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LaZagneForensic

Windows passwords decryption from dump files

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The LaZagne Project !!!

Description

The LaZagne project is back !!!

LaZagne uses an internal Windows function called CryptUnprotectData to decrypt user passwords. This API should be called on the victim user session, otherwise, it does not work. If the computer has not been started (when the analysis is realized on an offline mounted disk), or if we do not want to drop a binary on the remote host, no passwords can be retrieved.

LaZagneForensic has been created to avoid this problem. This work has been mainly inspired by the awesome work done by Jean-Michel Picod and Elie Bursztein for DPAPICK and Francesco Picasso for Windows DPAPI laboratory.

Note: The main problem is that to decrypt these passwords, the user Windows passwords is needed.

Installation

  • Requires python2 (Not compatible with python3)
  • Requires pip2: if not installed :
    root@kitploit:~
    sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py
    sudo python2 ./get-pip.py
    
root@kitploit:~
sudo apt install python2-dev
pip2 install markerlib
pip2 install distribute
pip2 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

First way - Dump configuration files from the remote host

  • Using the powershell script
root@kitploit:~
PS C:\Users\test\Desktop> Import-Module .\dump.ps1
PS C:\Users\test\Desktop> Dump
Folder dump created successfully !
  • Using the python script
root@kitploit:~
python dump.py
  • Launch Lazagne with password if you have it
root@kitploit:~
python laZagneForensic.py all -remote /tmp/dump -password 'ZapataVive'
  • Launch Lazagne without password
root@kitploit:~
python laZagneForensic.py all -remote /tmp/dump

Second way - Mount a disk on your filesystem

  • The file should be mounted on your filesystem
root@kitploit:~
test:~$ ls /tmp/disk/
total 769M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 févr.  1 14:05 ProgramData
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 256M févr.  1 14:05 swapfile.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512M févr.  1 14:05 pagefile.sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 janv. 31 00:35 System Volume Information
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root    0 janv. 26 10:17 Program Files (x86)
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root    0 janv. 25 18:13 Program Files
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 janv. 19 10:09 Windows
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 janv. 16 15:52 Homeware
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 janv.  9 17:33 PerfLogs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 nov.  22 20:37 Recovery
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K nov.  22 20:31 Documents and Settings
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root    0 nov.  22 20:31 Users
  • Launch Lazagne with password if you have it
root@kitploit:~
python laZagneForensic.py all -local /tmp/disk -password 'ZapataVive'
  • Launch Lazagne without password
root@kitploit:~
python laZagneForensic.py all -local /tmp/disk

Note: Use -v for verbose mode and -vv for debug mode.

Supported software

Note: Check the following image to understand which passwords you could decrypt without needed the user windows password. All credentials found will be tested as Windows password in case of the user re-uses the same password.

The LaZagne project

Donation

Do not hesitate to support my work doing a donation, I will appreciate a lot:

  • Via BTC: 16zJ9wTXU4f1qfMLiWvdY3woUHtEBxyriu

Special thanks

  • Jean-Michel Picod and Elie Bursztein for DPAPICK
  • Francesco Picasso for Windows DPAPI laboratory
  • Jean-Christophe Delaunay - Jiss/Fist0urs from the Synacktiv team for their work

Recommended articles related to DPAPI

  • Happy DPAPI!
  • ReVaulting! Decryption and opportunities
  • Windows ReVaulting
  • DPAPI exploitation during pentest and password cracking

Alessandro ZANNI
[email protected]
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