Electron JavaScript applications scenario introduction

In this scenario, we will examine an Electron JavaScript application we enjoy using during incident response activities. Although we often focus on red team operations, we also engage in blue team practices. Performing both activities provides us with a significant advantage. On the one hand, thinking like attackers, even when defending an organization, allows us to implement the think like your enemy principle. On the other hand, we learn our adversaries’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), which can be useful in various situations. Consequently, red and blue team activities can be seen as the yin and yang of cybersecurity.

We will discuss Aurora Incident Response [4], an Electron application created by Mathias Fuchs [5], which is incredibly useful for managing incident response tasks, including organizing our findings and to-do lists.

We discovered an XSS vulnerability within the application, which made us...