Hackers have been stuffing seemingly innocuous LNK files with malware, invisible to users, and Microsoft has been reluctant to plug this hole. In November, the tech company released a silent patch ...

The Emotet botnet is now using Windows shortcut files (.LNK) containing PowerShell commands to infect victims computers, moving away from Microsoft Office macros that are now disabled by default. The ...

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Forensic investigators use LNK shortcut files to recover metadata about recently accessed files, including files deleted after the time of access. In a recent investigation, FireEye Mandiant ...

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A Zero-Day Vulnerability in the Display of LNK Files in Windows became known at the end of August this year. Microsoft currently plans no fix and does not classify it as highly risky, unlike Trend ...

We've had a site that's got infected (source unknown) with a virus which replaces all .xls/.doc/.ppt office files on network drives with shortcuts (.lnk) to a thumbs.db2 virus, which then subsequently ...

This is a fork of lnkfile available here. Can be used as a package or as a command line tool. It accepts several arguments, including setting the output format to JSON or a more human-readable form.