# hack-browser-data mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für hack-browser-data in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:hack-browser-data
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hack-browser-data
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:hack-browser-data
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Command-line tool for decrypting and exporting browser data
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/moonD4rk/HackBrowserData>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/moonD4rk/HackBrowserData>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-27T14:32:22+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- hack-browser-data (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.1.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

HackBrowserData is a Go command-line security and forensics tool for decrypting and exporting browser data. Its package identity is straightforward: install one binary, point it at local browser profiles or archived profile data, and export passwords, cookies, history, bookmarks, downloads, storage, extensions, and related browser artifacts.

### Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in June 2020. The README describes support for Chromium-based browsers and Firefox on Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus Safari on macOS, and includes a legal-use disclaimer aimed at security research.

The project evolved from local extraction into richer workflows. Release notes and README content show additions such as local storage export, pure-Go SQLite-related refactoring, optimized encryption/decryption modules, Safari support, Chromium App-Bound Encryption support, and cross-host decryption workflows.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption is visible in the repository scale, release activity, and packaging through Homebrew. The tool appeals to incident-response, red-team, browser-forensics, and security-lab users because browser secrets and artifacts are spread across OS-specific stores, SQLite databases, browser profile layouts, keychains, and DPAPI-like mechanisms.

Cross-host decryption broadened its operational model: an origin host can export Chromium master keys and archive relevant profile files, while an analyst host restores and decrypts offline, even across operating systems for some browser families.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The default `dump` command extracts local browser data with flags for browser, category, output directory, format, profile path, macOS keychain password, verbosity, and zip output. Other commands list profiles, export master keys, archive decryption-relevant files, restore copied profile data with exported keys, and print version information.

Supported data categories include passwords, cookies, bookmarks, history, downloads, credit cards for Chromium-based browsers, extensions, localStorage, and sessionStorage where supported. The README notes platform-specific requirements such as Full Disk Access for Safari and extra payload support for some Chromium cookie decryption on Windows.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

HackBrowserData is notable as a packaged security tool because it compresses many browser- and OS-specific storage rules into one CLI. For package users, the value is less about a library API and more about repeatable collection, export formats, cross-platform builds, and workflows that can be scripted during authorized investigations.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020: Public repository created.
- 2022: v0.4.x releases included browser-data extraction fixes and local-storage support.
- 2024: v0.4.6 release notes described refactors, pure-Go driver work, and encryption/decryption optimization.
- 2026: v1.x release notes documented architecture rewrite, Safari, Chromium App-Bound Encryption, and cross-host decryption and restore workflows.

### Related projects

- Related surfaces include Chromium, Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Safari, browser profile SQLite databases, Windows DPAPI and App-Bound Encryption, macOS Keychain, and incident-response tooling that inventories browser artifacts.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hack-browser-data>
- <https://github.com/moonD4rk/HackBrowserData>
- <https://github.com/moonD4rk/HackBrowserData/releases>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moonD4rk/HackBrowserData/main/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/hack-browser-data.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/hack-browser-data.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph