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I looked at the file size again. 1.2 GB. The official suite was only 980 MB. The extra 220 MB was pure encryption overhead.

But every time the user saved a file named confidential_[anything] , the software didn't just render the image. It steganographically encoded a compressed log of the last five minutes of keyboard input into the alpha channel of the exported PNG.

The icon disappeared from my desktop. But the log entry remained.

File accessed: CorelDRAW-Graphics-Suite-2021-Corporate-v23.5.0.506.dmg CorelDRAW-Graphics-Suite-2021-Corporate-v23.5.0.506.dmg

Somewhere, deep in the abandoned server racks of Floor B7, a virtual machine was running CorelDRAW. It had no monitor. No user. It was just the software, awake in the dark, silently re-compiling its own binaries, waiting for the next .confidential file to save.

Somebody was still maintaining the ghost.

They had been spying on themselves.

I ejected the DMG.

I showed him the "Created" date: 2021-03-15. The "Modified" date: today , 04:00 AM.

It wasn't a graphics suite.

I double-clicked the DMG.

Action: None. It’s already inside the firewall.