[kstrauser]

Not directly answering your questions, but I just wanted to say: Great instincts!

You saw something unusual, then

1. Stopped what you were doing.

2. Investigated to see if this was legitimate or malicious.

3. Identified a place to asked others about it.

4. Formulated a good question with enough background information to help people answer it.

All around good job! Well done.

[paulyy_y]

5. Put the malicious payload directly into work AI system.

"Great instincts!" lmao

[kstrauser]

I do this literally several times a week. “Hey Droid, this looks like malware. What do you make of it?”

It’s the best sandbox I have near at hand for investigating things like that.

[SirFatty]

5. Paste the entire command on HN so the aspiring script kiddies have a launching point. 6. ? 7. Profit!

[kstrauser]

What’s the Venn diagram of 1) HN users, 2) on Windows, 3) willing to paste something tagged as malware into their own systems to verify?

Given that the asker isn’t experienced enough to know for sure, erring on the side of giving all the information was the right call. If they didn’t, someone would be riding them about “how are we suppose to know if you don’t show us?”.

[SirFatty]

I guess it's ok then.