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technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Can a .torrent file be a virus or malware by itself?

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Can a .torrent file be a virus or malware by itself?

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technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Firefox gave me a warning about a .torrent file I downloaded; I deleted the file and didn’t open it in qBittorrent

I gave a quick scan of my PC after I deleted it with malwarebytes and Avira but neither found anything

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If there’s malicious data in the file that triggers a vulnerability in a torrent client then maybe. Depends on how the client responds and if that response can be exploited.

Example of a torrent file causing a crash:

https://github.com/mavlevin/uTorrent-CVE-2020-8437

https://mavlevin.com/2020/09/20/utorrent-cve-2020-8437-vulnerability-and-exploit-overview

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