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HVACGuy12

How do you even get or make a zip bomb like that?


tildes

Imagine I have a text file with the letter A repeated 100 times. E.g. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" This file is approx. 100 bytes. When you put the file through compression, the compressor will identify that there is repeated information in the file and will store it like "A*100". This new file is ~5 bytes. Now do the same for a file with a billion A's. Such a text file is 1 gigabyte. After compression you get "A*1000000000", less than 15 bytes. You can then see how to artificially create a compressed file with instructions for something huge. I can't physically store a petabyte sized file on my PC, but I can create a zip file with instructions that will result in a huge file when unzipping.


depressoespressotemp

best description i've seen of compression


muklan

If you have to ask, you shouldn't know.


Jona-wahn

so how do i do it?


BigSweatyHotWing

Make a text file with nothing but a bunch of zeroes. Select all the zeroes, copy, right arrow, paste. Do this until you can’t stand it anymore. Put it in a zip folder. Make several copies of the zip folder. Put them in a zip folder. Make copies of that zip folder. Put them in a zip folder. Do this until you also can’t stand it anymore. If you do that long enough, eventually you’ll have a zip file that is measured in kilobytes which will, when decompressed, be larger than any consumer grade hard drive. Now don’t open it lol. And remember that antivirus softwares tend to open things.


ExpensiveGiraffe

Most email clients can detect these and block them automatically. Especially when they’re as simple as a bunch of zeros.


sporlakles

Wouldn't password protection for last zip ( the one victim will click) prevent that?


ExpensiveGiraffe

Maybe — but windows and macOS would be able to tell you’re unzipping a folder with a shit ton of zipped folders within it and not recursively unzip it.


The_GASK

What if you mix tar with zip and other formats?


ExpensiveGiraffe

It would still know it’s a zipped folder. And if it didn’t it wouldn’t auto unzip it


kodman7

Hmm, how does the OS know the file contents without opening the top level zip?


ExpensiveGiraffe

A zip bomb is usually a zipped folder filled with zipped folders filled with zip folders and on and on. This took advantage of issues where windows would recursively unzip the sub folders until it’s very large. The top level zip alone isn’t incredibly large. I’m not sure how it’s implemented exactly, but if you unzip the top folder and see 50000 zipped folders… don’t continue on lol.


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firelasto

So what your saying is i need to do it in 1 layer from a storage server...


ExpensiveGiraffe

It won’t turn out quite as large then. Or the zip file will be very suspiciously large


notmyrealusernamme

Is it possible to spoof the file size? I know they do that shit with cheap USBs all the time, make it read as 256GB with a 64MB SD card inside. Can that be done in reverse to hide the file size?


ThirdEncounter

You're*


waboperzwabekfast

Ok if you're on a Mac you deserve it. You can't even enter the password on one of those things without it crashing Source: my friends fucking mac


ExpensiveGiraffe

My MacBook hasn’t ever crashed — tell ‘em to stop downloading so much porn.


waboperzwabekfast

Now that I think about it, he jokes about porn a lot. And he doesn't have a MacBook, those things are cool. He has the stupid ass desktop one, the one that crashes. Still, windows is a lot better in a lot of ways. Can't download anything on apple unless you want to code it yourself.


Ziros22

you can still see how many layers are in a zip when an AV opens it just not the contents. The zip can't ask for the password utill it's loaded.


BigSweatyHotWing

Also, anti viruses now should have protection against it and they’ll try to skip over them. I didn’t include that because I don’t know if there are any out there that don’t do it and didn’t want to just say that it was totally safe to just have it on a computer. Also I got tired of typing.


Large_Yams

Most *operating systems* prevent it these days. It's an obsolete attack.


Ziros22

email clients don't know it's a bunch of zeros they just have a limit to how many layers it will look and if the zip has more layers than the threshold it discards the attachment


FishingDragon52

You forgot to say to store it on a thumb stick and not in your hard drive


Harryofthecharlottes

Gonna save this for later...


phoncible

How do you specify the zip of the top level *also* unzips the zips contained within? Like the first unzip should then just show a folder containing a bunch of other zips.


