Thick client application are considered to be less secure and considered more complex applications.
Identify programming language, technology and how the application and the infrastructure work.
Tools
CFF Explorer
Detect-It-Easy
Process Monitor
Strings
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
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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