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Summary
Objective-See's analyst reverse-engineered how macOS Launch Services handles "document handlers," using the Mac File Opener adware as a case study. The malware abuses CFBundleDocumentTypes registrations in its Info.plist to claim default handling of common file types, so it launches when a user opens a matching file, a persistence method that…