Malignant.7z ((exclusive)) Jun 2026

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However, threat actors discovered that nesting archives inside one another caused older versions of 7-Zip to fail to propagate the MotW tag to extracted files. As reported by researchers tracking campaigns like SmokeLoader , an extracted script inside a malignant .7z archive could execute with zero security warnings, treating the payload as a trusted, locally created file. 2. Arbitrary Directory Traversal (CVE-2025-11001) LZMA SDK (Software Development Kit) - 7-Zip treating the payload as a trusted