A lot of text editors come in with mass searching through a folder. Such as alpha male editor sublime. I would suggest searching through for things like, "HTTP", I recently came across a backdoor implanted in a pastebin, which was interestering. "STEAMID", this one is pretty obvious why, "75611", Start of a steamid64
Even if you are developer it's very hard to spot a backdoor, the best thing would be, before running suspicious program to install a network traffic sniffer such a WireShark and search for traces.