Compressed archives like .rar are frequently used by attackers to hide malicious payloads and evade initial detection by some antivirus software.

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: A RAR file is not dangerous while sitting on your drive, but it can contain executables, scripts, or vulnerable drivers that become active once extracted.

: Recent campaigns have used crafted RAR files to exploit vulnerabilities (such as CVE-2023-38831 ) to execute arbitrary code or harvest credentials.