Subatomic looks at a real piece of malware written in Electron, designed as a fake game installer that will hijack the system’s Discord installation as well as exfil data about the machine, and Discord tokens, and tons of browser data. I’ll take apart the malware to see what it does and answer the questions for the challenge.

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HTB Sherlock: Subatomic is a post that discusses the analysis of a malware written in Electron that targets Discord installations and exfiltrates data. The post provides information about the challenge, the background scenario, the questions, the tools used, and the analysis processes involved. It explores file metadata analysis, unpacking, recovering JavaScript, and analyzing the JavaScript code. The post concludes with the primary highlights and infected files/topics.