Hello -
I was hoping to get some help figuring out the best way to recover my iTunes backup password. I'm a beginner with hashcat (I didn't even know it existed until yesterday :/) and I don't have a lot of experience using the command line. I apologize if this post is formatted incorrectly.
I've followed the steps in this tutorial video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMySnPzsPYU) to the best of my ability. I got assistance getting the necessary information out of the manifest.plist file and from there was able to attempt to crack the password. My problem is that I don't remember any thing about the password. I've tried every guess I could think of to no avail. I'm not sure how long it is, if I used uppercase letters or special characters, or if I replaced a letter with a special character (e.g. using $ for s). Without thinking, this is the first code I tried: and got a time estimate of 896 years (please see image
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hashcat_first_attempt.jpg (Size: 453.72 KB / Downloads: 1)
).
I hope that if I could just crack the first couple characters, it would spark my memory of the rest. I read the mask attack wiki page and it seemed that in order to be successful I'd have to already have a rough idea of what I'm looking for (a word or number or something) or this might not be possible. Here's my question: Is there a way to crack the password one character at a time? I know the idea is ridiculous and extremely inefficient but in this particular instance it might help.
(Please feel free to mock/scorn/yell/block me as you see fit. I'm sorry if it seems like I'm wasting anyone's time.)
I was hoping to get some help figuring out the best way to recover my iTunes backup password. I'm a beginner with hashcat (I didn't even know it existed until yesterday :/) and I don't have a lot of experience using the command line. I apologize if this post is formatted incorrectly.
I've followed the steps in this tutorial video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMySnPzsPYU) to the best of my ability. I got assistance getting the necessary information out of the manifest.plist file and from there was able to attempt to crack the password. My problem is that I don't remember any thing about the password. I've tried every guess I could think of to no avail. I'm not sure how long it is, if I used uppercase letters or special characters, or if I replaced a letter with a special character (e.g. using $ for s). Without thinking, this is the first code I tried:
Code:
hashcat64.exe -m14800 hash.txt -a3 ?a?a?a?a?a?a
hashcat_first_attempt.jpg (Size: 453.72 KB / Downloads: 1)
).I hope that if I could just crack the first couple characters, it would spark my memory of the rest. I read the mask attack wiki page and it seemed that in order to be successful I'd have to already have a rough idea of what I'm looking for (a word or number or something) or this might not be possible. Here's my question: Is there a way to crack the password one character at a time? I know the idea is ridiculous and extremely inefficient but in this particular instance it might help.
(Please feel free to mock/scorn/yell/block me as you see fit. I'm sorry if it seems like I'm wasting anyone's time.)