My Mac Book Air is Been Hacked - 0

Hi Respected Sir / Madam


I have lots of unresolved issue on my MacBook Air, which I have shared in the Apple Support Community by name kbnikhil as I have shared below screen shots




as I could see that Mac OS were getting heavily unstable and not working for me.


even I had a reinstall of MacOS Catelina from Apple Authorised Service Centre Imagine Store at Bangalore India, in the month of April 2022


even then seen high crashes were seen on applications like Text Editors, Face Time, High Encryption was seen on iMessages as I was reporting from almost a year now, it is not getting resolved, Antivirus Programs are not revealing any malware, virus, spyware, bloatware etc..,

But Operating System Gets Updated regularly, .


then I recently came across the below website which suggest there may be a Hacking going on my macOS Catalina.


https://macmyths.com/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-remotely-accessing-your-mac/


I had fallow all there steps, as flows


on System Preferences, Sharing Folder I did not find Screen Sharing Enabled so went on to next steps as fallows


Verify If New User Accounts Have Been Added


Fallowing Command Executed in Terminal


dscl . list /Users | grep -v '^_'


Out Put of the command as fallows


daemon

MyUserAccount

nobody

root


It Looks Normal


Check Which Programs Have Access To Camera And Mic


Fallowing Command Executed in Terminal


lsof | grep -i "AppleCamera"


No OutPut


Logs from /var/logs


Check The Logs For Possible Access Issues

found some things





WebKit Used to sharing was having to see getting sigkill,


also FsckAps Logs showing many disk present



also Failed iBooks Application



Also Failed Photos Application



And Other Applications


Also found Some BloatWare like Studentd Application



After All the Above things and Many Reinstalls still facing lots and lots of Application Failure, OverHeat, Network issues, Apple Store Issues and Many more etc..


So As per the

Al "MacMyths Autor"

Hi, I am Al. I've been working with computers for more than 20 years and I am passionate about Apple products.


is my macBook Catalina Os is Hacked If Yes how to tell, and get rid of these Hackers from my system


Eagerly waiting for some answer or some solution


thank you for listening hopefully I will get faster solution to it

thank you All


K B Nikhil


Posted on Oct 26, 2022 3:13 AM

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Jan 26, 2023 5:42 AM in response to John Galt

Hi John Galt, Apple community Support team.


Thank you for your suggestion and solutions


I tried to install Mojave and Catalina Mac OS after install of MacOS Marvicks


Also tried to remove majority of unwanted Open directory Utility Application content as fallowing screenshots.



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Keeping only Above PG 11, rest of the record from PG 00 to PG 06 Removed, causing me to lose admin control of my MacBook Air , also the Master password also not working correctly.


PG 07 TO PG 10 I CAN'T ALTER OR DO ANYTHING.


FURTHER MORE.



Finding error with Thunderbolt network, I don't understand why ?


Further I tried to install Mojave and Catalina as shared in the next screenshots.


Thank you for reading

Jan 26, 2023 5:53 AM in response to kbnikhil

Further on I had run command odutil show all as fallow



And I tried to install Mojave and Catalina as fallowing screenshots.



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I don't know why it's not working,


Any way I will try once more by formatting, which remain 221MB of some files I don't know what it is I will get the photos of it, and then I will reload the time machine backup.


But if you have better suggestions I am all waiting,


If it fail I will take to iCare imagine Apple Authorized service center for re-install.


Thank you all for continued support and reading my post.


Eagerly waiting for solution.


Thank you once again.


Nikhil

Jan 28, 2023 3:24 AM in response to kbnikhil

Hi Everyone Thank you for reading my post,


Thank you John Galt and others, I could finally get MacOS Sierra install over Marvicks,


But 221MB still existing as shared in below screenshots.



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MacOS Sierra is successfully installed, next post I will share the logs of install stages.


Thank you for your continued support.

Nikhil

Jan 30, 2023 1:56 AM in response to kbnikhil

Hi Apple community Support Team


Thank you for going through my post.


As said I am sharing Log created when install Sieera on top of Marvicks.





The Screen shot showing Keychain with Directory Utility.



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System and install logs as fallows, Thank you for reading and suggestions.



Jan 30, 2023 2:19 AM in response to kbnikhil

The logs



Install logs are very huge for adding over a Samsung tablet. May be other system I can add it.


Might help me resolving my issues with continued crashes of all Application including text editor as shared in earlier post.


Thank you for your patience and continued support.

Nikhil.

