Just a test thread

[Ninurta]

How odd.
There is - or was - an alleged backup file that was supposedly a gzip file, but it was not.. It was a text file with a .gz file extension. It is tiny, about 1k, and would not unzip because it wasn't a zip archive. So I opened it in a test editor, and presto! Just a file of code text.

it contains the following code:

-- MyBB Database Backup
-- Generated: 07th March 2021 at 03:17
-- -------------------------------------

CREATE TABLE `mybbk5_adminlog` (
  `uid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `ipaddress` varbinary(16) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `dateline` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `module` varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `action` varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `data` text NOT NULL,
  KEY `module` (`module`,`action`),
  KEY `uid` (`uid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

An interesting subset of data to export to it's own table file - Just the User ID,s, their IP addresses, and unspecified "data".
Why would a text file claim to be a zipped file unless it was trying to hide?

That's a good question and I wonder if '3:17' as the time it was generated is relevant?
I have no idea what it means (ignorance of coding), but could you offer a suggestion?

"03:17" is 3:17 in the morning, but I don't know which time zone it would be in - whether the zone for the local server where the file was generated, UTC, or some other time zone - for example, the time zone of whomever generated the file.

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