The news comes from this website：http://xingfeng.org/?p=517This site reminds people who buy wallet.dat Bitcoin core wallets from black market, forums and other channels, and forges a wallet.dat wallet, and also provides a download channel for people to read the article to verify.
After downloading the wallet and putting it into the Bitcoin core client, it can be successfully loaded and prompting that 150 bitcoins can be used, but the authors say that these are fake!
After contacting the author, he said that the wallet is fraudulent through special channels. Only professional and technical personnel can identify it. The method of identification is to look at the corresponding version of the wallet code, check the data consistency, time, field, type, structure, It looks very complicated.
Remind everyone to pay attention to this.
I have just analyzed the wallet and it looks legit. (have both synced it with bitcoin core 17.1 and used my own wallet.dat parser to see the balances)
Could add to the fun that its also a very old bitcoin wallet.dat format (uses uncompressed keys) and hashcat 5.1 wont even recognize the hash format from JTR.