Very odd copy / paste

[GunsForBucks]

Had a QR code I was pasting into a document in LibreOffice for a business card.

What I got pasted was a 5 page document of Chinese characters.

It is in a bunch of different dialects.. general translate was Woo and two characters.

Cantonese it started with an odd sentence then went all character.
Chinese Simplified another part was readable Noise<symbol>mulberry war<multiple char>cut<multiple characters>forced<multiple characters>Zhuanghis<multiple characters>Vice beer <stuff> Qio Wei's secret <stuff>
then it goes into a strange kind of repetition, made me think some weird mind control stuff or something IDK
The 1984 Winter Olympics was exciting and exciting event for Chinese People, <then repeats> It was very exciting and exciting event for the Chinese people. In this case, the patient will be diagnosed with leukemia, and the patient will be diagnosed with leukemia. This is not the first time we have ever seen a person like me in a private room. We have never seen a person like me in a private room before. The more you enjoy the flowers, the more you enjoy the flowers. In this regard,the number of tourists visiting Taiwan is increasing, the number of tourists visiting Taiwan is increasing. The 3D model of the fake 3D model is a model of the real 3D model. The concrete structure is made of cast-in-place concrete, which contains a lot of concrete. The concrete <repeat>. The 100 most common types of eczema are :in the eyes of many people, I have always loved you. The first step is to make the first step of the first step. Shen Nuo's company has a 30 day average income of 100 million yuan. I picked up the phone and it was like a monkey. I saw the monkeys play the monkey. The 3D scanning machine was used to scan the screen of the patient's face, and the scanning machine was used to scan the patient's face. In the future the development of the coal industry will continue to accelerate, and <repeat>

WTF is that all about?
Some weird code? Some subliminal advertising? What ?

That went on for pages... that was only the first bit of the first page.

Interesting way to hide messages by tricking the AI translator like that though. Very strange.
Got a weird message my IP changed for no reason.. did malware and virus checks but IDK

[dyinggg]

looks like one of those strange websites you find on page 100 on google with just a bunch of random jibberish

[Steve]

It was probably just a transcript for one of those old "Learn Chinese in a half-hour" audio cassettes.

[St✩rlight]

Could almost make for a good creepypasta but trying a bit too hard. Started off quite well with the winter Olympics but started overdoing it so it was a bit too obvious and not very spooky. It started off quite spooky though.

[GunsForBucks]

But how on earth did it get on my clipboard to be pasted into a document?

I had pasted the QR code previously.. I did check a web address but it was from a bookmarked link and I don't think I copied it at the time.

This just came out of left field.

Google translate was useless but translate.google at least saw the Cantonese language first that I deleted to pick up the rest of it.

[GunsForBucks]

Messaggio originale di Starlight:

Could almost make for a good creepypasta but trying a bit too hard. Started off quite well with the winter Olympics but started overdoing it so it was a bit too obvious and not very spooky. It started off quite spooky though.

Is that really a thing?
Ghost in the machine thing?

[Morkonan]

Messaggio originale di GunsForBucks:

But how on earth did it get on my clipboard to be pasted into a document?

I had pasted the QR code previously.. I did check a web address but it was from a bookmarked link and I don't think I copied it at the time.

This just came out of left field.

Google translate was useless but translate.google at least saw the Cantonese language first that I deleted to pick up the rest of it.

Your computer may have been zombiefied...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

Disconnect from the 'net, run deep anitvirus scans, preferably in safe mode if possible. You may need to run an "online scan" too, in case your AV is being intercepted/blocked.

(Barring someone else having access to your system or you currently working in a networked environment with an administrator who is playing tricks on you...)

[GunsForBucks]

Next section it picked up traditional but only a few words spaced by characters

emergence... wedge.... sit and sing the..halo....Hard and fast...twist...Jue...Apply for effect...clear 50..cyano....mastiff.....hui....PK.....Epilepsy....Cut .... lang Ohya.....gnawpe....What's coming....MNiao ringworm... accumulates to find... clip... Dirty Soil...fold....cha...suo....rose...jun...SET...idal....lose.....materials...TA...Donate Jian....chu...charge...50vomit....When..Deputy....executive turbidity.

[GunsForBucks]

Messaggio originale di Morkonan:

Messaggio originale di GunsForBucks:

But how on earth did it get on my clipboard to be pasted into a document?

I had pasted the QR code previously.. I did check a web address but it was from a bookmarked link and I don't think I copied it at the time.

This just came out of left field.

