Overview

A bash script to retrieve user's .plist files on a macOS system and to convert the data inside it to a crackable hash format. (to use with John The Ripper or Hashcat)

Useful for CTFs/Pentesting/Red Teaming on macOS systems.

Prerequisites

• The script must be run as a root user (sudo)
• macOS environment (tested on a macOS VM Ventura beta 13.0 (22A5266r))

Usage

sudo ./osx_password_cracker.sh OUTPUT_FILE /path/to/save/.plist