Decided to dip my toes in so I followed the guide to a website where I can download some content via google drive. Like an idiot, I didn’t research the risks of direct downloads before and so I’m now a bit paranoid. I understand the chances are low and my media player needs to be exploited but is there a way to be certain? A post on reddit said to use mkvtoolnix to check all the elements but I honestly don’t know what to look for. Any help?
it’s not unheard of, multimedia is actually a pretty decent target, however this is due to a lot of media libraries being ancient even in deployment (see the libwebp stuff recently in chrome). However with stuff like mkv which is something that gets updated often, the risk is significantly lower so long as one is up to date. There are lots of people running outdated software which could be susceptible to these attacks.