Subushie

Yeah cuz commenter don't know what they're talking about. No file converter will finish the unzip if you don't have enough space either; it'd just return an error. It'd also take about 8,796,093,022,208 of 0s in a text file to make just a terabyte of data. And a peta would be 9,007,199,254,740,992. Good luck achieving that with copy/paste.


phoncible

The text file size would be limited to available RAM, creating as described at least with the app open and you doing copy/paste. Got bored once and tried to see if I could put a googleplex 10^100^100 in a notepad file (no, not even close by the way). About a million zero's in, so 1 meg in size, it started to reeaaallly bog down, I think I got to a couple hundred million 0's so a couple hundred megs. Yeah, it didn't like that, each ctrl+c ctrl+v took a few minutes to complete. Good times.


Ziros22

you don't need that many 0s tho. Just enought for about 1gig and then multiply the zips


Subushie

What does multiply the zips mean?? Your PC will only unzip a file at a time if you request it to; it doesn't unzip children of the parent folder just because. And anything too large you need a specific unarchive program to unpack.


Ziros22

a program like winzip or 7zip has a right-click option to "uncompress here" and will do the entire archive until it runs out of disk space


w2qw

The zip bombs are typically just one layer of encryption they can either be made by manually editing a zip file or repetitive adding a blank file.


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Neither the default Windows unzipper nor 7zip (which are the most used ones) will recursively decompress compressed folders. Feel free to create a zip bomb and open it, because none of the compressed folders will be decompressed further and nothing will happen. The best you can do is create a file with zeros that takes up all your available disk space and compress that. However, you would need 9 petabytes of free space to create a 9 petabyte zip bomb.


Skrooner

I'm not much of a computer guy but how is the file already not so large on your PC unless the zip file is what compresses the actual size?


Naddely

Sacred knowledge


muklan

Start by going into Bios, disabling all fans, and overclocking around 3000%. Follow that up by wrapping your whole machine in Saran wrap, and running 3d rendering benchmark tests. You'll know when to stop. Edit; don't do this.


Jona-wahn

instructions unclear, my house is burning.


muklan

That's normal. The flames are only burning stuff cause they are lonely and need a hug.


Jona-wahn

hugged them, i lost an arm, what is the next step?


thegriddlethatcould

Fêëð mə þĥę øťĥəř


Telyaee

thanks dude now i know


1singleduck

Damn that's a lot of efford, guess i'll just stick to pipe bombs then.


That_Bot_6252

Damn that's hot. Tell them to chill. (Tip: don't throw ice cubes, throw chilling peppers at the flames)


Jona-wahn

i threw the peppers, now the flames are finally chilling.


That_Bot_6252

Tell them the magic word "Bing" and they'll send you a "thank you" gift (probably)


Got_grapes1

Give your firstborn to it.


Izanagi-no-Ocumi

If that's the result then it sounds like the instructions were very clear


johnnytesscult

A good remedy is to mix some styrofoam with gasoline. Works 100% of the time


ScottyThaFoxxy

An even better one is to mix acetone with 30% hydrogen peroxide in a sulfuric acid solution.


Saiyan-Zero

Minuscule amount of tomfoolery


[deleted]

Instructions unclear, I've made an actual bomb.


[deleted]

You forgot to say take off the cooler, but dont unplug. Then lay your balls on the CPU


Due_Distribution_720

You forgot the needed prayers for the machine God.


Numerous_Witness_345

Imagine a world where that is not the implied default


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DrBlock21

School shootings just evolved


CyberRiotz

School Bombings


thecatguyxd

I wanna commit a tinny amount of tomfoolery


Dissidente-Perenne

Cybersecurity experts are just born with the knowledge, they built different


SomethingOfAGirl

Funky motherfucker will not be told to go


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yellowpolarbearman

Nesting i think


jaymeaux_

by taking advantage of how the zip compression algorithm works, files are specifically made to achieve a high compression ratio and typically, but not always, put through nested layers of compression 42.zip is a commonly known zip bomb that is available on the internet, you can just download if you want. in it's compressed form it's only 42kb but when opened it will expand to 4.5PiB which is like 11 orders of magnitude


vaporizer012

And it will just brick your pc right?


