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Thick client application are considered to be less secure and considered more complex applications.

Information gathering

Identify programming language, technology and how the application and the infrastructure work.

Tools

  • CFF Explorer

  • Detect-It-Easy

  • Process Monitor

  • Strings

Client-side attacks

Vulnerabilities can be found

  • Command injection

  • Weak access control

  • SQL injection

  • Tokens

  • Hardcoded credentials

  • Sensitive information in source code

Dynamic analysis tool (sensitive information memory)

  • Ghidra

  • IDA

  • OllyDBG

  • Radare2

  • DnSPY

  • X64DBG

  • JADX

  • Frida

Network side attacks

Server-side attacks

  • Server-side attacks are similar to web application attacks (OWASP top 10)

HTB module: https://academy.hackthebox.com/module/113/section/2139

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