For some days, I collected a few samples of malicious MSI files. MSI files are Windows installer files that users can execute to install software on a Microsoft Windows system. Of course, you can replace “software” with “malware”. MSI files look less suspicious and they could bypass simple filters based on file extensions like “(com|exe|dll|js|vbs|…)”. They also look less dangerous because they are Composite Document Files:
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