re-electron-skill
Audited by Socket on Aug 16, 2026
4 alerts found:
SecurityMalwarex2AnomalySUSPICIOUS: the skill is internally coherent for Electron reverse engineering, and the npm-based @electron/asar usage appears official rather than deceptive. However, it is a high-risk offensive security skill because it teaches an AI agent to analyze auth/payment logic, map privileged IPC surfaces, patch bundles, and test authorization bypasses on real applications.
This module is a high-risk integrity-tampering tool: it deliberately rewrites Electron/webpack bundle code to bypass subscription/authentication and premium gating by forcing truthy auth/subscription state and overriding gate/response logic, then writes the modified bundle back to disk (often overwriting the original). It also optionally uses npx to repack ASAR, introducing environment-dependent supply-chain execution risk. No explicit malware behaviors like exfiltration are evident, but the authorization-bypass functionality makes it dangerous for general use and likely malicious in non-CTF contexts.
High likelihood of malicious/abuse-enabling intent. The fragment provides concrete, actionable techniques to bypass subscription/auth enforcement through (1) persistent local config tampering, (2) renderer/runtime overrides, and (3) forged subscription API responses via MITM, augmented by explicit anti-forensics and evasion guidance. If such content were present in a distributed dependency, it would represent a serious supply-chain security concern for authorization bypass and fraud facilitation.
This fragment is not indicative of an actual malicious dependency implementation on its own; it is a dual-use, attacker-grade Electron dynamic analysis/instrumentation playbook. It explicitly enables arbitrary in-process code execution, IPC/fetch/require hooking, subscription/auth response tampering, and extraction of tokens/sessions from OS credential stores and local session databases, plus network interception/SSL inspection. The primary security concern is misuse potential: applying these steps to a target Electron app can facilitate account/session compromise and sensitive data exposure.