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Need some "basic" information:

1. What exact Mac model do you have?

2. What exact Mac OS are you using?

3. Are you making backups to an external device? That is so, so critical!

4. Have you ever done any disk cleanup, maintenance, and repairs, from a software perspective? You can actually do quite a lot of disk cleanup on your own, and there are some excellent products available (both free and commercial) that can help you with those tasks.

5. When did this happen? Were things OK before this "event"?
 
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
macOS High Serra

I identified through TinkerTool a user group called _guest, this "Guest" user had exclusive access to all the folders within him. In the public folder I could see a folder called "DropBox", I could not (even through TinkerTool) change user permissions to have access, but it was possible to identify that "Downloads" had 1 file.

I deactivated through the system preferences the guest user, even so while running the command "dscl .list / users" existed a Guest user. After some time the command started to appear the following error: "Can not open remote host, error: DSOpenDirServiceErr"

So I used the "ls -lha / Users /"

Total 0
drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 192B Nov 8 14:29.
drwxr-xr-x 30 root wheel 960B Nov 8 13:34 ..
-rw -r-r-- 1 root wheel 0B Jul 15 17:35 .localized
drwxr-xr-x + 12 201 _guest 384B Nov 8 11:38 Guest
drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 288B Nov 8 15:24 Shared
drwxr-xr-x + 19 tor staff 608B Nov 8 14:07 tor

Now the command "dscl .list / users" has returned and the user has disappeared, even from the login area.

dscl. List / Users | grep -v '^ _'
daemon
nobody
root
tor

dscl . list /Users
_amavisd

_analyticsd

_appleevents

_applepay

_appowner

_appserver

_appstore

_ard

_assetcache

_astris

_atsserver

_avbdeviced

_calendar

_captiveagent

_ces

_clamav

_cmiodalassistants

_coreaudiod

_coremediaiod

_ctkd

_cvmsroot

_cvs

_cyrus

_datadetectors

_devdocs

_devicemgr

_displaypolicyd

_distnote

_dovecot

_dovenull

_dpaudio

_eppc

_findmydevice

_fpsd

_ftp

_gamecontrollerd

_geod

_hidd

_iconservices

_installassistant

_installer

_jabber

_kadmin_admin

_kadmin_changepw

_krb_anonymous

_krb_changepw

_krb_kadmin

_krb_kerberos

_krb_krbtgt

_krbfast

_krbtgt

_launchservicesd

_lda

_locationd

_lp

_mailman

_mbsetupuser

_mcxalr

_mdnsresponder

_mobileasset

_mysql

_netbios

_netstatistics

_networkd

_nsurlsessiond

_nsurlstoraged

_ondemand

_postfix

_postgres

_qtss

_sandbox

_screensaver

_scsd

_securityagent

_serialnumberd

_softwareupdate

_spotlight

_sshd

_svn

_taskgated

_teamsserver

_timed

_timezone

_tokend

_trustevaluationagent

_unknown

_update_sharing

_usbmuxd

_uucp

_warmd

_webauthserver

_windowserver

_www

_wwwproxy

_xcsbuildagent

_xcscredserver

_xserverdocs

daemon

nobody

root

tor
 
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The code got too long so I threw it in the pastebin


Code:
dscacheutil -q user

Code:
dscacheutil -q user |
    paste -d " "  - - - - - - - - |
    sed 's/^name: //;s/ [^[:space:]]*: /:/g'

https://pastebin.com/78nZ7Q7K



I used Malwarebytes to scan but nothing was found, the same with MacScan.


Sorry for the bad English, google translate.
 
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