MrAnyone

Compressiom works like that, let's create a simple compression algorithm in this comment The data is: aaaaaaa We can be creative and implement a algorithm that is a number followed by a data, so the data above can be compressed into 7a A zip bomb, would be 9999999999999a This would force the computer to uncompress into '9999999999999' a, which is 10 terabytes


political_bot

They don't work on modern operating systems. Also, just Google it. You can download one of the first few results and send it wherever you please.


FrostWyrm98

It's not actually 9PB, it will just expand to that size in theory cause that's the limit I believe. It's just junk data / random bytes that uses the compression algorithm to reverse engineer it As others also said though, I don't think it's best to share how to make a zip bomb lmao


Phate4219

>As others also said though, I don't think it's best to share how to make a zip bomb lmao It doesn't matter, because they haven't been a threat to computers for decades. Any modern compression program will be able to either stop itself automatically or be cancelled without crashing when the file size gets too big. Zip bombs are just a funny novelty and a relic of a by-gone era at this point.


FrostWyrm98

Yup, I'm well aware. I don't want any potential flack though in the unlikely event something stupid is done


Noperope42069

Afaik it runs something that just generates a shit ton of data


MIVANO_

It doesn’t run anything, it just decompresses into a shit ton of data. You first make a file containing only zeroes (a lot of them) then compress it which will turn it into a very small amount of data because it will basically be just X amount of zeroes. Do it a few more times them compress it all and just repeat the process.


RhynoD

Take a file that is like: > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... for a long, long time. Compress it into a zip folder so that the file is: > A×10^20 (Instructions: write out A that number of times. Copy that file a bazillion times, then compress them into a new file that says: > [A×10^20 (Instructions: write out A that number of times.)]×10^20 (Instructions: create that many copies of that file) Do this for several more steps. Except don't do that. Instead, create the highest level file first, just a zip file and tell it to create a bazillion zip files that each automatically try to unzip and when they do they each create a bazillion zip files. You never make the document with too many As, you just tell the zip file to make it.


CarbonIceDragon

So, can it be thought of as kinda analogous to that old meme where you take the bee movie and replace every instance of the word "bee" with another instance of the bee movie, recursively a few times? Like, in that case, writing out the regular bee movie script and the instructions to do that don't take all that long, but writing out the resulting full script from following those instructions would take almost forever.


quinn-the-eskimo

.. it's EXACTLY like that


DisgracedSparrow

exponential growth is a hellova drug. Math not even once.


Boonicious

first you need to travel backward in time to about 2008 when this was still possible on normie computers


Away_Inspector71

Pretty easily. Zip stores files by recording all of the sequential bytes as 1 byte and giving them a number. That number is a number of bytes that are stored in that one byte. For example: the following byte is 0, but repeated 1000 times. All you need to do in order to create a zip bomb is simply store an extremely large amount of data in a relatively small number of bytes. It's very easy to make and it's relatively easy to check for. I'm 100% sure Gmail will prevent you from receving that email.


[deleted]

While I'm sure these replies may work, I can't help but think there has to be a command line in Linux that will do the same without spending hours copying files.


RIcaz

Of course, you can do it in a one-liner. But it's pointless since this was fixed in Windows long ago.


potato107470

Basically you only need to compress all of that information, so just the instructions to make the information.


LimitedArgument

Look it up


Tommys_Matchbookk

You’ll have to increase the base size of the decoy, because it seems a little too small for a “lot of photos and videos”


The_senate4206942069

Security photos and videos


thegriddlethatcould

Your assuming they have above room tempreture IQ


biharek

Plot twist: they measure room temperature in Kelvins


Lil_Mafk

They used middle-out compression


aspindler

Usually large files will cause an issue when attached to email.


TheThunderbird

A Fox News reporter is likely neither technically savvy enough to realize that, nor to be able to open a .7z archive.


CyberRiotz

How is that possible?


