No output.txt being created when successful

[Trader0618]

I was testing this on a wallet with known credentials before potentially helping someone else whose PC crashed and can't locate their key albeit knows the password and can access the files.

I moved the test files to a control folder and used the extractor to make sure I had the appropriate formatting of the json info. I saved that to phantom.txt in the decrypter folder and ran:

./phantom_decryptor -h phantom.txt -o output.txt -t 4 -s 10

I tested a few wrong passwords before the right one and it showed success. Cool! However, there was no output.txt file created in any of the folders. This was confusing so I reran it without the -o since the info shows it would just post to stdout. However, it simply showed the same thing as with -o option. There were no errors or anything which make it more confusing. The goal is the private key to hopefully recover but it just wasn't there anywhere.

Am I missing something or? Thanks

[Trader0618]

I decided to try and create a wordlist.txt just to test and see if I could get the desired output. I added a number of random passwords including the one I knew would work and it once again succeeded. However I am still not showing an output.txt created.

Using the command:
./phantom_decryptor -h phantom.txt -w wordlist.txt -o output.txt -t 4 -s 10

I reran the code to manually input and output data again so I can show the results as well. I attempted a few wrong passwords before the correct one as shown in the screenshot. Maybe I am wrong in assuming it should show the private key at this stage, but I can only assume that's one of the main purposes of this.

./phantom_decryptor -h phantom.txt -t 4 -s 10

I feel like I am pretty close to solving this but keep hitting dead ends. Have tried so many python approaches using a multitude of different libraries and all have issues with the core issue usually being the padding of some of the base64 data not being divisible by 4. I am about 7 hours in on attempting different things.

Appreciate any feedback. Thanks.

[InnaLogic]

Have you figured it out yet? im experiencing the same problem

[cyclone-github]

The flag -o writing a blank file was a known issue #1. For now, this flag should not be used.

What makes you believe phantom_decryptor should be printing out the private key? The tool simply verifies the correct password, and it's up to the user on what to do from there. Read through https://github.com/cyclone-github/phantom_pwn and my writeup on how to recover the seed phrase https://github.com/cyclone-github/writeups/blob/main/Pwning%20Phantom%20Wallets.pdf.