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> As somebody else mentioned - this is a great honeypot opportunity! By serving malicious builds based on referer and user-agent, they might be able to gather r
by throwaway7767 11y ago
> As somebody else mentioned - this is a great honeypot opportunity! By serving malicious builds based on referer and user-agent, they might be able to gather really interesting data.
They said the malware used no referer header and changing user-agent. If the user-agent were useful to segment these downloads from others, they most likely would have refused downloads based on that, because by renaming the file like they did, they're breaking build scripts for lots of downstream projects.
There's also the ethical issue of breaking into others machines, even if it's "for a good cause".
- oxplot 11y agoDaniel mentions in the comments [1] that this is a binary build and implies that it's not meant to be hotlinked to. [1]: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/16/the-most-popular-curl-download-by-a-malware/comment-page-1/#comment-17535 http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/16/the-most-popular-curl-...