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PSA/HOWTO: Avoid fake mkv torrents. Avoid getting hacked (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by American_Jesus@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

Go to Options -> Downloads
Enable "Exclude file names"
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

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

.lnk files are less than 4kb

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 month ago

That would seem suspicious. I'm sure they have some way to pad out the size.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Anyone paying attention to size would probably also notice they're just .lnk files.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago

Not necessarily. Even with "hide extensions" unchecked, Windows hides the .lnk extension by default; it just shows an arrow in the bottom-right corner of the icon, which is plausibly missed when in the list view. I'm surprised antivirus doesn't know about it already tbh.