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What does a WhatsApp .enc file contain, apart from its media? The report describes it as a "downloader", but that doesn't make a lot of sense. Are they suggesti
by jml7c5 7y ago
What does a WhatsApp .enc file contain, apart from its media? The report describes it as a "downloader", but that doesn't make a lot of sense. Are they suggesting the .enc file is malformed, such that when WhatsApp tries to parse it (or when creating it), some security flaw in WhatsApp allows arbitrary code execution? (I.e., .enc files in general are not "downloaders".)
- mirimir 7y agoSo maybe this involves a WhatsApp 0day? If it's something that's been fixed since May 2018, then the malicious .enc file would either not work, or work normally. One thinks that such possibilities could be explored in a suitable test environment.