Google translate was useless but translate.google at least saw the Cantonese language first that I deleted to pick up the rest of it.

Your computer may have been zombiefied...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

Disconnect from the 'net, run deep anitvirus scans, preferably in safe mode if possible. You may need to run an "online scan" too, in case your AV is being intercepted/blocked.

(Barring someone else having access to your system or you currently working in a networked environment with an administrator who is playing tricks on you...)

It's on its own network isolated from other computers.. you may be right I'll have to check.

I did the offline scan already and it picked up nothing, I'll try again though.

[Morkonan]

Messaggio originale di GunsForBucks:

It's on its own network isolated from other computers.. you may be right I'll have to check.

I did the offline scan already and it picked up nothing, I'll try again though.

If it's on a network that has other devices on that network, it's not "isolated."

Air-gap it. Unplug the network cable, disable the router's WiFi or, preferably, turn off the modem/router.

The problem is that a QR scan shouldn't include readable text you didn't type.

It is possible, though, that something you were using interpreted that QR code as a command to identify a linked site and, at the farthest reaches of the potentially possibly weird, copied the text from the header or body of text on that site or just copied the descriptive text from a websearch or some crap... for some crazy reason. Hey, I'm reaching hard, here. :)

Unexpected behavior is never good. This behavior of copy/paste means that something is making its way onto your clipboard/reserved volatile memory space without you specifically having put it there.

If it's not a virus/malware, then you have to answer - What did I or the program do to put that text into that reserved memory space?

Edit: Update - It seems that copy/pasting character sets that do not contain certain font tables can result in "weirdness." IF that is pasted "as text," or so the program thinks, then gibberish would be the expected result. Just not translatable gibberish unless, maybe, some AI "assistant" is borking out on you.

It could be that your program interpreted the QR code as "text" and is trying to interpret and paste gibberish. HOWEVER, IMO. that would not likely result in translatable "words." That the words include Chinese place-names/subjects further leans me to the idea that you're playing with a zombied rig. Unless you wrote such things at some point and there's a very weird issue with your PC.

[GunsForBucks]

Messaggio originale di Morkonan:

Messaggio originale di GunsForBucks:

It's on its own network isolated from other computers.. you may be right I'll have to check.

I did the offline scan already and it picked up nothing, I'll try again though.

If it's on a network that has other devices on that network, it's not "isolated."

Air-gap it. Unplug the network cable, disable the router's WiFi or, preferably, turn off the modem/router.

The problem is that a QR scan shouldn't include readable text you didn't type.

It is possible, though, that something you were using interpreted that QR code as a command to identify a linked site and, at the farthest reaches of the potentially possibly weird, copied the text from the header or body of text on that site or just copied the descriptive text from a websearch or some crap... for some crazy reason. Hey, I'm reaching hard, here. :)

Unexpected behavior is never good. This behavior of copy/paste means that something is making its way onto your clipboard/reserved volatile memory space without you specifically having put it there.

If it's not a virus/malware, then you have to answer - What did I or the program do to put that text into that reserved memory space?

Edit: Update - It seems that copy/pasting character sets that do not contain certain font tables can result in "weirdness." IF that is pasted "as text," or so the program thinks, then gibberish would be the expected result. Just not translatable gibberish unless, maybe, some AI "assistant" is borking out on you.

It could be that your program interpreted the QR code as "text" and is trying to interpret and paste gibberish. HOWEVER, IMO. that would not likely result in translatable "words." That the words include Chinese place-names/subjects further leans me to the idea that you're playing with a zombied rig. Unless you wrote such things at some point and there's a very weird issue with your PC.

I have two IPs into the house.

This is on one and it uses another.
I also keep both in airplane mode and only plug in the cable when I want to be online.

So it is totally isolated on it's own IP on its own network with one switch between the router source.. nothing else on the switch.

This machine is connected to the other IP with its own address. My cable company is awesome.. I guess military base near by wanted two IPs for security purposes so everyone gets two IPs.

I don't know any Chinese and wouldn't go to a site with it. Leaning toward zombie myself even if nothing is showing up.

I had a free "real time protection" forced on me from malware bytes and it seemed to be catching stuff. I wasn't sure if they were doing it to get me to buy. This happened not long after I let the free trial version expire.

[GunsForBucks]

Odd just looking up zombie. I have always stayed on top of firewalls ect.
The shadiest place I have been on the web on that machine was LinkedIn I even steered away from Facebook. Using it for a certain project, so it's more of a work machine. Use Amazon on it.

Well I have backups so a wipe isn't bad anyway.