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Windows Gather Unattended Answer File Enumeration

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module will check the file system for a copy of unattend.xml and/or autounattend.xml found in Windows Vista, or newer Windows systems. And then extract sensitive information such as usernames and decoded passwords. Also checks for '.vmimport' files that could have been created by the AWS EC2 VMIE service.

Author(s)

  • Sean Verity <veritysr1980@gmail.com>
  • sinn3r <sinn3r@metasploit.com>
  • Ben Campbell <eat_meatballs@hotmail.co.uk>
  • GhostlyBox

Platform

Windows

Development

Module Options

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