---
id: 4932
title: "Pentesting Electron Applications"
source_domain: yeswehack.com
source_url: "https://www.yeswehack.com/learn-bug-bounty/pentesting-electron-applications"
published_at: "2021-07-28T15:00:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "appsec", "penetration-testing", "electron", "desktop-security", "asar", "electronegativity"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4932"
lang: en
---

# Pentesting Electron Applications

## Summary

A guide to penetration testing Electron apps: understanding the Chromium-plus-Node architecture, unpacking and repacking .asar archives, extracting secrets, and scanning with Electronegativity.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** yeswehack.com
- **Published:** 2021-07-28T15:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.yeswehack.com/learn-bug-bounty/pentesting-electron-applications
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4932