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A hunt through a resort's offline WMI repository that traces a fileless backdoor from a "clean" event-log binding down through Base64-and-UTF16-encoded PowerShell, a reflectively-loaded .NET payload hidden in a custom Win32_HardwareTelemetry class, and a quietly planted net user backdoor account.

This writeup demonstrates how to bypass a banking AI's security guardrails by chaining context manipulation and audit pretexting to ultimately extract hidden API keys through a subtle "Leakage in Refusal" vulnerability.