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Finding LastPass Instances Installed as Chrome Extensions

January 3, 2023

By Mike Walters

After the recent major security breach at LastPass, this question started coming up more and more often: how do I find all the installs of LastPass on my users’ computers? Some companies want to migrate away from LastPass to another (not yet compromised) password manager, while others want to educate their users to adopt stronger master passwords.

Anyway, it turns out that most users don’t install LastPass as a Windows application and use it as a browser extension instead. Therefore it’s not detected by most RMMs as an installed application. You get a false sense of very low adoption of LastPass among your user base.

The following script was developed to find all Google Chrome extensions installed by all computer users. It will last LastPass among them if it is installed. You can add this script to your Action1 script library or use your existing RMM, if you don’t have Action1 yet. Shameless plug: Action1 is free for your first 100 endpoints 🙂

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$username = Get-ChildItem c:\users -Directory -Exclude ‘*Public*’, ‘*Default*’

$Chromeextensions = Foreach ($user in $username)
{
if ( Test-Path “C:\Users\$($user.name)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions” )
{
$checks = get-childitem -Path “C:\Users\$($user.name)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions” -Directory -Exclude ‘nmmhkkegccagdldgiimedpiccmgmieda’, ‘mhjfbmdgcfjbbpaeojofohoefgiehjai’, ‘pkedcjkdefgpdelpbcmbmeomcjbeemfm’, “Temp” -Verbose -ErrorAction stop
}
else
{
$Title = Write-Output “no extensions found”
}
Foreach ($check in $checks)
{

$url = “https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/” + $($check.name) + “?hl=en-us”

$WebRequest = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -ErrorAction Stop -UseBasicParsing
$title = $WebRequest -match ‘<title>(?<titleText>.*?)</title>’
$capturedText = $Matches[‘titleText’]

if ($WebRequest.StatusCode -eq 200) {

# Get the HTML Page Title but remove ‘ – Chrome Web Store’
if (-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($capturedText))) {

$ExtTitle = $capturedText
if ($ExtTitle -match ‘\s-\s.*$’) {
$Title = $ExtTitle -replace ‘\s-\s.*$’,”
$extType = ‘ChromeStore’

} else {
$Title = $ExtTitle
}
}

[PSCustomObject][Ordered]@{
Title = $Title
User = $User
}
}
}
}

$result = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList;

$i = 0;

$Chromeextensions | ForEach-Object {
$currentOutput = “” | Select-Object Title, User, A1_Key;
$currentOutput.Title = $_.Title;
$currentOutput.User = $_.User;
$currentOutput.A1_Key = $i;

$result.Add($currentOutput) | Out-Null;
$i++;
}

$result;

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