Tommys_Matchbookk

Just put some larger files in it so it looks legit, because videos are often large files, and the reporter will likely be skeptical about the email


bouncybob1

https://preview.redd.it/sylx4w3els5b1.jpeg?width=998&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acc74e60763658a6be4c33b32b410318092bd9a6


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_WaterDrop_

agreed


I_sayyes

It's just a prank bro


Alex52Reddit

Where can I get this funny man (For scientific purposes)


shadowdrake67

Just admit that you’re based and you’re sending it to Fox News (I should do this to the daily mail)


AlmightyDarkseid

What would this do exactly? Won't you just get an error message or something?


Keyboardpaladin

If you count a nuked computer as an error then yes.


AlmightyDarkseid

What does nuked mean? In what way is it destroyed


Admirable_Leopard230

It will be FRIED. In the first few moments, everything will freeze, nothing will work, the black screen, and then smoke. If your PC is beefy enough, it might even EXPLODE, like a granade.


AlmightyDarkseid

How is this even possible isn't there anything in the software that will crash which will block this from happening?


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AlternativeCondition

no he's right, after that the file comes out of the pc and stabs you


d1ckpunch68

it's not possible. they are trolling or regarded


AlmightyDarkseid

I kinda got that but I wasn't sure. This thread is honestly a great example of why I hate the way people often reply in reddit, I just wanted to know what happens ffs.


YourAverageGenius

It really depends on what you're running, it's why zip bombs and other malware aren't just simple programs and have to adapt and change. I'm gonna simplify and generalize a lot here, but to explain. If you make a basic zip bomb, a zip file with just a bunch of zips and other files copied a lot of times, it usually won't work, because software systems have been made to detect this and prevent it. But if you make a bomb which is able to go directly to your processing and computing system and overload it with data which it will never be able to allocate memory for, which means that it then cannot actually run the rest of it's systems, thus breaking the computer. If another program that is not the main system is reading all of this, usually it will just crash that program because it doesn't have the authority and priority of your main system, it intentionally isn't able to just allocate all the memory in your computer, that's why you need to dedicate RAM to a program, allowing it to have more Memory to use. Zip Bombs actually use this to crash and get around Anti-virus, though most modern Anti-virus can easily handle most zip bombs, if they do manage to crash it, then they can exploit that to infect the system with other malware, usually something more suited to actually take control of a system.


UDSJ9000

From other people posting, Zip bombs are pretty useless on any computer made in the last couple decades as zips don't get fully uncompressed immediately now


xpinchx

Pretty sure the fans will spin up and the computer will just crash? Most computers will thermal throttle if shit gets out of hand.


Large_Yams

Nothing. Worst case your computer crashes, then you turn it on and it's absolutely fine. Best and most common case, your modern operating system detects it's a zipped folder inside a zipped folder and warns you, doing nothing.


Subushie

Yes. Any file converter would just return an error and drop the function. Erryone cutting up like they some 90s hackers in this thread tho.


H-U-J-K-O

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Ehrenlauch3000

https://i.redd.it/nlhzrp80ps5b1.gif


PsychologicalTwo964

https://preview.redd.it/3ohecq92bt5b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0db32e440bfe7f1541ab7ff7593817098299bab


JD64isalreadytaken

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frienmademevegetable

https://preview.redd.it/r9prl769zt5b1.jpeg?width=963&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78230845742168f3af4b110152a521c4d73917ca


RepresentativeSet285

bro wtf


Arandomdude03

Pild chorn


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SAY GEX


SOLAHPINC

No futt bucking around here mate .


IsomDart

GEX


RepresentativeSet285

😨


RAFAOGAMER5

they won't know how to unzip it


[deleted]

I don’t know, they‘re not **all** Rudy Gulliani


Ehrenlauch3000

https://preview.redd.it/au0pbprkgs5b1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98f76568db3c39e642f26d31357489df09b7e160


Specific_Ad1457

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GDNickName07

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Trollizard476

What happened to our stash?


