Talk:1247: The Mother of All Suspicious Files

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LNK and ZDA...Link and Zelda? 76.64.65.200 13:43, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

http://www.ip-tracker.org/locator/ip-lookup.php?ip=65.222.202.53, some place in the USA. Looks random, but still...

The IP address 65.222.202.53 geolocates to a Starbucks just outside the beltway in Washington. DC.

Someone mentioned you see the word Hackers as well as a pirated movie... In fact the pirated movie is the 1995 movie named Hackers. Edited it to make the reference clear. -- Sonofaresiii (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I am missing DMG or other "Mac" suspect executable -- 145.64.134.242 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

WRBT.OBJ.O.H WhiteRabbit.obj from Jurassic Park. Not sure about the O.H Andym (talk) 14:56, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Fixed .O.H - these are file extensions with C compilers and C headers, respectively.BlackHatm


.tar.gz stands for tarred and gzipped (archive) files; here .co. was introduced to make it look like a domain name .obj can also be a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocatable_Object_Module_Format cia-bin is a play on cgi-bin Sebastian --178.26.118.249 15:06, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

After the reference to the FBI in the (currently) final paragraph I was thinking of adding something like the following:

This would also 'explain' the initial directory structure of "/PUB/CIA-BIN/ETC", something like an FTP /pub/ directory for publicly open files, and conflating the CIA with /cgi-bin/ as a somewhat common location for dynamic web-pages, then /etc/ which is another Linux/Unix directory reference, strangely stored underneath a doubley-referenced 'tilde' directory, what with ~foo as the root directory generally redirecting to the home directory for user "foo". These are all usually lower-case (and case-sensitive), but if the INIT.DLL has anthing to do with it it might mean it's an uppercase-dominated and yet actually case-insensitive Windows-based system, with that Windows Dynamically Linked Library as a dynamic responder.

...but I've rushed that and it looks messy/may have errors in it, so feel free to clean it up if it inspires you. Or not... 178.98.215.19 16:34, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

I think [SCR] actually refers to a screener. -- 83.160.118.125 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~) > Agreed. The capitalization and brackets are the standard formatting in pirated movie titles, and before a movie release, Screeners (much better quality than theater cams) are excellent bait on fake downloads. Updated in the wiki.

Of course, if the user is on Windows, the only extension that matters is the last one which is ".exe" - an executable. Hax (talk) 16:43, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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