Summary
Get all the types of contents on the clipboard, return specific types, or set the contents of the clipboard.
Root does NOT have a clipboard
- Needs Admin: False
- Version: 1
- Author: @its_a_feature_
Arguments
types
- Description: Types of clipboard data to retrieve, defaults to
public.utf8-plain-text
- Required Value: False
- Default Value: None
data
- Description: Data to put on the clipboard
- Required Value: False
- Default Value: None
Usage
Reading Clipboard
This will read the plaintext data on the clipboard and give information about the other keys that are available to read. If you then issue the command again with the keys you desire, the contents of those will be returned as well. This can be an extremely large amount of data as users copy folders, files, images, etc on their clipboard. All of this is available to you, but isn’t returned by default.
Writing Clipboard
Set the data field to something other than empty to write to the clipboard.
MITRE ATT&CK Mapping
Detailed Summary
This uses Objective C API calls to read all the types available on the general clipboard for the current user. The clipboard on macOS has a lot more data than just what you copy. All of that data is collected and returned in a JSON blob of key:base64(data). To do this, we use this JavaScript code:
let pb = $.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard;
let types = pb.types.js;
let clipboard = {};
for(let i = 0; i < types.length; i++){
let typejs = types[i].js;
clipboard[typejs] = pb.dataForType(types[i]);
if(clipboard[typejs].js !== undefined){
clipboard[typejs] = clipboard[typejs].base64EncodedStringWithOptions(0).js;
}else{
clipboard[typejs] = "";
}
}
