Common Method for Extracting and Analyzing .asar Files.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
This marks the third part of a series of articles exploring the fundamentals of security testing for Electron-based applications.
In this part, we will explore the importance of extracting and analyzing .asar files to gather useful information. As a note, we split this part into two sections to emphasize the information in each article. In the second section later, we will discuss a unique case study we have encountered.
If you are just beginning to read this article, in the previous part, we explained the essential processes of installing and detecting Electron-based applications, including how to detect their presence on various operating systems — both manually and automatically.
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