Oct. 4, 2023, 6:13 a.m. | /u/Altruistic_Cloud_693

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Hi,

I've been trying for a couple of weeks to (unsuccessfully) decrypt a zoomus.enc.db. Axiom and other forensic tools have failed to decode, even after providing the password for the user.

I found an earlier post on the topic here:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/computerforensics/comments/kch7ot/zoom\_artifacts\_encrypted\_dbs/](https://www.reddit.com/r/computerforensics/comments/kch7ot/zoom_artifacts_encrypted_dbs/)

From my understanding of this post, the Zoom.us.ini file contains a base64 encoded string, which must be decoded into binary and then unprotected using DPAPI. This is the key that is used to decrypt the database using SQLCipher.

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