screencapture

Created by Brendan Chamberlain (@infosecB)

Description

A tools that allows users to take screenshots of their desktop or specific app windows. The tool can be used by malicious actors to collect sensitve information from the targeted system.

CreatedTacticsTags
2023-04-27Collectiononeliner

Paths

  • /usr/sbin/screencapture

Use Cases

Continously capture screenshots

The following command demonstrates how an attacker can use the tool to capture screenshots every 10 seconds. The -x flag prevents snapshot sounds from being played.

while true; do ts=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"); o="/tmp/screenshots"; screencapture -x "$o/ss-$ts.png"; sleep 10; done

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