CTF-Writeups/Snyk Con 2021/Electronbuzz.md

Electronbuzz (Misc)

In this challenge we were given an electron application in the form of windows,linux file , so I downloaded the debian package and extracted it , on which I app.asar file , which in electron holds the source code and some configuration file of the main application

We can extract this by using npx asar extract app.asar . , you can install npx using npm install -g asar

And we can get the flag by reading challenge.yml

References

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38523617/how-to-unpack-an-asar-file