By placing malicious content inside a RAR or ZIP archive , attackers can often hide executable viruses from basic real-time antivirus scans until the file is actually extracted.
Downloading and interacting with suspicious archives presents several critical risks: Maritime Cybersecurity Assessment and Annex Guide (MCAAG)
In some cases, specially crafted archives exploit vulnerabilities in software like WinRAR (e.g., CVE-2025-8088 ) to execute code automatically when the file is merely opened, rather than waiting for a user to run an internal program. Security Risks
By placing malicious content inside a RAR or ZIP archive , attackers can often hide executable viruses from basic real-time antivirus scans until the file is actually extracted.
Downloading and interacting with suspicious archives presents several critical risks: Maritime Cybersecurity Assessment and Annex Guide (MCAAG)
In some cases, specially crafted archives exploit vulnerabilities in software like WinRAR (e.g., CVE-2025-8088 ) to execute code automatically when the file is merely opened, rather than waiting for a user to run an internal program. Security Risks