During post-incident analysis, you inspect a sample named Selfie_2025.jpg.exe that a user executed after receiving it by email. When launched, the program opens the expected photograph but also silently unpacks and runs an embedded remote-access Trojan. According to Trojan taxonomy, what kind of program joins a harmless decoy file with concealed malware in one executable?
A wrapper (also called a file binder) is specifically designed to combine a legitimate-looking file-such as an image, document, or installer-with hidden malicious code. When the victim runs the wrapped file, the benign content is displayed to avoid suspicion while the malware is extracted and executed in the background. A dropper's main purpose is to install additional malware but does not necessarily include a visible decoy; a downloader retrieves payloads from the Internet; a packer only compresses or obfuscates a single executable rather than merging two separate files. Therefore, the sample acts as a wrapper Trojan.
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