Host OS is Windows 10 18363.535. Problem described below has been tested on WinXP and Win7 guest OS, both with VMTools installed.
Dragging file from any compressed archive(tested open with WinRAR and 7Zip) to the vm window will cause the vm a force shutdown, but dragging normal file(outside compressed archive) would not cause the problem, picture below.
Step 1:
Step 2, this window shows for about 2 second, "preparing to copy files to virtual machine":
Step 3, guest os forced shutdown: