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This isn't first time to happen, so I thought to report
It's about some RAR arcives. I really don't know how to check which various archive versions or arguments passed to archiver which produced the file, but here is what this file properties reports:

Version to extract     2.0
Host OS                DOS
Total files            1
Total length           79.708.806
Packed length          79.500.845
Ratio                  99%
SFX module size        0

WinRar handles file just fine, but AS reports error:

File is of an unknown format or not a valid RAR archive.

I guess my settings are by default and UnRar archiver set as UnRar (plugin) - Win32 rar console exec

Are you sure that the archive is in fact a RAR archive?

If it were a ZIP, named as RAR, you would get that same error.

Examine the file itself (Alt+F3 should do it ).
If the first few bytes are not "Rar!" then it most likely is not a RAR.
(Though it is some format that Winrar is able to handle.)

(Actually kind of surprised that Salamander isn't a bit more transparent in these respects.)

You are right
It wasn't RAR at all as it started with PK, meaning ZIP archive
Even file properties said ZIP but I probably wasn't concentrated much, so made quite a useless post, sorry for that
Thanks therube for your answer