Nov 16, 2022 4:38 AM in response to kbnikhil

Hello All


eagerly waiting for some solution to this hacked issue


below is the command out put showing lots of unwanted activity

or Looks to be some one has HACKED my matchbook air


Last login: Wed Nov 16 17:37:59 on console   


id -a 


uid=502(kbnikhilbr) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh),400(com.apple.access_remote_ae),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),702(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp)


uid=70(_www) gid=70(_www) groups=70(_www),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),702(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),100(_lpoperator)


 MAC PS 


kbnikhilbr         640 s000    0.0 S    31T   0:00.00   0:00.00 grep httpd


root               126   ??    0.0 S    31T   0:00.01   0:00.00 /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd


kbnikhilbr         642 s000    0.0 S    31T   0:00.00   0:00.00 grep opendirectoryd


kbnikhilbr         644 s000    0.0 S    31T   0:00.00   0:00.00 grep studentd


kbnikhilbr         646 s000    0.0 S    31T   0:00.00   0:00.00 grep tmutil


 odutil 


Active requests (time in microseconds):




PID      Request ID Refs Type Active Time Node ID Nodename Current Module Parent Request Results Delivered 


-------- ---------- ---- ---- ----------- ------- -------- -------------- -------------- ----------------- 




Active sessions:




PID      Session ID Refs Type Target 


-------- ---------- ---- ---- ------ 




httpd (no pid file) not running


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root               126   0.7  0.3  4356236  12356   ??  Ss    5:37PM   0:04.99 /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd


user         652   0.0  0.0  4285696    696 s000  S+    5:45PM   0:00.00 grep opendirectoryd


user        654   0.0  0.0  4268288    660 s000  S+    5:45PM   0:00.00 grep httpd


user        656   0.0  0.0  4268288    660 s000  S+    5:45PM   0:00.00 grep studentd


user         658   0.0  0.0  4268288    660 s000  S+    5:45PM   0:00.00 grep tmutil


tmutil 


Created local snapshot with date: 2022-11-16-174506


tmutil: disable requires root privileges.


tmutil: delete requires root privileges.


% sudo ./myscript.sh


Password:


id -a 


uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),1(daemon),2(kmem),3(sys),4(tty),5(operator),8(procview),9(procmod),12(everyone),20(staff),29(certusers),61(localaccounts),80(admin),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),702(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),33(_appstore),98(_lpadmin),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp)


uid=70(_www) gid=70(_www) groups=70(_www),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),702(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),100(_lpoperator)


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root               668 s000    0.0 S    31T   0:00.00   0:00.00 grep httpd


root               126   ??    0.0 S    31T   0:00.01   0:00.00 /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd


root               670 s000    0.0 S    31T   0:00.00   0:00.00 grep opendirectoryd


root               672 s000    0.0 S    31T   0:00.00   0:00.00 grep studentd


root               674 s000    0.0 S    31T   0:00.00   0:00.00 grep tmutil


 odutil 


Active requests (time in microseconds):




PID      Request ID Refs Type Active Time Node ID Nodename Current Module Parent Request Results Delivered 


-------- ---------- ---- ---- ----------- ------- -------- -------------- -------------- ----------------- 




Active sessions:




PID      Session ID Refs Type Target 


-------- ---------- ---- ---- ------ 




httpd (no pid file) not running


 aux PS


root               126   2.2  0.3  4357284  12372   ??  Ss    5:37PM   0:05.29 /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd


root               680   0.0  0.0  4268288    664 s000  S+    5:45PM   0:00.00 grep opendirectoryd


root               682   0.0  0.0  4268288    656 s000  S+    5:45PM   0:00.00 grep httpd


root               684   0.0  0.0  4268288    660 s000  S+    5:45PM   0:00.00 grep studentd


root               686   0.0  0.0  4268288    656 s000  S+    5:45PM   0:00.00 grep tmutil


tmutil 


Created local snapshot with date: 2022-11-16-174545


snapshot_path: No such file or directory (error 2)


Total deleted: 0B


above is the execution of fallowing commands

echo "id -a " ;


id -a ;


id -a _www ;


echo " MAC PS " ;


ps MAC | grep httpd ;


ps MAC | grep opendirectoryd ;


ps MAC | grep studentd ;


ps MAC | grep tmutil ;


echo " odutil " ; 


odutil show requests ;


odutil show sessions ;


apachectl -k stop ;


echo " aux PS" ;


ps aux | grep opendirectoryd ;


ps aux | grep httpd ;


ps aux | grep studentd ;


ps aux | grep tmutil ;


echo "tmutil " ;


tmutil localsnapshot


tmutil disable ;


tmutil stopbackup ;


tmutil delete snapshot_path ;



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