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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They were not shipped to the client. They were shipped to the build system, executed there after deobfuscation, and they inserted an additional, opaque program file into the build process.

that much i picked up on, though i didn't make it very clear. I did mention that alternative though.