I'm going to introduce you to a concept called
Zip Bombing.Zip bomb AKA
decompression bomb or
Zip of death is a malicious archive file designed to crash the program or system reading it.
Rather than hijacking the normal operation of the program, a zip bomb allows the program to work as intended, but the archive is crafted so that unpacking it (e.g. by a virus scanner in order to scan for viruses) requires inordinate amounts of time, disk space and/or memory.
Most modern antivirus programs can detect whether a file is a zip bomb, to avoid unpacking it.
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It is simply a small sized zipped or compressed file that when unpacked, will load out a bigger size of file to fill out the memory of the system running it or if an antivirus software is scanning it, it will make the time to scan it last a long while.Here's a link to the files and documentation on the following zip bombs.
#ZipBomb #Tech
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