Notes tagged topic/polyglots (1)

I realized that it was possible to create polyglot files1 when I searched for the details of the structure of a zip file (Archived) and found that the file header in this case is at the end of the file, and thus can easily coexist within an executable file, whose headers are usually at the start.

Footnotes

  1. Files that are valid in more than one format. For example, a file may be both a valid ZIP and a valid PDF (Archived).