
echo U3VQZXIkM2NyZXQhCg== | base64 d
B. tar zxvf password.txt
C. hydra l svsacct p U3VQZXIkM2NyZXQhCg== ssh://192.168.1.0/24
D. john –wordlist /usr/share/seclists/rockyou.txt password.txt

Correct Answer: A