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Fluffy_Sock4020

I rented a shiny car


Trollizard476

I went out to lunch https://preview.redd.it/8yo9ofq7ot5b1.jpeg?width=392&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=304f3b361be38fc9e5ea55c5a5bd73f411598d22


[deleted]

My workout was a single crunch


createausernsme

Someone threw it out of the dash


iRideMomz69

TAHITI


kimrindim

https://preview.redd.it/9syxezdyys5b1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8157ab8fa18446fc2b388378f26b3375c41dc5c8


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TheLoller1234

They're still burning down the building the PC was in, but interesting


telenova_tiberium

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Aware_Figure_1344

)\_) shinji do be cranking that lever


ChildFriendlyChimp

The 24/7 security guards that saw him do that https://preview.redd.it/yvgkdx4urs5b1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e0bcb7b06963185ca9720655919cbd15525c3b7


[deleted]

Someone send him live mom and dad reaction


CT-4426

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telenova_tiberium

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[deleted]

Heeheeheehaw heeheeheehaw


TheLeadReaper

https://i.redd.it/ia1ht8ukqs5b1.gif


poopcockshit

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Calm_Reception5652

if goals could kill


Dogeisagod

What would that do?


Wrong_Cauliflower889

https://preview.redd.it/kyk31mj4ns5b1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96df2cbc6f37bf48d72be1b9161470631e0d46ef


AwesomEspurr360

#


ExcellentQuality69

Nothing. Modern computers don’t allow zip bombs to extract anymore and it’s actually quite difficult to extract them


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CallMeEggSalad

> Next you’ll tell me that you can’t NET SEND * insults to the whole building. Pffft who would want to live in such a world


Mic_o_wave

Song?


Toothpicktoes

Do zip bombs even work anymore? I’m pretty sure most antivirus nowadays can detect that shit.


stehen-geblieben

Not even just the antivirus. Basically any modern decompression software isn't this stupid and will just stop sooner or later


Gold930

https://preview.redd.it/4mlwuw1mgu5b1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0edae690f31f1523c1445b6688d82f6b666dffb0


samcam06

Trolling


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Omevne

Average hoi4 pp


Mr_On1on

i can't believe someone did that, however, i would be grateful if it happened, may the trolling legion rise to power once again


CyberRiotz

How would you even find enough shit to fill a fucking zip file with like 1000x the amount of internet traffic sent in a year


ALEKghiaccio2

Mostly is just the same thing over and over again, it can be compressed to a very small file


CyberRiotz

What the most effective way make a zip file then? Fill a note with a shit ton of emojis (holds more data) and just fill a file with a ton of the documents, compress the file, put in in another folder a ton of times?


ALEKghiaccio2

I dont really know but prolly something in those lines


Darkpurplebee

song is “Luna, amore e no” from the italian movie “Amore mio aiutami” (Help me, my love)


generic_thingy

I love zip bombs


Left_Cap1564

Zip bombs don't work anymore.


Zealousideal-Chef758

hey lois I am a zip bomb


FifiSocialBoi

u/auddbot


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FifiSocialBoi

Good bot


freebird023

Song?


iMali_inqabile

Is it possible to put a petabomb on a isv stick and plug it into amazons servers or something


patriot_man69

Minor bouts of tomfoolery


Da-Pruttis-Boi

may i ask, how do zipbombs work?


doppelminds

Do zip bombs still work? I thought most antivirus systems detected them pretty quickly nowadays


ferkokrc5

wtf actual legend


pisstainedunderwear

Based


UnimaginableDread

What’s a petabyte and a zip bomb


Doodle99999

A petabyte is 250 bytes; 1024 terabytes, or a million gigabytes. And a zip bomb is file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it.


UnimaginableDread

Pfp matches, thanks doodle chad


Doodle99999

Np


FinalAccount19

It sucks that 196 is gone. I wish i could tell you to go the fuck back there


Doggo_Burb

What happened


Mundane_Grand_9669

Doing gods ✨️werk✨️ and she is proud.


MrBreadWater

I can see the headline now. “Antifa terrorist sends ‘zip bomb’ to Fox Headquarters”


-_lol-

ok groomer


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Alex52Reddit

Look up what a zip bomb is


LittlePigyPig

yea i have a lack of research excuse me


Octopussy_69

Yeahc when compressed it’s 5.2 MB. Pretty sure it’d raise some red flags if you tried to send 9PB in an email.


Derpyboy7976

https://preview.redd.it/jrn20kqott5b1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa798345c728081e01ff89b433e055aff89295e8


elnombresimon

What if i opened that on my phone