There are some torrrents showing up with .lnkextension (ex: movie.mp3.lnk, tvshow.mkv.lnk…) and automated software (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, qBittorrent RSS Downloader) could pick those torrents (but not import).
These (fake) torrents include a .lnk file that executes a script on your Windows
HOW TO exclude from download on qBittorrent.
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Go to Options -> Downloads
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Enable “Exclude file names”
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Add patterns:
(one by line)
*.mp4.lnk
*.mp3.lnk
*.mkv.lnk
*.torrent.lnk
Or exclude all together: *.lnk
Example on VirusTotal https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e74f64df6ebaf3a1b6e3f42591eb6e87d2ac2828eb5a99fd8d3d82c140137fc9/detection
What if it executes and install Windows 11 on your machine!?
Oh lord please have mercy! Blacklisting the file extension right now!
That would be the very worst malware. I mean both the malware that installed it and win11…
ackshually the proprietary .lnk shortcut format can only be run on windows 🤓
A Linux executable can’t be named ending on .lnk? 🤔🤔
But its not lnk but an executable that needs to be excecuted manually?
Making such a polyglot that can run on both systems requires much more effort for little gain.