Making a Trojan file for Mac OS

David Artykov
Purple Team
Published in
5 min readMay 6, 2021

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Although Trojan Horses aren’t as popular on Mac OS as they are on Windows, that doesn’t mean Mac users aren’t vulnerable to these types of attacks.

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In the computer world, a Trojan Horse is a potentially dangerous form of malware that masquerades as something useful in order to be installed or downloaded into a computer device. If the Trojan software is installed, it begins to carry out its true intent, which is to carry out malicious activities that jeopardize the system’s overall security. If your Mac is compromised with a Trojan Horse, the software can do everything from install other viruses or malware to give a hacker full remote control of your device.

Although Trojan Horses aren’t as popular on Mac OS as they are on Windows, that doesn’t mean Mac users aren’t vulnerable to these types of attacks.

In this particular tutorial, we will show you how to make a Trojan file for the Mac OS device. For this purpose, we will use a PDF file “ESET_Trends_Report_2019.pdf” that we downloaded from the internet and a malicious file that we have created before. For those who don’t know how to create a malicious backdoor, please refer to the following article below.

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