Recovery Username and Password on Mikrotik Backup File in Linux

Of course, for a networker, you must be familiar with this proxy router device, in this case I will demonstrate how to recover the username and password in the proxy backup file.

1. Download the RouterOS-Backup-Tools file

$ git clone https://github.com/BigNerd95/RouterOS-Backup-Tools.git

2. If so, make sure to install pip3

$ sudo apt install python3-pip

3. Next we will install the required library dependencies

$ pip3 install pycryptodome

Now we just need to run the file, here I will give an example of a file that I already have. You can use the command as below and if successful it will produce output as drawn.

┌──(dig㉿dig)-[~/CTF/mikrotikbackupXcode]
└─$ ls                                                                                                                                                            1 ⚙
mikrotik.backup  mikrotik.backup.zip
                                                                                                                                                                      
┌──(dig㉿dig)-[~/CTF/mikrotikbackupXcode]
└─$ python3 /home/dig/RouterOS-Backup-Tools/ROSbackup.py unpack -i mikrotik.backup -d mikrotik                                                                    1 ⚙
** Unpack Backup **
RouterOS Plaintext Backup
Length: 7459 bytes
Extracting backup...
Wrote 98 files pair in: mikrotik
                                                                                                                                                                      
┌──(dig㉿dig)-[~/CTF/mikrotikbackupXcode]
└─$ ls                                                                                                                                                            1 ⚙
mikrotik  mikrotik.backup  mikrotik.backup.zip
                                                                                                                                                                      
┌──(dig㉿dig)-[~/CTF/mikrotikbackupXcode]
└─$ python3 /home/dig/RouterOS-Backup-Tools/extract_user.py mikrotik/user.dat                                                                                     1 ⚙
User: admin
Pass: 

User: admin
Pass: secret900