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by wkat4242
1210 days ago
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True yes but a lot of cracks are real and still include malware. And it can even be introduced remotely. A malware downloader is a few lines of code hidden among millions. Also analyzing malware tends to make one more paranoid. This is definitely a thing too. And the most powerful features of it like hexrays require cloud cooperation so they don't work :( I really wish it was affordable for individuals because I would pay for it if I could. |
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While it's true that malware could hide well theoretically, I'll also add that in my experience investigating malware infections from friends and family and occasionally hunting for malware myself, samples attached to cracked software tend to be things like miners, iStealer, script kiddie RATs, etc using simple "binders" - which are usually incredibly obvious, like extract the real executable into %temp% or the usual RunPE gimmick. People posting malware on torrent sites are not exactly APTs using spear phishing attacks.