Didier Stevens

Tuesday 18 July 2017

.ISO Files With Zone.Identifier

Filed under: maldoc,Malware — Didier Stevens @ 22:20

An .iso file downloaded from the Internet (thus with a Zone.Identifier ADS) opened in Windows 10 will not propagate this “mark-of-the-web” to the contained files.

Here is an example with file demo.iso, marked as downloaded from the Internet:

When this file is opened (double-clicked), it is mounted as a drive (E: in this example), and we see the content (a Word document: demo.docx):

This file is not marked as downloaded from the Internet:

Word does not open it in Protected View:

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