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by tinus_hn 1897 days ago
This sounds like the ‘this virus evades detection by hiding in a jpeg, until you manually extract it using this tool!’ stories we got 10 years ago.
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I think there were cases where that was used to bypass some naive upload filters in conjunction with a back end that would detect and try to handle the attached/hidden malware.