A zip bomb is a malicious archive file designed to crash or disable a system by overwhelming its resources during decompression.
Based on available information, "BigBoobyzip" appears to be a specific instance of a (also known as a "decompression bomb"). What is a Zip Bomb? BigBoobyzip
: When unzipped, it expands into an enormous amount of data—sometimes reaching petabytes (thousands of terabytes)—which exhausts the computer's RAM and storage space. A zip bomb is a malicious archive file
: Modern antivirus software and operating systems are generally better at detecting these files before they are opened by scanning the headers for suspicious compression ratios. : When unzipped, it expands into an enormous
: Never download or attempt to unzip archives from untrusted sources, even if they appear very small.
: The most famous example, which appears as 42 KB but expands to 4.5 petabytes.