Cracking Electron Integrity

How to patch apps with ElectronAsarIntegrity on macOS

INTRO

The best part of knowledge sharing is receiving feedback from the audience, especially constructive criticism, which helps to improve.

Recently, I wrote a brief introduction to patching macOS apps, where I also put some hints on the patching process for electron apps:

Cracking macOS apps

After publishing the blog post, Luca Carettoni pointed out that Electron apps that use ElectronAsarIntegrity patched the above way will not work:

Source

Luca is 100% right. Electron apps with additional integrity checks in the form of ASAR Integrity will not work if we change something in the ASAR file and re-sign it again on macOS, as I described in the previous article.