Acquiring the password remotely

Let's get started by understanding how Google Chrome stores and recovers the saved password in the first place:

So, the first fact is, we should know that Google Chrome uses the Windows login password as a key to do both the encryption and decryption phases. The second thing we need to know is that encrypted passwords are stored in a SQLite database called Login Data DB and that database is located in the path C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.

Google Chrome calls a specific Windows API function called CryptProtectData, which utilizes the Windows login password as an encryption ...

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