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Several Windows applications that present themselves as legitimate utilities—Internet speed testers, “manual reader” and “finder” tools, certain PDF utilities, and even some AI search frontends such as   justaskjacky   have been observed to drop a portable Node runtime folder alongside a heavily obfuscated JavaScript payload. The visible executable performs as expected to the users, however the installer also extracts the Node runtime, a scheduled task, and  an obfuscated *.js file that don’t appear necessary for the application's primary function. That JavaScript is executed by the dropped Node instance via a scheduled task (observed to run on roughly a 12-hour cycle). Its capabilities include encoded/obfuscated network communications and the potential to execute arbitrary code delivered by the server. Because the JS runs independently from the main executable and is persistent via scheduled tasks, it significantly increases the attack surface:...

This is just a page of rough notes I'm taking as I go through Opulous analysis from https://x.com/sta5i/status/1962591346407154110 POST https://glitch.footballismy[.]life/api/4/envelope/ HTTP/1.1 x-sentry-auth: Sentry sentry_key=71878a140ea8482c86abc998e4ca02bb, sentry_version=7, sentry_timestamp=1757078735.0221975, sentry_client=sentry.rust/0.42.0 accept: */* host: glitch.footballismy[.]life content-length: 13132 sdk":{"name":"sentry.rust","version":"0.42.0","integrations":["attach-stacktrace","debug-images","contexts","panic","process-stacktrace"],"packages":[{"name":"cargo:sentry","version":"0.42.0"}]}} " POST http://ipc.localhost/loadData HTTP/1.1 Host: ipc.localhost Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 2 sec-ch-ua-platform: "Windows" sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="139...