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Newbie - help please - Simian - 06-15-2018
Hi there - I am a total newbie trying to find my way around. I've never used hashcat before and am learning how to to access an itunes backup I can't remember my password for.
I have watched quite a few tutorials and read some articles but never having used anything like this before its clear that my brain can't compute a lot of it and my head is now spinning!
I have extracted all the information I need from my manifest.plist to run
Hash mode: 14800
Hash Name:iTunes backup >= 10.0 11
I thought I had all I needed to go ahead and try to run hashcat... but then I couldn't even open hashcat on my terminal - doh!
I downloaded the zip file and have extracted Hashcat-4.1.0 folder to my desktop so I thought I had everything I needed
Sorry if this is a really dumb question but how do I open hashcat in my terminal and then run the itunes back up hash?
Is there a really simple video or written tutorial which can take me through this step my step?
Many thanks in advance for any help
RE: Newbie - help please - royce - 06-16-2018
You'll need to open a command prompt on your platform, and navigate to the directory that hashcat lives in, and execute it there.
Once you get oriented there, I would work on growing your understanding and validating your approach in two ways:
1. Pick a simple hashtype (like MD5) with a known plain, and verify that your technique is working.
2. Grab the sample iTunes backup hashfile from hashcat's example hashes list:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes
... and validate that you can crack it with "hashcat".