Glossary
Shell Link
Microsoft's name for the binary structure stored inside a Windows .lnk shortcut, documented in the MS-SHLLINK specification.
Shell Link is the official Microsoft term for the data structure inside a
Windows .lnk shortcut. It is made up of a fixed ShellLinkHeader followed by
optional sections: the LinkTargetIDList, LinkInfo, StringData and ExtraData
blocks. Together these describe the link's target, how to display it and where it
was created. The format is published as the MS-SHLLINK specification, which is
what tools like this parser implement to decode a shortcut field by field.