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OSX Gather Autologin Password as Root

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module will steal the plaintext password of any user on the machine
with autologin enabled. Root access is required.

When a user has autologin enabled (System Preferences -> Accounts), OSX
stores their password with an XOR encoding in /private/etc/kcpassword.

Author

joev [email protected]

Platform

OSX

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use post/osx/gather/autologin_password
    msf post(autologin_password) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf post(autologin_password) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf post(autologin_password) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf post(autologin_password) > run
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