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Following my last article about a Discord malware, we now take a deeper look inside the inner workings of the PirateStealer malware.

), we discovered a NodeJS malware that steals the Discord credentials from the client by patching the sources of the Electron client.

As the application code is in Javascript, the sources are still there but hidden in plain sight. So what protects us from a malicious user editing the archive containing the sources and tampering it with malware? Well, on Electron level, practically nothing.

. This tool allows bundling many resources into bigger chunks to facilitate the installation procedure.This feature comes from this

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