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Re: Is it dangerous to load other people's wallet files in the Bitcoin client?
by
LoyceV
on 19/04/2020, 12:15:45 UTC
⭐ Merited by Csmiami (1)
I read the answer to your question a year and a half ago:
As an aside, it is not safe to use potentially malicious wallet.dat files.  Anyone who gets sent a wallet.dat from a third party should take great care in using it. I would not be shocked if it were possible to get arbitrary code execution from a wallet.dat file.  If a bad guy found a way to do that the best way to exploit that discovery would be to pose as someone who corrupted their wallet and encourages people to try to 'scam' them by getting a copy of their wallet or help them with a promise of an outsized reward.
Gmaxwell is a Bitcoin core developer so he knows what he's talking about.