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Gather eCryptfs Metadata

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module will collect the contents of all users' .ecrypts directories on the targeted machine. Collected "wrapped-passphrase" files can be cracked with John the Ripper (JtR) to recover "mount passphrases".

Author(s)

  • Dhiru Kholia <dhiru@openwall.com>

Platform

Linux

Development

Module Options

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

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