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Python for Offensive PenTest

You're reading from   Python for Offensive PenTest A practical guide to ethical hacking and penetration testing using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838979
Length 176 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hussam Khrais Hussam Khrais
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Warming up – Your First Antivirus-Free Persistence Shell 2. Advanced Scriptable Shell FREE CHAPTER 3. Password Hacking 4. Catch Me If You Can! 5. Miscellaneous Fun in Windows 6. Abuse of Cryptography by Malware 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Dumping saved passwords out of Google Chrome


In this section, we will discuss another password-hacking technique. This technique was originally created to recover your password if you forget it. Here we will take advantage and hack the saved password remotely. For this attack to work successfully, your target should be using Google Chrome, and they should have previously saved the login password. Let's look at how this works. Log into your Facebook account. You will notice a prompt at the top-right corner of the screen, which asks you whether to save the password with a Save password button. If our target has clicked on Save password, then we will be able to grab that password remotely.

We will now see how to do that. To do this, we will Log out from Facebook first.

Acquiring the password remotely

Let's get started by understanding how Google Chrome stores and recovers the saved password in the first place:

So, the first fact is, we should know that Google Chrome uses the Windows login password...

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