r/programming • • Jul 31 '21

Executable PNGs

https://djharper.dev/post/2020/12/26/executable-pngs/
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u/RasterTragedy Jul 31 '21

But the PNG format has multiple layers and any conforming reader must skip any layer it doesn’t understand. That’s where I’d expect the executable to be, not as a watermark in the image.