zip virus

zip bomb


A zip bomb, also known as a Zip of Death, is a malicious archive file designed to crash

or render useless the program or system reading it. It is often used by virus writers to

disable antivirus software, so that a more traditional virus sent afterwards could get into

system undetected. A zip bomb is usually a small file (up to a few hundred kilobytes) for

ease of transport and to avoid suspicion. However, when the file is unpacked its

contents are more than the system can handle.You can make your own zip bomb to

annoy your friends or just out of curiosity (or wilderness) to experiment with it. Make

sure you don’t detonate it on yourself.

Here is how to make your own Zip of Death

Create a new text file in notepad, name it a.txt

Open and type the null character (alt + 255) in it.

Now press Ctrl + A then Ctrl + V a couple times to make some null bytes.If u have a hex

editor,then make the hex 00 for about 50 kilobytes.

Now make several copies of a.txt in the same directory and name them accordingly.

Open Command prompt and navigate to the folder containing a.txt . Type:

copy /b *.txt b.txt

This will write all the contents of a.text and its copies into a new text file called

b.txt,hence making every copy is a super copy. Repeat the above steps from the

beginning again and again to make a really big text file.

Once u have a nice empty big text file like 1gb or more,then compress it using Winrar or

Winzip into a zip file.

You will find that it will be compressed to very small size (about 1MB ). It is because of

the simple construction of the file as the text file contains 1gb of null bytes.

For added fun,open the compressed zip file file into a hex editor. You will see a bunch

of hex 5555.Just add some more and the file will expand amazingly.

Make sure that YOU DONT OPEN THIS afterwards.

Thanks Is Appreciated.