They are bots that use the bot API but connect as a regular user rather than as a bot user. This gives them access to features they should not have, according to the terms of use of the API.
Bot on normal account detection is based on outlier usage statistics from regular accounts, like too many requests or something.
All Ripcord requests (to discord) actually have Ripcord in their User Agent header, discord can immediately detect it's usage, they have not banned anyone for using the software specifically, only for the same reason they have been banning Selfbots (Users ending up spamming the API)