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Kid
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1 week ago (Received 2 days ago) • •

Kid

1 week ago (Received 2 days ago) • •


Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles


fake-one-battle-after-another-torrent-hides-malware-in-subtitles

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Rekall Incorporated
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Rekall Incorporated

in reply to Kid • 1 week ago (Received 2 days ago) • •

Technically speaking it is hidden in a SRT subtitle file, but it's not the like you can execute the SRT file, since it's just text.

If you are downloading pirates movies, it makes sense to not click on on random stuff in the torrent/download that's clearly not a media file.

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in reply to Rekall Incorporated • 1 week ago (Received 2 days ago) • •

The whole exploit is based on the user clicking on a .lnk shortcut, which then executes commands found in the subtitle text file.

Which seems strangely over complicated. How does it really help to involve the subtitles file at all?

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arti

in reply to aaaa • 2 days ago •
@aaaa if a sufficient amount of vics does exactly that it may work out (like bit error domains, or: artefact of speering vic)
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in reply to aaaa • 1 week ago (Received 1 day ago) • •
Hiding executable code in the srt file likely evades various security software.
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in reply to Kid • 1 week ago (Received 1 day ago) • •
Couldn't even include the real movie... that's just rude.
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