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How to spot backdoor addons?

Submitted by yushikiki, , Thread ID: 142410

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RE: How to spot backdoor addons?

#11
oh my god finally, people sell my plugins with backdoors in them and I get screwed over!

RE: How to spot backdoor addons?

#12
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

RE: How to spot backdoor addons?

#13
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.

RE: How to spot backdoor addons?

#14
And malcious code can always be obscured, so there is no guaranteed way unless you manually audit everything.

RE: How to spot backdoor addons?

#15
I've used nomalua before and that scans for potential backdoors and fetching commands

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