: By forcing an antivirus engine to scan a zip bomb, attackers can keep the security software "busy" or crash it entirely, creating a window of opportunity to slip real malware onto the system unnoticed.
The name "Rabbits" is a nod to the "Rabbit Virus" or "fork bomb" logic of the 1970s, where a program would continuously replicate itself—much like breeding rabbits—until the host computer’s memory and processing power were completely consumed. How It Works: Recursive Compression
The "magic" behind Rabbits.rar lies in . Instead of just one giant file, the archive contains several layers of nested zip files. The top level contains 10 zip files. Each of those contains another 10 zip files.